Geoff Bowering is President and Founder of Integrity Flight Support, the Fixed Base Operator (FBO) at Pitt Meadows Airport.  Geoff is a seasoned aviation and business professional. A graduate of Trinity Western University’s School of Business and Institute of Aviation, he holds a Bachelor of Business Administration with a specialization in Aviation, earning his commercial pilot license in 1994. With over 30 years of experience in marketing, operations, and logistics, Geoff carries a passion for aviation and an excitement in the potential of Pitt Meadows airport as a central hub in the future of the Lower Mainland’s air transportation network.

Dave Harkness is Manager of Parking and New Mobility with the City of Surrey’s Engineering Department, where he is responsible for revenue generation activities and policy development/testing for New Mobility transportation forms, including Electric Vehicles, Automated Vehicles, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles, and shared mobility devices.

He has a long span of volunteer activity focused on public transportation policy:

– Since 2019 he has been Chair of Translink’s New Mobility Committee, providing recommendations on new transportation forms to Translink’s Regional Transportation Advisory Committee

– In 2021 he was appointed Co-Chair of BC Hydro’s Electric Vehicle Peer Network, comprising transportation planners and Electric Vehicle experts from 60 BC communities and institutions.

– From 1992 to 2011 he chaired the Downtown Vancouver BIA’s Transportation and Urban Policy Committee.

– He is a past Director of the BC Building Owners Managers Association, with a role as liaison to the Environmental sub-committee.

He is a graduate of Simon Fraser University’s Next Generation Transportation Program as well as Business Communications and Management programs at SFU and the BC Institute of Technology.

Past airport-related roles include Director of Groundside Operations at Vancouver International Airport from 2007-2011.

He is a regular donor with Canadian Blood Services (with over 120 blood/platelet donations to date), a volunteer with Langley Animal Protection Society, and a member of Vancouver Fairview Rotary Club.

Patricia is a Medical Laboratory Scientist who retired after 40 years of working in both the public and private sectors. She has lived in Pitt Meadows since 2011.

Her volunteering interests have ranged from being involved in community groups and boards that support children with special needs to a BC Provincial Government steering committee that authored the ‘Colony Farm Land Use Plan’ creating the Metro Vancouver ‘Colony Farm Regional Park’ thus removing it from the speculative market.

Here in Pitt Meadows, she is active in the arts community and art gallery, local neighbourhood issues as well as a member of the newly formed Pitt Meadows Economic Development Advisory Committee which will include a new Tourism component.

She looks forward to being on the Pitt Meadows Airport board during these exciting times.

Scott Hartman is the Chief Administrative Officer for the City of Maple Ridge. He joined the City in March 2021 as the General Manager Parks, Recreation & Culture and was recently promoted to his current role. Scott has a considerable track record of successful leadership in both municipal government and the private sector, particularly in the areas of economic and community development, including positions at the Township of Esquimalt, City of Kamloops, and the Comox-Strathcona Regional District. Scott also has experience as an organizational performance consultant, facilitator, and executive coach.

One of the newest YPK Board Members & CEO of the Westlund Group of Companies.

The Westlund Group is comprised of 12 independent businesses, one of which is SKY Helicopters here on-site. In a few short, successful years, SKY Helicopters has grown from a small startup to the City’s number one helicopter tourism company.