{"id":2019,"date":"2025-08-19T09:25:59","date_gmt":"2025-08-19T16:25:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/greatcreators.ca\/?page_id=2019"},"modified":"2026-10-05T11:45:14","modified_gmt":"2026-10-05T18:45:14","slug":"our-directors","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/greatcreators.ca\/fr\/our-directors\/","title":{"rendered":"Nos directeurs"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Great Creators Cooperative Directors<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t
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Larry Whaley<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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Founding Director and Board Chair
Nanaimo
<\/strong>\u201cCoops are in my blood” says Larry Whaley, whose grandfather was a founding member of a retail coop in the Alberta town where Larry grew up. Larry’s father was also an active coop member. After moving to the Vancouver area Larry joined a credit union and a neighbourhood consumer cooperative. He was a founding member and first president of a housing cooperative while working for the BC Ministry of Consumer Affairs. In Nanaimo, he served four years as a director of the Mid Island Consumer Services Co-op and helped to establish the Island Roots Market Coop. Larry is looking forward to a quick and effective start to a very successful Great Creators Cooperative Canada.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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Bryan Davies<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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Director and Legal Advisor
Sault Ste Marie
<\/strong>Bryan Davies and Tony Cavaliere (Kapptive Studios) co-lead Tagona Press, a North American award winning independent publishing house and intellectual property rights consultancy based in Sault Ste Marie, Ontario. Bryan has also co-authored several successful books.<\/p>

His passions include Lake Superior kayaking, basketball, and snowshoeing.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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Nicole Muchowski<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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Director
Qualicum Beach
<\/b><\/strong>N<\/span>icole is an independent author of spy-fi action adventure, and contemporary women\u2019s fiction novels. Over the past ten years, she has helped build and grow a variety of supportive communities, including groups devoted to environmental stewardship, moms\u2019 time out, and writers\u2019 critique and accountability.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>

As a former environmental consultant, Nicole brings experience in project management, leading teams of diverse professionals, and pulling all the parts together into one cohesive product. She has joined the GCCC board to help expand its reach, engage audiences, and connect with other artist groups.<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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ACIA, Director and CFO
Nanaimo
<\/strong>Bill has worked in the finance industry for nearly two decades and is passionate about helping small business owners, entrepreneurs and startups on their journeys. He has amassed experience serving on boards of directors over the past five years, and understands the unique opportunities and challenges for both for-profit and not-for-profit organizations.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>

When not working or volunteering as a board member, Bill enjoys living on and exploring the beauty of Vancouver Island, BC as well as travelling to other regions of the world.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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Founding Director and Operations Coordinator
Nanaimo
<\/strong>Kristin enjoys helping connect people with opportunities and facilitating organizational success. Her diverse experience includes customer service,\u00a0 operations, and most recently, disaster management and recovery. She has a BA in Political Economy from UC Berkeley.<\/p>

Having recently returned to Canada after living and working in the US, Kristin is excited to be back on the BC coast where she grew up, and to help grow a co-op platform for Canadian authors, creators, and consumers.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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BFA – Founding Director, Design & Technology
Nanaimo
<\/strong>Richard Hoedl is the artist, entrepreneur and game designer behind Tinker Troll Games. A former exhibiting artist who showed across Canada, he now channels his creative talents into game creation. Richard previously owned Dream Big Solutions, helped businesses map their path to goals, and ran an art gallery that brought together the Vancouver Island artist community.\u00a0<\/p>

He was a founding director of the Speaking in Chalks Art Festival and Radio Station CHLY.\u00a0 He served on many other boards including the Nanaimo Art Gallery and the Crimson Coast Dance Society.Now he’s helping fellow creators turn their passion into profit because every artist deserves their moment to shine (and pay their bills).<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Great Creators Cooperative Directors Larry Whaley Founding Director and Board ChairNanaimo\u201cCoops are in my blood” says Larry Whaley, whose grandfather was a founding member of a retail coop in the Alberta town where Larry grew up. Larry’s father was also an active coop member. After moving to the Vancouver area Larry joined a credit union […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"no-sidebar","site-content-layout":"page-builder","ast-site-content-layout":"full-width-container","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"disabled","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"set","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2019","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greatcreators.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2019","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/greatcreators.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/greatcreators.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greatcreators.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greatcreators.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2019"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/greatcreators.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2019\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5239,"href":"https:\/\/greatcreators.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2019\/revisions\/5239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greatcreators.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}