The British Columbia Lottery Corporation (BCLC) has named its new Vice President of People & Culture, who will be based in Kamloops.

Yabome Gilpin-Jackson will start in her new role on April 15 at the Vancouver office, before moving to Kamloops in the summer of 2020.

“We are delighted to welcome Yabome Gilpin-Jackson to the BCLC family, where her incredible experience in leadership and organization development will strengthen BCLC’s mandate to offer great gambling and greater good,” said BCLC’s Interim President and CEO Greg Moore, in a statement.

Gilpin-Jackson joins BCLC after eight years at the Fraser Health Authority, where she was most recently the Executive Director responsible for strategic oversight of organization development and engagement, culture transformation and talent and leadership development.

She has a Ph.D. in Human and Organizational Systems and is an adjunct faculty member at Simon Fraser University’s Beedie School of Business.

“In accepting this role I said ‘yes’ to the opportunity to work for another provincial organization and a Crown corporation that directly funds healthcare and higher education, two sectors that I have heart and passion for,” she said, in a statement.

“I also said ‘yes’ to a role that is focused on organization development, leadership, a ‘OneBCLC’ culture and positively impacting B.C. communities.”

BCLC is still recruiting for a Vice President, Compliance, Legal & Security and a Chief Compliance Officer to fulfill its executive complement in Vancouver and Kamloops.