Douglas A. Horne

Douglas Horne is a corporate development specialist. He has over 30 years of experience building successful teams and businesses in many industries. He has taken many companies public, raised millions of dollars in financings, and is well versed in regulatory and public affairs. He is the Founder & CEO of Evanesce, a leader in plant based sustainable packaging and food service items. Evanesce's patented leading edge compostable technology is cost effective and truly poised to make a real difference in the years ahead. Douglas is formally the British Columbia MLA for the electoral district of Coquitlam-Burke Mountain. He was first elected in 2009 and re-elected in 2013. He was Deputy Speaker from 2013-15, and Parliamentary Secretary to the Premier from 2011-13. He has also served on the Provincial Treasury Board and the Legislative Review Committee, and was Chair of the Select Standing Committee on Finance and Government Services, Deputy Chair of the Select Standing Committee for Public Accounts and a member of the Select Standing Committee for Children and Youth. Immediately before entering politics, Douglas was Managing Director and CEO of Maple Leaf Studios Ltd., a leading international design and production studio that created innovative and engaging experiences for international themed attractions, world fairs and expos, visitor centres and destination resorts. Douglas worked with Russian business leaders and the City of Sochi on their successful bid to host the 2014 Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games, as well as the design of one of the central theme pavilions and the General Motors Pavilion for the Shanghai 2010 Expo, and several themed retail projects in the Middle East. Before Douglas co-founded Maple Leaf Studios, he worked in corporate finance and developing capital market strategies since 1990. First under the guidance of Dr. Steven Funk as a senior officer with the Canadian Maple Leaf Financial Group and later he co-founded his own firm, Advanced Strategies Inc., which had offices in Vancouver, Toronto and Melbourne, Australia.