SFU Business Alumnus Awarded Action Canada Fellowship

Seventeen exceptional Canadians have been selected as the 2010/2011 Action Canada Fellows.

They include SFU Business alumnus Terry Beech as well a physicist, a neuroscientist, a nurse and a First Nations management consultant.

Selected to join Action Canada’s prestigious 11-month leadership development and public policy program, the 17 new Fellows will attend six working conferences across Canada, work on public policy projects and learn from mentors who are current leaders in government, business, academia and non-governmental organizations. They will also become members of the Action Canada Network of Fellows, which now has 104 members.

Terry Beech is the Burnaby CEO and co-founder of Crowdsource Networks Inc. and executive director and co-founder of a non-profit student success organization called Twinbro Local Leaders.  Beech first distinguished himself at age 18 when he was elected as a Nanaimo City councilor. He holds an MBA from the University of Oxford and teaches Entrepreneurship and Strategy in the Faculty of Business Administration at Simon Fraser University, where he received his Bachelor of Business Administration degree.

Action Canada is national organization that is creating a network of skilled, emerging leaders for Canada’s future. Based in Vancouver, British Columbia, it is a partnership between the private sector and the Government of Canada through the Department of Canadian Heritage.

For more information and complete biographies visit:
http://www.actioncanada.ca/en/fellows/fellows/20102011-fellows/