Dipl.T (Mech Eng), AScT, MBA
Personal
– Born – Folkestone Kent, England
– Married – 3 sons, two grand children

Previous and Current Certifications, Memberships and Volunteer Associations–
Member Royal Canadian Legion – 35 years
– Member Executive- Branch #30 RCL – Treasurer, 2nd Vice, 1st Vice
– Member Executive- Branch #176 RCL – Treasurer, 2nd Vice, President
– Member Canadian Military Engineers Association
– Past CAF Reserve RCE

Born, raised and educated in Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe).

18 years military service as a commissioned officer in Africa and the Middle East.

With my family, drove from Zimbabwe, through Africa, to and around Europe.

After arriving with my family in Canada in 1989, spent the next 13+ years with a Vancouver B.C. telecommunications company in various international management positions and roles and lived and worked in Saudi Arabia, India, Hong Kong, Singapore, Taiwan, and Shanghai. 

With the relocation of the telecommunications company to the USA, opted to remain in Canada and provided specialized telecommunication consultancy services for the North American operations of a United Kingdom security organization. During this same time, I also conducted a private venture and purchased and established a business in the south of France.

For the last 12 years of my professional career, worked in a Vancouver software company managing the delivery and implementation of Workforce Management Systems to various utility companies in North America.

In 2017 I retired and since then I have kept myself busy with self interests, hobbies, part-time and charity work.

I have been involved with the Legion for almost 25 years and have held a number of positions on the Executive including Branch President, Past President, Director and Secretary.

For a number of years, I have also helped with the Poppy Campaign, Membership, branch communications (weekly email blasts/website) and thoroughly enjoy being a “Meat Draw Maven” – hosting and assisting with the branch’s weekly meat draws.

As a proud daughter of a veteran, it has been my honour to be part of a branch where veteran support and community involvement is paramount.  I thank you for your support and look forward to continuing to serve on the Executive.

1. Personal Background
Bob Liley was born and raised in London, Ontario, but his business career has taken him across the country and internationally. He has lived and worked in London, Toronto, Winnipeg, Montreal, Calgary, New York, and Vancouver.

Bob spent eighteen years in senior information management positions in major Canadian corporations and spent the next thirty-one years consulting internationally to Fortune 500 companies and leading public sector organizations. In this endeavour, he established and managed his own management consulting practice for many years, retiring in 2009.

He has worked extensively with senior management and boards to set strategic direction, develop strategic plans, and develop and implement the resultant business plans. His mission has been to help organizations move from where they are today to where they need to be to ensure continuing success.

2. Relationship With Branch #176
Bob has another component to his life; he is a musician. It was as a musician that he first became acquainted with the Billy Bishop Legion, a branch unlike any other Legion branch at which he had performed. He and his wife eventually became members because they were charmed by the membership and ambience at the Branch.

However, it soon became clear that the Branch was troubled, both financially and operationally. Applying his background and skills he developed a Strategic Plan (its first) to take the Branch into the next few years. From this came the development of an annual Business Plan and Budget.

Bob was invited to join the Executive Committee as Treasurer in 2018. As the result of many changes which have been introduced during his association with the Branch, 2019 was the best financial year the Branch had experienced in many years.

3. Continuing Mission
His continuing personal mission with the Branch is to ensure its long-term viability and sustainability in these difficult times, recognizing that in many ways the Branch functions as a business and needs to continue to be operated and managed as such if it is to continue to successfully fulfill its mission.

Lenore Binkley Mason is a 1964 graduate of the University of Alberta. After completing my degree I immediately moved to Vancouver and have never looked back. I initially worked at Vancouver General Hospital as a Social Worker until beginning a family. I returned to school in the 80’s and obtained a diploma in Library Science from Langara College. I was shortly after taken on by the Medical Library of the College of Physicians and Surgeons of BC where I worked for many years.

I am an adoptee. In an effort to identify my birth family, I found myself deeply involved in genealogical research. It took over 26 years of tenacious digging and DNA testing until I was finally able to identify Flt. Lt. Martin William Enefer, RAF, as my birth father. He was a flight instructor under the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan (BCATP) when he met my birth mother in Winnipeg where I was later born. Not all adoptees wish to identify their heritage but it was something I was strongly driven to do even though I had an excellent adoption and was given many advantages as a result. It also gave me two wonderful half brothers.

My two sons were also both adopted. I guess I believe in the process. My eldest has followed this to the next level with his second daughter, our darling and cherished Margo (Gogo).

My association with the Legion came about as a result of a TV news story some years ago outlining how the “Billy” was in dire need and facing closure. I joined immediately and have found a wonderful community of friends and social involvement. This year, 2023, will be my first on the Executive Committee although my husband, Bob Liley, has served as Treasurer and bean counter for some time now. I hope I can meet the expectations required.

Past President of RCL #30 – Kerrisdale Branch.
Legion Member for 42 years.
Have served as Entertainment Chair, Sports Chair, Treasurer, Vice President, President and Past President.