Hayley Wickenheiser – Hockey player, Calgary Oval Xtreme and Team Canada
Influential Icon: Ice queen
Already widely considered the best female hockey player ever to lace up the blades, Hayley Wickenheiser made the historic decision to cross the gender barrier by playing in a professional men’s league in Finland.
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Gwyn Morgan – President and CEO, EnCana Corporation
Influential Icon: Fit to lead
When your company’s year-end balance sheet features earnings of $3.2 billion on revenues of $14 billion, your opinion will be sought.
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Gerard (Gerry) Protti – Chair, Canadian Chamber of Commerce
Executive Vice-President, Corporate Relations, EnCana Corporation
Influential Icon: Nation-builder
Even before assuming the presidency at the Canadian Chamber of Commerce, Gerry Protti had already earned a reputation as a smooth operator among business and political elites throughout the country.
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Ernie Patterson – President, Alberta Urban Municipalities Association
Mayor, Town of Claresholm
Influential Icon: Municipal principal
When it comes to extracting money from the Alberta government, few lobbyists have proven as persuasive with the Klein Tories as Claresholm Mayor Ernie Patterson, who was elected president of the Alberta Urban Municipalities Association in September.
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Dr. David Lau – President, Obesity Canada
Professor, Departments of Medicine, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Calgary
Influential Icon: Fat buster
In diagnosing the country’s growing problem with obesity, University of Calgary professor David Lau has earned headlines across the country as well as attention from the medical community.
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Bob Normand – President and CEO, ATB Financial
Influential Icon: Mr. Moneybags
ATB Financial is the only government-owned financial institution in Alberta, but CEO and president Bob Normand has been delivering private-sector results for his sole shareholder. For fiscal 2003, ATB delivered earnings of $172 million, a pittance by major chartered banks’ numbers but also a far cry from when ATB was a drain on the government’s treasury.
Chair, The Brick Warehouse Corporation
Influential Icon: Little brick man
Even though this magazine named Bill Comrie as its 2003 Alberta Business Person of the Year in December, Bill Comrie showed no signs of wanting to rest on that or any other of the considerable laurels that have come his way.
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“The secret of my influence has always been that it remained secret.” >
From A to W (Clive Beddoe to Rob Woronuk), meet the scene stealers of the past year
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