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Sherri and Sheida are financial planners with one of Investors Group’s top financial planning teams nationally.

They have worked hard to establish themselves as professional planners and strive to make the planning process uncomplicated and comfortable for their clients. Sheida believes her previous sales experience and Bachelor of Business Administration were an ideal foundation for her becoming a financial consultant. Her career choice helps her to achieve her goal, which is to work with people and help them improve their financial situation by creating holistic, comprehensive financial plans.

Recently celebrating her 5th year with IG, Sherri has had a personal focus of educating professional women. With her Women, Wine and Wealth events, she has helped many get

started down the path of creating sound financial futures. Aside from working closely with women, another focus has been working with business owners and corporate entities. Providence Health Care ( St Paul’s and 5 other hospitals), Earls & The Keg Restaurants, District of North and West Vancouver, are a few of the personal savings programs and medical/ dental programs Sherri and Sheida oversee.

Sheida and Sherri continue to build long term client relationships with professionals by providing clear financial guidance in the realm of tax ,wealth creation and wealth preservation strategies. To find out more about Sheida or Sherri or one of their events for professionals and business owners email: sherrihoover@investorsgroup.com or sheida.shahlapour@investorsgroup.com.

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Adrian Eden is the founder of YaletownSEO.ca a boutique Search Engine Optimization and Internet Marketing agency. With years of experience in the online gambling industry, Adrian decided to take his love for SEO and content strategy and apply it to local businesses downtown Vancouver, as location based searching is becoming more and more important with the increased use of mobile phones and the recent changes in Google Places. Adrian is also working on a local hosting company with enterprise solutions, both managed and not for any size business, using IBM blade servers. Look for him at events around the city or email info@yaletownseo.ca to get in touch with him.

Be charmed at Vancouver’s first and only Thai themed resto-lounge as we combine Thailand’s renowned authentic tastes, aromas, and warm hospitality with the pristine spirit of modernism. We strive to balance flavours, textures and temperatures in our menu, and only use the finest ingredients and spices. Vancouver’s innovative dining concept featuring modern Thai cuisine can be found in Vancouver’s Yaletown. Charm delivers advanced modern Thai flare and fare, which is unique and modern catering to all the senses. Upon

tasting, you immediately feel the passion and love our executive chef has for creating authentic Thai cuisine but with a creative modern twist. This merriment of classic exotic Thai flavours and aromas with a slight Western modern influence makes Charm’s food, plating and presentation unique with the perfect proportion of quality ingredients and spices. Discerning Vancouver palettes will be charmed with the originality of our visionary modern Thai menu with artful and exquisite presentation.

In a Wink Beautique brings Downtown Vancouver services to the Suburb. Service’s that are as unique as you are; specialities such as semi permanent eyelash extensions & Japanese hand tied hair extensions. In a Wink takes pride in making all of our services unique and memorable. All of our products are researched, used and highly recommended by us. All of our estheticians and hairstyles are licensed and certified, they are the best in the business. We offer a range of products and services dedicated solely to beauty, health and fashion.

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Robyn Jesson Born to entrepreneurial parents with 25 years of experience creating and publishing magazines, coupled with her love for music and the arts, Robyn Jesson was a natural fit for the role of editor and publisher for Vancouver View Magazine. A musician since the age of three, Robyn grew up touring and playing at international music festivals and fiddle contests and recorded her first CD when she was only ten years old. That passion for music later led to a job working as an executive assistant for the head of the music department at United Talent Agency in Beverley Hills, booking tour dates for names such as Celine Dion and the Bee Gees. Now at Vancouver View Magazine, Robyn’s knack for combining her passion of music, the arts, sports, dining, and fashion and has translated into the success of the magazine that Vancouver loves and is proud of.

Enter Bratface Marketing. A company that cites itself as having a gum-shun attitude, a passionate nature and strong-willed determination when it comes to its quality of work and vision for marketing those companies of all sizes. It’s no wonder then, why we would gather its creator, Andrea Baxter, shares or embodies many of those same characteristics implied with the name of her most recent successful business endeavor. And based on her seasoned experience in the industry working with big names such as the W Network, Globe & Mail, and her participation with three nationwide business organizations we can feel confident that we are right in those assumptions.

Most fifteen-year-olds are worried about finishing high school, but for Mulin Tesovic it marked the beginning of his entrepreneurial career with his creation of MetroLeap Media, now recognized as a Read Herring Canada Top 50 company. At 24, Mulin is still currently the CTO of MetroLeap Media, and has gone on to be the founder of MetroLyrics.com, an online platform cited as being the most popular online lyrics property in the world. The Simon Fraser University business student won the SFU Entrepreneur of the Year Award in 2008, and was named the 2009 National Student Entrepreneur Champion by Advancing Canadian Entrepreneurship Canada. Mulin is currently a finalist in the 2009 Canadian Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Awards. Vancouver View Magazine | Robyn Jesson

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Amuse Consulting | Marc Smith

With more than a decade of experience under his belt, Marc Smith, has made his company, Amuse Consulting, Vancouver’s choice for event planning and production. Offering a custom, tailored approach to every client, Amuse Consulting creates events that are both spectacular yet sustainable, with the company’s large network of partner-suppliers and sponsors who share the ethical sourcing commitment. Marc’s resume includes working as the Regional Demo and Special Event Coordinator for Capers Community Markets, in addition to being a founding board member of the BC Ethics in Action Society and Just Singing Round Foundation.