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L I F E S T O RY: Although Blake Adam gradu-
ated from UVic's Peter B. Gustavson School of
Business in 2011 with a B.Comm. specializing in
entrepreneurship, he expected to work his way
up the corporate ladder. In 2015, frustrated by
having to call walk-in clinics to find out which
ones were still taking patients, he and software
engineer Jonathan Clark decided to create a
website showing clinic wait times, but as a con-
venience rather than a business. In May 2016,
Adam, who was born in California and spent his
early years there, quit his job in the commercial
lending department of Canadian Western Bank
to focus full-time on Medimap Systems. By the
end of last year, 220 clinics in B.C., Alberta and
Ontario were posting wait times to the Medimap
website. This year the company launched a
service allowing patients to add themselves to a
clinic's wait list remotely for $5.
T H E B O T T O M L I N E : From June through
December 2016, the Medimap website attracted
154,000 unique visitors and 333,000 total visits.
A monitor at the entrance to White Rock's Peace
Arch Hospital's emergency department showing
wait times for local medical clinics is a pilot
project to test whether Medimap will cause
fewer non-urgent patients to use ER. —F.S.
L I F E S T O RY: The son of a Canadian Armed
Forces member, Victoria native Alistair Vigier
planned on a military career, joining the reserves
at 17. As a freshman at UVic, where he earned
a BA in psychology in 2012, Vigier was deployed
for the first time and soon wounded. Medically
discharged, he switched to marketing and busi-
ness development and launched a consulting
firm catering to franchises.
In 2014, Vigier met Darren Hart, a seasoned
Victoria attorney with ambitions to turn his
family law-focused firm into a franchising opera-
tion, a high-wire act in a sector as regulated
as the legal profession. Vigier proved adept
at recruiting franchisees who wanted to start
their own Hart Legal-branded practice. He also
streamlined the business model, centralizing
marketing and client retention operations in
Victoria. Over the course of three years, firms
popped up in Vancouver, Surrey and Richmond,
while the groundwork was laid for franchises in
Burlington, Ont.; Calgary; Regina; Toronto; Los
Angeles; and San Francisco.
T H E B O T T O M L I N E : Under the entity
Hart Management, Vigier has helped grow the
firm's revenue from $2.5 million in 2015 to an
expected $3.5 million last year. —J.P.
A L I S TA I R V I G I E R
Investor relations manager
HART LEGAL
A G E : 2 7
B L A K E A D A M
Co-founder
MEDIMAP SYSTEMS INC.
A G E : 2 7
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