ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING
Friday, November 20, 2020 at 5 pm
701 11 Street SW, Calgary, AB
AGENDA
1. Call to Order
2. Declaration of Quorum
3. Minutes of the August 26, 2019 Annual General Meeting
4. Report from the Board Chair
5. Report from the CEO
6. Presentation of Audited Financial Statements - 2019 and 2020 year end
7. Election of Directors
8. Appointment of Auditors
9. Other Business that may be properly brought before the meeting
10. Termination
*Provincial health orders and guidelines regarding physical distancing and capacity restrictions and The City of Calgary Bylaw 26M2020 regarding wearing face coverings inside public buildings will be strictly observed. Should you wish to appoint someone to attend the meeting as your proxy, you may do so by completing a proxy form found here, and submitting it to Board Chair Elizabeth Carson via email agm@contemporarycalgary.com by 5 pm on November 19.
Candidates for Nomination to the Board of Directors
Jeremy Barretto is a lawyer and partner in Business Law Group at Cassels, based in Calgary. Jeremy offers extensive regulatory, environmental and Aboriginal law experience in obtaining approvals for developments in the renewable energy, electricity, pipeline, oil and gas and mining sectors. Jeremy has presented at conferences across Canada and published numerous articles, including in the Alberta Law Review and the Globe and Mail. He is also a Professional Engineer. Jeremy is a member of the City of Calgary’s Economic Resilience Task Force and is the former Vice-Chair of the City of Calgary’s Public Art Board.
Usman Tahir Jutt is President and CEO of Chirp Group and its subsidiary Chirp Foods. Usman is also the Owner/Operator of several McDonald’s restaurants in and around the Calgary area. He serves on the City of Calgary’s Municipal Platform Development Task Force and the Covid19 Economic Resilience Task Force, on the Board of the Ronald McDonald House Charities and on the Human Capital Council of the Canada West Foundation. A dedicated philanthropist, Usman has donated nearly $1 million to numerous worthwhile causes aimed at improving the lives of Albertans and Canadians.
Donna Kwan is a community minded professional with over fifteen years of success in marketing, communications, fundraising and business development. A cross-disciplinary thinker, resulting from a broad range of experiences including the development of FFWD-Calgary’s News and Entertainment Weekly to self-started entrepreneurial endeavours to the implementation of a new lottery program for a national charity. A problem solver with the belief that “leadership is an unanxious presence.”
Dr. John Lacey was inducted into the Canadian Petroleum Hall of Fame in 2018 for helping to raise the international stature of Canada’s oil and gas industry. He has received numerous prizes and awards including an Honorary BA from Mount Royal University and an Honorary Doctor of Laws from U of C. He was elected to the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences in 1996. He formerly served as the Honorary Consul General for the Kingdom of Thailand and currently chairs the board of the Patient and Community Engagement Research Unit at the O’Brien Institute for Public Health at U of C. He co-founded the Naomi and John Lacey Virtuoso Programme at Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra in 2008 and recently established the Lacey Prize at the National Gallery of Canada.
Toyin Oladele is a performing artist, curator and arts administrator. Her professional experience is rooted in making arts and community spaces very connective, inclusive and vibrant through collaborations and strategy. Toyin founded the Immigrant Council for Arts Innovation (ICAI) in 2019 and is currently the organization’s Executive Director. She is also a board member for Calgary Young People’s Theatre (CYPT) and Ethnik Festival for Arts and Kulture (EFAK). She was recently selected as one of the 12 members of the Community Working Group on Equity Diversity, Inclusion and Access for Calgary Arts Developments. She has been a part of several jury committees in the arts community and mentors many newcomer and immigrant artists and professionals. When she is not performing, planning projects or coordinating events, Toyin loves to watch movies in her mother tongue Yoruba and also connecting with creative people.
Kelly Streit is the founder and owner of Mode Models International, an agency with unparalleled success at the highest levels of the industry that represents talent from around the world. He received the Fraser Milner Casgrain Pinnacle Award for Outstanding Achievement in Entrepreneurship and has been recognized by Macleans magazine as one of 100 Canadians to watch and Avenue Magazine as “top 40 under 40”. He has served on the boards of many organizations including Alberta Ballet, Calgary Opera, the Alberta University of the Arts. He was presented a Generosity of Spirit award by Calgary’s chapter of the Association of Fundraising Professionals in 2000.
Peter Tertzakian is an economist, investment strategist, author, podcaster and public speaker on issues vital to the future of energy. Peter’s passion is studying how society evolves its energy use and applying the lessons of the past into today’s strategic business issues. Peter’s two best-selling books, A Thousand Barrels a Second (McGraw-Hill, NY 2005) and The End of Energy Obesity (John Wiley & Sons, NY 2009) provide insight into the dynamic world of energy transitions through a thoughtful examination of economic, environmental and geopolitical pressures. He is the host of the ARC Energy Ideas podcast, a weekly show that explains the latest trends and news in Canadian energy and beyond. Peter has an undergraduate degree in Geophysics from the University of Alberta, a graduate degree in Econometrics from the University of Southampton UK, and a Master of Science in Management of Technology from the Sloan School of Management at MIT. In addition to his principal roles at the ARC Energy Research Institute and ARC Financial, he is an Adjunct Professor at the University of Calgary and has lectured at many leading universities and conferences around the world.
Sarah Vandaiyar is an engineer at the Canadian Energy Pipeline Association (CEPA), currently on secondment from TC Energy. Sarah has 10 years of experience working in various sectors of oil and gas, including oil sands and natural gas, with roles in operations, business planning and project engineering. She serves on the Boards of the International Pipeline Conference (IPC) Foundation, the Society of Petroleum Engineers Canadian Education Foundation and DirectHer. Sarah is an independent member on the Canadian Energy Research Institute Research Advisory Committee. For IPC, Sarah chairs the 2020 Events and Executive Engagement Committees and, in 2018, chaired the first Young Engineers Engagement Committee. Sarah co-founded the GenYYC leadership development program, a Calgary Foundation initiative. Sarah has a passion for music and the arts and was a member of the Advisory Board of the Calgary Philharmonic Wolfgang patron program. She is the former President & CEO of the Young Pipeliners Association of Canada (YPAC). Sarah holds a Bachelor of Applied Science in Chemical Engineering from the University of Waterloo.