Sean is the President and CEO of Reliance Home Comfort, a Canadian leader in home and commercial services, providing water heaters, furnaces, air conditioners and other HVAC products, plumbing, protection plans and related services to more than 1.7 million customers across Canada and the US. Since becoming President and CEO in 2013, Sean has focused on planning and implementing strategies to drive growth with an emphasis on strong execution, streamlining operations. In the process, he has improved productivity and profitability, and fostered a high-performance culture — keeping the customer at the core of the business. In 2016, Reliance was recognized as Canada’s Top 10 Most Admired Corporate Cultures by Waterstone Human Capital, and Sean was awarded Canada’s Most Admired CEO. Additionally, in 2017, Sean was recognized as one of Glassdoor’s Highest Rated CEOs 2017 Employees’ Choice.
Prior to joining Reliance, Sean was President at Acklands-Grainger, Inc. (AGI). He was responsible for all aspects of AGI’s business in Canada. Previous to his role as President, Sean was Vice-President, Sales & Marketing, leading several key sales initiatives, marketing programs, business services and inventory solutions initiatives. During his tenure, AGI (Grainger) was ranked #1 on FORTUNE magazine’s 2010 list of World’s Most Admired Companies in the category of Wholesalers: Diversified, and twice recognized as one of Canada’s 10 Most Admired Corporate Cultures by Waterstone Human Capital.
Sean graduated from Bishop’s University in Quebec with a Bachelor of Arts. He supports various not for profit organizations and charities in his community.
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David Patchell-Evans or ‘Patch’, as he prefers to be called, is the founder and CEO of GoodLife Fitness. Patch started his company from scratch, opening of his first club in 1979 in London, Ontario. From that modest beginning, GoodLife Fitness has grown to be the largest fitness company in Canada. That translates into 350 clubs and 1.2 million members. One in every 30 Canadians is a GoodLife member. Patch has been unwavering in his big vision—to transform the health and wellness of Canadians by giving all Canadians the opportunity to live a fit and healthy good life.
To that end GoodLife helps youth ages 12-17 by providing free Teen Fitness each summer. GoodLife Kids Foundation has been inspiring kids to get active since 1998. The foundation partners with elementary school teachers to teach fitness skills for kids during after-school programs at no cost to schools and grants funding for physical activity programs for children with special needs.
In 2010 Patch officially became a global advocate for health and fitness. As Chair of IHRSA—the world’s leading health and fitness association representing 71 countries, he was instrumental in leading the charge to transform the world through fitness.
In 1999 Patch’s three-year old daughter Kilee was diagnosed with autism. Hoping to help other families devastated by this condition, Patch turned to research, education and clinical solutions. He co- founded with Dr. Derrick MacFabe the Kilee Patchell-Evans Autism Research Group at Western University which has received invitations to present their research at the Nobel Institute in Sweden.
He volunteered as the President of Autism Canada. His has supported and enabled the building of the GoodLife Fitness Autism Family Hub in Richmond, B.C. opening in 2016.
The GoodLife Fitness Chair in Cardiovascular Rehabilitation and Prevention was established in 2012. Together, Peter Munk Cardiac Centre cardiologists and GoodLife elite Personal Trainers developed the first-of-its-kind partnership around cardiac rehabilitation.
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