Chapter Leadership

Gillian’s passion for events stems from her early high school days where she helped plan several proms and homecoming dances (yes, she grew up in the USA). Fast forward a few years and a college degree later, Gillian found her calling helping organize private events and weddings while living the snowboarding life in Whistler. When that stopped being fun, Gillian moved to the beautiful city of Vancouver and she found herself working at a non-profit doing fundraising and stewardship events. After a brief hiatus from the event world, Gillian is back doing what she does best—producing award winning galas.
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While still studying drama and events management, Nora already spent her summers working at music festivals and other live events, mainly to afford the tickets to yet more festivals, theatre and cultural events. After managing a theatre festival in Hamburg for two years, she moved to Berlin and organized galas, corporate events, street markets and supervised dance theatre productions and international concert tours. Her path led her to the Berlin Festival of Lights, where she gained experience in working with light art and large-scale projection mapping. For the Festival of Lights, she organized projection mappings and light festivals in Germany, Romania and Luxembourg. On the side, she started translating and content writing for VRtual X, a company specialized on VR, AR and virtual events and she is still doing this today. When she moved to Vancouver in 2017, Nora spent a fun summer working for the Bard on the Beach Shakespeare Festival before joining Go2 Productions to work with projection mapping once again. When Covid-19 hit the event industry, she moved on to work in communications, marketing and virtual events for a local hybrid distribution agency.    More about Nora: LinkedIn

Mike is VP of Business Development and Sales at SOS Charging Solutions. He's a family man who believes community is the key to success. Whether it's his neighbourhood, his soccer and softball communities or our community of event professionals, Mike works hard to be an active, contributing member in absurd and wonderfully creative ways. He tends to leverage the fifteen plus years he's spent in events and his career in professional sales, but mostly, it's his contagious energy and genuine excitement for your challenges that creates the long-term relationships he builds with the people around him. He's excited to help with Membership this year and encourages you to reach out, if you haven't already met one another.     
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With over 15 years of experience as an event professional, Élise has a demonstrated history of working in the entertainment industry, non-profit sector, venue management and currently in event technology. Élise worked at the Vancouver Aquarium as the Conference Services Manager for 10 years, where she managed large 1500 person receptions, weddings, and intimate foodie events. She pursued  a new challenge in event sales and moved on to the Commodore Ballroom as the Special Event Sales Manager, where she increased event bookings and F&B sales by 38% in her first year.  Now as an Account Manager at Eventbase Technologies Inc, Élise manages multiple projects with enterprise companies such as SAP, CISCO, and Amazon. 
Élise is a results-oriented and self-motivated professional with an exceptional work ethic, and a proven track record of extraordinary achievements. She is skilled in working under pressure and in fast-paced environments where excellent organizational and time management abilities are often required.  Creating long lasting connections is a cornerstone of her professional development.

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