KBC Creative Networking Event

1965 West Broadway
6:30pm
(doors open at 6:00pm)

KBC invites you for a unique opportunity to hear from one of the leading experts in Vancouver on the entertainment industry, Jon Festinger, the former senior VP for CTV television and Executive VP for the Canucks.

Members: $5 at the door, or get in for free by registering in advance

Non-members: $20 at the door, or $15 by registering in advance

Kollel Angels: Free (For more info., or to become an angel, click here: http://www.thekollel.com/angels )

First time attendees: $10

(*) Bring a friend, who hasn't been to the KBC in 2011/2012 and both of you will get $5 off.

Please RSVP below.

BIO:

Jon arrived in Vancouver in 1981 as a graduate of McGill University’s Faculty of Law and began his legal career with the firm of Owen Bird. Jon left partnership in that firm becoming General Counsel of Western International Communications Inc. in 1989. Thereafter in 1997, he became Senior Vice President B.C. of CTV Inc. as well as the founding General Manager of Vancouver Television (“VTV’). Most recently from 2005 to 2010, Jon was the Executive Vice President, Business & General Counsel of the Vancouver Canucks and GM Place. 

Author of a text on “Video Game Law” published by LexisNexis in 2005. Has been an Adjunct Professor at faculties of law at both UBC and the University of Victoria. Appointed Queens Counsel ("Q.C.") by the Province of British Columbia in 2009.

Director of Ronald McDonald House British Columbia and the Simon Fraser University Foundation. Past Director of the Vancouver Board of Trade.