Damian Kettlewell

Damian Kettlewell (b.Sydney, Australia) is a two time candidate for the Green Party of BC and a past deputy leader.
Kettlewell is a member of the Burnaby Board of Trade Environmental Sustainability Committee, past chair of the Rivershed Society of British Columbia and is the founder of BC EcoEvents. He ran as a candidate for the Green Party of British Columbia in the provincial riding of Vancouver-Point Grey in 2005 and Vancouver-False Creek in 2009.
Biography
Damian Kettlewell was born in Sydney, Australia, and moved to Canada with his extended family at the age of six months. He was raised in the Marpole and Shaughnessy areas of Vancouver, British Columbia, has lived in Mount Pleasant and Kitsilano and now lives in West Vancouver with his young family.
Education
Kettlewell graduated from Simon Fraser University in 1994 with an applied science degree in economics and communications. He then completed an MBA in Leadership at Royal Roads University in 2004. In September 2004, Kettlewell presented his thesis at the Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Conference in Toronto.
Politics
Damian Kettlewell ran in British Columbia's May 2009 provincial election as a candidate for the Green Party of British Columbia in the riding of Vancouver False Creek and finished 3rd our of 7 candidates with 13.11% of the vote. . Damian earned a endorsement from the Conservation Voters of BC in his second candidacy with the BC Greens.
Kettlewell ran in the 2005 provincial election in Vancouver-Point Grey during the 2005 British Columbia provincial election. In 2005 Kettlewell finished 3rd out of 7 candidates - receiving 4,111 votes, or 15.12% of valid ballots cast.
Kettlewell was the Deputy Leader of the Green Party of British Columbia in 2008 and 2009 and is currently a director at large on the provincial council. On September 6, 2007, Kettlewell's proposal for "pay-as-you-drive" automobile insurance was the top news story on Vancouver radio station CKWX News 1130.
Business
Kettlewell has worked in design and purchasing for a leading national electronics retailer, as an account manager for an industrial service company and as a provincial sales manager for an advertising firm. Kettlewell has twice won corporate awards of excellence from separate employers and in 2006 began pursuing personal business interests. Kettlewell's Burnaby, BC based company, the Great Bear Pub & Liquor Store, was recently nominated as a finalist in the Burnaby Board of Trade 2009 Awards of Excellence in the environmental sustainability category. Kettlewell was one of the first four people in British Columbia's Lower Mainland to drive an automobile fueled by waste vegetable oil.
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