July/august 2016 BCBusiness 161 IllustratIon: gary cleMent; Paul ducHart
BCBusiness 30 Under 30 Reception
Presented by royal roads university, our third annual 30 under 30 awards
and cocktail party celebrated the business leaders of tomorrow
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
The Vancouver Club, April 28, 2016
1. Wisam Abdulla, rise ceo and co-founder; and Billie Jo Aasen, 542 entertainment Inc. owner and president 2. Partyskirts
co-founders Lauren Armstrong and Mariel Armstrong; and Olivia Lovenmark, entrepreneur 3. Kasondra Cohen-Herrendorf, Face of today
Foundation founder; and her mother, Jacqui Cohen, Face the World Foundation founder and army & navy president and ceo
4. Nick Seto, target tape Inc. co-founder; and his sister, Lauren Seto, smythe llP marketing co-ordinator 5. Margery Moore,
bloomberg-bna director of environmental strategic alliances; Catherine Evans, Vancouver Park board commissioner; Braeden Caley,
liberal Party of canada senior director of communications; Heather Deal, city of Vancouver councillor; and Michael Magee, city of
Vancouver special advisor for major projects and federal/provincial relations 6. Sunny Lenarduzzi, sunny d entertainment ceo;
Deanne Lenarduzzi; Kim Lenarduzzi; Bob Lenarduzzi, Vancouver Whitecaps Fc president; and Ryan Lenarduzzi, ryan lenarduzzi consulting owner
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T H i s M O n T H ' s q u e s T i O n :
What was the primary source of
initial funding for your business?
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Family
55%
Friends
15%
bank
15%
crowdsourcing
15%