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Executive Profiles

Gord Hicks, President, BLJC

Gordon Hicks joined BLJC in 1997 and held a number of Executive roles until being promoted to President in 2006.

Gordon is a graduate Engineer of Carleton University, a member of the Professional Engineers of Ontario and is a LEED Accredited Professional.

Gord is committed to supporting the Real Estate Industry in operating to the highest environmental standards. To this end, Gord has served on the Board of Directors of the Canada Green Building Council since May 2007.

In April 2008, Gord became one of 275 Certified Canadian Presenters of Al Gore’s “The Climate Project”, inspired by the Academy Award winning documentary on climate change, “An Inconvenient Truth”. In 2009, Gord joined the Board of The Climate Project Canada.

Finally, in 2009 Gord was appointed the Cabinet Leader for the Real Estate Sector of the Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation’s Leaders for the Cure Program.

 

Mark Marquis, Executive Vice-President

As Executive Vice-President of BLJC, Mark is responsible for New Business Development, Marketing, and the development of go-to-market strategies for BLJC's Outsourced Service Offerings. Prior to taking on his current role Mark held numerous senior leadership positions within the BLJC Group including President of our RealSuite subsidiary, Vice-President, eBusiness and Systems Integration, and Director of Special Projects.

In addition to being an Officer of BLJC, Mark is a member of the Advisory Board for the Brookfield Technology Fund.

Prior to joining BLJC, Mark gained extensive business experience in the operation of a strategic consulting practice, in leading a startup retail and catalog sales operation, and in taking on increasingly senior sales and management positions within Johnson Controls Ltd. in Canada. Mark is a member of the Association of Professional Engineers of Ontario and a graduate of the University of Waterloo's mechanical engineering program.

 

Brian Fellows, Senior Vice-President – Operations

As Senior Vice-President of BLJC, Brian has overall responsibility for operations at BLJC and is an Officer of the Company.

Prior to taking on this role, Brian was responsible for WSI (Workplace Solutions Inc.), a BLJC subsidiary located in British Columbia. These responsibilities included the delivery of workplace management services to certain properties owned or operated by the government of British Columbia, as well as the development of strategic partnerships between the private and public sectors in B.C. Prior to this, Brian led several large-scale procurement and transition activities for BLJC in Ontario.

Prior to joining BLJC, Brian was Vice-President of Sales and Marketing for a large security organization and held a number of general, sales and operations management positions with a multinational building controls company.

Brian holds an MBA from the University of Western Ontario.

 

Jim Neal, Vice-President – Finance

As Vice-President, Finance, Jim leads BLJC's financial management team in corporate and client accounting and financial systems and is an Officer of the Company.

Prior to joining BLJC, Jim's background included several senior financial and operational roles including V.P. & CFO and V.P. National Operations for a large contracting services firm and Director Finance for a large multi-national technology company.

Jim has several years of knowledge and leadership with financial and administrative functions including information technology, legal, human resources, procurement and service management. Jim holds a C.M.A. designation and graduated from York University with a M.B.A in Finance and Marketing and received a Bachelor of Commerce with honours from Queen’s University.