Developer added to TransLink board
A West Vancouver real estate developer is the newest director named to TransLink’s board and two other board members have been reappointed.
Howard Nemtin, owner of Nemtin Consultants Ltd., brings experience as a consultant and commercial mediator to TransLink. He handled Whistler Mountain Ski Corp.’s real estate strategy and was a former advisor to B.C.’s economic development ministry. Nemtin is also on the boards of several private companies and arts organizations.
Existing directors Cindy Chan Piper, a Vancouver urban planner, and Richmond chartered accountant Bob Garnett have both been reappointed to three-year terms.
Nemtin replaces former Kwantlen College president Skip Triplett on the nine-member board, who had served an initial one-year term with Chan Piper and Garnett but is now leaving the Lower Mainland.
Real estate and financial expertise were considered major factors in filling the vacancies, because TransLink hopes to help fund its expansion plans with profit from a new real estate development strategy along transit corridors.
Three other board members are on two-year terms that expire next year.
More than 250 prospective candidates were short-listed by a five-member screening panel.
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