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STICKING
WITH IT
Ritchie Bros. vice
president Chris
Quinn has set
some lofty goals
for the company's
financial division
W
alking into Chris
Qu i n n's cor ner
office, one can't
help but glance
over at the auto-
graphed, framed
Roberto Luongo and Trevor Linden jerseys
and wonder if Quinn himself still thinks
about the future that almost was.
Raised in Kelowna to what he calls a
"split family," both of Quinn's fathers were
heavily involved in the equipment finance
industry, one working for one of Canada's
largest equipment financing providers and
the other on the entrepreneurial side, grow-
ing one of the country's biggest indepen-
dent equipment and transportation firms.
Naturally, he originally wanted nothing to
do with that world. Instead, he graduated
high school and, with the help of Austra-
lian citizenship, packed his bags for Griffith
University in Queensland, where he studied
sports business and marketing.
He also played in the semi-professional
Australian Ice Hockey League with the now
defunct but incredibly named Brisbane
BROS IN ARMS
Ritchie Bros.
Financial Services
vice president Chris
Quinn made the
company an offer it
couldn't refuse
