Kent Thompson is the Director of Finance and Food Tourism at Food Island Partnership where he manages the finances of the organization, leads a variety of strategic initiatives and works with companies in the food industry. 

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Bryan Inglis is the CEO of the Food Island Partnership, an industry-led not-for-profit partnership of businesses, technology providers, and government agencies dedicated to the growth and prosperity of the food and culinary sectors in PEI. The Food Island Partnership food cluster builds on excellence in agriculture, fisheries and aquaculture products, and facilitates value-added opportunities that leverage our outstanding science and technology infrastructure.

Before joining the Food Island Partnership, Bryan served as CEO of Co-op Atlantic. He joined Co-op Atlantic in 1986, and has held numerous leadership roles over his 30-year tenure. Bryan holds a B.Sc. in Agriculture Economics from McGill University (MacDonald College). Bryan has extensive retail experience in both food and primary agriculture. He has served on the Boards of Country Ribbon Inc., IPCO Inc., and the Atlantic Council for Bioenergy Co-operative Limited; and is a past Board member of Atlantic Beef Products Inc., Co-op Research Farms, and Valley Fertilizers Inc.

Heather Lizama has a background in geomatics with over 10 years of IT experience, specializing in client services. Heather received her undergraduate degree in Geography from Trinity Western University in B.C. and a post grad in GIS (Geographic Information Systems) from the B.C. Institute of Technology.  She excels in documentation design, solution architecture, time management, prioritization and management of enterprise databases and applications. 

Heather has a variety of public and private sector work experiences across Canada at universities, remote sensing firms, Canadian Forest Products, the National Capital Commission, and numerous consulting firms. Through these diverse work experiences, she provides the following roles for the Food Island Partnership: coordinating and troubleshooting systems and software, URL maintenance, support to the CEO and FIP Board of Directors, and provides assistance in project and event execution.