"The Canadian Council for the Americas British Columbia is the leading not-for-profit organisation that facilitates business and trade between B.C. and the countries of Latin America and the Caribbean."
Antonio Arreaga-Valdes
Antonio Arrega-Valdes, Honorary Consul of Costa Rica in Vancouver, Director of GRULEX (The Latin Export Group), Founder member of the Ethno Business Council of B.C., Founder Member of the Latin-American Canadian Business Association, Recepient of 2010 President’s Service Award Capilano University
Mark Cogan
Mark Cogan recently retired from the BC Government's Business Immigration Office, where he worked for 17 years looking after business immigrants and corporate investment from all parts of the world. He had direct responsibility in the design and implementation of specific immigration programs for business people. He now continues working as an independent certified immigration consultant. He is originally from Chile, where he got an industrial engineering degree. In Vancouver, he later got a MBA degree. Before joining the government, he worked for major international corporations and later operated his own import-export company. He speaks several languages.
Juergen Engelbrecht
(Brazil) – former President of Massey-Fergusson, founder and twice President of CCBA – Brazil-Canada Chamber of Commerce
Robert Fairweather
Bob retired but remains active in the community. He has served as the President of the Canadian Chamber of Commerce in Japan (1987-89), as the Chair of the Vancouver Board of Trade (1997-98), and as the President of The Canada-Japan Society of British Columbia (1995-97). From June to September of 2001, he was Interim Chairman of BC Hydro Corporation. He was a member of the Advisory Board of Aon Reed Stenhouse and, until recently, a Director of Powerex, (a subsidiary of BC Hydro). He currently sits on the Boards of Computershare Trust Company of Canada and UBS Bank (Canada). He is Chair of the Canuck Place Foundation, a director of the Vancouver Foundation, and the President of the Canada Korea Business Association.
Steve Kaufmann
Steve Kaufmann, author of The Linguist and founder of www.thelinguist.com, shares his experiences in learning to speak 9 languages and on language learning in general.
Mr. Kaufmann graduated from l'Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris in 1966. He spent seven years with the Canadian Diplomatic Service in Hong Kong, where he learned Mandarin, and in Tokyo where he learned Japanese. Since 1974 he has been involved in the wood business, having established KP Wood Ltd. in 1987.
Three years ago he founded The Linguist, a web based language learning system.
André Nudelman – Chairman
Mr. Nudelman is the Chairman and President of CFA - Canadian Forum for The Americas in Ottawa, President of LACES – Canadian Education Services Latin America Ltd, President Maple Bear Schools Mexico and Central America, President of Addexo Consulting and Formula Trade; Former Advisory Board Member at McRae Institute for International Management at Capilano University; Advisory Board Member at Habitat Enterprises; Member of VANTEC – Vancouver Angel Network on Technology at SFU; Member of BC Director’s Club; voted Brazilian Franchising National Leader in 2002 and 2003 and in Education in 2004 and 2006, Recepient of Capilano Unversity President's Service Award in 2010.
Tom Sadler
After attending the University of Western Ontario, Mr. Sadler assumed roles ranging from consultant, member of advisory boards, and operational executive positions. Over the past 20 years his company has been very successful in assisting businesses by raising millions of dollars in government export grants, loans and venture capital for his clients. Mr. Sadler develops joint ventures and partnerships between both national and international companies. While he has dealt within numerous business and technology sectors, he has a special interest with renewable technologies.
He has developed key relationships with private and public entities throughout the Canadian, Caribbean, Central and South American markets and operates a wholly owned subsidiary corporation in Guadalajara, Mexico.
Armando Weil
January 1965 first employee and started Cargill inc operations in Brasil, and was involved in hybrid seed ,animal feed, grain origination, ports, orange juice, cocoa, coffee, director of Cargill Agricola in Brasil helped in studies to set up Cargill operations/divisions in South Africa, Zimbabwe, Malawi, Kenia, Thailand, Australia, Ivory Coast, Peru, Paraguay, Colombia, and Venezuela.
Cargill Country Manager Mexico. Retired from Cargill in 2001"