THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Coby Bucci
Stephen Cheung
Stephen and his wife Chloe have been Brockton parents since September 2019 when their son started kindergarten.
Stephen graduated with BBA (Economics and Accounting) and MA (Economics) degrees from Simon Fraser University. After graduation, Stephen went back to Hong Kong and spent more than 10 years there before relocating back to Vancouver with his family in 2019.
Stephen is currently the Vice President of Risk, Compliance and Audit with a multinational real estate investment group headquartered in Vancouver. During his time in Hong Kong, Stephen primarily worked at an international accounting firm in both of their audit and advisory practices focused on serving clients in the retail and consumer market industries. He had also worked at the internal audit department of a multinational corporation for more than two years where he travelled to numerous countries across Asia, Europe and North and South America. Professionally, Stephen is a member of the HKICPA and his expertise are around corporate governance and enterprise risk management for large listed companies, private corporations, family business as well as international schools.
Vanessa James
Vanessa and Doug and their 3 children relocated from New Zealand in 2018, and having lived in 3 countries, finding the right school for their youngest children Tilly and Emmett was essential. The globally recognized IB program was important, but also finding a school that would get to know our children, care about them, and support their development was the ultimate reason the kids came to Brockton.
Vanessa has over 30 years international business experience, with the last 25 years working for a Canadian global commodity company with time living in Vancouver, Texas, and New Zealand. For the last 10 years Vanessa has been on the Executive as Senior Vice President of Marketing and most recently
Corporate Development and Sustainability. Originally from New Zealand, Vanessa has a Bachelor of Management Studies.
Suzanne Kennedy
For nearly two decades, Suzanne has been involved in advising and representing public sector organizations in a range of areas, including regulatory compliance and statutory interpretation, governance, employment and labour, policy development, and negotiation and contract drafting. She has developed a particular focus in the health and education sectors, and have advised many private, public and charitable organizations in respect of their rights, duties and obligations within the applicable regulatory schemes.
Suzanne has been a part of the Brockton community since 2018, and has served on the Board since 2020.
Cat Lisiak
Cat and Josh joined Brockton when their child started kindergarten at Brockton. They are excited to be part of the Brockton community!
Cat graduated from McGill University with a Bachelor of Arts in Geography Urban Systems, and received a Masters of Science in Planning from the University of Toronto. After graduation, Cat spent 15 years working in urban planning across Canada including Goderich, Toronto, Edmonton and Surrey. She specialized in multifamily developments, civic facilities, and was the lead planner for a new 75 acre neighbourhood plan in the City of Surrey.
Today, Cat has taken a break from urban planning and is the manager of a commercial building in downtown Vancouver where she is responsible for tenant relations and all aspects of building operations. She has a passion for sustainability and community building, and supports green energy and other local green initiatives in her daily life.
Karen McCulla
Ms. Karen McCulla began her teaching career in the classrooms of New York City before making her way back to her home province of BC and taking on appointments in the Okanagan Valley and then the Lower Mainland. As a varsity basketball player in her university years, Karen dedicated much of her time outside of the classroom to supporting student-athletes and several provincial sport associations. Karen moved into the leadership realm early in her career and took on roles of Department Head and Athletic Director; Karen was the first female basketball coach and Athletic Director of Vancouver College (all boys school). Following Vancouver College, Karen embraced an opportunity to work for Shanghai Teachers’ University (through Douglas College), educating aspiring teachers in practical, technical, and theoretical coursework. Prior to joining Brockton, Karen spent 12 years at Crofton House School. As Director of Crofton House Senior School, Karen was responsible for the visioning and operations of the senior school community and launched several initiatives including service programming (international and local) and the Ivy/Compass program. Karen joined Brockton in 2014/2015 and has embraced the opportunity to grow and guide this extraordinary community. Despite her busy role, Karen continues to serve where she can and presently sits on the board of the ISABC (Independent School Association of BC) and maintains involvement in several youth sporting programs. Karen is passionate about much in life and is blessed with amazing friends and family (including her two children).
Craig Munroe
Craig and Maureen joined the Brockton community in 2018 when their child, Lizzie, joined the Grade 6 pod. This was such a wonderful experience that Lizzie’s older sister, Samantha, moved to Brockton in 2020 to join the Grade 10 class.
Craig is a partner in the law firm, Pulver Crawford Munroe LLP, and has practiced labour and employment law for over 20 years in British Columbia. Craig is also a member of the Board of Directors
of the Vancouver Fraser Port Authority and the Canadian Association of Counsel to Employers.
Craig, Maureen, Samantha, Lizzie, and younger brother Daniel, all enjoy skiing at Whistler in the winter and sailing the BC coast in the summer Craig joined the Brockton Board in 2020 and currently chairs the Nominations & Governance Committee.
Jack Newton
As the CEO and Founder of Clio and a pioneer in cloud-based legal technology, Jack Newton has spearheaded efforts to educate the legal community on the security, ethics, privacy considerations, and benefits of running a law firm in the cloud.
