Kasey Reese
Following a 30 year career in telecommunications, Kasey is focused on ESG investing & sustainable philanthropy with a particular emphasis on building capacity, resiliency, & cross generational support in our LGBTQ2+ & Latina/o communities.
During his professional career, Kasey served as VP, Risk Management and Chief Internal Auditor at TELUS from 2002 to 2014 reporting to both the Audit Committee of the Board of Directors and the EVP & CFO. At TELUS, he and his team redesigned TELUS’ enterprise risk assessment approach, reengineered the internal audit processes; established the ethics office & worked collaboratively with stakeholders across the Company to help TELUS achieve significant & sustained external recognition for ethics, enterprise risk governance, business continuity management, diversity and inclusiveness, environmental sustainability and CSR reporting.
Kasey represented TELUS on the Advisory Board of the Conference Board of Canada’s Strategic Risk Council (from 2008-2014). He is a founding member of TELUS’ Diversity and Inclusiveness Council, and one of the founders of TELUS’ LGBTQ team member resource group – Spectrum. Previously, he was with Ameritech/ SBC/AT&T in Chicago where he was one of the founding members of Ameritech’s LGBT employee resource group – GLEAM. In the 1990’s he served on the board of the Chicago LGBTQ Professional Networking Association (CPNA) and was a founding member of the Color Triangle which was formed to address racism and other barriers within Chicago’s LGBTQ community.
More recently, Kasey served as the Board Treasurer for QMUNITY – BC’s Queer Resource Centre (From 2015-2018) and since 2014 has participated annually on the scholarship selection committee for the LOUD Foundation of the GLBA.
Kasey and his spouse, Javier Barajas, are actively engaged in both the LGBTQ/2S & Latin American communities in Vancouver and are long-time supporters of a number of NFP’s including: Out in Schools/Out on Screen (the Vancouver Queer Film Festival), Qmunity, the LOUD Foundation, CampOUT, the Dr. Peter AIDS Foundation, AIDS Walk Vancouver, the Vancouver Latin American Film Festival, and the Vancouver Latin American Cultural Centre.
“Representation matters. As the LGBTQ2+ community is overrepresented within the client base which the Salvation Army serves in BC and across Canada; I believe that is vital that LGBTQ2+ voices and perspectives are sought and included at the table as the SA continues to move forward with regard to the full spectrum of Diversity, Equity, Justice and Inclusion.”
Appointed: June 1, 2021