As a teenager, Jay Jagpal volunteered at Vancouver’s Sunset Community Centre. He loved the experience and the centre’s contribution to the community so much that he is still an active member there.
Jagpal looks forward to continuing to advance the central role that parks and facilities like Sunset play in connecting communities by seeking election as Park Board Commissioner in the November municipal election.
Jagpal is involved in business and land development in the Lower Mainland. He works as a mechanical engineer at Olympic International Sales, where he sources and provides technologies from around the world for large private and public projects in BC, including hospitals, universities, schools and residential towers.
He has also worked internationally, including in Singapore, where he helped the transit authority optimize bus service, and in Germany, where he worked in research and development at a national laser-technology development center.
Jagpal has spent the last five years as an Ambassador for the Vancouver Board of Trade and as a member of its advisory committee for the Company of Young Professionals. He also volunteers with the local chapter of a global engineering association.
During the past decade, Jagpal has worked on election campaigns and helped create Under 40 professional engagement committees to help those under 40 years of age become more engaged in the political process. He spends his leisure time coaching youth and young professionals on personal development, goal attainment and maintaining work/life balance.
Jagpal is a graduate of UBC and BCIT and lives in South Vancouver with his wife.
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