2006 | People | BCBusiness

Jacqui Cohen, Army & Navy

Jacqui Cohen: Army & Navy's Sole Survivor

Jacqui Cohen has been on the vanguard of Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside renaissance, investing in the troubled area for over a decade when everybody else told her to walk away.  Now, with the planned redevelopment of her flagship Army & Navy store,  Cohen has even bigger dreams for the city’s historic core.

Bright Light: Jeanette Jackson

Jeanette Jackson built a company around her father's invention.

Crossroads: Dave Cobb

BC Hydro's new CEO, VANOC vet Dave Cobb, trades one tough post for another.

Telus Corp's Healthy Profits

The CEO of B.C.'s biggest company wants to improve Canadian health care.

Tamara Vrooman's Tough Love

The CEO of B.C.'s biggest credit union shows her nurturing side.

Featured Profile

Alison Lawton: The Connector
She made big money in finance, then big friends in Clinton and Gates. And now?

"It's the US South, where, typically, a 2000-calorie breakfast is followed by a few burgers and a gallon of pop at smoke break time."

Tony Wanless, on "Business Stories That Confuse Me"

People to Remember

"The Life and Times of Jack Poole," by Gary Mason | He got to see the Olympic flame leave Athens, but not arrive in Vancouver

Geordie Rose of D-Wave | What is a $70-million quantum computer, and what can it do?

Joy McPhail and James Shavick | How a straight power couple turned around money-losing OutTV

Chris Staples of Rethink Communications | We scrutinize the man reimagining Vancouver advertising

Norman Dowds of MPR Teltech | For a time he oversaw a tech incubator whose success has never been equalled

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