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steering committee members Doug Bauer
Doug is a commercial real estate broker with Cushman & Wakefield, with over 21 years experience in the Edmonton Real Estate market. For 10 years prior to joining Cushman & Wakefield Edmonton, Doug was a partner in a local commercial Edmonton real estate firm. There he worked on numerous projects from land sales to sale/leasebacks; multi-family sales; office and retail leasing.
Since 2006 Doug has been a volunteer for the annual 630 CHED Santas Anonymous toy campaign. Doug presently serves on a Santas Anonymous Warehouse committee as well as the Jerry Forbes Centre Steering Committee, Design & Construction and Policy Sub-committees. In addition, he volunteers time with the Edmonton Folk Music Festival and is a dedicated Canadian Blood Services donor. Willis Groshong
Willis Groshong is a senior level executive with 34 years of industry experience in the Information Technology field. For 20 years he was the President and CEO of the IT consulting firm, GDS & Associates which grew from a small 3 person firm to 7 offices across Canada and over 120 staff. After divesting GDS, Willis was the Executive Vice President in charge of the Edmonton Region of the publicly-traded technology company, CriticalControl Solutions Ltd. Recently, he has retired from Critical Control and now does management consulting engagements on a part-time basis. Ivan Sawchuk Born and raised in Edmonton. After serving in the Canadian Military for 10 years, Ivan has been a commercial banker for the past 25 years, currently employed with Servus Credit Union. These two careers have taken Ivan across Canada and he has lived and worked in just about every province of this great country. Nonetheless, Ivan considers Edmonton to be the best place to live and he chose it to be his home. Ivan has been a board member of the Christmas Bureau of Edmonton since 1996; and has been finance chairman of the Christmas Bureau of Edmonton for 9 years.
Ivan has joined the Santas Workshop Policy and Steering Committees because the Christmas Bureau of Edmonton has enjoyed a long association with 630 CHED Santas Anonymous and will be an equity participant in the Jerry Forbes Centre project that will provide a permanent home for 630 CHED Santas Anonymous and the Christmas Bureau –allowing for increased synergies between our two organizations. As well, the warehouse project will offer warehouse and office space to numerous other not-for-profit organizations in Edmonton, enhancing the ability of all Edmontonians to help those in need in our city.
Shawna Vogel LL.B., B.A.
Shawna is co-leader of Fraser Milner Casgrain's Edmonton’s Corporate/Commercial Group. Her corporate commercial practice has an emphasis on mergers and acquisitions, corporate governance, international trade and business immigration. She has implemented sophisticated reorganizations and financings for a variety of clients and industries. Shawna assists clients with a broad range of corporate commercial matters including mergers and acquisitions, corporate structuring and reorganizations, joint ventures, business immigration and commercial transactions. Shawna also advises foreign clients on establishing or acquiring businesses in Canada. Shawna provides trade policy advice to the Alberta government, has been a panelist in a number of Canada-U.S. NAFTA Dispute Settlement Panels and has been counsel in a trade dispute under the Canadian Agreement on Internal Trade. Shawna provides advice to clients in a wide variety of industries, including the oil and gas manufacturing and services, pharmacy, publishing, engineering industries. Bios coming soon:
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