About Us

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A seasoned communicator, Mike offers clients strategic counsel grounded in two decades of experience in public affairs and politics.  By integrating public opinion research with strategy development, Mike ensures his clients are campaigning on winning issues with the right audiences.

Previously, Mike has served several federal cabinet Ministers from Ottawa and Vancouver.  In 2004, Mike was appointed senior British Columbia adviser to the Prime Minister and was tasked with managing the federal government’s most contentious issues in British Columbia.  Later, he led the communications for BC Transmission Corporation—a crown corporation that was responsible for meeting British Columbia electrical transmission needs.

He has polled extensively and advised corporate, government, and non-profit organizations on the development of communication and public consultation strategies on a wide range of sensitive public policy, energy and infrastructure projects across western Canada.  He has advised: oil and gas pipelines and marine terminals; electricity projects from generation to distribution; and transportation infrastructure including: transit, tolls, and bridges.

With two decades of private and public sector experience in public affairs, Kareem has fostered a unique understanding of Canada’s Chinese, South Asian and Indigenous communities while developing policy expertise in the energy, health and transportation sectors. 

Kareem has successfully levered his knowledge of people, policy and place into successful political campaigns at the municipal, provincial and federal levels. 

Recently, Kareem successfully managed the Kevin Falcon for BC Liberal Leader Campaign and the ABC Vancouver Municipal Campaign, electing 19 out of 19 candidates, including Mayor Ken Sim.  In 2023 Kareem was named #9 to Vancouver Magazine's Power 50 list.

Prior to Fairview, Kareem served in senior Indigenous Relations roles with Britco, Civeo, Trans Canada Pipelines, and a national Public Relations firm. Prior to that, he was the Director of Public Policy at the Vancouver Board of Trade. Shortly after graduating from Simon Fraser University, Kareem had roles with Fortis BC and the Fraser Health Authority in Government Relations.

He is active in the community and has served as a member of the board of the Fraser Health Authority, the BC College of Massage Therapists, as a member of the Translink Screening Panel, the Canada Border Services Pacific Commercial Committee and the Metro Vancouver Integrated Utility Management Committee.

Kareem currently serves on the University of Victoria Gustavson School of Business's National Consortium for Indigenous Economic Development.

Former Vancouver City Councillor, Metro Vancouver Board Director, and Vancouver Park Commissioner, Melissa is known for her ability to think outside the box and bring together creative and successful partnerships. She brings expertise and experience from decades of work in government, private, and non-profit residential development to delivering unique opportunities for her clients.
 

Leveraging her knowledge of land use with her understanding of policy and politics, Melissa is often called upon to turn around challenging and complex deals. She leads land acquisitions for VRS Communities, creating non-profit owned housing, and the industry recognizes her track record of success with Business in Vancouver, naming Melissa to their Forty Under 40 for her leadership and work in creating affordable housing in BC.
 

Melissa graduated from Simon Fraser University with a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science. She has extensive and proven political experience in communications, strategy, and senior management roles on federal, provincial, and municipal campaigns.
 

A lifelong Vancouverite with a passion for community, Melissa has a long history of public service and served three terms as an elected City Councillor and Park Board Commissioner in the City of Vancouver, where she held many appointments, including Chair of the Committee on Finance, Director of Metro Vancouver, member of the UNDRIP Task Force and on the Translink Mayors' Council.
 

In the past, she has volunteered on several charitable boards and committees, with organizations including Moberly Arts and Cultural Centre, Odd Squad Productions, and the Salvation Army in the Downtown Eastside. Melissa currently serves on the Board of Directors for the Italian Day Festival Society and Honour House Society.

Zdenka is an experienced communicator with a background in public affairs, media relations, crisis communications, stakeholder engagement, marketing and facilitation. 

She was the Managing Partner for the latter part of the 20 years she spent with a national Public Relations firm. Through this experience she built an enviable reputation as a strategic communicator that delivers insight and results. 

She is the first call for clients seeking crisis management or labour relations counsel. In addition to media and message strategy, Zdenka offers customized presentation skills and media training sessions for numerous clients in the public, private and not-for-profit sectors.

