50 Most Influential

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Terry Wickham

Terry Wickham – Producer, Edmonton Folk Music Festival and Calgary Folk Music Festival

For 17 years, Terry Wickham has enticed some of the biggest names in music – from country (k.d. lang) to rock (David Byrne) to reggae (Jimmy Cliff) to pop (Joni Mitchell) – to brave the mosquitoes and uncertain early August weather in Edmonton’s downtown Gallagher Park.
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Terrence Hopwood

Terrence Hopwood – Chair, Calgary Chamber of Commerce

Known in Calgary as one of the city’s leading corporate lawyers, Terrence Hopwood brings an analytical approach to the chair’s role at the Calgary Chamber of Commerce.
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Ted Haney

Ted Haney – President, Canada Beef Export Federation

Ted Haney has a third-degree black-belt but, as the president of the Canadian Beef Export Federation, he has no desire to karate-chop those behind the BSE-related restrictions that have bled Alberta’s beef industry.
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Steve Laut

Steve Laut – President and COO, Canadian Natural Resources Ltd.

As Canadian Natural Resources Ltd.’s chief operating officer, Steve Laut was a key player in stickhandling the company’s massive $10.8-billion Horizon Oil Sands project through five years of planning, regulatory hurdles and shareholder approval. Convincing investors might have been the easiest task as the company announced record production, revenues and profits for fiscal 2004, which led to an increased dividend and a two-for-one stock split after shares more than doubled in value during the year. Once built in 2008, Horizon will add 110,000 barrels per day to the production capacity of Calgary-based Canadian Natural, now the country’s second largest independent oil producer. The company also increased its presence in the heavy-oil business by purchasing a 66% stake in Petrovera Resources in February 2004. As a reward, Laut was named Canadian Natural’s president in May 2005 as well as earning $6.7 million in salary and exercised stock options in 2004. – WG

Stephen Mandel

Stephen Mandel – Mayor, The City of Edmonton

Initially considered a long shot in a race against a popular three-term incumbent and a high-profile challenger with a large campaign war chest, Stephen Mandel became the dark horse that cantered to an easy victory in Edmonton’s mayoralty election in October 2004.
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