The MultiSport Centre of Excellence Foundation is supported by a wide range of community leaders, accomplished athletes, sport medical practitioners and dynamic business people who share in our vision.

The Foundation is governed by a Board of Directors, headed by our founding chair Scott Cousens of Vancouver.

The Founding Directors

Scott Cousens provides management, technical and financial services to nine publicly traded corporations as the director of capital finance for Hunter Dickinson Inc. For the past 19 years he has worked developing relationships within the international investment community. Substantial financings and subsequent corporate success has enabled him to establish strong ties with North American, European and Asian investors.

As a principal of Hunter Dickinson, Mr. Cousens was one of the 2004 recipients of the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Pacific Awards. He had a promising athletic career cut short by a series of serious injuries, and his success with Hunter Dickinson now enables him to help create a sport training facility that he wished he could have had access to years ago.

Loyal Makaroff has 16 years of successfully developing and enhancing new and existing businesses both nationally and internationally through his own company, Loyal Makaroff & Associates Inc. He has held contracts as a business development specialist with financial corporations, development organizations, universities, and governments. Mr. Makaroff also has 11 years of experience in senior administrative positions with not-for profit organizations. In both the for-profit and not-for-profit sectors he has a consistent record of enhancing profitability and performance. His experience in strategic management, human resources, entrepreneurial expansion will enable him to effectively lead the MultiSport Centre of Excellence.

ATHLETE ADVISORY BOARD

SPORT MEDICAL ADVISORY BOARD

- Orthopaedic surgeon and past-president of Canadian Medical Association
- President & CEO of Cambie Surgeries Corporation, the first private health care facility of its kind
- Past- president of Arthroscopy Association of North America
- Member of Scientific Committee of the European SOciety of Sports Traumatology

- Chief Medical Officer for Vancouver 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games.
- Head Physician for the NBA's Vancouver Grizzlies and CMO for Canada at the Sydney Olympics, two Pan-American and two World Student Games, with more than 25 years of experience providing medical support for Canadian national and professional sports teams and athletes.
- Co-founder of the Allan McGavin Sports Medicine Centre and professor in the Faculty of Medicine at the University of British Columbia.
- Past president of SportMedBC and the Canadian Academy of Sport Medicine.
- Honoured as the Canadian Sport Physician of the Year in 2000.

- Athletic Performance Coordinator for the reigning NBA champion Los Angeles Lakers
- Works with professional athletes such as Kobe Bryant, Shaquille O'Neal, Grant Hill, Jimmy Connors and Michelle Kwan
- One of world's foremost authorities on core training and movement integration
- Creator of the Core X System™ and has developed products and programs widely-used in the NBA, NFL, NHL and in gyms (around the world)

- Manager Medical Services and Chief Therapist for the Vancouver 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games
- Former professional soccer player and globally-recognized sports and orthopedic physiotherapist
- Works with professional athletes, including former two-time NBA MVP Steve Nash Therapist and consultant with Canadian Alpine Ski team, Canadian Soccer Association, Dallas Mavericks and NHL Players Association

- President & CEO of SportMedBC for 27 years
- Leader in the development and delivery of a series of sport safety and training programs, including the highly-regarded Sun Run In Training clinics based on the SportMed RunWalk curriculum
- Medical Coordinator and Medical Director serving Canadian teams and athletes at numerous international events, including the Olympic Games

- Founder of Performance Posture multi-disciplinary posture clinic, and Mixx Fitness Studio, an elite private training facility in Vancouver; exclusive service provider to Vancouver Club
- Leading posture specialist and movement coach with 20 years of professional experience
- Proponent of 'human performance' recognized as community leader on the strength of his focus on importance of posture for children

BUSINESS ADVISORY BOARD

Mr. Bentley is chairman of the Board of Directors of CANFOR and of the company's principal subsidiary, Canadian Forest Products Ltd. ("CFP"), and co-chairman and a director of HSPP General Partner Ltd., the general partner of Howe Sound Pulp and Paper Limited Partnership.

He also serves as president and a director of Sierra Mountain Minerals Inc. and is a member of the board of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, as well as being a member of the Advisory Board of BuildDirect.com and a trustee and Chair Emeritus of the Vancouver General Hospital and University of British Columbia Hospital Foundation.

Mr. Bentley is Chancellor of the University of Northern British Columbia and holds an honourary law degree from the University of British Columbia.

