Dan Veniez

Dan has had a wide-ranging career as an entrepreneur, corporate executive, management consultant, and policy advisor to government. He is the Liberal Party of Canada's candidate in West Vancouver-Sunshine Coast-Sea to Sky Country (www.danveniez.ca).

Dan is president of DDV Enterprises Ltd., an investment and management services company. He was an operating advisor to Pegasus Capital Advisors, LP which manages assets through several private equity funds and is based in New York. In December 2007 he was appointed Chairman of Ridley Terminals Inc., a federal Crown Corporation. Dan was President and CEO of LDW Hotel and Resort Developments LLC, which built and owns Four Seasons Hotel and Resorts in Jackson Hole, Wyoming and Palo Alto, California. He was President and Chief Executive Officer of NWBC Timber and Pulp Ltd., a company with assets in the forest products industry, which owned New Skeena Forest Products Inc. (formerly Skeena Cellulose Inc) until September 2004. From 1999-2006 Dan was a partner at The Centre for Executive Development, a Boston-based strategic management and leadership development firm with a global client base. For two years prior he served as a Director of The Secor Group, a Montreal-based strategy consulting firm that is the largest independent company of its kind in Canada. From 1992 to 1997 he was Vice President, Corporate Affairs and Human Resources at Repap Enterprises Inc., a $3 billion pulp, coated paper and kraft paper company with over 5000 employees in operations throughout North America.

From 1985 to 1992 Dan served as senior policy advisor to cabinet ministers in various economic and social policy portfolios within the Government of Canada. The departments in which he served include Industry, Science, and Technology; Human Resources Development and Labour; Fisheries and Oceans; and Indian Affairs and Northern Development. It is his knowledge and understanding of these portfolios, and how they can be improved, that motivates Dan to seek public office and try to effect positive change.

Dan attended McGill University and Queens University. He has authored numerous feature articles published in The Globe and Mail, National Post, Vancouver Sun, Montreal Gazette and Policy Options, among others, on a variety of issues such as trade, foreign policy, health care, entrepreneurship, economic development, and the Canadian forest industry. Born (October 1, 1961) and raised in Montreal, Vancouver has been home for Dan, his wife and their two children since 2002.