2 018 Traction ON DEMAND CHOOSES BURNABY JOIN THE BURNABY’s BUILDING VALUE BBOT TODAY NEW BUSINESSES THROUGH COMMUNITY STRONG OPPORTUNITIES SEE WHY OUR COMMUNITY IS THEIR CHOICE 2018-2019 MEMBERSHIP DIRECTORY 00 | BURNABY BUSINESS DIRECTORY 2018/19 | BURNABY BOARD OF TRADE Vern Milani President Over 100 vehicles serving the milani.ca Lower Mainland Residential and Commercial Plumbing Drainage Heating Systems Air Conditioning ANNUAL BOARD 2 018 PARTNERS BUS INESS PLATINUM 8 SETTING UP CAMP BBOT takes you inside some of the recent businesses that have made Burnaby their home and explains why! GOLD 10 MEMBERSHIP BENEFITS Find out how you can protect your employees with Canada’s #1 benefit plan. The Chamber Plan is Canada’s leading group benefit plan for firms with 1-50 employees. 8 NEW HQ MOVES TO BURNABY - WHO CARES? S ILVER There has been a lot of fuss lately about cities courting big corporate headquarters to set up in their communities. We give you insight into the companies coming to Burnaby and why it matters. 16 SPEAKING OUT FOR BUSINESS Check out how the Burnaby Board of Trade develops various policy positions and advo- cates to governments at all levels on behalf of its members and the broader business community. 2018/19 BOAR D OF DIRECTORS Chair : Andrew Scott, BC International Commercial Arbitration Centre I Vice-Chair: Mike Kaerne, HollyNorth Production Supplies I Treasurer: Dirk Odenwald, ABC Recycling Ltd. Past Chair: Frank Bassett, Electronic Arts Canada Inc. I Chair, Board of Governors: Dr. Catherine Boivie, Strategic Technology Leadership Corp. Directors: Steve Carreiro, KPMG LLP I Joanne Curry, Simon Fraser University I Lee-Ann Garnett, City of Burnaby I Lara Graham, Burnaby Now Jack Kuyer, The Valley Bakery I Oskar Kwieton, Shape Properties Management Corps. I Leza Muir, Pacific Blue Cross 00 | BURNABYRaj Sharma, BCBUSINESS Hydro I GillDIRECTORY Sherwood, 2018/19 G&F Financial | Group BURNA I VivianBY BOARD Yuen, Electronic OF TRADE Arts Canada Inc. CARS COST LESS ATCARTER PROUD TO SERVE THE BURNABY BUSINESS COMMUNITY! COME INTO SEE US FOR ALL YOUR AUTOMOTIVE NEEDS. CHEVROLET • GMC • BUICK • CADILLAC 4550 LOUGHEED HWY, BURNABY www.cartergm.com 604-291-2266 BURNABY DEALER #5505 THE CITY’S BEST SELECTION CHOOSE FROM OVER 600 VEHICLES FAMILY OWNED FOR OVER 5254 YEARS 4 | BURNABY BUSINESS DIRECTORY 2018/19 | BURNABY BOARD OF TRADE for being a member of the Burnaby Board of Trade Simply by joining you are already reaping benefits from your membership. Here’s how: You’ve made a significant investment by locating in Burnaby and now you want to protect and grow that investment. The Board of Trade amplifies your voice to promote a community that welcomes and supports business. The stronger our membership, the more power we have to help your business thrive and grow. Here are some of the issues that we have advocated for that affect your business: • Labour Shortages and Finding Employees • PST Reform and Fighting the Employer Health Tax • Encouraging and Supporting Women in Business • Improving Traffic and Investing in Transportation • Economic Development and Growth With your support we can continue to promote a prosperous Burnaby. Plus, with our triple bottom line commitment to social, economic and environmental sustainability, it’s a great opportunity to align your business with an organization dedicated to building a healthy community. Not a member yet? Join today. Visit: www.bbot.ca or contact [email protected] BURNABY BOARD OF TRADE STAFF President and CEO: Paul Holden t. 604 412-0100 EXT 1104 e. [email protected] I Manager, Policy and Stakeholder Relations: Cory Redekop t. 604 412-0100 EXT 1103 e. [email protected] Membership Services Manager: Marisol Sanchez t. 604 412-0100 EXT 1106 e. [email protected] I Manager, Marketing and Programs: Tessa Vanderkop t. 604 412-0100 EXT 1107 e. [email protected] Membership and Marketing Coordinator: Ann Goncalves t. 604 412-0100 EXT 1105 e. [email protected] I Accounting and Administrative Coordinator: Alannah Bain t. 604 412-0100 EXT 1108 e. [email protected] Event Coordinator: Gillian Gallie t. 604 412-0100 EXT 1111 e. [email protected] I Memebership Account Executive: Chris Wei t. 604 412-0100 ext 1102 e. [email protected] BURNABY BOARD OF TRADE | BURNABY BUSINESS DIRECTORY 2018/19 | 5 Building value through community LOCATION. QUALITY. DESIGN. VIEWS. SOLO District is Brentwood’s most-established master-planned community, offering over 80,000 sq. ft. of retail and convenience at your doorstep. APPIA DEVELOPMENT Register now for Phase 4 – #1200-4445 Lougheed Hwy your nal opportunity to purchase at Burnaby, BC, Canada V5C 0E4 Tel: 604-294-2742 SOLODISTRICT.COM [email protected] 6 | BURNABY BUSINESS DIRECTORY 2018/19 | BURNABY BOARD OF TRADE