Board of Directors
Rania Hatzioannou
President
Rania Hatzioannou (she/her) is the Executive Director of Cambie Village, the Heart of Vancouver. She has worked for Business Improvement Areas for two decades, and served on several Boards including nine years on the Board of the Collingwood Neighbourhood House. Rania was born in Nicosia, Cyprus and lives in East Vancouver. She studied at SFU and BCIT. In her spare time she teaches tweens Creative Writing, and is a tour guide for retired U.S. schoolteachers visiting Vancouver. She is a dog person, because cats do not like other cats, and she believes that the Vancouver Canucks will win the Stanley Cup in her lifetime. Rania is the recipient of several Photojournalism and Community Volunteering awards, including the Good Neighbour Award and the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Medal. If you stand still long enough, she will ask you awkward questions.
Jim Intihar
Treasurer
Jim Intihar (he/him) is a Chartered Professional Accountant with over 35 years of experience serving various public and private companies as an audit partner in large public accounting firm. He has a wide variety of experience in various industries in financial and business matters. He recently retired from public accounting to spent more time with his family and to give back to the community. Born and raised in the Greater Vancouver area, he studied at Simon Fraser University. In his spare time, he can be found gardening or building a Lego city with his son.
Angus Wong
Board Member
Angus Hon Chu Wong (he/him) is a Chartered Professional Accountant with over ten years of accounting and finance technology experience. Currently, he is the principal of his consultancy, delivering values-based solutions and strategies to municipal government departments and non-profit organizations. He had a long tenure leading large projects at Vancity Credit Union, a financial co-operative that serves local communities and members. Between his current and previous roles, he brings experience in developing strategies, understanding operations and driving changes.
Angus was born and (mostly) raised in Vancouver, studied at the University of Victoria and briefly worked in Prince George. He fondly remembers his family’s outings at The Improv Centre, enjoying the quick wits of the ensemble and the coziness of the audience participation. In his spare time, he can be found munching at location eateries with his wife, and walking his dog Waffle in the Mount Pleasant neighbourhood.
Hassan Pardawalla
Board Member
Hassan Pardawalla (he/him) is somewhat of a traveller, who has lived in over 10 cities in 7 countries since 2001 and has called these lands home since 2020. He is driven by his values of adaptation, curiosity, community, multiculturalism, varied perspectives and humour! You can often find him laughing with people and also giving smiles and hugs.
Over the course of his 20+ year international career, he has enabled businesses across sectors to scale sustainably by nurturing talent, optimizing frameworks, managing risk with a “Murphy’s Law” mindset, and securing and executing multi-million-dollar B2B contracts. His roles have spanned business operations, organizational culture, project management, product deployment, marketing & sales, supply chain and strategy. Alongside his multiple professional achievements, he teaches small business management to MBA candidates, mentors and advises startups, coaches founders/executives, is a board member, and a community connector.
Currently, he is leading a cleantech startup that focuses on destroying forever chemicals from the water ecosystem, helps build inclusive and equitable communities through Space Creators, and offers fractional executive leadership via Parda Sense Solutions.
Hassan is always looking to meet new people, learn new things, make people laugh and leave the world a nicer and happier place for future generations.
Shawn Wuest
Board Member
Shawn Wuest (he/him) studied playwriting and film at university before training at Second City in Toronto and Vancouver TheatreSports League (before it was TIC) in the art of improv.
His career in sales leadership, communications, and branding has benefited immeasurably from his improv training, and he is dedicated to supporting the growth and prosperity of the unbelievable talent found in his Vancouver improv community.
In his free time, Shawn enjoys inventing and combining new recipes that tend to be desserts, comedy that tends to be thought-provoking, and books that tend to feature dragons. He’s also been known to build furniture and board games out of scrap pieces of wood.