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General Colin Powell Meets with most successful NRI businessmen
Vancouver, BC, June 18, 2008 This was the event of the year in Vancouver with a very strong Indo-Canadian presence. A private dinner event was held for US retired four-star General Colin Powell on Thursday at La Terrazza Restaurant, Vancouver, after the General’s speech at the Trade and Convention Centre to meet various industry leaders in Vancouver and so he can create stronger links to India with his new Vancouver connections as well.
Vancouver businessman and Restaurateur David Sidoo who just partnered
with the famous chef Daniel Boulud and is opening a new restaurant
DB moderne in October. The Vancouver magazine further wrote-Wealthy shipping mogul Kyle Washington is a big fan of this room—he once held a series of 12 dinners here, each a step toward a $600 million deal. The private Enoteca (wine library) housed Concord Pacific CEO Terry Hui while he negotiated the CBC building deal—it also provided the setting for Premier Gordon Campbell during his contentious sale of BC Rail. Federal Liberal leadership contender Bob Rae booked the secluded Terrazza room for a $5,000 a plate fundraiser for exclusive VIPs. Why all the action? Not only is the food excellent (Washington favours the beef carpaccio and the strozzapretti Bolognese with a bottle of vintage Masseto), but owner Iqbal Grewal is extremely well connected, particularly in the Indo-Canadian community. On any given night you’ll find heavyweights like millionaire realtor Gurdev Sandhu or Colliers Executive Vice President Avtar Bains (responsible for $7.2 billion in commercial land sales) pressing the flesh at the corner table by the fireplace (Table 6) or politicos Herb Dhaliwal, Ujjal Dosanjh, or Attorney General Wally Oppal hosting fundraisers in one of the private rooms. It was here that multi-millionaire Peter Dhillon celebrated his 40th birthday (the cranberry king has a white cran-tini named after him, the Petertini), flying in comedian Russell Peters for a private show (approximate cost: $100,000 for the evening). There were 60 people total that were invited to this intimate
and close dinner with the General. The list was a who-is-who of
Vancouver and the Indo-Canadian community was very well represented.
It was a very proud moment to know that around the most successful
business people in Vancouver we have some good, influential, and
successful Indo-Canadian role models like David Sidoo, Gurdev Sandhu,
Parminder Singh, Kelly Heed, and Wally Oppal
Barinder Sall said, this is one of the first events that I saw
that there were some millionaires but a great amount of billionaires
from: shipping mogul Dennis Washington, casino boss Ross McLeod,
Phil Lind (Chairman of Rogers communications), lululemon clothing
founder Chip Wilson, music record producer Quincy Jones, Bosa developmnent
CEO Nat Bosa, Bob Rennie, Jim Pattison, whitespot owner Ron Toigo
and Vancouver canucks owner Paolo Aquilini
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Attorney
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