Mr. Bentley received the WAC Bennett Award in 1999 when inducted into the BC Sports Hall of Fame. Highlights of his involvement with sport in British Columbia include serving as a director and past president of the BC Golf Association, honorary director of the Canadian Professional Golfers’ Association and a trustee of the Canadian Golf Foundation. Mr. Bentley was also a member of an influential group of individuals who brought NHL hockey to Vancouver and has chaired events to raise funds for Canada’s Olympic athletes.

Thanks to his unwavering passion for sport, as a participant, fan, campaigner and administrator,Mr. Bentley has benefited all British Columbians and brought recognition and honour to the province’s sport

Ron brings a unique set of skills to the MultiSport Centre of Excellence Business Advisory Board. In his early years he specialized in taxation and corporate structuring, re-structuring and financing. Later he re-concentrated his efforts toward the development of venture capital financing for emerging public and private companies, including mineral exploration companies. During his time at HDI, he and his associates have completed in excess of 20 property or project acquisitions and over $350 million in exploration financings.

Another of Ron's specialties is structuring creative deals and developing strategic alliances. These creative deals extend from finding ways to work with South African firms to meet the requirements of the new mining laws, to developing innovative approaches to business partnerships with a Black Economic Empowerment Company.

Ron lives in West Vancouver, British Columbia, with his wife Shannon and their two daughters. He enjoys golfing, skiing and collecting automobiles.

Blake Bromley’s (BA, LLB) benevolent sector expertise may be unparalleled in Canada. He is an authority on Canadian charity law and as a President of Benefic Group his practice relates almost exclusively to charitable and tax planning matters.

Mr. Bromley has incorporated and registered well over 500 registered charities and non-profit organizations and has provided strategic tax planning to facilitate over one billion dollars worth of inter-vivos gifting plus several times that in future testamentary giving. He is also a globally recognized expert on the comparative law of charity and regularly advises charities and donors operating around the world on tax and legal issues relating to the international transfer and utilization of charitable funds as well as on matters of corporate control, strategy, and structure.

Mr. Bromley has advised governments in China, Russia,Vietnam, Australia, England, South Africa and Eastern Europe on drafting their laws governing rights and tax privileges of social organizations.

In her role, she facilitates Private Swiss Banking, Global Asset Management and Investment Banking for High Net Worth individuals and institutions. She is a connector and a rainmaker and has been involved in numerous community activities as well as being a part of many boards. An avid skier, tennis player, equestrian and soccer/lacrosse/tennis/hockey/gymnastics Mom, she has played or watched most every sport, enjoying them all.

Aside from finance and sport, Melanie has a strong interest in anatomy, physiology and rehabilitation as she holds both a Science and a DVM degree and still practices veterinary medicine part time.

Mr. Mason articled with Deloitte & Touche, specializing in audit and business venture structuring, and subsequently worked with international commodity mercantilist trader, Balfour Guthrie Inc., the finance group at Simon Fraser University, and the Homestake Mining Group.

Joining Hunter Dickinson Inc. in 1994, as director of finance, accounting and human resources, Mr. Mason focused on creative acquisition opportunities and financing arrangements, along with building the accounting/ administration systems to the present day international operations. In August 1998, he became Chief Financial Officer of the Hunter Dickinson group of companies and has been instrumental in building HDI into a credible enterprise, able to raise substantial financings.

Mr. Mason, along with the other directors of HDI,was recognized as business innovators with the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year® 2004 Pacific award in the Natural Resources category.

Tricia Smith (BA LLB LLD (Honorary)) is a four time Olympian, Olympic Silver Medalist, Commonwealth Games Gold Medalist, seven time World Championship Medalist in Rowing, and a member of the B.C. and Canadian Olympic Sport Halls of Fame. She is Vice President of the Canadian Olympic Committee, Executive Committee Member of the International Rowing Federation, and Member of the International Council of Arbitration for Sport.

She has received numerous awards including an Honorary Doctorate of Laws from the University of British Columbia for her career and work in sport and the law. Recently she has been instrumental in lobbying for and raising 20 million dollars for the in-progress dredging and rejuvenation of the international standard rowing canoe and kayak course at Burnaby Lake.

In her professional career, Ms. Smith is Deputy Managing Director and a Partner at Barnescraig & Associates in Vancouver, British Columbia, a firm specializing in liability claims and risk management. Her practice also includes work as a Sport Arbitrator.