Paul Plater
Paul has his CPA, CA, strong business and non-profit experience and is a great lover of the arts. In 2017, after working for several decades in the for-profit sector, he joined the Indian Residential School Survivors Society (IRSSS), a BC based, Indigenous led non-profit charity that provides cultural, spiritual and emotional support and western based counselling to survivors and intergenerational survivors of residential school, support to families impacted by Missing and Murdered Indigenous People, and support to callers of the Lamathut 24/7 gender-based violence crisis line. As part of the leadership team, he brought the organization from $1 million a year in funding to over $10 million a year in funding and donations. As CFO, he is responsible for the finance, technology, funding, and philanthropy teams.
Paul grew up in Victoria and lived in Mexico, the US, Vancouver, and then moved back to Victoria in January 2020. He studied classical piano through the Royal Conservatory of Music, played clarinet, bassoon, and bass clarinet in high school, and thrived on the romance of English and American Literature and Archaeology in college and university, while completing his degree in accounting from Simon Fraser University.
Paul has been on the Board of PAL Vancouver, as President and Treasurer, and on the Board of the Cultch, as Treasurer and a Board member.