NEW JOB: Director, Community Leadership

EMPLOYER: Coast Capital Savings

OLD JOB: Director, eBusiness, Coast Capital Savings

QUOTE: "I think I can, I think I can"-from Watty Piper's children's story The Little Engine That Could

READING: The First 90 Days, Michael Watkins; The Girl Who Played with Fire, Stieg Larsson

WORST FEAR: Getting stuck in a confined space with no air -I'm a run-ofthe-mill claustrophobic.

GADGETS: Semi-automatic double shot latte maker; laptop, netbook, iPod Touch, BlackBerry that I wish was an iPhone -never without one of them.

EDUCATION/CREDENTIALS: Sauder School of Business Executive Education, Langara College Business Administration, UBC eBusiness Certificate

FIRST JOB: Campaign assistant at the Heart & Stroke Foundation

ORIGINAL ASPIRATION: TV news anchor

ROLE MODEL: My mother. She has faced so much adversity yet always maintains a positive outlook.

BORN: Vancouver, raised in Tsawwassen

NUMBER OF EMAILS A DAY: Too many to count!

NUMBER OF VOICEMAILS A DAY: One, if that. The phone is so 1990.

DO YOU USE SOCIAL NETWORKING? Yes, both at work and play. Speaking of which, you should add Coast Capital as a friend and start following us too.

ESSENTIAL WEBSITE: www.coastcapitalsavings.com

BEST PERK: What better perk than doling out cash to our communities? Coast Capital Savings invests seven per cent of pre-tax earnings back into the communities that we serve and I am the lead big-cheque giver-outer. That is pretty cool.

SPORTS/HOBBIES: Walking my golden retriever on the trails around my home, curling (a new hobby this year, and a chilly one at that).

PLACE AND TOPIC OF LAST CONFERENCE: Vancouver -Payments Panorama 2010, a payments industry annual conference

CAREER OBJECTIVE: To enjoy coming to work every day, spending time with inspirational people, mentoring others and feeling like I've made a difference.