Gerry has over 40 years of experience in all aspects of business strategy, organizational culture and design, business transition/change management and Human Resources as both a practitioner and an advisor, with the last 20 years focused exclusively on family enterprises.  

 

Before relocating to Vancouver, he was VP Human Resources for a family-owned real estate development company for eleven years.  He was involved in all major aspects of a business re-alignment driven by family succession, including family and executive transition, family and business governance and family office mandate and resourcing.

 

He now provides advisory services to family enterprises in Canada and the US to founding, active and next-generation families and non-family executives, covering family,
ownership/shareholder and business governance, family dynamics and communication, family vision and values, family constitutions, next-generation development for succession/continuity planning, and optimizing existing family and organizational culture and structures.

 

Gerry is a Director on Family Enterprise Canada’s National Board and its Family Enterprise Advisory Council. Gerry has a Bachelor of Arts in Economics from Carleton University and is a certified Family Enterprise Advisor (FEA). He is also certified in the Center for Creative Leadership’s Benchmarks 360 Assessment suite and TTI’s DISC Assessment tool.