APPAREL

Chip’s career in the apparel industry began in 1979 as Founder & CEO of Westbeach Snowboarding Ltd., originally a surf, skate and snowboard clothing company. Chip adapted Westbeach into a snowboarding company just before the trend took hold. He sold Westbeach in 1997, and in 1998, he founded lululemon athletica inc., anticipating that yoga would be the “next big thing” and ultimately created an entirely new category of apparel now called “athleisure”, which has since become a $100 billion global business. Not only was lululemon the birthplace of athleisure, but it was also the place where Chip and Summer met and fell in love. Summer was the lead designer at lululemon, where she designed some of the company’s most successful and iconic products. Lululemon went public in 2007 and now has a current market cap of approximately $35 billion. During his tenure at lululemon, Chip oversaw one of the greatest Canadian apparel success stories of all time. He transitioned from CEO to Board Chair and remains lululemon’s single largest shareholder and one of its most passionate cheerleaders. In 2019, the Wilson family expanded its interests by joining a consortium to purchase Amer Sports, a sporting goods company that includes internationally-recognized brands such as Salomon, Arc'teryx, Peak Performance, Atomic and Wilson Sports.

LOW TIDE PROPERTIES

Low Tide Properties is a real estate investment, development and management company with a growing portfolio of properties and management services. Its asset mix reflects a unique understanding of markets, cultures and business environments.

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WILSON CAPITAL

Wilson Capital is HIA's private equity division. As active investors, we make direct investments in digitally savvy and direct-to-consumer technical apparel, lifestyle, health and wellness and athletic consumer brands and services.

We invest in companies that create possibilities for people to live longer, healthier, more fun lives and that align with our vision and values.

WILSON 5 FOUNDATION

The Wilson 5 Foundation is passionate about funding land conservancy, park creation and sharing public art in British Columbia. Through their foundation, the Wilsons have supported land conservancy with initiatives such as the purchase and preservation in perpetuity of several Islands of the Salish Sea. The foundation has also led local art and design initiatives such as the Wilson School of Design at Kwantlen Polytechnic University (KPU) and the Wilson Arts Plaza at Emily Carr University. Together, Chip and Summer also founded and continue to support imagine1day to “provide all children in Ethiopia with a quality education free of foreign aid by 2030”.