Sue Paish is the Chief Executive Officer of LifeLabs Inc. Ms. Paish leads Canada’s largest provider of community laboratory services in the delivery of more than 50 million laboratory tests to over 10 million Canadians and 20,000 physicians, annually.

Ms. Paish moved to LifeLabs from Pharmasave Drugs (National) Ltd., the largest independently-owned and operated community pharmacies in Canada with over 450 independently-owned and operated stores in nine provinces.

Prior to joining Pharmasave, Sue was the managing partner of Fasken Martineau DuMoulin LLP in British Columbia, the largest law firm in Vancouver with over 300 lawyers and employees, and one of Canada’s largest law firms with over 2000 employees and partners across five Canadian and three international offices.

Sue has been recognized for her leadership and has been named as one of Canada’s Top 100 Most Powerful Women in 2011, 2010 and 2005. She sits on a number of corporate and community boards including the Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research, the Rick Hansen Foundation and the CORIX Group of Companies.

Gail Stephens accepted the role of City Manager for the City of Victoria in July 2009. As City Manager she is responsible for all city operations including Fire, Engineering, Parks, Planning, Corporate Services, and Sustainability. She was previously the Vice-President of Finance and Services at the University of Calgary overseeing the finance, human resource, information technology and health, safety and security of university operations. Prior to this, she was Chief Executive Officer for the BC Pension Corporation, one of Canada's largest pension administrators.

In 2004, the Pension Corporation won the Premier's Award for Excellence recognizing the demonstrable shift to a client focussed culture. Prior to accepting the position of CEO in 2003, Ms. Stephens was the first Chief Administrative Officer for the City of Winnipeg (1998-2003), replacing a Board of Commissioners. As CAO she helped lead a diverse team of departments including Police, Fire/Paramedics, Transit, Community Services, Water and Waste, and Public Works to become one of the most cost effective city governments in Canada with a citizen satisfaction rating of over 92%. She was the City Auditor for Winnipeg before becoming CAO and has worked in both the private and public sector as Chief Financial Officer.

Ms. Stephens received the Manitoba Gold Medal for the highest level of excellence in the CGA Program and graduated on the Dean's Honour List from the Faculty of Education, University of Manitoba. Most recently she was named as one of the 100 Most Powerful Women in Canada and won the 2006 Peak Performance and Excellence Award. She was named one of Canada's top 100 CGAs.

Chief Kim Baird is the elected Chief of the Tsawwassen First Nation (TFN), a position she has held for six terms since 1999. Her ancestral name, Kwuntiltunaat, is based on her great-great grandfather's name Kwuntilum.

The Tsawwassen First Nation was the first in B.C. to implement an urban treaty, on April 3, 2009. Chief Baird's focus as Chief is to keep moving the TFN forward as a model sustainable First Nations community.

When the British Columbia Treaty Legislation process was initiated on October 15, 2007, Chief Baird became the first non-MLA woman to address the B.C. Legislature. She has been named to a number of prestigious awards lists, including Canada's Top 40 Under 40, the National Aboriginal Women in Leadership Distinction Award and Canada's Most Powerful Women Top 100.

Chief Baird is a proud mother of three young daughters – Amy, Sophia, and her newest addition to the family Naomi – with her husband Steeve.

Fiona Anderson is currently a Business Reporter for the Vancouver Sun, specializing in economic trends. She was appointed Business Editor, Multimedia at the Vancouver Sun in 2010 and was responsible for both print and web. She started her journalism career at the Sun in 2005 as a business reporter and occasional web editor. Fiona's previous career was as a lawyer, specializing in First Nations law, then securities litigation, including a stint at the British Columbia Securities Commission. She has a Masters degree in Economics from Johns Hopkins University, a Juris Doctor (law degree) from the University of Toronto and an undergraduate degree in economics and mathematics from Queen's University. Fiona studied journalism at Langara College, and taught media and the law at Langara for two years while working as a reporter.