Governance

Wendy is responsible for managing legal, enterprise risk management, insurance and corporate governance at Capstone Mining Corporation. She has been practicing law for over 20 years and is a certified director with the Institute of Corporate Directors. She holds a Master in International Tax Law and a Master of Business Administration, and has completed the Advanced Management Program at Harvard University. She is past Director of Via Rail Canada Inc. and currently serves as Director and Chair of Audit of the Royal BC Museum as well as Trustee and Chair of the Strategy Committee of the Vancouver Police Foundation. Wendy and her husband, Casey Manarey, have three children, Jacob ’24, Chloe ’27 and Ashton ’27. 

Miranda is the Chief Legal Officer & Senior Director, Business Development at Acuitas Therapeutics, Inc., a biotechnology company that works with partners to advance nucleic acid therapeutics to address unmet clinical needs based on its internationally recognized capabilities in delivery technology.

Formerly an equity partner in the litigation group at McCarthy Tétrault, Miranda has been recognized as a leading lawyer in the area of general commercial litigation in independent publications such as Chambers Canada, The Best Lawyers in Canada, and Benchmark Canada: The Definitive Guide to Canada’s Leading Litigation Firms & Attorneys. In 2019, market research firm Acritas identified Miranda as a “Stand-out Lawyer”. In 2018, she was named to Vancouver Magazine’s Power 50 List of the City’s Most Influential People. She has been identified as a Leading Lawyer under 40 by Lexpert (2017), “Best 40 Under 40” Lawyer by the National Asian Pacific American Bar Association (2015), and the recipient of the Association of Women in Finance 2014 PEAK Women in Finance “Rising Star” Award. In 2013, she was recognized as one of Business in Vancouver’s “Forty Under 40.”

Miranda is a frequent speaker on corporate governance issues, investigations, and dispute resolution processes as well as diversity and inclusion, and served as McCarthy Tétrault’s first National Chair of its Gender Equality Action Group.  She has also served as faculty for the Continuing Legal Education Society of British Columbia, The Directors’ College and The Advocates Society, and as an adjunct professor on corporate law topics at the University of British Columbia Allard School of Law.

Miranda has previously served on a number of community boards, including as chair of the boards of the Vancouver Foundation, the largest community foundation in Canada, the UBC Alumni Association and Vantage Point.  She has also served on the boards of the United Way of the Lower Mainland and Imagine Canada.

Sacha McLean is Vice Chairman of the McLean Group, a second-generation diversified family holding company active in film and television studios, helicopters, real estate investment, corporate investments and communications. He also leads Gun Lake Pictures, a factual television production company, and 50° North Productions, a scripted television production company. 

Sacha joined the business in 1997. In 1999, he was a key leader in the founding of Vancouver Film Studios, Canada’s largest film and television production facility that today includes 12 sound stages and production offices; Canada’s third-largest production equipment rentals company (Pacific Backlot Services); a telecommunications division (Signal Systems); an aerial film unit (Blackcomb Helicopters); and an in-house creative development division. Home to hundreds of international feature films and television series since its inception, Vancouver Film Studios was the recipient of the 2013 BC Export Award for excellence in the category of Digital Media and Entertainment. 

Born and raised in Vancouver, Bob holds a Bachelor of Arts and a Bachelor of Laws from UBC. He was appointed Queen’s Counsel in 2009. He has practiced law for over 35 years in Vancouver, most recently as a partner in a national law firm, and has been Corporate Secretary/General Counsel to a Federal Crown Corporation for more than five years. He has been a member of the WPGA Board of Directors since 1999, was Chair from 2000-2016, and is a founding member and director of the WPGA Foundation and the WPGA Property Society. He serves on the boards of a number of charitable groups. Bob and his wife, Marilyn, have four children.

Mark was born in Edmonton and raised in Vancouver. After a brief career in music, he obtained a Bachelor of Arts from UBC and a Master of Science in Business Administration specializing in Urban Land Ecomonics. Mark’s real estate development and investment activities have been primarily in Vancouver and the southern United States. Mark chairs the Buildings and Grounds Committee for WPGA. His other community commitments include being the founder and president of Jerome Outreach, a nonprofit society that provides sports programs to 2500 at-risk inner city children, and serving on the Board of Health and Home Care Society B.C.

Mark joined the WPGA Board of Directors in September 2009. He and his wife Lesley have two daughters, Katherine ’12 and Elizabeth ’14, who both attended WPGA since junior kindergarten.

Kory is Kwakwaka'wakw and has 20 years’ experience teaching and advocating for Indigenous access and programs in postsecondary institutions. She is Executive Director of Indigenous Initiatives and Partnerships at BCIT, where she provides strategic direction and leadership to BCIT in the continuous development of Indigenous initiatives, programs and partnerships. She is Chair of the National Indigenous Education Committee of Colleges and Institutions Canada and Chair of the World Federation of Colleges and Polytechnics Indigenous Affinity Group. With a deep commitment to education, she knows innovative and creative solutions are a must to move Reconciliation into ReconciliACTION. Education and access to knowledge are key to move everyone forward. When people know better, they do better.

 

Kory is a member of the BC Law Society and serves on several nonprofit Boards. She is also a proud Grey Wolf parent to Kaija ‘17, Kaylene ‘18 and Kadence ‘22. 

Dr. Wong is a founding member of West Point Grey Academy and sits on the WPGA Foundation. A graduate of UBC Faculty of Medicine, Dr. Wong has a medical practice in Vancouver. He is also an active business person and community leader, recognized by Vancouver Magazine as one of the "Power 50," and is a recipient of the Queen's Diamond Jubilee Medal for community service. Involved in a number of community organizations, Dr. Wong is Vice Chair of the Yue Shan Society (Vancouver), an Honorary Patron of the Chinese Cultural Centre of Greater Vancouver, and a Member of the Overseas Exchange Committee of Guangdong Province. Dr. Wong has participated in several government trade missions to China and is a Special Adviser to the Musqueam Nation for Asia-Pacific affairs. In 2016, Dr. Wong was appointed to the Order of British Columbia. He and his wife, Simmy, have two daughters, Jacqueline '13 and Katelyn '15.