Experience

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  Agriculture Financial Services Corporation (AFSC)

  • Alberta

  • Board Chair - Past

    • May 2007 - Dec 2013
    • Alberta

    Agriculture Financial Services Corporation (AFSC) is an Alberta Crown corporation with a private sector Board of Directors. Established in 1938 to insure farmers against devastating crop losses from hail, the corporation has grown and evolved into a diverse organization with several core businesses: crop insurance; livestock price insurance, lending to primary agriculture producers; commercial lending and farm income disaster assistance. AFSC operates from over 50 offices across the Province of Alberta. AFSC has revenues in excess of $1 Billion and employs over 700 people. During Harry's tenure as Chair, the corporation was named one of Canada’s Top 100 Employers in four consecutive years – 2010 through 2013.

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  Independent Breeders Service Ltd.

  • Airdrie, Alberta

  • Owner/CEO

    • 1990 - 2007
    • Airdrie, Alberta

    A bovine artificial insemination company, Independent Breeders Service produced and marketed beef and dairy semen domestically and internationally for over 25 years. The company was sold to Alta Genetics Inc. in 2007. At the time of sale, it was the largest privately owned beef custom semen collection centre in Canada.

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  Foundation Sires Inc.

  • Listowel, Ontario

  • Partner/Board Member

    • 2000 - 2003
    • Listowel, Ontario

    Private company involved in the production and marketing of dairy semen - primarily Canadian Holstein both in Canada and abroad.

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  Peat Marwick Stevenson and Kellogg

  • Edmonton, Alberta

  • Principal, Agriculture Services

    • 1987 - 1990
    • Edmonton, Alberta

    Consulting Agrologist Edmonton office - responsible for marketing the Firm's agriculture consulting services to private sector and government clients and providing advisory services to the audit and insolvency groups with respect to agricultural matters.

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  Canadian Agriculture Consultants Ltd.

  • Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

  • General Manager

    • 1986 - 1987
    • Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

    Canadian Agriculture Consultants Ltd. was a subsidiary of Stanley Associates (now Stantec). Responsibility for planning and coordinating the company's activities both in Canada and abroad - specifically in what was then the Soviet Union.

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  Peat Marwick and Partners (now KPMG)

  • Edmonton

  • Consulting Agrologist

    • 1984 - 1986
    • Edmonton

    Marketing and providing consulting services to both private sector and government clients and providing advisory services to the audit and insolvency groups within the firm with respect to agricultural matters. Successfully mediated a very high profile dispute (Alberta Hog War) between the producer and processing industries.

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  Haney Farms Ltd.

  • Picture Butte Alberta

  • Vice President, Director and Manager of Livestock Operations

    • 1974 - 1986
    • Picture Butte Alberta

    Actively involved in the family business between 1974 and 1986 - direct responsibility for the company's livestock operations and active in all aspects of the operation as part of the management team. The company operated a 5,000 head feedlot, ran 400 head cowherd (both purebred and commercial) and produced commercial and pedigreed seed grain on 4,000 seeded acres. The farming operation consisted of both dry and irrigated land.