Mark is an entrepreneur and Certified Management Accountant.
He has successfully started, built and sold two businesses. He currently sits on the board of Campaign Management Corp., a company building software tools for voter identification and mobilization.
Additionally he sits on the board of the UBC Alumni Association. The Association represents an alumni population of more than 200,000 people worldwide. He co-chairs its Alumni Centre Committee with the mandate of funding, designing and building a brand new 40,000 square foot, $18,000,000 Alumni Centre on the Vancouver campus.
He joined the Victoria Dragon Boat Festival Society Board in January 2011. Founded eighteen years ago, the Festival brings together communities through the sport of dragon boating. It has become a significant economic driver for the Capital Regional District of British Columbia. He is a member of this board’s executive committee and chairs its Strategic Planning Committee.
Mark regularly reads Inc., Entrepreneur, BC Business, Running World, Pacific Yachting and The Economist magazines. The only non-fiction he reads is John Grisham’s series of legal thrillers and now Vince Flynn’s series of US political tomes. Otherwise it’s nautical, political, economic, financial or biographical non-fiction.
Mark is a member of the CMA Society of British Columbia and in 2009 was awarded the Society’s province-wide Top Talent award for leadership.
Pursuits include jogging, biking, walking, boating and British Columbia’s Southern Gulf Islands.
August 6, 2009 at 08:46
Hello Mark,
I am with the Capital Regional District in Victoria. We’d like to use your photo of Mayne Island (Mayne Island looking W at Prevost and Salt Spring Island) in a small pamphlet we are doing called Sharing the Shoreline: Shore Access in the Southern Gulf Islands. I came across your photo on Flickr. However, we don’t have a budget to pay for photos, sadly. Would you consider allowing use of thisphoto under the Creative Commons license by attribution (i.e. you allow us to use your copyrighted work if we give you credit)?
Kind regards,
Laurie Sthamann
p.s. I also sent you an email via Flickr
March 4, 2010 at 23:36
Thanks for inquiring, Laurie. I hope the photo worked out well and that the brochure was well received. My family has enjoyed that property since my grandfather purchased it with partners in the early 1940′s!