The Real Estate Foundation of BC held its Annual General Meeting on April 7, 2017, which included an election for the Foundation’s Chair and Vice-chair positions.

We are pleased to share that Mandy Hansen has been elected Chair for 2017-18 and that Ramona Faust has been elected as Vice-chair. Both roles have a one-year term.

Mandy Hansen is a real estate and project management consultant, and the principal of Insight Specialty Consulting, a boutique strategy and management firm based in Coquitlam. She was appointed to the REFBC Board in 2015 by the Real Estate Institute of BC.

Ramona Faust is the Regional District of Central Kootenay Director for Electoral Area E, which surrounds the City of Nelson. She was appointed to the REFBC Board by the Union of BC Municipalities in 2015.

Our 2016-17 Chair, Dr. Anna Warwick Sears, will continue to sit on the REFBC Board until her Governor term ends.

REFBC’s current Board includes:

Mandy Hansen of Coquitlam, Chair – appointed by the Real Estate Institute of BC, 2015

Ramona Faust of Procter, Vice-chair – appointed by the Union of BC Municipalities, 2015

Jim Rempel of Abbotsford – appointed by the BC Minister of Finance, 2013

Anna Warwick Sears of Kelowna – appointed by the BC Minister of Finance, 2014

Bruce Turner of Courtenay – appointed by the Real Estate Council of BC, 2015

Robert Goertz of Nelson – appointed by the BC Minister of Finance, 2015

Hanne Selby of Chilliwack – appointed by the BC Real Estate Association, 2016