Tuesday March 9, 2010
Ted Lau, Ballistic Arts Media Studios

After somehow completing a degree in Communications at Simon Fraser University, Ted roamed the streets of Vancouver trying to solicit business from people. He soon found out that in order to get business, you first need a company with services people want.

Enter Ballistic Arts Media Studios Inc. Along with his equally demented business partner Tak Kawana, Ballistic Arts was birthed in 2002. As a full-service creative agency, Ballistic Arts remedies all patients’ marketing ailments with the proper doses of graphic design, blend of website development, spoonful of video production, and a twist of photography services for good measure.

Like all ADHD-ridden entrepreneurs, ted can’t sit still. So, instead of having him talk them to death at work, his colleagues have put him in community groups. He currently serves as Marketing Chair for SHARE Family and Community Services Society's Just Desserts Gala fundraiser, and as Communication Chair for the Entrepreneurs Organization’s Accelerator program. In 2007-20009, he served as a board director for the Tri-Cities Chamber of Commerce and sat as Marketing Chair. And because he likes chairs so much, he sits in wooden chair when he mentors graphic design for the Immigrant Services Society of BC, and in a soft cushiony one when he attended IABC Professional Development meetings in 2009. Oddly enough, ted stands every week when he gives piano lessons to at-risk youth in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside.

He’s married (yes, really), a father of a little baby girl (again, yes, really), a black belt martial artist (to protect himself from himself), and able to speak 4 languages (sometimes all at once, and none very well).

February 2, 2010
Rita Kim from the Business Development Bank of Canada

Do you need money to finance your new small business venture? Want to know more about finance opportunities out there? This workshop will describe opportunities from loans to venture capital that could help you and your business get started and grow. Presented by  BDC (Business Development Bank of Canada. Learn from the financers what you need to sell your business idea and get the funding you need to get started on your business venture.

Rita Kim is committed to helping our passionate, inspiring Entrepreneurs by utilizing her 15 years of experience in retail sales, consulting and banking.

Rita is using her passion and past banking experience at the Business Development Bank of Canada (BDC) where she provides alternate, flexible lending and consulting solutions to our Business Entrepreneurs. 

Rita works with a team of consultants, accountants, lawyers and bankers that all firmly believe in making a difference for their clients. 

Partnering has been one of her biggest successes in banking, allowing her to not only deliver on the basic need, but truly reach out and make a difference in all other areas so important to our entrepreneurs. 

Rita is very passionate about the Business community and has given back by teaching business at local elementary schools with Junior Achievement (JABC), freely giving time and advice to new entrepreneurs, working with the New Westminster Chamber of Commerce, assisting with many notable charities, and has recently been asked to be a judge for the 2009 Canadian Youth Business Foundation(CYBF).

Rita is a graduate of the Provincial Instructor Diploma Program - specializing in teaching to adult learners.

Rita has an undergraduate degree with a Major in Cell Biology & Genetics and a Minor in Psychology from the University of British Columbia (UBC).

January 5, 2010 Speaker :

Niki Jacques

"How To Fit An Hour Of Exercise Into Your Already Busy Schedule"

Niki Jacques is the owner of Survivor Bootcamp for the Coquitlam and Port Moody locations.  She is a marathoner, ultra-marathoner and adventure racer and is also the mother of 2 young children.  She knows what it is like to try to fit exercise into a very busy, hectic shedule.

Kick start your New Year with a goal to get in at least 30 minutes to an hour a day of exercise.  We all want to look and feel better, but when we get busy our exercise regime is usually the first thing to go. 

Exercising, whether it be an hour of walking, running, yogo or an aerobic or gym class, will give you icreased energy, better sleep at night, easy stress, increase your metabolism, lose weight and generally feel better.

Come and hear how you can:

• fit exercise into your daily routine
• make better nutritional choices on the go and at home
• get great recipies for fast, healthy eating
• learn some facts and myths of weight loss
• learn how to re-energize your business and family life with increased energy