Gavin Dew

Chief Strategic Advisor

Gavin Dew is the Chief Strategic Advisor to Abbotsford Tech District, a proposed innovation district on Sumas Mountain, designed to help secure Abbotsford’s place as the agricultural technology and food security hub of BC. The project would see billions of dollars in private sector capital invested in Abbotsford over several decades. Gavin has a BA from UBC and an MBA from Oxford, where he wrote a thesis on social license, or how companies get permission from communities to do things. He serves on the boards of the Business Council of British Columbia and the Veterans Transition Network.