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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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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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Stephen Harper – Leader, Conservative Party of Canada

After spending last summer pondering the Conservatives’ fumbling away of a lead in last June’s federal election, Stephen Harper now appears closer than ever to breaking the 12-year-old Liberal hammerlock.
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Sam Shaw – CEO, President, Northern Alberta Institute of Technology

Despite his ivory tower credentials, NAIT president Dr. Sam Shaw has displayed an entrepreneur’s ability to cut deals, both with the private sector and the Alberta government.
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Ruth Collins-Nakai – President-elect, the Canadian Medical Association

Affectionately referred to as “Dr. Ruth” by her patients, Ruth Collins-Nakai’s sunny bedside manner will be tested by one of the most pressure-filled posts in Canadian medicine, the presidency of the Canadian Medical Association.
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Roger Gibbins – President and CEO, Canada West Foundation

Few organizations, and few people, have been as determined to disseminate a pro-western Canadian viewpoint as the Canada West Foundation and its president and CEO of the past seven years, Dr. Roger Gibbins.
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Robert Stan – President and CEO, Grande Cache Coal Corporation

In August 2004, Robert Stan’s Grande Cache Coal Corporation cleared its final regulatory hurdle with the provincial government.
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