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Women’s Infrastructure Network Awards
WIN
THE WOMEN’S INFRASTRUCTURE NETWORK
(WIN) held its 10th Annual WIN Awards ceremony, which honoured emerging and outstanding female leaders across the country.
In total, 49 women were nominated across
both categories, with a shortlist of 昀椀ve nominees named in each category.
Cheryl Nelms, general manager, Metro
Vancouver was named Outstanding Leader
and Andrea McLean, senior vice president at
Fengate Asset Management was the recipient
of the Emerging Leader award.
Nelms oversees a portfolio of major
infrastructure projects worth over $6 billion
for BC’s most populated regional district,
serving 21 municipalities, one Electoral Area
and one Treaty First Nation. Previously, she
was the deputy general manager of Engineering Services at the City of Vancouver, a
department of 2,200 employees, and oversaw
$800 million in annual budgets.
McLean has 14 years of experience working in project management, consultation and
asset management of large infrastructure
projects, speci昀椀cally public-private partnerships (P3). For the last nine years, she has
worked with Fengate building their infrastructure division, climbing the ranks from
facility operations director, Western Canada,
to VP, Infrastructure Asset Management, and
now as Senior Vice President Asset Management, where she is responsible for Fengate’s
entire portfolio of P3 projects, valued at over
$800M in equity investments.
Since the award’s inception, 484 women
have been nominated for WIN’s successful
community platform that highlights and
elevates emerging and outstanding leaders
in infrastructure.
2024 WIN Emerging Leader Award winner
Andrea McLean (left), and Outstanding
Leader Award winner Cheryl Nelms.
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