10 JIM PATTISON & GLEN CLARK

CEO; PRESIDENT AND COO, JIM PATTISON GROUP PREVIOUSLY # 214, 8 #27,2017

There is no discussion of power in this province that doesn’t begin with Pattison. He’s been the wealthiest man in B.C. for as long as anyone can remember, and his rags-to-riches story has become part of the fabric of the province’s folklore. But behind the ever-present smile is a titan of industries—advertising, groceries, timber, entertainment—that span the globe. And few moves were more unexpected and, in retrospect, savvy than his promoting of former premier Clark as his No. 1, and in so doing positioning his empire as one beholden to no one political party (though the latter is well known to have great access to the ear of John Horgan).