About Amanda Magee
Amanda Magee is the Vice President of Business Development for Stewart Title’s Western Canada Operations. She is a licensed insurance professional with the BC Insurance Council and proudly holds memberships with The Insurance Institute of Canada, the Commercial Real Estate Women’s Association (CREW) and the Mortgage Investment Association of BC where she served 3 consecutive terms as the MIABC Board President. In 2022, Amanda was appointed to the Board of Directors of the Risk Management Association’s Vancouver Chapter, a not-for-profit, member-driven professional association whose purpose is to advance the use of sound risk principles in the financial services industry.
Amanda has been a frequent speaker for various industry groups including the Association of Notaries Public of BC, the Canadian Bar Association, and the BC Mortgage Investment Corporation Managers Association, providing valuable information of the topic of title insurance and real estate conveyancing risk management. In 2023 she was appointed as Public Director to the board of the BC Real Estate Association.
In 2021, Amanda was honored for the third year in a row, as a recipient of Canadian Mortgage Professional’s influential women award, showcasing the accomplishments of women leaders in the Canadian mortgage lending industry.
About Jay Krushell
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Jay Krushell is the Co-Founder, Chief Legal Officer and VP of Business Development of Treefort Technologies, an Edmonton based cybersecurity digital identity technology company that is a Canadian leader in multi-factor identity authentication. Before Treefort Technologies, Jay was a Partner at Witten LLP in Edmonton where he practiced in commercial real estate.
To provide better customer service to his legal clients Jay became interested in technology. The first technology he Co-Founded and developed was a commercial lending software platform that dramatically sped up the process of producing all legal documents for commercial loans called Lending Assist. After successfully rolling this technology out to law firms across Alberta he brokered a sale of Lending Assist in 2021. By then, Jay had become interested in building a new product, a video meeting system that would allow lawyers to meet with their clients remotely and sign all documents in compliance with law society rules. This eventually morphed into a new company, Treefort Technologies in 2020.
In 2021, he negotiated a deal with Stewart Title Guaranty Canada to purchase a majority interest in Treefort, and as a part of this deal Jay left his legal practice of 23 years and became a full-time employee of Treefort. Jay has always been attracted to building things starting with tree forts on his family’s farm and today building technology. Jay studied business in university graduating with a business degree and then a law degree and MBA from the University of Alberta. Taking on the role of both Chief Legal Officer and Vice President of Business Development for Treefort Technologies allows Jay to focus on his passion for building and making sensitive online transactions simple and secure for everyone achieving real trust online.
About Lisa Niro
Lisa Niro, the managing partner at Bell Alliance LLP, practices in the area of commercial real estate and property development. She balances her legal practice, with managing a fast-growing, community focused law firm. Central to Lisa's leadership philosophy is a steadfast commitment to people, community, innovation and technology. Recognizing the transformative nature of technology, she has built upon the firm’s well established innovative edge, and spearheaded initiatives to integrate the latest technological tools and platforms into the firm's operations, enhancing efficiency, streamlining processes, and delivering unparalleled value to clients. Before becoming a lawyer, Lisa worked as an urban planner and designer which allowed her to gain insight into the development industry and municipal approvals process.
About Maryanne Prohl
Maryanne Prohl joined the Lawyers Indemnity Fund in 2015. She is the Director, Risk Management responsible for managing the program's risk management initiatives. This includes presenting risk management strategies to the legal profession through notices to the profession, risk management videos, E-Brief, articles, presentations, and other communications. In addition, she also acts as Claims Counsel, where she is responsible for handling and defending claims reported under the compulsory professional liability indemnity program. Before joining LIF, Maryanne spent close to a decade working as senior legal counsel to RIM (BlackBerry). Before RIM, she worked as a litigator in downtown Vancouver—primarily in the areas of construction, creditors' remedies, and commercial disputes.
ACKNOWLEDGING FIRST NATIONS TERRITORIES
This webinar is hosted by CBABC, which is located on the traditional and unceded territory of the Coast Salish peoples, including the Squamish, Tsleil-Waututh and Musqueam First Nations. We encourage our members to explore the rich history and knowledge of Indigenous people, and to continue learning about their experience in Canada, past and present.
