5 Ian Gillespie
CEO, WESTBANK PROJECTS CORP. PREVIOUSLY #3, 2017 As the world awaits Vancouver House by starchitect Bjarke Ingels, its developer is keeping busy with the rest of his $10-billion portfolio, including another Ingels-designed condo planned for Toronto. Perhaps Gillespie’s most ambitious project in 2018, however, was the launch of the Creative Housing Society (CHS), whose aim is to partner with government to build 50,000 units of aordable rental housing, primarily in Toronto and Vancouver... though those plans hit a speed bump in August when CHS’S high-prole CEO, Jennifer Keesmaat, quit to run for mayor of Toronto, and with the predicted massive change in Vancouver’s city council, his get-anything-through reputation may take a hit.