Mark Brajer joined Tsartlip Group of Companies (TGoC) in February 2024 as Chief Executive Officer. Mark is responsible for overseeing the economic development and all business operations, subsidiary companies, and joint ventures. TGoC is the economic development arm of the Tsartlip First Nation (W̱JOȽEȽP) in Brentwood Bay, BC.
Mark had spent the previous six years as CEO of the Tlicho Investment Corporation (TIC). TIC is the economic development and business arm for the Tlicho First Nation near Yellowknife, NT. His work with first nations and northern employment was quite extensive with the turnaround and expansion of the TIC business. There is a drive to improve the sustainability of the organization, grow the business organically and inorganically, diversify the corporation, increase capacity and provide the Tsartlip with a proud sustainable economic development business across the region.
His career has been largely in the economic development, operations, supply chain and engineering areas over a 30-year career, half at an executive level. He has worked across North America before starting his position with TGoC. Mark has worked for E.D. Smith, Alberto-Culver, Unilever, Epicure, the Tlicho Investment Corporation and now the Tsartlip Group of Companies.
Mark has undergraduate degrees in Chemical Engineering (B.Eng.) and Chemistry (B.Sc.) from McMaster University, a Master of Business Administration (MBA) from Heriot-Watt University in Scotland, and a Food Science Certificate from Guelph University. Mark is a licensed engineer in British Columbia, Ontario, Northwest Territories, Nunavut, and the Yukon.
Mr. Brajer currently sits on the boards of Canadian Council for Indigenous Business, the Corporate Indigenous Relations Council, is a Senior Fellow with Arctic 360 and has served on many community and not-for-profit boards across the country. Mark currently lives in Victoria, BC.