Previously, Zdenka spent five years in Ottawa advising Federal Ministers and elected officials. More recently, Zdenka was the VP of Marketing and Communications for the BC Children’s Hospital Foundation.

Zdenka has served on the board of governors of Langara College and on the board of directors of the Minerva Foundation. 

Kanako is a communications specialist with close to decades of experience in strategic communications, marketing, branding, event planning and project and budget management. With experience working in large, complex corporations like Shell Canada and BC Hydro, she has a proven track record in executing impactful programs and campaigns on-time and on-budget in high pressure environments. With a keen eye for detail, Kanako also works with organizations to implement new processes to drive overall efficiency and business improvement in project delivery. 

With a strategic ability to see the big picture, along with the details, Kanako is laser-focused on delivering an organization’s objectives and goals. Kanako has an exceptional ability to quickly build trusted relationships and work with cross-functional teams. She is equally comfortable working with both front-line staff and C-suite executives and has worked with a number of clients as an embedded member of their communications team. 

Kanako is a trusted business partner that is able to use her diverse background to help meet the needs of her clients through active listening, integrity and respect.

A citizen of the Haida Nation and Canada,

Miles grew up among his people on Haida Gwaii and attended high school in Prince Rupert, BC. In 1979 received a Bachelor of Arts in Economics from the University of Victoria. From 1984 to 1996, he served as President of the Council of Haida Nation.

Miles has advised the Government of British Columbia and First Nations in British Columbia on how the three parties could begin negotiations to build a new relationship and what negotiations should include.

Mr. Richardson is one of the original members of the David Suzuki Foundation and has been a board member since 1992. 

In 2007, Mr. Richardson was named an Officer of the Order of Canada. In 2016, he was appointed to the New Relationship Trust Board of Directors. On February 1, 2019, Mr. Richardson was appointed as Chairperson of the HaiCo Board of Directors. 

Currently, Miles is the Director of the National Consortium for Indigenous Economic Development at the University of Victoria and is available for values aligned projects.

 Alex brings extensive expertise in quantitative methods and data analysis to the Fairview team.

As an active academic researcher, he ensures that the most advanced analysis and emerging statistical techniques are available to Fairview clients.

Since joining Fairview, Alex has provided: voter modelling, audience segmentation, and multi-lingual research design for a wide range of clients in: transportation, labour relations, and politics.

Alex earned his Ph.D. in Political Science at the University of British Columbia, where he specialized in research on the determinants of secessionist party entrance and support in Western Europe and North America.

More recently, Alex held postdoctoral fellowships at the Université Laval in Quebec City and the Université de Montréal. His research interests include political behavior, party competition, and public opinion, and he uses statistical methods to investigate these topics.

Originally from Montreal, Alex studied at Concordia University where he received a Master of Public Policy and Public Administration and a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science.

Alex is fluent in both English and French.  He lives with his family in Vancouver continues to conduct research and teach political science.

A sought after negotiator and facilitator, Allen has decades of success delivering economic, political, and inter-governmental agreements on behalf of both First Nations and Canadian governments.

Allen is currently leading mining reform discussions with the Government of British Columbia on behalf of the First Nation Energy and Mining Council and is leading a negotiating table on behalf of a major Northern First Nation and is available for values aligned projects.

Allen has worked with the Gordon Foundation to develop an IBA Community Toolkit and assisted in conducting workshops with First Nations on the IBA Community Toolkit across Canada.

Allen was appointed to the Office of the Premier, Government of British Columbia as Special Advisor on Aboriginal issues. In this capacity, Allen assisted the Province to foster a better working relationship with First Nations by improving communications and coordination between the Province and First Nations.

Allen has served as an Advisor and Chief Negotiator for the Premier and Cabinet for the Government of the Yukon  and has been a senior negotiator for the past 25 years serving as Lead Negotiator for the Tahltan Central Council, Chief Negotiator for the Kaska Nations and held several senior positions in INAC, Government of Canada.

Allen is a member of the Tahltan Nation and is a recognized artist with works in several major collections.