HEAVEN'S GATE

LEADERSHIP

Our accomplished and passionate development leadership team represents global expertise in over 400 global mountain projects, building over 10,000 units and famed West Coast and Rocky Mountain architecture and Master-planned alpine communities.

Dr. Francis Oda

Master Architect

Francis has received more than 50 design awards, including the American Institute of Architects Honor Award for Our Divine Savior Church in Chico, California. In 2014, he was honored by Pacific Business News as Hawaii Business Leader of the Year. Francis’ other award-winning projects include the Four Seasons Lodge at Koele, the Four Seasons Manele Bay Hotel, Hanauma Bay Nature Center and the Maluhia Golf Clubhouse.

Francis is an award winning expert in designing architecture that is harmonious with the natural build environment. As Heaven’s Gate master architect, he is passionate to deploy his 50 years of experience in design and master planning in helping create one of the world’s most unique mountain destinations. His firm, G70 design will lead and collaborate with the team of global architects.

Paul Mathews

President, Founder of Ecosign

Paul is internationally recognized as the foremost expert in leading projects from inception to profitability.

Ecosign is widely known in the industry as the world’s leader in the design of four-season mountain destinations. Paul has been part of the initial envisioning of Heaven’s Gate and is responsible for the mountain feasibility study, mountain infrastructure design and the ongoing Master planning of the pedestrian oriented village.

Mr. Mathews founded Ecosign in 1975 to provide environmentally sensitive planning and design services to mountain resort areas and has directed the planning and design of over 400 major mountain resort projects in 46 countries and 6 Winter Olympic venues.

Ecosign will continue to work with Heaven’s Gate on the mountain master planning, design and financial optimization. Heaven’s Gate LP has also asked Paul to be a global advisor to the project, given his background of being the world’s most experienced and recognized expert at helping bring projects from inception to profitability.

“Ecosign brings expertise that we feel is without equal.” (Mike Goar, Past Managing Director Canyon Resort, Park City, Utah)

Bill Marshall

Master planning and Design​

Bill Marshall’s passion and experience with Rocky Mountain resort architecture and resort planning over the last 30 years includes design work on the world-famous Fairmont Banff Springs, Chateau Lake Louise, Hyatt Regency and resort master planning in the Rocky Mountains of Western Canada. Marshall Tittemore Architects is an internationally renowned, award-winning practice of architects, urban designers, and interior designers.

Bill will be helping the overall community master planning/design and intergenerational planning at Heaven’s Gate with an emphasis on the coal creek zone.

Craig MacLeod

Founding General Partner, Director Eagles Summit Ltd.​

Craig is a founding principal of Heaven’s Gate Fernie. Craig brings a passionate pioneering tenacity and the ability to bring together complex stakeholder interests and build a passion team of comprising of globally recognized expertise. Craig’s background includes portfolio management with CIBC World Markets, helping fund sustainable new energy technologies and resort consulting since 2004, and physical precious metals. Craig first skied in Fernie 44 years ago and has had a love for Fernie ever since.

Craig had the privilege of being mentored by Phil Boname and Heiko Socher. Phil was the founder of Urbanics and was Canada’s most seasoned pioneer in municipal planning and real estate economics while Heiko was a pioneer in ski resort development, building Fernie Alpine Resort over a period of 25 years, helping put Fernie on the map as an international destination. Craig believes strongly in building a culture of honor and the power of collaboration and mentorship.

Glem Dias

Education and Leadership

Glem Dias is an award-winning Leadership Strategist. He has led leadership strategies at Walmart, Morgan Stanley, Pitney Bowes and other Fortune 500 companies. Glem teaches leadership at Schulich Executive Education, Canada’s #1 ranked business school and has guided the careers and development of over 1000 leaders. Glem is forging education and leadership relationships for Heaven’s Gate and will work closely with the entire team to ensure world class excellence in leadership throughout the Heaven’s Gate team and the education mission.

Susan Dau

Founding General Partner, Director Eagles Summit Ltd.​

Susan is a General Partner of Heaven’s Gate and brings over two decades of active involvement within the real estate industry in Alberta. Her experience includes condominium sales, multi-million-dollar properties, investment property management and large scale project marketing.

Beyond her real estate career, Susan lived in Southeast Asia, where she designed a corporate responsibility program aimed at empowering people in rural communities. Susan has also played an active role in helping her family launch their enterprises, which include one of the larger mining exploration projects in Metagine Columbia. Susan lives and believes in the power of giving back to community and charitable initiatives.

Jimmy Sousa

Director Real Estate Development​

Jimmy Souza spent 14 years overseeing all facets of turning a half section of farmers land (350 acres) to and entire 600+ lot golf course community just east of Calgary, Alberta Canada. His scope of work included oversight of the entire project from rezoning the land to working closely with the golf course architect and multiple engineering firms to complete the construction of an 18-hole golf course, a state-of-the-art water treatment plant, several lakes, and all servicing and waste treatment. Jimmy overcame very complex stakeholder interests through a passion of building bridges with people and a relentless pursuit of creating intergenerational community.

Kevin Dunn

Local Relations Director​

Kevin spent 18 years working in the oil and gas industry, where he helped build one of the largest oil and gas engineering software companies in the world, Fekete Associates. Working with the executive leadership in numerous global energy companies, Kevin drove product relevance and excellence at Fekete, making them a industry standard product. Kevin lead the company’s expansion efforts in 2011, becoming the President of Fekete Corp. in Houston, Texas. Following the acquisition of Fekete and the subsidiaries in 2013 by global data giant IHS, Kevin embarked on a new business venture called Brooks Creek Ranch. Brooks Creek Ranch has successfully offered travellers from around the world the most unique and intimate 5 star accommodation and food service available in the Canadian Rockies. Kevin sold Brooks Creek Ranch just over a year ago and is passionate to see the DNA of Heaven’s Gate properly communicated to local interests.

Randy Gliege

Director of Mountain Infrastructure​

Randy’s life has been focused on lift infrastructures for decades worldwide. Past project highlights were the Olympic resort development and ropeway installation at Snowbasin, Utah and much work at Whistler Blackcomb during the key development years. Current projects include overseeing 300 workers, all general contracting and construction of the longest single cable gondola ever built in the Western Hemisphere in country of Dominica. Randy and his family have lived in Fernie for over 30 years. Randy is the owner of Summit Lift Company.

Maxwell Bracey

Creative Director

Maxwell Bracey is a true motivational leader and seasoned entrepreneur having built companies in tech, marketing, oil and gas. Maxwell has traveled the world and currently finds his home base in Toronto, ON with strong ties to the west where he was born and raised on a farm just outside of Calgary, AB. His life motto is “to be blessed to be a blessing”. Maxwell has a real passion to draw people into a deeper understanding of their true identity and to see them accomplish things they may never have thought possible. Inspiring Greatness!!

Linda Fields, MBA

Director of Global Leadership Campus​

Linda will act as Director of the Global Leadership Campus. Her background includes birthing and overseeing an entrepreneurial learning center with Dow Chemical and Brazosport College that created collaborative partnerships between education, industry and commnity. Over 150,000 participants were impacted over a course of 12 years from 1995-2007. Her background also includes teaching university business courses for 30 years and starting businesses with her husband Rick. Since 2007, Linda has been passionately equipping existing and emerging leaders throughout the various spheres of influence in society.

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