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Before joining Metro Vancouver, Flaks was the president and chief operating officer of the Los Angeles County Economic Development Corporation, which is the equivalent of REPS and the VEC in the Los Angeles region.
The Los Angeles and Vancouver regions, of course, share similar economic strengths, including core output areas in tech, digital entertainment, and tourism.
“Metro Vancouver has afforded me this incredible opportunity both to lead a team of highly talented professionals and to work together in concert and collaboration with the region’s myriad of other public sector, private, education, non-profit, and labor leaders and organizations to ideate, launch, execute, and scale a regional economic development program befitting Metro Vancouver’s fast transitioning, innovation-intensive economy,” said Flaks in a statement.