Wilson Parasiuk

239 North Gamma Avenue Burnaby, BC V5C 1Y1 Tel: 604 299-9335 E-mail: [email protected]

Mr. Parasiuk is President of Paralink Management Ltd., which organizes private sector/public sector partnerships in the export of Canada’s health care, education and “civics” expertise. Paralink also provides advice on energy development matters. Mr. Parasiuk has over 35 years experience in the public and private sectors in Canada. Mr. Parasiuk most recently served as President and CEO and Deputy Chairman of Interhealth Canada Limited, a private international healthcare management company which is headquartered in Toronto. Interhealth Canada Limited managed a 335 bed, 1,500 staff Western International Hospital in Abu Dhabi, the capital city of the United Arab Emirates, on behalf of the Abu Dhabi Government. Previous positions Mr. Parasiuk has held include: Chairman and CEO of the Trade Development Corporation; President of Vancity Enterprises, a development subsidiary of City Savings and Credit Union; Chairman of the -Toronto International Hospital co-operative joint venture in Beijing. In the 1970s and 1980s Mr. Parasiuk was a development planner with the Government of Canada, a Deputy Minister to the Cabinet of the Government of and a Minister (Health, Energy and Mines, Crown Investments and Federal –Provincial Development Agreement negotiations) in the Government of Manitoba. Mr. Parasiuk is or has been a director of various private, non-profit and public entities including: the Vancouver Airport Authority, Biomedical Commercialization Canada, Great Lakes Biodiesel, the Eisenhower Foundation, the Prime Minister’s Advisory Committee on Government Restructuring, the Senior Advisory Committee on Governance Innovations (for a group of Asian nations), the Public Policy Forum, Interhealth Canada Limited, and the Quorum Group of Companies. Mr. Parasiuk holds Master of Arts degrees from both the and the University of Oxford, which he attended as a Rhodes Scholar.