Alan Cole is the Managing Director of Athabasca Catering Limited Partnership (ACLP), Western Canada’s leading First-Nations-owned camp services provider. Alan is responsible for the overall management of the company, including client contract management to ensure our clients receive the best services possible. Alan brings to ACLP over 20 years catering and facilities management experience. He has extensive oil and gas and military expertise, and has managed contracts in Canada, the Middle East, Africa and Eastern Europe.

Ray Edwards is ACLP’s Director of Operations, the leader of the executive team. He joined ACLP in 1992. His experience spans facilities management, catering, contract management, and client relations. He’s also a seasoned labour relations and collective bargaining expert. Ray works closely with Finance, Safety and Human Resources to ensure the business runs smoothly and profitably.

Robert Cremers is ACLP’s Director of Finance and Administration. Bringing over two decades of fiscal management experience spanning the transportation, manufacturing and service industries, Robert has put policies, systems and plans in place for growth and expansion. Robert has worked to establish ACLP’s financial management process, ensuring that it meets or exceeds industry standards. In his role with ACLP, Robert has focused on process improvement, as well as developed, implemented, maintained, and monitored all of ACLP’s current financial, administrative and IT systems software.

Kevin is ACLP’s Director of Health and Safety. He’s responsible for setting the strategy, driving execution and creating best practices for safety, health, the environment and quality services, Kevin is dedicated to making ACLP the safest place to work for all employees, wherever the location and whatever the job. He’s been part of the leadership team and grown with it for more than 23 years. ACLP named him Safety, Health Environment Quality Manager in 2014, and since then he’s centralized and standardized safety processes for the entire company. In 2015, ACLP achieved one million hours with no lost times.

Darlene Brander is the Director of Human Resources for ACLP. In that role, Darlene ensures ACLP has the management, staff, training, systems and supports in place to meet or exceed ACLP’s business objectives. Working closely with Operations, Safety and Finance means ACLP Human Resources supports all departments in meeting their objectives. Under Darlene’s leadership, ACLP has increased retention of top talent while decreasing turnover with the result of improved delivery of quality services for our clients. Darlene’s directed ACLP’s major Human Resources initiatives. In addition to her ACLP duties, Darlene serves on the following boards: Children’s Discovery Museum on the Saskatchewan, Saskatoon Aboriginal Professional Association and Chair of the Saskatoon Board of Police Commissioners.