MANITOBA HOME BUSINESS ADVISORY COUNCIL
- HBM Chair
Kurt Refvik
Kurt Refvik Enterprises
KRefvik2@hotmail.com
- HBM Vice Chair
Jacquie Nagy
Holistic Directions
www.HolisticDirections.com
jNagy@HolisticDirections.com
- HBM Treasurer/Website Consultant
Steve Loney
theWebGuy.ca
www.theWebGuy.ca
Steve@theWebGuy.ca
- HBM Secretary
Sheri Glugosh
Prairie Ideas Inc.
www.PrairieIdeas.ca
sGlugosh@PrairieIdeas.ca
- HBM Rural Program Director
Darlis Collinge, Manager
Swan Valley Enterprise Centre, Swan River MB
manager@SwanValleyCanada.com
- HBM Legal Consultant
J. F. Reeh Taylor, Q.C., Director
Small Business Law Clinic
rtaylor@tmlawyers.com
- MHBA Advisor at Large
Shannon Coughlin, General Manager
Canada/Manitoba Business Service Centre
www.cbsc.org/manitoba
Shannon.Coughlin@CanadaBusiness.mb.ca
- MHBA Advisor at Large
Tony J. Romeo, C.A. Director,
Small Business Development Branch
Competitiveness, Training and Trade
www.gov.mb.ca/iedm/sbcd/index.html
Tony.Romeo@CanadaBusiness.mb.ca
- MHBA Advisor at Large
Carol McKeown, Account Manager, Small Business,
Scotiabank/Garden City
Carol.Mckeown@scotiabank.com
- MHBA Advisor at Large
Jason Denbow, Executive Director,
Community Futures Manitoba
jdenbow@cfmanitoba.ca
The Manitoba Home Business Advisory Council, formed in September 2003, was established as "a voice" for home business owners in Manitoba. The organization provides education, awareness, advocacy and networking opportunities for home business owners.
The mandate is accomplished through active advocacy, the presentation of workshops, annual tradeshow, public speaking engagements, mentoring, and the dissemination of home business resource information through the website, brochures, newsletter, Canada/Manitoba Business Service Centre library and its regional access centers.
The Council consists of fourteen representatives:
- seven from the private sector/home business
- one shall be a nominee or representative of the Government of Canada
- one shall be a nominee or representative of the Government of Manitoba
- one shall be a nominee or representative of the City of Winnipeg
- two shall be rural program co-ordinators (as that term may, from time to time, be interpreted by the other members of the Board)
- one shall be a financial advisor
- one shall be a legal advisor
The Canada/Manitoba Business Service Centre will form the Council's secretariat and play a major supporting role in recognition of the large number of home business people who use the Centre or have indicated they would welcome the opportunity to connect with others like themselves.
On October 1, 2008 Council Membership became available to home business owners in Manitoba.
1.800.665.2019 (toll-free in Canada) 984.2272 (in Winnipeg) Manitoba@CanadaBusiness.mb.ca
Manitoba Home Business Advisory Council Inc. ('MHBAC') is a non-share, not-for-profit corporation created with the financial and moral support of both senior levels of government and managed by a volunteer Board of Directors. Its purpose is, simply, to offer information, advice and encouragement to entrepreneurs who own, or intend to start, their own businesses and to operate them from their homes. We treat your personal contact information with respect and solely for the purposes related to your participation in MHBAC's network, informing you of upcoming events and of potential opportunities. We do not trade, rent, sell or disclose your personal information to anyone else at all. If at any time you wish to be removed from our network, simply contact us by email at Manitoba@CanadaBusiness.ca