Staying Power

Position: CEO of five Accent Inns and three retrothemed Hotel Zeds

Age: 45

Previous roles: Sales at Accent Inns since 1997; front desk and night auditor at the Delta Ocean Pointe hotel, Victoria; summer positions (front desk and front desk supervisor) at Victoria's Fairmont Empress hotel

Kudos: EY Entrepreneur Of The Year runner-up for the Pacific Region (Hospitality + Tourism category), 2018 and 2015; 2016 Pinnacle Awards' Hotelier of the Year; ranked 25th in Profit magazine's Top 100 Canadian Women Entrepreneurs and named one of Chatelaine magazine's Red Hot Women Entrepreneurs, both in 2010

school: MBA from Royal Roads University; neuropsychology degree from Mcgill University

lunch: Rotisserie chicken with kale salad and chocolate waffle ice-cream sandwich at the Ruby restaurant at Hotel Zed, Victoria