Jon Kingsbury
President
Prior to his involvement in Coquitlam
Council, Jon Kingsbury owned and managed a Construction and Engineering
firm. For 25 years, building infrastructure with up to 50 employees
doing projects that ranged up to several 100 millions of dollars.
Jon
has over 20 years experience in the BC Real Estate dealing with Commercial,
Industrial and Residential Industry around the Province.
Jon was first elected to Coquitlam Council as an Alderman in 1988 and
in 1998 was elected Mayor of the City of Coquitlam . (Sixth largest
city in BC)
In addition to this, he has served as:
*
Aggregate Review Task Force for Province of BC. Appointed
* Board Director of the Greater Vancouver Regional District
(GVRD) for 15 years.
* Chair of GVRD Waste
Committee
* Chair Lower Mainland
Municipal Assoc.
* Chair of the Board
of the Riverview Hospital Foundation
* Chair of the Board Coquitlam Builders' Trust
* Chair, Coquitlam Heritage Trust
Director of:
*
E-Comm Board of Directors
* Corporate & Intergovernmental Affairs Committee GVRD
* Translink (Greater
Vancouver Transportation Authority) GVTA
* Municipal Finance authority (MFA)
Jon
lead 8 trade delegations to China over the past years and also worked
with CIDA in the Phillipines. Jon has strong ties with several companies
as well as the University of Shanghai and Beijing that interpreted the
wood frame spec's into Chinese.