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Greg Macdonald

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

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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Gene Dub

Gene Dub – Principal, Dub Architects Ltd.

Having created the most distinctive shape on the capital city’s skyline, Gene Dub now wants to restore one of Edmonton’s most distinguished landmarks of yesteryear.
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Fred Dunn

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 Lowry

Don Lowry – President and CEO, EPCOR Utilities Inc.

In his eight years at the helm, Don Lowry has turned city-owned EPCOR Utilities Inc. into a continental player in power generation with more than $4 billion in assets, $2.7 billion in annual revenues and 2,300 employees.
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Don Gray

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

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

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

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

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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