Request for Proposal – Pre-Qualified AV Company Vendor List
Canadian Council for Indigenous Business (“CCIB”) is seeking proposals from Audio-Visual (AV) suppliers (“Bidder”) who have demonstrated professional competence and experience in providing full-service AV production and management for multi-day, multi-room corporate conferences and awards dinners.
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Keenan Beavis – 2025 YIE Award
2025 Keenan Beavis Founder, Longhouse Branding & Marketing A proud Métis entrepreneur, Keenan Beavis is the Founder of Longhouse Branding & Marketing. To date, Longhouse has worked to generate more than $335 million in revenue for its partners and has helped over 800 business & community leaders make their impact. In the 7th Grade, Keenan was [...]
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Nyden Iron-Nighttraveller- 2024 YIE Award
2024 Nyden Iron-Nighttraveller Founder, Amarock Scaffolding Nyden Iron-Nighttraveller, a proud member of the Canoe Lake Cree First Nation in Saskatchewan’s Treaty 10 Territory, has forged a remarkable journey marked by academic achievements, professional prowess, and entrepreneurial spirit. A Bachelor of Commerce graduate, Nyden is currently advancing his education by pursuing a Master of Business Administration [...]
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Lesley Hampton- 2023 YIE Award
2023 Lesley Hampton Owner, Creative Director, LESLEY HAMPTON Lesley Hampton is an Anishinaabe Artist and Fashion Designer focused on mental health awareness, body positivity, and authentic representation in fashion and media. Lesley is a member of Temagami First Nation, located in northern Ontario, and she identifies as an adult ‘Third Culture Kid’ with her formative [...]
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Dakota & Jesse Brant – 2022 YIE Award
2022 Dakota & Jesse Brant Co-Founders of Sapling & Flint Teyotsihstokwáthe Dakota Brant & Yonenyà:kenht Jesse Brant are twin sisters and Mohawk turtle clan women from the village of Ohswé:ken (Six Nations of the Grand River Territory). They are co-founders of Sapling & Flint; a wholesale & retail jewellery manufacturer specializing in gold & sterling silver, [...]
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Erica Daniels – 2021 YIE Award
2021 Erica Daniels Founder & Owner, Kejic Productions Erica Daniels is Cree/Ojibway from Peguis First Nation. She began her journey through Just TV, a multimedia program for at-risk youth in the inner city of Winnipeg. Today, she is an award-winning director and producer and, at just 29 years old, owner of her own media company Kejic Productions. [...]
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Shelley Stewart – 2020 YIE Award
2021 Shelley Stewart Owner, Bar S Ventures Raised in Douglas Lake on her parents’ ranch, Shelley Stewart’s father was a rancher and logger and her mother, an accountant. At age 8, Shelley told her father she would buy a logging truck when she got old enough so they could work together every day. At age [...]
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Kylik Kisoun Taylor – 2019 YIE Award
2019 Kylik Kisoun Taylor Owner/Guide, Tundra North Tours Kylik is of Inuvialuit, Gwich’in and Scandinavian descent. He grew up in Ontario hunting, trapping and mushing dogs with his father. In 2003 Kylik made a permanent move to Inuvik, Northwest Territories where he felt a deep connection to his Inuvialuit and Gwich’in roots, his family, the [...]
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Jordan Jolicoeur – 2018 YIE Award
2018 Jordan Jolicoeur President & CEO, Carvel Electric Jordan Jolicoeur has proud Métis roots originating from the Interlake Region of Manitoba. Carvel Electric, founded by Jordan's father Sylvio in 1997, had Jordan and his older brother Joel working evenings and weekends learning the electrical trade. Jordan, always an entrepreneur at heart, has a passion for [...]
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Isabell Ringenoldus – 2017 YIE Award
2017 Isabell Ringenoldus Isabell Ringenoldus (First Nations), owns and operates TAWS Security, which provides physical security, mobile patrol security as well as many technological solutions and value added services to empower their clients and staff. TAWS Security is based on the Fort McMurray #468 First Nation in Anzac, Alberta. 100% of their ownership and management [...]
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