Board of Directors

HANS BAAN, Director, grew up and was educated in Holland, where he began his vocation in the heavy equipment business. He emigrated to Canada in 1993, and became the manager of Leemar Mfg. Inc. in Parksville, BC. After becoming the owner of that business he built it from a small repair shop to the most specialized Deere/Hitachi excavator parts supplier in North America, with 15 employees. He also started a land development company in 2003 and has successfully developed a 135 acre parcel of land in Parksville.

LESLIE E. MAEROV, President, practiced corporate and commercial law for 22 years, for high tech and other business clients and acted as an advisor at the executive and director level. He was the co-managing partner of his 10 lawyer Vancouver law firm for 16 years before joining Lightwave Communications Inc. in September, 1997, as senior vice-president, developing its corporate structure and its expansion and financing strategy. Mr. Maerov has occupied the position of CEO or President since the inception of Urban Communications Inc. in October 2000, and has directed Urban's strategy and objectives, and executed capital raising strategies to support its business plan.

DAVID S. (STEVE) ROBERTSON, Director, is the publisher of the Yukon News, and former president and current director of the British Columbia and Yukon Community Newspapers Association, former director of the Canadian Community Newspapers Association, the recipient of the Queen’s Golden Jubilee Medal, 2002, a director of the founding board of the Food Bank of Whitehorse, and a supporter of many Yukon community groups in the areas of arts, literacy, social welfare and sports.