Contact

The Team

Dave Murray National Training Centre Management

Dale Stephens
Manager DMNTC

Contacts

Lisa Ferguson

Director

Lisa Ferguson began working for the Community Legal Assistance Society in 1991, representing clients at Review Panel hearings under the B.C. Mental Health Act. During that time she handled over 2000 files. Lisa is now using her advocacy skills to represent clients in their complaints before the BC Human Rights Tribunal.
Lisa has been a long time volunteer at the Lake Louise Ski World Cup, and has spent many seasons as a TD for many races both locally and internationally.

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Bernard Leroux

Director

Bernard Leroux is currently employed at Haywood Securities Inc. in the position of Vice President. Leroux is also an investment advisor with the Retail Sales team at the Vancouver office of Haywood Securities. Bernard has a Bachelor of Applied Science from L’Universite d’Ottawa, and is a professional engineer.

Bernard along with his wife and two children are long time, passionate supporters of skiing and ski racing in Whistler. Both children were successful competitive alpine FIS racers and have worked hard to balance their school with their love of the sport. Privately, through his vision and initiatives, Bernard has raised large amounts of funding and has significantly increased the profile of ski racing in Whistler, British Columbia and all across Canada.

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Mark Tilston

Director

Having retired from ski racing at 19, Mark started coaching in the Scottish clubs and progressed to the Scottish Team while studying Applied Sports Sciences at Edinburgh University. Subsequently he coached the national teams for Britain (GB Snowsport), served as performance director of GB Snowsport, was head coach of the GB Snowsport at the Vancouver Olympics and most recently served as the men’s head coach for Alpine Canada from 2020 to 2023 where his athletes had tremendous success at the Olympics, World Championships and the World Cup circuit. Currently, Tilston serves as the men’s head coach for the Stifel U.S. Alpine Ski Team.

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David Pym

Director

David is the CEO and Managing Director of the Canadian Snowsports Association (CSA) who is the National Ski Association representing Alpine, SnowBoard, Freestyle, Speed Skiing, Telemark and Nordic Snowsports Internationally and within the FIS.
He negotiated the Contracts with VANOC and Whistler Blackcomb that created the Dave Murray Training Centre.
He provides Risk Management as well as Insurance Services to the 10 PTSO and their 750 Ski Clubs across Canada

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Adam Francis

Director

Experienced Director of Mountain Operations with a demonstrated history of working in the recreational facilities and services industry. Skilled in Mountain Operations, Risk Management, Event Management, Financial Reporting, Capital Planning, Operating Budgets and Project Management within the ski industry. Strong business development professional with a Bachelor of Business Administration (B.B.A.) focused in Accounting and Finance from University of New Brunswick.

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Rob Toole

Chairman of the Board

Rob is the past Chairman of the Whistler Mountain Ski Club.

Rob was born in Calgary and grew up skiing in Banff and Lake Louise. He is now full time resident of Whistler where his daughter JJ raced with the WMSC FIS program for 2 years. Rob spent his business career in the investment business in Toronto where he gained extensive experience in strategic planning and board governance.

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Stan Kranjc

Secretary Treasurer

Upon completing his MBA at UBC in 1989, Stan vowed he would one day return to the mountains. It took this ‘rope tow trained" Western and UBC grad 20 years to return, following investment banking and corporate development postings in Toronto, London, NYC, and CT. A fixture ’on course’ since 2010. Stan has been actively involved with volunteer training and, most recently, with the WMSC club coaches’ cabin rezoning initiative.