Small Business Round Table – Government of British Columbia

Jessie Anderson | Owner of Big Bros Barbershop

Big Bros Barbershop is unique because they are one of the very few brick-and-mortar spaces dedicated to trans wellness and where you can buy gender-affirming products in person. They have clients and visitors from across the lower mainland and sometimes internationally, including families with young trans teens.

Missy MacKintosh | Owner of MisMack Clean Cosmetics

Missy has been a professional makeup artist for over 16 years. She grew up in Salmon Arm, B.C. and then moved to Vancouver, B.C. to study makeup artistry at the Blanche MacDonald Centre. Missy wanted to work with clean products, the professionally performing products she found didn’t meet her standards so she made her own.

Lawrence Lewis | CEO and Founder of One Feather

Lawrence Lewis is a member of the We Wai Kai Nation on Vancouver Island. He had a vision to create technology solutions for First Nations to use. His company is now able to provide technology solutions for elections, membership, and engagement, to reduce costs and administrative strain for nations.

Andy Thompson | Manager and Co-Owner of Seaton Forest Products LTD.

Andy was first exposed to sawmills while working on a ranch in 1973 after moving to B.C. from Ontario. He officially started his career in sawmills 15 years ago when he saw one for sale and has been building them ever since.

Sarah Ridgeway | Owner of Rain Forest Fabrics

Growing up, Sarah was always around fabric and she started to sew when she was eight. Sarah bought the local fabric store she had been working at from the owner in 2019 and Rain Forest Fabric was born. One year later the building the store was in burned to the ground. Now she has started from scratch to bring Rain Forest Fabrics back from the ashes.

Will Cadell | CEO of Sparkgeo

Will Cadell studied engineering and subsequently remote sensing in his native Scotland. He began working in a land-use research institute as a spatial modeller. He only had access to basic software, so he wrote his own programs. When you see a gap, you can decide to ignore it, or you can decide not to.

Don Freschi | CEO of Fenix Advanced Materials

Don Freschi studied chemical engineering and started his career in B.C. He became fascinated by semiconductors and all the specialty materials that were needed to create them. Fenix Advanced Materials is his second venture in the field of advanced manufacturing after he successfully grew and sold his first business.

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In the News

Economic Supports for Businesses

Spotlight on Sparkgeo

Spotlight on Seaton Forest Products LTD.

Twitter by @SBRoundtableBC