Dan Miller has a long history in public life, having served for 15 years as the MLA for the North Coast constituency, as well as a number of terms on the Prince Rupert City Council. Between 1991 and 2001 Miller served as Minister of Forests, Minister of Labour and Advanced Education, Minister of Employment and Investment, Minister of Energy and Mines, and Premier. Miller retired from political life in 2001, and has worked as a consultant in the forestry and energy sectors.

David Thompson retired as Deputy Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Teck Cominco Limited on April 27, 2005. He has held this position since August 2001, following the formal merger of Teck Corporation and Cominco Ltd. Previously, Thompson was co-managing director of Messina (Transvaal) prior to joining Teck Corporation in 1980 as Chief Financial Officer, and has held a variety of senior management positions, including President and Chief Executive Officer of Cominco from 1995 to 2001.

Thompson graduated in 1960 from the London School of Economics, England with a B.Sc. in Economics. In 1976, he completed the Harvard Business School Advanced Management Program.

Thompson has been a Director of Teck Corporation since 1980 and Cominco since 1986, and will remain on the Board of Teck Cominco. He is a Director of the Board of Fording Inc., co-chair of the BC Competition Council, and sits on the BC Progress Board and St. Paul’s Hospital Foundation.

David Black is President and Owner of Black Press, the largest private newspaper publisher in Canada. Black Press has approximately 100 newspapers and 16 regional press operations. Company operations are located mainly in British Columbia, Alberta, Washington State and Hawaii. Black received an Engineering Degree at UBC in 1969 and an MBA at Western in 1971. On Sept. 9, 2003, Premier Gordon Campbell appointed Black the Chair of the B.C. Progress Board. He currently lives in Victoria.

Bev Briscoe has over 20 years experience in senior management positions in the private sector including Vice President of Finance for Rivtow Group of Companies and Chief Financial Officer for The Jim Pattison Group. She is Chair of the Industry Training Authority and serves on the board of directors for Westminster Savings and Credit Union and BC Rail Group of Companies. She resides in Vancouver.

Russell J. Horner, President and Chief Executive Officer of Catalyst Paper Corporation, brings international executive experience, a reputation for business innovation through partnerships, and a strong operational background to his current position as head of British Columbia’s largest pulp and paper company. Horner holds a degree in chemistry from the University of British Columbia with advanced management training from Harvard Business School and the University of Auckland.  He is past chair of the Forest Products Association of Canada and is a director of several corporate boards including Catalyst Paper Corporation and Agrium Inc.  Horner and his wife Carla have two adult daughters and live in Vancouver.

Judi Korbin is an Independent Arbitrator and Mediator who has handled over 1,650 labour/management disputes in both the private and public sectors. She has also served on and chaired numerous government task forces and commissions. Most notably, she was Sole Commissioner for the 1993 Commission of Inquiry into the Public Service and Public Sector. Korbin was formerly a Vice President of employee relations for Canadian Airlines International Ltd. where, as a result of airline mergers, she successfully melded 39 union collective agreements into seven with no work disruptions. Prior to her tenure at the airline, Korbin had represented members of the B.C. Government Professional Employees Association, the Professional Association of Residents and Interns in B.C., and The Canadian Airline Flight Attendants Association. She has also served as a Director on the boards of many organizations, both business and non-profit, including The Economic Council of Canada, Lester Pearson College, Family Services of the North Shore and Canadian Airlines International. She is married with two children and six grandchildren.

Dr. Daniel Muzyka is the Dean of the Sauder School of Business at UBC, and the RBC Financial Group Professor of Entrepreneurship. He teaches and conducts research in venture capital entrepreneurship and corporate strategy. Prior to joining UBC, Dr. Muzyka was the IAF professor of entrepreneurship at INSEAD (France), where he also served as Associate Dean of the MBA program and Director of the 3i Venturelab. He was previously a faculty member at Babson College, and was a visiting professor at the Harvard Business School. In addition, Dr. Muzyka has acted as a consultant and educator for several corporations and executive education programs. Dr. Muzyka has previous experience in finance and corporate strategy at the General Electric Company, and spent five years as a strategy consultant, primarily with Braxton Associates (Boston). He has also served as a board member for several entrepreneurial and growth business ventures. Currently, Dr. Muzyka is a member of the Premier’s Technology Council, and serves on the advisory boards of Chrysalix Energy Limited Partnership, a Vancouver-based venture capital fund, and Siemens Venture Capital. He holds a BA from Williams College (Astrophysics), an MBA from the Wharton School (Corporate Strategy), and a DBA from the Harvard Business School.

Dr. Gerri Sinclair is the former President of the B.C. Premier's Technology Council, and was recently appointed to Industry Canada's Telecommunications Policy Review Panel. She is currently an Internet technology consultant providing services to industry and government. She was formerly the General Manager of MSN Canada, as well as the founder and CEO of NCompass Labs, an Internet start-up company recently acquired by Microsoft. Dr. Sinclair was also the founding director of the ExCITE lab at Simon Fraser University, the first multimedia technology centre in Canada. She has served on several government and corporate boards including Telus, BC Telecom and the National Information Highway Advisory Council. She is currently a Director of the Canadian Foundation for Innovation and the Communications Research Council Canada. She is the recipient of the YWCA Woman of Distinction award, the Canadian Women in Communications Woman of the Year award, the Canadian Women in New Media Pioneer award, the Influential Woman in Business award, as well as the Sarah Kirke award for the most outstanding Canadian woman in High Tech. She holds a Ph.D. as well as a Doctor of Science, honoris causa, from the University of British Columbia.

Roger Stanyer was born in Duncan B.C. in 1944. He grew up and attended school in the Cowichan Valley. Stanyer started work in the forest industry in 1963, became an officer of IWA Local 1-80 in 1973 and worked for the union in various elected positions for 20 years. He was a member of the B.C. Wilderness Advisory Committee and the B.C. Round table on The Environment and the Economy. In 1992 he joined the B.C. government as an special advisor to the Deputy Minister of Forests and later joined the Ministry of Labour as Assistant Deputy Minister, Labour Relations. He was appointed chair and CEO of Forest Renewal BC in 1995. Stanyer left the B.C. government in 2001 and was elected to the board of directors of Doman Industries LTD. He maintains Stanyer Consulting Ltd. and works as a consultant on forestry and labour relations matters. Stanyer is a member of the board of directors of the B.C. Forest Discovery Center.

Dana Hayden was appointed Deputy Minister Strategic Policy, Natural Resources and the Economy Office of the Premier on June 1, 2005.  Prior to that Dana served as Deputy Minister and CEO of the Crown Agencies Secretariat.  Dana has also served as Assistant Deputy Minister, Corporate Services for several Ministries in the BC Government; Vice President, Policy and Planning at Forest Renewal BC, Director of Policy and Planning, Office of the Premier; and Assistant Deputy Minister, International Trade.  Dana began her career with the BC Public Service in 1986 as an economist for the BC Ministry of Forests.  She was also an economist with the Canadian Forest Service.  Dana has several years experience as a forester in the provinces of Alberta and Quebec, and in Sweden.  Dana has also owned and operated a small business.  Dana has a B.Sc. in Forest Science, a M.Sc. in Economics and has completed the Canadian Securities Course.  Dana's two sons are Cordell, 13 and Justin, 11.