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Laird Miller, CPA, FCA
Laird is the CFO of London Drugs Ltd.
and corporate secretary for H.Y. Louie
Co. Ltd. He is also the chief financial
officer of Sonora Resort, a BC luxury
wilderness resort, and London Air
Services, an executive charter airline.
Laird became a CA in 1989, and began
his career with one of Deloitte’s
predecessor firms. He went on to serve
as senior audit manager for Deloitte
Canada before joining H.Y. Louie in
1996 as director of audit services. Laird
took on the role of corporate secretary
with London Drugs in 1998, and became
CFO in 2000.
As vice-chair of the board of Destination
BC, Laird shares his insights into the
marketing and expansion of BC’s tourism sector. He also contributes to the tourism
sector as chair of Destination BC’s audit committee. In addition, Laird is a past member
of the Minister’s Council on Tourism for BC.
To help develop the next generation of business professionals, Laird volunteers as a
mentor for the Vancouver Board of Trade’s “Leaders of Tomorrow” program. He has
also volunteered as a speaker with the ICABC CA Speaker Series with the Vancouver
Board of Trade.

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Keri Norrie, CPA, FCA
Keri is an accounting instructor at
Camosun College, and has chaired its
accounting department since 2013.
She became a CA in 1988, and also holds
a CGA designation, earned in 2008. Prior
to joining Camosun College in 1994, she
was a manager with Ernst & Young.
In her leadership role at Camosun, Keri
has developed and taught an innovative
capstone course for the college’s BBAAccounting program, and has worked
with six local secondary schools to develop
a dual-credit introductory accounting
program that enables high school students
to obtain post-secondary credit at
Camosun. Keri has also developed,
reviewed, and contributed instructional
materials for introductory and advanced financial accounting textbooks.
Keri currently contributes to the accounting profession as a co-author, instructor,
lead facilitator, and session leader of newly developed CPA modules and workshop
materials. She previously served as an instructor and facilitator for CGA-BC, CMABC,
and the CA School of Business (CASB), and was selected as a presiding officer for CASB
in Victoria in 2008.
In both 2007 and 2013, Keri received a NISOD Excellence Award for teaching from the
National Institute for Staff and Organizational Development.

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