CentreBC’s Independent Adjudicator is Robin Smith. If you have a dispute with the party that you are not able to resolve through discussion with the people involved, you can contact Robin to mediate the issue.
Robin has had an extensive career in the agriculture, food processing and seafood industry, including eleven years of international experience. For the past twenty-five years he has held chairman, president or CEO positions in several agriculture and food processing organizations.
He obtained a Bachelor of Science Agriculture from the University of British Columbia specializing in food science plus majors in economics and fisheries management. Also, he holds an MBA from Simon Fraser University.
Robin’s Background
Robin provides advisory services to the agrifood industry through his own firm Foodwest Resources that he has owned for more than thirty years. Robin is a board director of the Greater Vancouver Food Bank and recently was interim CEO and a board member of Alliance Freeze Dry. He was on the board of the BC Food Processors Association for 15 years serving as Chair and twice as Vice Chair. Robin was Chair of the BC Chicken Marketing Board for 5 years.
As the Executive Director/CEO of both the BC Dairy Foundation and BC Dairy Association Robin guided their merger into one organization. He was Chairman/CEO of NuFood Pet Inc (Toronto) and President/CEO of Protein Foods International. Through Protein Foods he spent eleven years in international business, including living abroad and managing businesses in Jordan, Egypt and Thailand. Also, he conducted business in Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, Israel, South Africa, Namibia, Zimbabwe, India, China and Australia.
He headed the Canadian agrifood consulting practice for Price Waterhouse for four years from Toronto. Early in his career Robin held management positions with the Star Kist division of H.J.Heinz (Los Angeles), BC Packers and Panco Poultry.
Through Foodwest Resources and Price Waterhouse Robin has provided management advisory services to a wide range of clients in the agriculture, food and seafood industries in every province and territory of Canada and internationally.
He served as GOTV Chair for the North Vancouver Lonsdale riding for the BC Liberal Party in 2013 and as Campaign Manager in 2017. Since 2015 he has handled sign production and placement for the federal liberal party in North Vancouver Capilano. In 2024 he was the Sign Chair for Karin Kirkpatrick, the Independent Candidate for West Vancouver Capilano.
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