Bill Gannon, Vancouver, BC

After working as a Project Accountant at the Kettle Rapids Dam site in Gillam Manitoba, he was transferred to Vancouver, British Columbia as Branch Accountant for Comstock International Inc., an electrical contractor.

He joined Daon Development Corporation in 1974 where he was the Chief Accountant while sales grew from $80 million to $450 million in 3 years. He was responsible for converting their accounting system from bookkeeping machines to an IBM 360 mainframe computer, and he prepared Daon's first electronic forecasting spreadsheet in 1976.

He left Daon a year later to start his public accounting practice, providing comtrollership, management consulting, taxation and computer expertise to small and medium sized businesses.

He was Treasurer of the Greenpeace Foundation in Vancouver from 1976 to 1979 when he helped establish Greenpeace International in Amsterdam.