Mortgage Broker is the magazine of the Canadian Mortgage Brokers Association and showcases the multi-billion dollar mortgage-broking industry to all levels of government, associated organizations and other interested individuals.
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MORTGAGE BROKERS ASSOCIATION OF BRITISH COLUMBIA Suite 101 - 1765 West 8th Avenue Vancouver, BC V6J 5C6 CEO SAMANTHA GALE MANAGER OF OPERATIONS CATHERINE BARRY BILLING & MEMBER SERVICES DEBRA HILLER DIRECTOR OF POLICY & EDUCATION RAY BASI PRESIDENT AJAY SONI VICE PRESIDENT DEB WHITE SECRETARY LOREN HAWKINS TREASURER JASON SUTTIE PAST PRESIDENT JARED DREYER MBABC BOARD OF DIRECTORS KELLY CURTIS, BRUCE KAHKESH, KARL MADSEN, MEGAN MCDONALD, KEVIN OYHENART, DEENU PATEL, TROY RESVICK CONTRIBUTORS RAY BASI, SCOTT DAWSON, SAMANTHA GALE, JULIA LEE, JANICE P. O'BRIEN, KATE RAMSAY, PERI SHAWN, AJAY SONI, RON USHER Chairman CEO PETER LEGGE, OBC, LLD (HON) President SAMANTHA LEGGE MBA Senior Vice-President/Custom Publishing KATHLEEN FREIMOND MBA Creative Director SUSAN MINTON GREEN Production Manager KRISTINA BORYS Electronic Production INA BOWERBANK Advertising Production ALLISON GRIFFIOEN, CHRIS SHERWOOD Senior Imaging Technician DEBBIE LYNN CRAIG Electronic Imaging MANDY LAU, LAURA MICHAELS MORTGAGE BROKER magazine is produced by Canada Wide Media Limited for the Mortgage Brokers Association of British Columbia. MORTGAGE BROKER © All rights reserved. The views expressed in MORTGAGE BROKER are those of the respective contributors and are not necessarily those of the publisher or staff. Publications mail agreement No. 41297283. Return undeliverable Canadian addresses to: Suite 101 - 1765 West 8th Avenue, Vancouver, BC V6J 5C6 Printed in Canada by Transcontinental Printing. MortgageBroker VOLUME 20 ISSUE 1 WINTER 2014 report from the president IT IS HARD TO BELIEVE it has been six months since I became President of MBABC. Time really does fly. Your Board of Directors and the staff at MBABC have been hard at work with so many different projects. e one you are seeing, as you read this message, is our new-look magazine. e BC Broker is now named simply Mortgage Broker. It is far more reflective and descriptive of whom we are as professionals and an industry. We are very excited about the new look of the magazine. Our new publisher, Canada Wide Media Ltd., has done a great job in helping us rebrand our premier image development piece. In this world of social media and the digital age there is still room for "analog" information. We are also aiming to increase circulation by sending the magazine to people about to enter our industry as mortgage brokers, administrators, lenders and individuals in other associated roles. We hope that it will better portray the image of the members of the Mortgage Brokers Association of BC: Proud, professional and ethical. Please give us your feedback on the new look and your input on topics you would like to see us cover in future issues. 2014 will bring many new and exciting initiatives and projects to the MBABC. We are having our annual Conference and Trade Show at a new venue. We hope to see you at the River Rock Casino on February 17 and 18 for an action packed two days of education, networking, socializing and fun. Please check out the middle spread in the magazine for more details. See you at THE MAIN EVENT! We also have four MBABC advertisements in this magazine that will show a fresh communications perspective on our association and our profession. We hope to start research into an advertising campaign that will highlight the career opportunities, the economic impact, and the great services that a mortgage broker can provide. We want to start advertising to the influencers first: business people, lawyers, accountants, real estate agents and politicians. Let's show them what we do as a profession. In turn we hope that this information will trickle down to the public. With this adverting and communications approach we also hope to look at branding opportunities through video, the Internet and social marketing avenues to increase awareness. Finally we want to make sure our members are aware of the value of their organization. e MBABC does so many great things for the mortgage broker industry but oen we don't communicate this effectively. We offer advice on practice matters, legal expense insurance with your annual membership, educational and regulatory liaison with FICOM and UBC, and we can oen defuse consumer complaints against members before the issues escalate. We will be taking a fresh look at our member benefits and services to ensure our current and future members see value in their organization. We would love to hear from you with your ideas, criticisms and positive feedback. All the best for a great 2014 and I look forward to seeing you at the MBABC Conference and Trade show. n 2014 is the Year of Communication, Value and Member Benefits Ajay Soni President ajaysoni@telus.net We offer advice on practice matters; legal expense insurance, educational and regulatory liaison with FICOM and UBC. MortgageBroker mbabc.ca winter 2014 | 7 p06,07_Message from President.indd 7 14-01-27 11:36 AM