Neil graduated from the University of British Columbia and has been a Project Management Consultant for over 40 years, undertaking the Construction Management of numerous small and large-scale projects, for Governments and the private sector in Canada, the United States and Australia.

His first project was coordinating the City of Vancouver’s first residential development on leasehold land. Today False Creek, with its mix of market and non market housing, is a successful inner city community with a school, marina, shops, parks, and home to one thousand families.

He was appointed as the first President and General Manager of the Whistler Village Land Company responsible for the development of the village infrastructure, the Arnold Palmer Golf Course and the first shops, restaurants, and one thousand hotel and condominium units. Whistler today has become a year round world class resort.

In 1999 Neil founded Builders Without Borders (BWB), a Canadian registered charitable organization. BWB recruits consultants from the building industry who volunteer their planning, design and construction services for the construction of housing, schools, and medical facilities in developing countries.  BWB consultants have undertaken 140 projects in 8 countries for organizations such as World Vision, Save the Children, the Red Cross, Industry Canada, the Centre for Sustainable Cities, Partnership Afghanistan Canada, the Rinaldi Foundation Haiti, the Canadian Construction Association, and Haiti Village Health . www.builderswithoutborders.com