The PARTNERS

Loyal Makaroff has 16 years of successfully developing and enhancing new and existing businesses both nationally and internationally through his own company, Loyal Makaroff & Associates Inc. He has held contracts as a business development specialist with financial corporations, development organizations, universities, and governments. Mr.Makaroff also has 11 years of experience in senior administrative positions with not-for profit organizations. In both the for-profit and not-for-profit sectors he has a consistent record of enhancing profitability and performance. His experience in strategic management, human resources, entrepreneurial expansion will enable him to effectively lead the MultiSport Centre of Excellence.

The Project Team

Lang Michener LLP has been a leader in Canada’s legal profession for more than 75 years. The firm has 200-plus professionals in offices in Vancouver, Toronto and Ottawa who provide legal servcies, primarily in the areas of banking, development, corporate and litigation services, to all sizes of clients, both Canadian and International

With offices across Western Canada, the Dominion family of companies has been a leading builder since 1911. They have built their reputation by providing quality services performed by top-calibre people in their fields, with a team capable of providing a variety of construction services, including pre-construction, general contracting, design/build, construction management and project management. The firm’s reputation for integrity, quality, and on-time, on-budget performance is second to none in the industry. Dominion has provided pre-construction services for the MultiSport Centre of Excellence throughout the design phase of the project, and will be managing the construction under a general contracting arrangement.

Cannon Design is a leader in sports planning and design, and the only Canadian design firm with an exclusive focus on sports, recreation and wellness facilities. Cannon Design was recently awarded the contract for the 2010 facility in Richmond.

KPMG Financial and tax advisors - Investment and Tax Structuring

Benefic Group, a unique boutique firm focused exclusively on servicing the benevolent sector, is creating a new model of service delivery for those who seek to “do and produce good”. Integrating legal and tax advice with financing, administrative and other services, Benefic seeks to address both the extraordinary and the mundane problems of those that work in or seek to be involved in the benevolent sector. Working from a theoretical and philosophical understanding of the law and a commitment to philanthropy, Benefic delivers integrated services from a single base that includes our internal expertise and that of allied professionals in other countries. By enabling benefactors, enhancing benevolence and empowering beneficiaries, Benefic Group seeks to be "benefic" by doing and producing good.

The Business Advisory Board

Mr. Bentley is chairman of the Board of Directors of CANFOR and of the company's principal subsidiary, Canadian Forest Products Ltd. ("CFP"), and co-chairman and a director of HSPP General Partner Ltd., the general partner of Howe Sound Pulp and Paper Limited Partnership.

He also serves as president and a director of Sierra Mountain Minerals Inc. and is a member of the board of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, as well as being a member of the Advisory Board of BuildDirect.com and a trustee and Chair Emeritus of the Vancouver General Hospital and University of British Columbia Hospital Foundation.

Mr. Bentley is Chancellor of the University of Northern British Columbia and holds an honourary law degree from the University of British Columbia.

Mr. Bentley received the WAC Bennett Award in 1999 when inducted into the BC Sports Hall of Fame. Highlights of his involvement with sport in British Columbia include serving as a director and past president of the BC Golf Association, honorary director of the Canadian Professional Golfers’ Association and a trustee of the Canadian Golf Foundation. Mr. Bentley was also a member of an influential group of individuals who brought NHL hockey to Vancouver and has chaired events to raise funds for Canada’s Olympic athletes.

Thanks to his unwavering passion for sport, as a participant, fan, campaigner and administrator,Mr. Bentley has benefited all British Columbians and brought recognition and honour to the province’s sport

Another of Ron's specialties is structuring creative deals and developing strategic alliances. These creative deals extend from finding ways to work with South African firms to meet the requirements of the new mining laws, to developing innovative approaches to business partnerships with a Black Economic Empowerment Company.

Ron lives in West Vancouver, British Columbia, with his wife Shannon and their two daughters. He enjoys golfing, skiing and collecting automobiles.

Blake Bromley’s (BA, LLB) benevolent sector expertise may be unparalleled in Canada. He is an authority on Canadian charity law and as a President of Benefic Group his practice relates almost exclusively to charitable and tax planning matters.

Mr. Bromley has incorporated and registered well over 500 registered charities and non-profit organizations and has provided strategic tax planning to facilitate over one billion dollars worth of inter-vivos gifting plus several times that in future testamentary giving. He is also a globally recognized expert on the comparative law of charity and regularly advises charities and donors operating around the world on tax and legal issues relating to the international transfer and utilization of charitable funds as well as on matters of corporate control, strategy, and structure.

Mr. Bromley has advised governments in China, Russia,Vietnam, Australia, England, South Africa and Eastern Europe on drafting their laws governing rights and tax privileges of social organizations.

Jeffrey Mason is Chief Financial Officer and Director of Hunter Dickinson Inc. (HDI), a Canadian corporation, which since 1985 has grown to be among the largest and most successful mine development groups in North America.

Mr. Mason has articled with Deloitte & Touche, specializing in audit and business venture structuring, and subsequently worked with international commodity mercantilist trader, Balfour Guthrie Inc., the finance group at Simon Fraser University, and the Homestake Mining Group.

Joining Hunter Dickinson Inc. in 1994, as director of finance, accounting and human resources, Mr. Mason focused on creative acquisition opportunities and financing arrangements, along with building the accounting/ administration systems to the present day international operations. In August 1998, he became Chief Financial Officer of the Hunter Dickinson group of companies and has been instrumental in building HDI into a credible enterprise, able to raise substantial financings.

Mr.Mason, along with the other directors of HDI,was recognized as business innovators with the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year® 2004 Pacific award in the Natural Resources category.

In her role, she facilitates Private Swiss Banking, Global Asset Management and Investment Banking for High Net Worth individuals and institutions. She is a connector and a rainmaker and has been involved in numerous community activities as well as being a part of many boards. An avid skier, tennis player, equestrian and soccer/lacrosse/tennis/hockey/gymnastics Mom, she has played or watched most every sport, enjoying them all.

Aside from finance and sport, Melanie has a strong interest in anatomy, physiology and rehabilitation as she holds both a Science and a DVM degree and still practices veterinary medicine part time.

The Sport science/medicine Advisory Board