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Tuesday September 15, 2020

IEA Annual General Meeting

Your IEA Board of Directors encourages you to attend the virtual IEA general meeting with Keynote Speaker Richard Hoy from Richard Hoy Consulting and Vancouver Executives Association.

We will cover some brief IEA business, enjoy a dynamic keynote speaker, and have breakout rooms featuring the topics that you want to discuss.

We are looking for your ideas on breakout room topics. It is your chance to meet with members from other associations. What topics would be beneficial to your association or company?

richardKeynote Topic:
Building Your Business in a Way That Creates Sustainable Growth

Richard Hoy is President of Catax Canada and Principal for Richard Hoy Consulting with an impressive track record in leading companies to achieve significant levels of success.

Richard has spent 32 years across five corporate organizations and nine countries. His career started in the UK and he has held senior leadership roles in Xerox, Lucent, Cable and Wireless and Ledcor. In 2001 he was recruited by TELUS and moved to Canada. TELUS is the second largest Telco in Canada. In the role of Senior Vice-President and Managing Director of Sales for TELUS, Richard was responsible for transforming the BC sales business from an organization declining by 9% into a business growing by 16% in 18 months.

Since 2004 with CompassPeak, Richard has focused on business transformation projects which have included working with Vodafone, Computer Associates, Apparent Networks, Glentel, Infowave, Jim Pattison Group, Ledcor and Telemobil.

Between 2011 and 2019 Richard was Senior Vice President at Ledcor Group which makes up a $3+ billion private company. Over its 70 year history, it has developed practices in: construction, mining, oil extraction, highways, and building and maintaining telecommunications networks.

Richard led Operations for Ledcor’s 35 year old technical services sales organization, which built and maintained wireless and wireline telecom networks for all sizes of telecom company across North America. Richard was responsible for growing this business from $80 million to $1 billion in revenues and increasing profitability tenfold over 7 years, growing the team from 200 people to leading over a 1700 employees.

As President of Catax Canada, he is responsible for bringing an industry leading tax consultancy to Canada. Catax has 14,400 clients across 6 countries and is widely recognized as its industry leader.

Below is the link to register for the meeting and I hope to hear from you soon with your breakout room topic ideas!

Thursday October 28, 2021

8am Hawaii Time, 10am Pacific, 11am Mountain, 1pm Central, 2pm Eastern

Registration Link:
https://ieaweb.com/annual-conference/iea-2021-virtual-conference-agm.html