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PricewaterhouseCoopers LLC provides assurance, tax and advisory services. Its services include audit and assurance, consulting, deals, human resources, legal, tax, and family business. The firm also offers accountability, risk management, structuring, mergers and acquisitions, and performance and process improvement. The company was founded in 1998 and is headquartered in Buffalo, NY.

Tourism Industry Association of Canada develops tourism of Canada. The firm is responsible for representing tourism interests at the national level, and its advocacy work involves promoting and supporting policies, programs and activities. The company was founded in 1930 and is headquartered in Ottawa, Canada.

The Vancouver Board of Trade is an organization that hosts over 100 events a year for its members. The non-profit company is based in Vancouver, Canada. These events provide opportunities to hear from elected officials and industry stakeholders. Bridgitte Anderson has been the CEO of the Canadian company since 2019.

SUTUS, Inc. develops integrated data, telecommunication, and information technology solutions to small businesses. The company was founded October 2002 and is headquartered in Vancouver, Canada

Founded in 1986, Merriman Capital, Inc. is an SEC-registered broker/dealer and investment banking firm headquartered in San Francisco. The firm is a subsidiary of Merriman Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: MERR), a financial services firm that focuses on fast-growing companies and their institutional investors. Merriman provides advisory and investment banking, equity research, institutional services, corporate services and venture services primarily to corporate clients. Merriman Capital provides research, brokerage and trading services primarily to institutional clients. The firm offers a full range of specialized and integrated services including: equity research, specialized trade execution, equity capital markets, corporate finance, mergers and acquisitions, sales and trading, market making, corporate and venture services, restructurings and strategic advisory services. Merriman Capital employs bottom-up, fundamental analysis of small-cap companies in select industries including clean technology, healthcare, technology and consumer/Internet/media. The firm also has expertise in emerging markets, with emphasis on emerging markets in China. Merriman Capital is known to engage in shareholder activist investment strategies. Merriman Capital is a member of the NASD, the SIPC and FINRA. The firm serves as an introducing broker/dealer for Pershing LLC. They do not hold or maintain funds or securities or provide clearing services for other broker/dealers.

PricewaterhouseCoopers Corporate Finance LLC provides financial advisory services. The company is headquartered in Chicago, IL.

Women’s Venture Capital Fund (Women’s Venture Capital) is a venture capital firm founded in 2011 by Edith Dorsen and Monica Dodi. The firm is headquartered in Portland, Oregon.

Catalyst, Inc. provides research and advisory services. The company was founded in 1962 and is headquartered in New York City, NY.

New Century Holdings invests in companies. Leonard Tow has been the CEO of the Bulgarian company since 2005.

Rocky Mountaineer Vacations Ltd. offers luxury train journeys that showcase some of the most spectacular scenery in Canada and the United States. The company has four rail routes, three of which connect Vancouver to the Canadian Rockies towns of Banff, Lake Louise, and Jasper, and a fourth route that travels between Vancouver and Moab in the southwest United States. The company is based in Vancouver, Canada, and has subsidiaries in Canada. Rocky Mountaineer has welcomed more than two million guests since its inception and has become the largest privately-owned premium tourist train in the world. The Canadian company was founded in 1990 by Peter Robert Beverley Armstrong, and David McKenna has been the CEO of the company since 2022.

Law Society of British Columbia provides legal services. The firm protects the public interest in the administration of justice by setting and enforcing standards of professional conduct for lawyers. The company is headquartered in Vancouver, Canada.

Hotel Association of Canada engages in Canadian hotel and lodging industry. Its advocacies include short term rentals, tourism marketing fund, and labour issues. The company was founded in 1913 and is headquartered in Ottawa, Canada.

Westmont Hospitality Group, Inc. provides hospitality services. It offers financial management, marketing and sales, food and beverage, quality control, risk management, purchasing, renovation and development services. The company was founded by Majid A. Mangalji in 1975 and is headquartered in Houston, TX.

Silverbirch Hotels & Resorts LP owns and operates hotels. The private company is based in Vancouver, Canada.

The Order of British Columbia is an honorary society. The non-profit company is based in Victoria, Canada.