YPE Vancouver

YPE Vancouver Leadership

Welcome to YPE Vancouver, a city that proudly utilizes all energy sources to provide a high quality of living for its citizens!

YPE would like to invite those employed, looking to be employed or curious about our provinces energy resources to join us for networking, educational and philanthropic events geared towards furthering energy education across the province. Be it bio fuels to natural gas to hydro, we, and these sources of energy, are all part of our living, breathing economy.

Let us learn to respect all of BC’s energy resources, and work with each other in understanding how we bridge our current energy demands to future energy demands, doing so in a environmentally and fiscally respectful and responsible way.

YPE Vancouver Board

ypevancouver@gmail.com

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    Courtney Gibbons

    Director

    Courtney is a lawyer with Fasken LLP, a leading law firm in the energy landscape in British Columbia. Courtney is counsel for major gas and electric utilities before the BC Utilities Commission, and advises and represents clients with respect to rates and rate design, tariffs, the development of major projects and facilities, commission-initiated inquiries, renewable natural gas and hydrogen, and energy system planning.

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    Gonzalo Romero

    Director

    Gonzalo leads the Business Development team in North America at Clir Renewables. He has a diverse background, with 12 years of experience working as a lawyer, CEO and salesman across different industries such as Energy, Logistics and Insurance, in the private and public sectors. Currently based in Vancouver, Canada, Gonzalo graduated from Law school in 2014 and holds an MBA from the University of British Columbia, from which he graduated in 2022.

    tahmed@fasken.com
    604 631 4983

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    Adam Bastick

    Director

    Adam has over 12 years’ experience in corporate Human Resources and the Recruitment industry. He has held progressive roles in HR Management for multiple Fortune 500 Companies in the oil & gas, mining, and heavy industrial construction sectors. He has led teams on multibillion dollar construction projects including the Kearl Oil Sands Project in Fort McMurray, Alberta and the Trans Mountain Pipeline Project in Vancouver, BC.

    abastick@realtalkcareers.com

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    Daniel Hall

    Director

    Daniel holds a Bachelor of Commerce degree from the University of Calgary with a specialization in Finance and Economics. He also holds a Masters degree from the Technical University of Munich in Germany in Sustainable Resource Management. He currently works as a Policy Analyst at FortisBC, on the Public Policy and Climate Change team.

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    Chris Thomson

    Director, Sponsorship and Outreach

    Chris is a Professional Engineer, who relocated to Vancouver after earning both his Undergraduate and Master’s degrees in Materials Engineering from McMaster University in Ontario. His post-graduate experience began at NORAM, a Vancouver-based chemical process engineering company known for scaling up innovative processes from lab to industrial scale.

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    Michael Roulston

    Vice-President and Director of Communications

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    Keana Li

    Director

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    William Hyde

    Director, Partnerships and Outreach

    Will leads an external relations team in planning and executing major projects for FortisBC. An strategic communicator and experienced leader, Will believes in engaging locally impacted municipalities, communities, and regulatory authorities to develop projects that meet the needs of stakeholders and customers in a financial and socially responsible manner.

    william.hyde@fortisbc.com

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    Katie Applebaum

    Director

    Katie is a renewable energy data professional with extensive experience in commercial and business development roles. Her expertise spans software and data acquisition products for onshore wind, offshore wind, and solar energy.

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    Previous Directors of YPE Vancouver

    Bonita Chan (2021-2022); Rob Legge (2021-2022); Richard Dieu (2020-2021); Parmjot Gill (2017-2021); Jesse Unke (2018-2021); Joanna Shea (2016-2019); Sanjeet Sanghera (2016-2018); Tanya Gutmanis (2016-2017)

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