Under his leadership, Clio is bettering the lives and businesses of lawyers while making legal services more accessible and equitable for all through cloud-based and client-centered technology. Jack’s efforts to transform the legal experience for all has already made a deep impact on the legal industry.
Jack is the author of The Client-Centered Law Firm, a #1 bestseller that’s helping law firms thrive in today’s experience-driven era. He is also the host of Daily Matters, a podcast dedicated to conversations with legal professionals, industry leaders, and subject matter experts about the future of law.
Jack has been recognized with some of the highest honours in the business world, including Canada’s Most Admired CEO by Waterstone Human Capital, EY’s Entrepreneur Of The Year award, BIV’s Forty under 40, and was named a 2019 Fellow to the College of Law Practice Management. Most recently, Jack has been awarded Person of the Year at the 2020 Technology Impact Awards, held by the BC Tech Association. Clio has also been recognized as one of Canada’s Best Managed Companies by Deloitte, and as having one of Canada’s Most Admired Corporate Cultures by Waterstone Human Capital. Additionally, Clio was the first company to receive the BC Tech Association’s Company of the Year Anchor Success category.
Brent North
Brent and Elizabeth joined the Brockton Community when their son Layne entered grade 5 in 2010. He is part of the Campus Vision Committee and the Nominations and Governance Committee. He is currently in his 3rd term on Brockton’s Board, which runs until the AGM of 2025. As Layne has now graduated, Brent is viewed as an “independent”, addressing one of the Board’s governance principles.
Brent is a Vice President with Stantec Architecture and was both a Director and Stantec’s Global Discipline Lead for Architecture, from 2014 – mid-2023. Earlier in his career he was Managing Principal of Stantec’s Vancouver office for 8 years, and he still maintains licenses in multiple jurisdictions. His projects are focused mostly in the commercial retail, and airport sectors, but have also involved work in world expositions, office interiors, post-secondary institutions and includes highlights such as the renovation of Canada House on Trafalgar Square in London. Additionally, he serves as Chair of the Architectural Institute of British Columbia’s Discipline Committee, Chair of the Alberta Architects Association Ethics Bylaw Committee, as a member of the AIBC’s Bylaw Review Task Force and its Oral Exam Panel for Licensure and as a member of the Rick Hansen Foundation’s Technical Sub-committee. He is currently an instructor for the AIBC course, ‘Architects and the Law’, and also, ‘Fundamentals of Running an Architectural Practice’ with the University of Toronto’s School of Continuing Studies.
Brent completed his ARCT in piano by the end of grade 12 and then partly paid for university by playing the organ at a church in Burnaby. This gives him a particular interest in Brockton’s sparkling World Music Program and he has been privileged to tour with the WMP to Greece, the United Kingdom, New York City, Germany, Austria, and the Czech Republic, first in the parent capacity and, later, as the instrument truck driver.
Naeem Rajabali
Naeem and his wife Aliya have been Brockton parents since September 2022 when their son Ari started Junior Kindergarten at Brockton.
Naeem is a Partner within KPMG’s Governance Risk and Compliance Services (GRCS) practice. He has over 15 years’ of experience assisting clients in the field of Internal Audit and Enterprise Risk Management as well as a number of other governance and risk management-related areas. Throughout his career, Naeem has led a number of strategic, global risk advisory engagements across multiple industries including retail, transportation, mining, financial services as well as the Public and Not-for-Profit Sectors. Naeem has leveraged his intimate knowledge of risk management to help some of North America’s largest organizations form, develop and transform their approach to managing risk. He has experience guiding a number of BC-based Independent Schools, Colleges and Universities through their risk management journeys.
Naeem holds a Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA) from Simon Fraser University’s Beedie School of Business and a Masters of Business Administration (MBA), with a specialization in Accounting, from the University of British Columbia’s Sauder School of Business.
Claus Skadkjaer
Claus and his wife Meranda have been Brockton parents since September 2022 when their son Alexander and daughter Nikita started year 6 and year 3.
Claus has a three-decade career leading businesses across Europe, Asia, and North America. Notably, he served as the Managing Director at Luxottica for South Asia, Australia, New Zealand, and the Oceania region. Prior to Luxottica, Claus was the Director for Kantar for the Asia Pacific region and prior he spent 18 years as a Director at Procter & Gamble leading various business units across Europe and Asia. Currently, Claus is the President of Disruptive Growth at Plastic Bank, driving positive change in environmental and social sustainability on a global scale.
Michael Sparrow
Mike and his wife and their two sons joined Brockton in 2019 after relocating from Chicago to the North Shore. The decision to join Brockton was an easy one. Brockton’s approach to building outstanding humans who can thrive in the real world; the development of a desire to learn and to continue to learn each and every day; a focus on both indoor and outdoor education; along with a strong sense of community; and the fact that his sons just really liked it were key factors in the decision.
Mike has over 30 years of experience in business consulting with a focus on organizational transformations, process improvement, complex systems implementations, and operations with many Fortune 500 companies. Originally from Perth, Australia, where he obtained a B. Bus. (Accounting and Business Law) from Curtin University and his Chartered Accounting designation, Mike has also lived in Sydney, New York, and Chicago.
