Board of Directors

Tim Laidler
Founder, President (M.Ed, C.D.)
Board of Directors
It spurred him to complete a Masters of Counselling at UBC, during which time he spent thousands of volunteer hours creating the VTN to bring our program to every Canadian Veteran who needs it.

Adam Schell
Treasurer (CPA, CA)

Joseph Waugh
Member at large

Gavin Dew
Member at large
His educational background includes a BA from UBC and an MBA from Oxford University, where he wrote a thesis on how to gain authentic social and political support for projects and policies.

Adrienne Alford-Burt
Member at large
Adrienne held several roles with VAC including Veteran Services Team Manager, Standards Training and Evaluation Office and Project Manager before moving to British Columbia in 2008 and becoming Area Director for BC Mainland and Yukon Area until the spring of 2017. She then decided to leave the Government of Canada in 2017 to pursue private sector long term care operations which Adrienne loves – specifically dementia support. Since 2018, she has been the Executive Director at The Village Langley, Canada’s first village-style dementia support community. Adrienne led the pre-operational, planning and opening activities, and they’ve been in operation since Summer 2019.