Register Now! July 8, 2025 – Pacific Chapter presents: A Conversation with Peter Xotta
Date/Time
Date(s) - 8 July 2025
5:00 pm PDT - 7:00 pm PDT
Location
Terminal City Club
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The Pacific Chapter of CILTNA invites you to join them for a reception and presentation by a distinguished guest speaker, Peter Xotta, President & CEO, Vancouver Fraser Port Authority. Moderated by: Martin Crilly, Executive Member, Pacific Chapter.
When: July 8, 2025
4:30 pm – Registration
5:00 pm to 7:00 pm – Reception/Presentation
Where: Terminal City Club, 837 West Hastings Street, Vancouver, BC V6C 1B6
Cost:
- Non-Member: $75.00
- Member: $60.00
- Student: $50.00
About the presenter:
Peter Xotta, President and CEO, Vancouver Fraser Port Authority
Peter Xotta is the president and CEO of the Vancouver Fraser Port Authority, the federal agency responsible for enabling Canada’s trade through the Port of Vancouver, Canada’s largest port. Peter joined the Vancouver Fraser Port Authority’s executive leadership team over a decade ago, most recently serving as vice president, operations and supply chain.
Peter was born and raised on Canada’s West Coast. Growing up surrounded by the country’s vibrant maritime industry, Peter developed an appreciation of the value and complexity of the port from an early age. He started his port career over 35 years ago—nearly 30 of which have been spent at the port authority—and progressively advanced through various roles. Today, he applies the experiences, relationships, and passion he has cultivated throughout his life and career to his role as the port authority’s president and CEO.
Peter’s long career in port environments has given him a deep understanding of the things that matter to the customers and partners that keep goods moving through the Port of Vancouver. He is particularly interested in work that keeps the port competitive and goods moving efficiently for the benefit of all Canadians, such as addressing resiliency and fragility in the supply chain and developing innovation within operational systems.
Prior to his appointment to president and CEO in 2023, Peter’s diverse portfolios at the port authority included port operations, business development and strategic projects. He played a key role in working with local partners to identify and secure funding for a suite of off-terminal trade enabling infrastructure projects throughout the region, which were developed to improve the movement of goods to and from the port and support Canada’s competitiveness in international trade. He also led the organization’s port and supply chain optimization work, such as the Active Vessel Traffic Management Program and other supply chain visibility initiatives.
Peter is a member of the Federal Ministerial Supply Chain and Internal Trade Advisory Council, the Premier’s B.C. Trade and Economic Security Taskforce, and the Vancouver Business Growth Task Force.
He sits on the boards of Invest Vancouver Management, Burnaby Hospital Foundation, the Greater Vancouver Board of Trade, the Association of Canadian Port Authorities, and on Western Transportation Advisory Council (WESTAC)’s Executive Committee. He previously served on the boards of the Freight Management Association of Canada and the Clear Seas Centre for Responsible Marine Shipping. He is also the former chair of Canada Place Corporation, a wholly owned subsidiary of the Vancouver Fraser Port Authority.
Peter has a master of business administration degree from Simon Fraser University’s Segal Graduate School of Business.
About the moderator:
Martin Crilly, Executive Member, Pacific Chapter
Martin Crilly FCILT, retired, is immediate past board chair of Comox Airport. Earlier roles: TransLink Commissioner, appointed by the Mayors’ Council; BC Ferries Commissioner; Project Director of Greater Vancouver’s “Transport 2021” 30-year plan; President of the Western Transportation Advisory Council; 3 years’ teaching in East Africa; and 5 years as Executive Director of the Sustainable Cities Foundation, a charity. He has a Cambridge physics degree and a UBC MBA in transportation. Martin lives by the beach in Comox and enjoys his large extended family.
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