Greg Macdonald – General Manager, West Edmonton Mall Grand Prix of Edmonton
Advertising agency owner Greg Macdonald was key in helping Edmonton land July’s Champ Car World Series, the oldest open-wheeled racing series in North America.
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George Gosbee – Chairman, President and CEO, Tristone Capital Inc.
George Gosbee started Tristone Capital Inc. with “a game plan and no staff” five years ago.
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Fred Dunn – Auditor General, Province of Alberta
While his federal counterpart Sheila Fraser has done much more barking in the media, Auditor General Fred Dunn has shown just as much bite as Alberta\’s public watchdog, sinking his fangs into allegations of staff harassment and unfairness in enforcement practices at the Alberta Securities Commission.
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Don Gray – President and CEO, Peyto Energy Trust
Assailed as arrogant and brash by members of Calgary’s energy establishment, even Don Gray’s bitterest critics will concede the 39-year-old president and CEO of Peyto Energy Trust has proven enormously successful in taking his company from a penny stock to one of the most profitable energy trusts in the country.
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David Marshall – President, Mount Royal College
Although the decision to grant Mount Royal College university status was delayed this spring by the provincial government and the proposal criticized by other educational institutions, David Marshall, MRC’s eighth president appointed in September 2003, continues to champion the quest with fervour.
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Dave Rodney – MLA Calgary-Lougheed
When he introduced his private anti-smoking bill in the legislature last March, rookie MLA Dave Rodney, the only Canadian to climb Everest twice, seemed about to summit his first political mountain.
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Daryl Fridhandler – Chair, Calgary Economic Development
When Calgary Economic Development released a report in 2004 calling for the expansion of the city’s post-secondary education capacity, it had, to some, a strange ring for an agency whose mandate is business boosterism.
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Charles Ruigrok – CEO, Syncrude Canada Ltd.
Oilsands contribute more than $4 billion a year to Alberta’s economy and one of the individuals posting all those zeros is Charles Ruigrok, the CEO of Syncrude, which racked up 82 million barrels of light sweet crude in 2004.
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