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October 2015 Entrepreneur of the Year

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illustration: GarY ClEMEnt; Paul DuCHart oCtoBEr 2015 BCBusiness 117 More than 3,500 well- dressed guests attended the seventh annual Deighton Cup where horses met horse power and bubbles met bourbon 1 (Left to right) Alexandra Thompson, Ward- robe apparel operations director; and David Bentil, Mile's End Motors president 2 Michelle Zembrzuski, showbiz talent actress; Lee James, Haute import owner; Sara Ahadi, landscape architect; Laura Pelaez, mining engineer; and Jose Chavez, General Motors Financial B.C. dealer relationship manager 3 Deighton Cup co-founders Brett Turner, Droski turner partner, and Jordan Kallman, social Concierge co-founder 4 Amalia Schön, Hewlett Packard Enter- prises legal counsel; Neil Aisenstat, Hy's of Canada president and CEo and Gotham steakhouse lP managing partner; and Jessica Taylor, shapiro Hankinson and Knutson barrister and solicitor 5 Justus Parmar, Mackie research VP; and Christopher Hill, tavistock Capital Corp. VP operations 6 David Prodanovic, Wirtz Beverage Group regional director B.C./Yukon; Peter Thomasen, Wirtz Beverage Group key accounts manager Western Canada; Deighton Cup co-founders Dax Droski, Droski turner partner, and Tyson Ville- neuve, social Concierge co-founder The Deighton Cup– Lucky Number Seven 1 3 4 6 2 Hastings Racecourse July 25, 2015 Our unscienti•c poll of random partygoers at the bash above Who Are You? My whole outfit 25% Nope, everything I needed was in my closet 20% Yes 55% Yes! 40% Not yet 30% I'm not a betting person 30% Did you buy anything new to wear for the occasion? Beer 15% Bourbon 15% Cocktails 25% Wine 10% Bubbly 35% What's your poison? Did your horse win? 5 A b o u t T o w n W i t h P a u l D u c h a r t

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