Business Experience
- awarded 40 year membership recognition in 2005 by the Institute of Chartered Accountants
of Alberta.
- 24 years (to July 31,2005) in public accounting practice, most recently as senior
partner at Cetinski & Holtzman, Chartered Accountants
- 5 years in Papua New Guinea managing a logging and sawmill operation
Other Business Experience
- controller-for an automotive dealership, a business equipment distributor and a major
real estate company
- owner / manager-plastic injection molding company
- business broker and commercial real estate agent for Weber Bros. Realty Ltd.(1970's)
- member, Northern Alberta Advisory Board for Transalta Utilities
President for the following organizations
- Sherwood Park Chamber of Commerce
- Strathcona County Acreage Owners Association
- Edmonton Wildcats Football Club
- Kiwanis club of Sherwood Park
Education
- Chartered Accountant(CA) designation while articling with Deloitte
- Master of Business Administration(MBA), University of Western Ontario (presently Ivey
School of Business)
- Successfully completed the Commercial Real Estate Agents' program in November,2005 and
in January,2006
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Other Community
Services
- executive committee, Edmonton Chamber of Commerce
- chairman, various Chamber of Commerce committees and presentations to different levels
of government
- director and project manager, Junior Achievement of Northern Alberta
- football coach, minor football including bantam in Sherwood Park
- director, Sherwood Park Information & Volunteer Centre
- lecturer, various business courses sponsored by the Edmonton Chamber of Commerce
Political Initiatives
- anti-GST organizer prior to the implementing of the GST tax AND in 1996 during a GST
related by-election in Hamilton,Ontario
- Founder, Federal unity party (Rest of Canada party "ROC")
- ran as candidate in provincial(1) and federal(3) elections
- held various positions with provincial and federal parties
Awards
- business person of the year in Sherwood Park
- football recognition as playing member of Edmonton Wildcat football club
Presently
- member, past president council of the Sherwood Park Chamber of Commerce
- director, Entrepreneurial CA's of Edmonton
- fund raising, Strathcona County Senior's Co-ordinating Group
- member, Sherwood Park Rotary club
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