Our senior executive team provides leadership and oversees
operations at BC Housing. The executive is responsible for:
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Shayne Ramsay,
CEO
Since May 2000, Shayne has been the CEO of BC Housing.
Shayne was responsible for setting up the Homeowner
Protection Office in 1998 and also served as its first CEO.
The Homeowner Protection Office has been a branch of BC
Housing since April 2010.
Prior to becoming the CEO, Shayne was the Director of
Development Services for BC Housing, and the Director of
Housing Policy and Program Development with the former
Ministry of Municipal Affairs and Housing in B.C.
In addition to his work as CEO, Shayne serves as Chair of
the Board of Directors for the Crown Corporation Employer's
Association, an agency that represents human resource
issues for the provincial crown corporations in British
Columbia.
Shayne has a graduate degree in urban planning from the
University of Toronto.
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Dan Maxwell, Vice President
Corporate Services & Chief Financial Officer
Dan is a chartered accountant and was the Director of
Internal Audit for the Office of the Comptroller General of
BC and an auditor in private industry before joining BC
Housing as the Director of Finance in 1996.
Dan left BC Housing in 1999 to help establish the Homeowner
Protection Office where he held the positions of Chief
Financial Officer, Chief Operating Officer and Acting Chief
Executive Officer. He returned to BC Housing as the Chief
Financial Officer in 2003.
Dan has a degree in commerce and business administration
from the University of British Columbia.
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Craig Crawford, (Acting)
Vice President
of Operations
In his current role as Vice President of Operations, Craig
brings more than 20 years of experience in the development
of a wide range of housing projects in partnership with the
non-profit sector.
For the past six years, Craig has been the Vice President
of BC Housing’s Development Services Branch.
During that time, Craig and his team worked with non-profit
societies to deliver more than 10,000 affordable housing
units across the province. Craig recently spearheaded the
Strengthening the Social Housing initiative that resulted
in the development of several tools to enable non-profit
housing providers to deliver projects more effectively.
Craig holds a Masters in Business Administration from Simon
Fraser University and is the executive sponsor of BC
Housing's Leadership Development Program.
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Michael Blaschuk, Vice
President of Asset Strategies
Prior to joining BC Housing as the first Vice
President, of the Asset Strategies Branch in October 2008,
Michael held several senior executive positions in the
federal government, most recently as the Director General
Accommodation, Portfolio Management and Real Estate
Services with Public Works and Government Services Canada
and Director General, Headquarters Administration at
Foreign Affairs and International Trade.
Michael is a former Chief Appraiser of Canada and is an
expert in real estate appraisal and assessment.
Michael has multiple diplomas in Urban Land Economics from
the University of British Columbia and is a fully
accredited member of the Appraisal Institute of Canada.
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Agnes Ross, Vice President
of Human Resources
Leading BC Housing’s HR team for over
10 years, Agnes has stewarded the
organization’s growth from just over two
hundred staff members to the over six hundred people it
employs today.
Committed to best practice in all areas of human resource
management, Agnes led the development of BC
Housing’s People Strategy, encompassing
excellence in employee development and recognition while
creating a culture of accountability. The People Strategy
continues to evolve with many innovative employee programs
and is credited with bringing the
organization’s employee engagement scores into
the top 25 per cent of benchmarked companies in North
America.
Agnes is designated as a Certified Human Resources
Practitioner (CHRP) with Bachelor of Arts degree in
Psychology and English from the University of Calgary.
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Susan Thom, Vice
President of Corporate Communications
Prior to joining BC Housing in 1993, Susan was
the Regional Manager of Public Affairs with the former
Employment and Immigration Canada (currently Service
Canada) where she was employed for 17 years. She brings
with her extensive experience in government, media and
community relations.
Susan is an Accredited Business Communicator with the
International Association of Business Communicators (IABC)
and has served in different capacities on their local,
national and international boards. Over the years, she has
earned some 18 provincial, national and international
awards from both IABC and the Canadian Public Relations
Society for various communications programs.
Susan attended the University of British Columbia prior to
switching her focus to the news media and graduated from
Broadcast Journalism at the British Columbia Institute of
Technology.
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Wendy Acheson, Vice
President and Registrar, Homeowner Protection Office
Wendy was appointed the first Vice President and
Registrar of the newest branch of BC Housing, the Homeowner
Protection Office (HPO), on April 1, 2010.
Prior to the transfer of the HPO to BC Housing, Wendy was
the Manager, Licensing and Deputy Registrar of the
Homeowner Protection Office. In this senior management
position, which she held for almost five years, Wendy was
responsible for overseeing licensing and compliance
operations, and leading important initiatives within the
organization to improve service delivery and increase
consumer protection. This includes important changes to the
Homeowner Protection Act.
Wendy also served as Director of Licensing/Deputy Registrar
of the Architectural Institute of British Columbia for five
years. She brings extensive experience in licensing, the
regulation of professionals and legal matters, government,
housing and consumer protection.
Wendy has degrees in both Law and political science from
the University of Calgary. Her community involvement
encompasses service with strata, co-operative housing, and
community housing organizations.
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Armin Amrolia, (Acting) Vice
President of Development Services
As Acting Vice President of Development Services, Armin
draws on more than 20 years of experience at BC Housing,
with over six years in a senior leadership position. She
has a strong background in stakeholder relations, liaising
with health authorities, private and non-profit housing
providers, and community resource groups.
Some of Armin's key accomplishments include the delivery of
housing units for the Independent Living BC program, the
Provincial Homelessness Initiative Phase I and II, and
involvement in local government partnership projects with
the cities of Vancouver, Abbotsford, Surrey and Maple
Ridge. In her former role as Executive Director of the
Lower Mainland for BC Housing’s Development
Services Branch, Armin and her team have delivered more
than 4,000 housing units since 2005.
Armin holds a degree in Political Science from Simon Fraser
University.
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