FAIR Canada is pleased to announce the appointment of Stan Buell to the FAIR Canada Board of Directors.

Stan is President of the Small Investor Protection Association, a national non-profit organization with over 600 members in ten provinces across Canada. He is a member of the Box Grove Community Association Board and currently serves as Secretary. In 2010, Stan was appointed to the Ontario Securities Commission’s Investor Advisory Panel.

Stan spent 30 years as a professional engineer. After obtaining his degree in Civil Engineering, he spent five years working in Canada as a design engineer and as a project engineer for projects in Quebec. Later, he took a four-year assignment in the Middle East as Resident Engineer for the construction of an international airport in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.

Over the next twenty years, Stan was involved in engineering management in Canada and overseas with his last position as Vice President Africa and the Middle East for Delcan International Limited. In 1990, he left engineering to join his wife in real estate sales and became an associate broker with Royal Lepage. He served several years on the Ethics Committee of the Toronto Real Estate Board.

“We are pleased that Stan has joined our Board,” said Ermanno Pascutto, Executive Director of FAIR Canada. “He brings a wealth of knowledge and experience with retail investor issues, as well as a passion for looking out for the small investor.”