A fourth-generation British Columbian, Greg D’Avignon has held senior private- and public-sector leadership positions over the last 25 years, including serving the prime minister of Canada. He is currently vice-chair of the YMCA of Greater Vancouver, co-chair of the YMCA What Really Matters capital campaign and a board member of the Premier’s Economic Recovery Task Force and the Indigenous Business and Investment Council.

BIGGEST LESSON: “Your word matters as do the relationships you build through trust.”
FAVOURITE QUOTE: “Far greater is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in that grey twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat.” – Theodore Roosevelt