Port Moody Field house project

a longtime Rotarian who currently belongs to the Rotary Club of Port Moody and has been selected as Rotary District 5050’s District Governor Nominee Designate; he is slated to serve as District Governor beginning July 1, 2028. He first joined Rotary in the Rotary Club of Vancouver Collingwood in 1991 and later transferred to Port Moody in 2001, where he has previously served as club president and will again serve as president in 2026–27, as well as having served the district as an Assistant Governor and earning recognition as a Paul Harris Fellow +8.

Professionally, Burnham is the retired Chief Executive Officer of Coast Mental Health in Vancouver, one of British Columbia’s largest non‑profit organizations serving people with mental illness, where he worked from 1987 to 2022 (initially as Executive Director and later as CEO) and then as CEO Emeritus until 2023. During his career he also chaired the BC Ministry of Social Development’s Expert Advisory Panel on Specialized Populations from 2012 to 2018 and held leadership roles with organizations such as HEABC and SHARE Family & Community Services Society.

He is a Simon Fraser University graduate with degrees in economics and psychology and an MBA, and he has also studied at the Ivey Business School at Western University, giving him a strong academic background in business and social sciences to support his leadership in the non‑profit and mental health sectors.