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Jeff Brooks

Following graduation from RHS in 1986 I moved to Halifax to study at Dalhousie. In 1989 I dropped out of university to start a company called "Splatshot" which consumed the next eight years of my life. I eventually went back to university and graduated in 1991 with my BSc in Chemistry and promptly went on to never use that knowledge ever again... ;-)

In 1997 my brother took over the business and I made a brief move to Toronto to start another company, this time in the Air Freight Forwarding Industry (Freight Forwarders are to cargo as travel agents are to people). Stayed only six months in Toronto, long enough to love the city but hate the weather! Hot, humid, sticky and moist are the words I'd use to describe the summers there. Nice if you're into that sort of stuff but I'd much prefer the cooler summers that living next to the ocean provides, like I had gotten use to in Halifax.

Looking for another ocean, I moved to Vancouver in fall of 1997 and have been here ever since! No snow, no snow, no snow (did I mention no snow?) in the winter. You have to experience it to understand. Yeah there's rain but not much of it these days (thank you very much El 'Nino & global warming). Shorts and t-shirts in February are a welcome trade-off for some rain in December & January. To be fair, there is snow but it stays at the top of the mountains and doesn't bother us closer to sea level; it stays where you go to it and it doesn't come to you!

I arrived in 1998 just as the "Dot-Com" years took off and worked for two internet related companies for some "roller coaster rides"! I've somehow fallen into the technology/IT world and love it. I mainly do business development and specialize in business to business strategic relationship building.

The software company I helped to co-found (www.broadmotion.com) does image compression software that hopefully will be found in the next generation of cell phones and digital cameras around the world. We're in the middle of a VC funding round so if you're interested to invest... ;-)

I marred my lovely wife Hollie Sewell (from NS) on Aug 23, 2003 just outside her home town of Pictou, NS in an outdoor ceremony on a cliff overlooking PEI (which she planned everything for and I just showed up). She's a dental hygienist, studied at Dalhousie University, where we met. She has recently done a career change and is now doubling as wedding photographer (www.freshfotos.com and www.frozenmoment.ca). If you're ever in need of a good photographer and happen to be out in Vancouver... She's the love of my life and most likely the only person on the planet who can put up with my crazy day-to-day ideas.

Our first child arrived on Feb 5, 2006 at 11:47am. Her name is Ella May Brooks and she knows how to stay awake all night long... ;)

If you're ever planning to be out on the west coast drop me a line. If I'm in town you're more than welcome to stay at my place and I'll show you around this end of the country as best I can. Once you're seen everything in Vancouver, Whistler is only 1.5 hours up the road from here and is some of the best snow you'll ever see.

Looking forward to the reunion in 2006 and seeing everyone!

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