Burnaby is a city on the move. Uniquely situated Message from at the centre of the region, near highways, rapid transit hubs, airports, port facilities, and the U.S. the President border, it boasts a vibrant and diverse urban economy that is home to over 11,000 businesses and CEO and growing. One need only look to the chang- ing skyline to see that Burnaby is increasingly becoming a go-to destination for businesses and residents alike. As a board of trade and the economic devel- opment arm for the City of Burnaby, we strive to find innovative ways to support existing and incoming businesses regardless of size. The needs of small business are unique, and with 98 per- cent of all businesses in British Columbia being small businesses (with 50 or less employees) we understand how integral they are to the health and fabric of our community. That’s why this year we have re-doubled our efforts to ensure that these businesses are supported by developing a Business Resource Guide, an online resource that collects and curates resources to help with planning, starting and operating a small business. We also ensure that Burnaby businesses have a voice when important decisions are being made by governments at all levels. With valued input from our members and volunteers, the Burnaby Board of Trade has advocated on a host of municipal, pro- vincial and federal issues including aligning B.C. Family Day with our neighbours, fighting the tax changes on our corporations, proceeding with slow, equal increases to B.C.’s minimum wage, encouraging and supporting more women to serve on corporate boards, reviewing road pricing with a view to affordability, and most recently advancing a four-point plan to stop B.C.’s Employer Health Tax. As a member organization, we are sometimes asked what the benefit of mem- bership is when our mandate is to create a healthy climate for all businesses. The answer to that is simple: membership helps us do the work we do on behalf of your business and the community as a whole. When business thrives we all thrive. We bring the voice of business to the table each and every time because we under- stand that starting and operating a business of any kind and in any sector is no easy task. We hope that the work we do at the Board helps make your path to success a little easier. Paul Holden – President and CEO Burnaby Board of Trade BURNABY BOARD OF TRADE | BURNABY BUSINESS DIRECTORY 2018/19 | 7 “Many of our team members don’t own vehicles and public transport is great. We have biking, running and walking paths at our front door. Burnaby is also attractive when it comes to real estate costs and availability.” – Chris Peacock, Traction on Demand CMO. When Traction, a cloud software consulting and development firm Setting up Camp in Burnaby with expertise on the Salesforce platform to improve business pro- cesses, moved its offices to Burnaby Why Burnaby is so good for business in 2014, there were less than 50 peo- ple on its team. Today, there are more than 300 people in the Burnaby head- quarters and 410 people worldwide. By: Niki Hope And the numbers continue to grow. Beyond the benefit of parking for nough parking for the its unique fleet of company vehicles, company Airstream and Peacock says they saw the advantage Trans Am is just one of of being located in a city that is easily the reasons Traction on reachable regardless of where in the Demand chose to set up its Lower Mainland “Tractionites” want headquarters in Burnaby. to live. It’s this kind of perk that young “At the time we moved to Burnaby, tech-focused companies – like we plotted the postal codes of every Traction – look to, but it is also the Tractionite on a map. The geographic other benefits, like transit, neigh- centre was pretty much in the mid- bouring universities and accessibility dle of Deer Lake, so we started to that draw both tech and traditional explore spaces in that area,” Peacock industries to Burnaby. explains. “Of course, there are a lot of “Burnaby is where our CEO Greg factors that influence our real estate Malpass went to university,” explains decisions – appropriate space, cost, Traction CMO Chris Peacock. “We timing, but team members always have several alliances with BCIT and were and always are our first consid- “Our third office space was in a log house in Port Moody. We always called it ‘the cabin.’ Nine people were working in a space that required Simon Fraser University. We hope eration when considering location.” you to unplug the fish tank if you wanted to make a cup of coffee. If to evolve these relationships in a The benefit of access to all areas you didn’t, you would blow the only breaker and shut down the entire way that helps cement this city as a throughout the Lower Mainland also operation.