Kollel Business Dinner - 18th Engagement

You are invited to join the Kollel Business Club and take advantage of the opportunity to hear the wisdom of some of the most influential business people in Vancouver.
Join approximately 75 professionals from a variety of business enterprises, gain insights into the workings of some of the Vancouver business community’s commercial minds and take the opportunity to network with your peers.

On  Monday  March  15th, 2010 at the Kollel, 1965 West Broadway at 7:00pm

Speaker:John Spencer MacDonald, OC co-founded MacDonald Dettwiler.

About the speaker:John Spencer MacDonald, OC co-founded MacDonald Dettwiler and Associates with partner, Vern Dettwiler, in 1969. He served as President and CEO until 1982, and as Chairman of the Board from 1982 to 1998.[1] In addition to professorships in electrical engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and University of British Columbia (UBC), Dr. MacDonald has served in an advisory capacity to the government and on the board of directors of numerous companies.[2]

In 2001 Dr. MacDonald co-founded Day4 Energy, a company that designs, manufactures and sells high performance solar electric modules. Day4 Energy went on to have one of the largest IPOs in Canada in 2007, at over $100 million and has since grown to almost 300 employees.[3]

In 2008 Dr. MacDonald was awarded the British Columbia Technology Industry Association Impact Award for Person of the Year in recognition of his contributions to science and the BC High Technology Industry[4]. Day4 Energy also won the Impact Award for Emerging Company of the Year.

Price:$36 (A $25.00 tax receipt will be issued for each dinner)

Please register via email, rabbi@communitykollel.org or by phoning 604.738.7060
To pay online, click:  http://communitykollel.org/donate/
Please remember to register at the above email address as well