Board Members

Angus Reid is a leader in the market research industry with a career spanning over three decades. From 1979 to 2001, he was founder and CEO of the Angus Reid Group. Under his direction, the company grew into one of the largest research enterprises in North America.
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From 1979 to 2001 Dr. Reid was founder and CEO of the Angus Reid Group, a marketing research supplier. Under his direction, the company grew into the largest research enterprise in Canada, with North American revenues of $60 million. It was sold to Paris based Ipsos SA in 2000.

Currently, Angus Reid is President and CEO of Angus Reid Consultants, a Vancouver-based marketing and public affairs consultancy. He also serves as a Senior Fellow at the Liu Institute for the Study of Global Issues.

Angus Reid was born in Regina, Saskatchewan, and received his early education in Vancouver. He earned a B.A. and an M.A. in Sociology from the University of Manitoba, and in 1974 he received a Ph.D. in Sociology from Carleton University in Ottawa. A speaker, commentator and author, Dr. Reid has written numerous articles and columns for newspapers and trade journals. In 1996 Doubleday published his Canadian best-seller; Shakedown: How the New Economy is Changing our Lives.

As a consultant, Angus works with a wide range of corporations, government agencies, and special interest groups. In addition, he serves as a member of the advisory board of Nestle Canada, Rick Hansen Enterprises, and Cityfone Communications. Dr. Reid is also chairman of the advisory board of the Canada Institute of the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington, DC. Among his many philanthropic activities, he directs the Angus Reid Foundation and serves as chair of the CKNW Children's Fund.

Angus has been the recipient of a Canada Council Doctoral Fellowship, the National Health Research Scholar Award, the Davidson Dunton Award for Carleton University's graduate of the year, the Entrepreneur of the Year Award (Services Category), the annual award of distinction from the Canadian Public Affairs Association, and the Marketer of the Year Award from the American Marketing Association. He holds honorary doctorates from the University of Manitoba (1996) and Simon Fraser University (2002).

Angus Reid lives in West Vancouver with his wife Margaret.

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Don Babick is a former President and COO CanWest Global Communications/Southam Publications. Under his direction the company had a revenue base of $1.2B, 8000 national employees, 29 daily newspapers and 100 non-daily community newspapers.
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Don Babick is a former President and COO CanWest Global Communications/Southam Publications. Under his direction the company had a revenue base of $1.2B, 8000 national employees, 29 daily newspapers and 100 non-daily community newspapers. In addition to Vision Critical, Mr. Babick is also a Director of American Press Institute, Torstar Corp and The Layfield Group.

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Jim Fletcher is currently a Managing Director with Chrysalix Energy Management. Mr. Fletcher was involved with the Angus Reid Group, as director and later CFO where he managed the sale of the company to Ipsos S.A. of France in 2000.
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Jim is an active Director of several not-for-profit and for-profit organizations in Canada and the United States, including Discovery Capital Corporation, and Redlen Technologies. Mr. Fletcher holds a degree in Engineering Physics from Queen's University and an MBA from Harvard Business School.

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Mr. Mathew George is responsible for managing TELUS Ventures' US$100 million venture fund and managing all venture investments made on behalf of TELUS.
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Mr. Mathew George is responsible for managing TELUS Ventures' US$100 million venture fund and managing all venture investments made on behalf of TELUS. TELUS Ventures is the strategic venture capital arm of TELUS Corporation and invests in emerging U.S. and Canadian based businesses and technologies with a view to accelerate TELUS' strategy of leveraging the convergence of voice, data, IP, and wireless. To-date TELUS Ventures has made 19 venture investments, 10 of which are in Canadian companies and 9 in U.S. companies. His team identifies investment opportunities, structures the venture and private equity investments, actively monitors the portfolio companies and facilitates portfolio liquidity events.

Mathew joined TELUS Ventures in June 2001 from the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority where he was responsible for the global co-investment and direct private equity investment activities of ADIA's US$4 billion Private Equity fund. Mathew has also worked in the Mergers & Acquisitions Group at Warburg Dillon Read and Barclays de Zoete Wedd both in London and New York. Mathew holds a Masters of Business Management from the Ecole des Hautes Etudes Commericiales in Paris, with specialization in Analytical Finance from the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business. His Bachelor of Technology (Honours) degree in Electrical & Electronics Engineering is from the Regional Engineering College in Calicut, India.

Mathew serves as a member of the Board of Directors for Apparent Networks (Vancouver, BC), Hostopia (Toronto, ON) and the Arts Club Theatre Company (Vancouver, BC). Mr. George is also a member of the Chartered Financial Analysts (CFA) Institute and the Vancouver Society of Financial Analysts and is also a CFA charter holder.

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Michael Davies is the Founder and President of The Davies Charitable Foundation, Chairman of Kasten Chase Applied Research and a past Director of Angus Reid Group Inc.
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Michael Davies is the Founder and President of The Davies Charitable Foundation, Chairman of Kasten Chase Applied Research and a past Director of Angus Reid Group Inc. He has also served in various capacities with the Ontario Federation of Symphony Orchestras, the Stratford Shakespearean Festival, The Trillium Foundation and Olympic Organizing Committee. Mr. Davies has received numerous awards for community services including the Order of Canada and an honorary doctorate from Queen's University.

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Ida Goodreau is President and Chief Executive Officer of Vancouver Coastal Health (VCH), one of Canada’s largest public health organizations. VCH delivers $2.3 billion in acute, residential, and community health services to over 1.2 million people on British Columbia’s west coast. Under her leadership, VCH is shifting to a patient-centred approach and building an integrated continuum of health care services.
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Ida Goodreau is President and Chief Executive Officer of Vancouver Coastal Health (VCH), one of Canada’s largest public health organizations. VCH delivers $2.3 billion in acute, residential, and community health services to over 1.2 million people on British Columbia’s west coast. Under her leadership, VCH is shifting to a patient-centred approach and building an integrated continuum of health care services.

Ms. Goodreau has extensive experience in leading organizational change as Senior Vice President, Global Optimization at Norske Skog in Norway; President, Pulp Operations, Fletcher Challenge Canada in Vancouver; Managing Director at Tasman Pulp & Paper in New Zealand; Senior Vice President, Human Resources at Fletcher Canada in Vancouver; and Vice President, Human Resources at Union Gas in Ontario.

Ms. Goodreau is currently Chair of the Western Canadian Health CEO Forum, a member of the Richard Ivey Health Sector Advisory Council, is Chair of the Leaders’ Roundtable on Health Human Resources for The Conference Board of Canada, is a member of the Board of Directors of the Occupational Health and Safety Agency for Health Care in BC, a member of the Board of Directors for The Vancouver Board of Trade, and a member of the Board of Directors for Terasen Inc. and Terasen Gas Inc. She is also a former member of the Board of Directors for Shell Canada, and has served on a number of other boards including the United Way, YMCA and the Edgewood Chemical Dependency Treatment Centre.

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