After a two-week period of electronic voting, the Kelowna Chamber of Commerce has announced it’s 2025-2026 Board of Directors.
The 2025-2026 Board features six new faces, along with a new advisory position for a representative of the City of Kelowna.
Binny Boparai-Gill (Farming Karma), Narinder Nagra (Mission Group), Kristian de Pont (Good Sorts Property Services), Caroline Gilchrist (BCG Enterprises Inc), Jessica Samuels (HUB Office Furniture Inc), and Trevor Moss (Central Okanagan Food Bank) join this year’s Board as new directors.
They will serve alongside returning directors Treena Piva (Real Property Management), Dobrila Braunstein (Sandhill Winery), Laurel Hogg (Rush Ihas Harwick LLP), Ryan Malcolm (Emil Anderson Group), Curtis Tarapaski (Cairo Developments), and Rhona Stanislaus (KPMG LLP).
The conclusion of this year’s election also marks the transition of the Chamber presidency from Maryse Harvey (MH2 Advisory Services) to Derek Gratz (UBC Okanagan’s Industry Liaison office). Harvey will remain on the Board for the coming year as an ex-officio member.
We are excited to announce that Pushor Mitchell LLP’s Patrick Bobyn has been named this year’s Vice-President Elect.
Patrick Bobyn is a Partner with Pushor Mitchell LLP, practicing in the areas of business law, real estate, and financial institution security. He has extensive experience in business law services, including asset and share purchase transactions, corporate incorporations and reorganizations, leasing, franchising, corporate governance issues, and negotiating, drafting, and advising on commercial agreements.
This year’s directors will be ratified at the in-person AGM on April 2 at the Innovation Centre.
Congratulations to Patrick and the rest of this year’s 2025-2026 Board of Directors.