Directors & Staff
SIFCo’s directors are:
Mark Septav
Mark Septav was councillor for the Village of Slocan from 2002 until 2008. He moved to the Slocan Valley in 1981 and worked for Slocan Forest Products for 17 years. In that role he was both mill supervisor and forestry superintendent. He was instrumental in the creation of the alternate harvesting crew and supervised its work for 3 years. He is owner of Western Aircraft and has been married for the last 15 years.
Lisa Farr
Lisa Farr, President of SIFCo, moved to the Slocan Valley almost 30 years ago. She was very involved in the Vallican Whole School for most of the 80′s, and has been a director of the Elliot-Anderson-Christian-Trozzo Watersheds Association since 2002. She is a personal coach in private practice, an avid gardener and a passionate home creator, and the mother of 2 grown-up daughters.
Stephan Martineau
Stephan moved to the Slocan Valley in 1991. He is a founding Director of SIFCo and was President from 2006 to 2011. He has been a director of the Elliot-Anderson-Christian-Trozzo Watersheds Association since 1994. He was co-chair of the Slocan Valley Watershed Alliance from 1997 to 2000, and in this function, he coordinated the FLOW99 Conference that aimed at bringing the logging and environmental communities closer together. He is also founder and director of an international charitable organization that works in the field of human consciousness evolution, specifically applying an Integral framework to environmental work, education, parenting and mediation. He is married and father of one little girl.
