All Things Business: Temporary, Permanent, Start-Ups, Self-Employed, Provincial Entrepreneurs

Ron McKay

Ron McKay has been involved professionally in the practice of immigration from 1986 to present. He previously served as a locally-engaged Overseas Immigration Officer and later worked as an Immigration Consultant at the Vancouver based law firm of Clark Wilsons LLP. In the capacity of Immigration Consultant he is presently employed by the CANGO and GUANGSON Immigration Consulting Firms. For the last three years, he has been employed as the Director of Immigration Programs at Ashton College.

Ron McKay is a Past President of the Canadian Association of Professional Immigration Consultants (“CAPIC”) and a Past Chair of the Immigration Consultants of Canada Regulatory Council (“ICCRC”). He has previously served on multiple stakeholder committees involving Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada, the Canada Border Services Agency, Service Canada, the Immigration and Refugee Board and Continuing Legal Education.
In regard to this CPD Seminar – Ron McKay will serve as the emcee/moderator.

Howard Greenberg

Howard Greenberg, along with Naumaan Hameed, founded the Greenberg Hameed PC, a firm that provides its clients with a fresh approach to immigration services, that tackles the ever-changing world in its immigration policies and improved technologies. Howard specializes in providing Immigration Law based strategy advice to multinational corporations. Additionally, he has 30 years of experience under his belt, facilitating entry to Canada for foreigners for work reasons. 

Howard also spoke about critical topics at many law-centric places including, but not limited to, the International Bar Association conference, the Canadian Employment Relocation Council Conference, the Law Society of Upper Canada Annual Immigration Law Summit, the Canadian Bar Association National Citizenship & Immigration Conference, Insight, Canadian Institute, and the Engineering Human Resources Association. 

Howard’s previous work was lecturing part-time about Corporate Immigration Advocacy at the University of Ottawa Faculty of Law. 

Fred Li

Fred is a Regulated Canadian Immigration Consultant (RCIC) and Managing Director & Partner at an immigration practice firm in Richmond, BC. In addition to his experience as an RCIC, he has over 10 years of experience working as a Paralegal for various leading Canadian National law firms. The areas of law that he worked in were civil litigation, labour & employment, human rights, family, criminal, corporate, contract, insolvency and alternative dispute resolution.

Peter Veress

Peter Veress is a registered member of the Immigration Consultants of the Canadian Regulatory Council and has 30 years of experience in the field of immigration law. He has started his own immigration consulting practice, Vermax Group Inc., where he helps foreign and domestic businesses with their immigration needs.

Peter frequently presents on immigration issues, provides professional immigration-related articles and publications, and appeared numerous times in multi-party parliamentary commissions on immigration.