Rich Mimick is President and CEO of Professional Practice Management Services Limited, a management consulting and executive development firm based in Victoria. B.C. Rich holds a CPA (USA) designation and commenced his consulting career with Andersen Consulting.
His academic appointments include Chair and Professor at the world ranked Ivey Business School, Director of Royal Roads University Business Programs, and Director of University of Victoria's Executive Programs.
He is currently Director, Business, Management and Technology programs, Division of Continuing Studies, University of Victoria.
Rich has designed, developed and delivered consulting engagements and executive programs for Canadian, American, European and Asian clients. His areas of expertise are strategic management, finance and marketing strategy.
Rich has received international recognition for his outstanding teaching abilities and is known for his exceptional ability to turn complex topics into understandable practical learning.
Rich also provides strategy-consulting assistance to technology companies and is a former director of VIATeC, the Vancouver Island Advanced Technology Centre.
Mike Thompson is Associate Professor, Management Consulting and also AVP, Business Development at Royal Roads University. His teaching responsibilities have included the OCP (Organizational Consulting Project) component of the MBA program as well as the MB 540 Consulting Skills course offered to the MBA cohorts at their second residency.
He is also Principal of Professional Business Diagnostics Inc., a management consultancy with a focus on corporate and organizational situation assessments.
Prior to his appointment at Royal Roads, he was Senior Manager, Business Development for TD Commercial Banking with over 20 years’ commercial banking experience gained in the U.K, Ontario, and British Columbia. His academic credentials include an Honours Degree in Economics from the University of Manchester and a Diploma in Land Economics from the University of British Columbia. Professional certifications include Fellow of Institute of Canadian Bankers (FICB) and Certified Management Consultant (CMC).
Mike has also taught Business Strategy courses at both the University of Victoria and Royal Roads University. A number of successful business planning and risk assessment seminars for business and professional associations have also been developed, including the highly successful ‘Business Diagnostics’ one day seminar series for various C.A (Chartered Accountant) institutes across the country.
He is currently a Director of the Institute of Management Consultants of B.C (IMCBC), past chair of the Victoria chapter of the CMC – Canada (Canadian Association of Management Consultants) and was instrumental in forging the recent alliance between the CMC Canada and the Faculty of Management to establish the Management Consulting stream within the current MBA program.
Mike has co-authored a book titled ‘Business Diagnostics’, with Richard Mimick, former Professor of Management Accounting at Ivey School of Business. The book takes company owners through a pragmatic and effective 'size up' process. International editions of the book have been competed in both Australia and the U.K, while ‘Tourism Business Diagnostics’ co-authored with Richard Mimick and Frank Bourree was published Spring 2006.
Mike was recently appointed Visiting Professor to the Grenoble Graduate School in France where he teaches sections of the Diploma in Management Consulting which is offered to European MBA students.
He is actively involved in the Victoria technology community – formerly Director and Vice Chair of the Vancouver Island Advanced Technology Centre (VIATeC), and a former Director and board member of the Innovation and Development Corporation at the University of Victoria.
Mike is married to Kathy and has two sons - John (28 – journalist in Whitehorse, Yukon) and David (27 – Research Scientist at Ballard Power, Vancouver)