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Jackson Sayers B.Kin

Jackson Sayers has over 40 years of experience as an entrepreneur in health, hospitality and recreation. For the last 14 years he has been CEO of HealthChoicesFirst, Video Solutions For Life, TOPDOC 100 and The NOW Health Network.
Building NA’s largest and most diverse video library of patient education videos and accompanying websites for the last 15 years has given him an extensive knowledge base for all the diseases in relationship to exercise and nutrition.
Prior to this he owned and operated several rehabilitation and exercise businesses, and most recently ending in 2006 he worked with the Copeman Health Care Group as Head of Corporate Sales and Development. He was  instrumental in this facility introducing Physiotherapy, Sports Medicine and Exercise Training into their services.
Jackson has always had a keen interest in health and fitness and always focused his career path on having as wide as base  as possible into everything health related.
Jackson attended the University of British Columbia from 1982 to 1992, where he completed a kinesiology degree with a business minor. While attending UBC he ran track and field and raced triathlons professionally for eight years, competing in over 100 Olympic distance races in North America.
Jackson was a been a pioneer in exercise rehabilitation in conjunction with physiotherapists, sports medicine physicians and general doctors in the 1980s and 90s. He quickly learned that quality healthcare was a coordinated approach encompassing multiple areas.
Jackson worked at Burcon Nutra Science (BU) from 2000 to 2003 in corporate finance and investor relations. Burcon is a leader in nutrition, health and wellness in the field of functional and renewable plant proteins and is listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange and the NASDAQ.
Prior to his employment in the health and wellness sector, Jackson spent over five years in the hospitality industry working for chains such as Mandarin, Four Seasons and Fairmont hotels. He completed his hotel career with a two-year General Management program at the Churchill Hotel in London, England.

 Experience is Everything ..

20 To Life Longevity Contract

20To Life
In conjunction with the Integrated Health Facility and some of their team, 20ToLife was incorporated to provide comprehensive longevity training that encompasses posture, muscle mass and proprioception training.
By utilization of over 40 years of experience in conjunction with a team of HCP’s from a variety of disciplines, 20ToLife will revolutionize how you look and feel about your level of fitness in the aging body.

NOW Health Network

NOW Health Network is NA largest independent video based patient education platform for patient education. Featuring disease specific videos in 6 languages and showcasing over 150,000 local healthcare practitioner listings. The NOW Health Network averages over 3 million hits a year and generates millions of dollars in revenue.
2022 -2025 : CEO of North Americas largest video library for health.

HealthChoicesFirst LP

 2016-2022 Health Choices First LP
Assembled a group of over 250 independent medical professionals over 6 years to complete a video library of over 3000 videos in 6 languages. Worked with major hospitals in conjunction with over 20 pharmaceutical companies to create valuable patient education content.
St Paul’s, VGH, Montreal Heart, South Lake Hospital , St Michael’s Hospital, McGill University Hospital, Sherbrooke Hospital, Ottawa Hospital, Calgary Cancer Centre Hospital, Kelowna Hospital

 

 

HealthChoices.ca LP

Assembled a group of Vancouver medical specialists including Dr. Ruth McIlrath, as well as a small group of business men including marketing executive Frank Palmer, successful entrepreneurs Mark Godsy, Andrew Harries, David Richardson and Peter Armstrong.
Started looking at video based patient education and raised $250,000 to develop out a consumer portal for local advertising and patient education.

Copeman Healthcare Center (Harrison Healthcare)

2006 -2016: part of the opening team of Canada’s first private GP clinic and was instrumental in having the clinic develop a physiotherapy centre, Sports Medicine and personal training program.
Developed a comprehensive corporate health program for hundreds of local companies including, Ledcor, PCL, Concert, and Canadian Tire.

Life Club Vancouver

Raised $4.6 million for the development of a revolutionary life style health business in Vancouver: Bringing together multiple companies who supported their employees health plans by using profits to fund employee fitness.

Sample of companies included Rocky Mountaineer, Gold Corp, Canaccord Capital

Burcon Nutra Science Corp: Finance & Investor Relations

Burcon NutraScience Corp Development & Investor Relations 2000-2003
Burcon NutraScience Corporation is a global leader in innovative technologies for the large-scale production of high-quality, cost-effective plant-based proteins and ingredients for use in the global food and beverage industries.

Jackson Sayers Rehabilitation

Introduced exercise rehabilitation in conjunction with Dr. Jack Taunton and Dr. Doug Clement, the two founders of UBC Sports Medicine.
  1. Pioneered Stretching in Vancouver 1992
  2. Pioneered exercise training on Boas Balls  1993
  3. Pioneer Isometric stretching 1995
  4. Pioneer Isometric Strength training 1996

Vancouver Canucks : Introduced stretching with the Vancouver Canucks in 1994 working with a variety of athletes including Trevor Linden, Brett Hedican, Pavel Bure, Mark Messier, Russ Courtnell and Glen Hanlin.

 

 

Golf Flexibility Plus

1992-1998 Jackson Sayers : Worked with PGA Tour players like Richard Zokol, Phil Jonas and Mike Weir on exercise and flexibility. Developed a series of videos for multiple local club head pros.
This business worked with Pacific Golf, a local golf magazine as well as many professional hockey players and business executives and was developed ahead of its time including 6 years before Tiger Woods revolutionary fitness in golf.

 

 

University of British Columbia

1989-1992 University of British Columbia Kinesiology

 

General Management Program : Churchill Hotel – London, England

1988-1989 Churchill Hotel General Management Training Program

 

 

Mandarin Hotel Vancouver

1986-1989 Mandarin Hotel, Health Club Manager.

 

 

Reckless Rider – Professional Triathlon Team

1984-1989 : 1990-1992, Professional Triathlete, Vancouver.
Raced in over 100 Triathlons, 50 Duathlons and over 150 – 10K races.
Helped manage the Reckless Rider Triathlon team that helped raise funds and organize team events.

 

 

University Of British Columbia

1982 UBC Track and Field

 

 

Jackson Sayers, Kinesiologist

1982-1992 UBC Kinesiology

 

 

Jackson Sayers – Kinesiologist

1980 Personal Trainer, Nautalis Fitness Centre

 

 

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