ILLustRAtIon: GARY CLEMEnt; PAuL DuChARt APRIL 2016 BCBusiness 77
Odlum Brown FWE Gala
More than 550 guests attended the odlum Brown Forum for Women Entrepreneurs
Gala, EpiCurious: tapping the Food Revolution, raising over $350,000 to support
mentorship and educational programs for women entrepreneurs across Canada
A b o u t T o w n W i t h P a u l D u c h a r t
Survey Says...
Our unscientic poll of random
partygoers at the bash
Fairmont Hotel Vancouver, February 15, 2016
1. Lisa Niemetscheck, FWE GM; Bev Briscoe, FWE Mentor Award recipient, Ritchie Brothers Auctioneers chair and Goldcorp
corporate director; and Christina Anthony, gala co-chair and odlum Brown VP, director and portfolio manager 2. Mine & Yours
clothing store owners Jigme Nehring and Courtney Watkins 3. Lori Joyce, Cupcakes co-founder; Thomas Haas and Lisa Haas, thomas
haas Chocolates owners; and Shelley Wallace, hagensborg Chocolates owner 4. Ambrosia Vertesi hootesuite VP hR; Jen
Schaeffers, CKnW orphans Fund executive director; and Katrina Carroll-Foster, Kollectively Business strategies principal 5. Kelly
Deck, Kelly Deck Design owner; Fred Lee, CBC's man about town; and Sarah Bancroft, Vitamin Daily founder 6. Panellists David
Hawksworth, hawksworth Restaurant owner and chef; Christine Day, Luvo Inc. CEo; and Frank Giustra, Fiore Financial Corp CEo and
philanthropist; and gala co-chair Lara Dauphinee
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T H i s M O n T H ' s q u e s T i O n :
Did you have a female
or male mentor?
Female
60%
Male
40%
