The 50 Most Influential Women in B.C.

See who made our list by clicking through this slideshow.

Monique Mercier
Executive vice-president, corporate affairs, chief legal officer and corporate secretary, Telus

A lawyer educated at the Université de Montréal faculty of law and Oxford University, where she received an MA

Sue Paish
CEO, LifeLabs Medical Laboratory Services

Influence: As head of the country’s largest community-based laboratory services company, Paish leads an organization on the leading edge of private medic

Mary Ackenhusen
President and CEO, Vancouver Coastal Health

Influence: VCH is the largest academic and tertiary health authority in B.C., serving a population of one million with a budget of $3 billion. Acke

Amiee Chan
President and CEO, Norsat International Inc.

Influence: Chan is a rare female voice in B.C.’s tech sector–and a turnaround artist extraordinaire who took Norsat from near bankruptcy to becom

Shannon Rogers
President and general counsel, Global Relay

Influence: Regularly listed as one of Canada’s top women entrepreneurs, Rogers leads a popular cloud-based message archiving and compliance servic

Karimah Es Sabar
President and CEO, The Centre for Drug Research and Development (CDRD)

Influence: Es Sabar is one of the leading forces in Canada’s life sciences sector, helming Life Sciences BC through a

Barbara Grantham
President and CEO, VGH and UBC Hospital Foundation

Influence: At a time of tightening public finances and increasing public need, hospitals need top- notch fundraisers–and Grantham, a form

Cybele Negris
President, CEO and co-founder, Webnames.ca Inc.

Influence: As Canada’s original “.ca” registrar, spun off from UBC, Webnames.ca remains one of the country’s leading providers of web hos

Christina Anthony
Vice-president, director, portfolio manager and investment advisor, Odlum Brown; chair, Forum for Women Entrepreneurs

As vice-president, director and portfolio manager at Odlum Brown, and with spots on the

Debra Hewson
President and CEO, Odlum Brown Ltd.

Influence: Hewson leads a team of more than 200 employees at storied Vancouver investment firm Odlum Brown (with more than $9 billion in assets under administ

Fiona Macfarlane
Managing partner (Vancouver and Western Canada) and chief inclusiveness officer, Ernst & Young LLP

Influence: The South African native has drawn upon her experience growing up in a country d

Tamara Vrooman
President and CEO, Vancity

Influence: Vrooman has shaped fiscal policy at both a private and public level–serving as B.C.’s deputy minister of finance from 2004 to 2007 and as leader of Ca

Carol Newell
Founding investor and principal, Renewal Partners

Influence: Renewal Partners has been at the leading edge of B.C.’s booming social venture capital movement, and it never would have happened w

Catherine Dorazio
Vice-president, Connor, Clark & Lunn Private Capital Ltd.

Influence: The first (and only) female partner at Connor, Clark & Lunn–Canada’s largest investment counselling firm, with $51 b

Launi Skinner
CEO, First West Credit Union

Influence: Skinner–a former president of Starbucks U.S., where she oversaw 7,000 company-owned stores and 3,400 licensed stores–has led First West since 2010 an

Valerie Mann
Managing partner, Lawson Lundell LLP

Influence: As managing partner at Lawson Lundell–one of Western Canada’s top business law firms–Mann is B.C.’s go-to legal expert on a variety of top

Tracey McVicar
Managing partner, CAI Capital Management

Influence: In addition to running the private equity group’s western operations, McVicar is a popular and influential board director, having served f

Sandra Stuart
President and CEO, HSBC Bank Canada

Influence: Stuart started with HSBC in 1982, rising through the ranks to become CEO of the bank’s Canadian subsidiary this month. HSBC is the only major ba