Pete Mitchell became Executive Vice President & Chief Operating Officer of Vancouver Film Studios Group in 2007 after six years as Senior Vice President, Marketing and is one of the two senior non-family officers of the McLean Group. In his expanded role, Pete has overall responsibility for our production facilities and services businesses including Vancouver Film Studios, Pacific Backlot Services, and the film and television offerings of Signal Systems. Pete is still responsible for marketing all of Vancouver Film Studios' services to our customer base keeping the stages full, and for ensuring that customers have a positive production experience. Pete is also past Chair of the Motion Picture Production Industry Association of British Columbia, an industry marketing/lobby Group comprised of 30 film and television related companies, unions and organizations and now leads that organization's government affairs committee. Before joining the McLean Group in 1999, Pete was the Director of the British Columbia Film Commission from 1995 to 1999. Prior to this he was a partner in Compass Research and a business agent for International Photographers Guild, I.A.T.S.E. Pete attended the University of British Columbia, graduating in 1989 with a Master of Business Administration. He completed a degree in Communication Studies at Concordia University in 1986 and received his diplôme d'étudés collégiales from John Abbott College in 1982. Pete is an avid sailor and when not bringing in production deals can be seen plying the waters of the Georgia Strait in his beloved "Crackerjack".