TransLink Executives

Wendy is the Vice-President of Real Estate, Commercial Strategy & Innovation at TransLink. In her current capacity she is responsible for the Commercial Programs & Partnerships, Real Estate Operations, Real Estate Development and Real Estate Asset Management functional areas.

Wendy is an accomplished business professional with more than 20 years of experience in highly regulated industries, including transportation, municipal and healthcare. Wendy has developed a deep expertise in exploring and implementing innovative opportunities and leverages her business acumen and leadership expertise to harness private sector market forces to achieve multiple desired outcomes benefiting the public and community.

Jennifer Breeze is TransLink’s General Counsel & Corporate Secretary. She oversees the Office of the Corporate Secretary, which provides governance support to TransLink's Board of Directors, the Mayors' Council on Regional Transportation, and an independent Screening Panel mandated by legislation.

Before Jennifer was General Counsel, she worked as Associate General Counsel & Corporate Secretary at TransLink. Jennifer is an accomplished lawyer with more than 20 years of experience, including ten years of providing legal advice, guidance, and services for the TransLink enterprise.

Shezana is a project manager and transportation engineer with over 15 years in the transportation industry and is currently leading the Engineering Division with 140 staff and overseeing a $3 billion annual capital portfolio.

She is responsible for the implementation of TransLink's multimodal mandate on cycling, walking, roads, bridges, and goods movement initiatives. Her area of focus in the field of transportation including transit facility design, infrastructure planning and design and program management.

Her inclusive and positive approach has helped establish strong relationships with TransLink’s stakeholders and partners which supports her in delivering transportation excellence to this region.

Olga Kuznetsova is a senior finance professional with nearly two decades of experience in various industries. Olga spent over ten years with KPMG in Ukraine and in Canada, working in a variety of sectors, ranging from financial services, manufacturing, information, communication, technologies, to mining and utilities. After leaving audit practice, Olga held a number of progressively senior roles in finance in healthcare, with Provincial Health Care Services Authority. Since 2016, Olga worked at ICBC first as a Director, Financial Planning and Reporting, and then as Acting Corporate Controller. Olga joined TransLink team as Vice-President, Financial Services in 2020. Olga is a fellow member of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants and holds an ICD.D designation with the Institute of Corporate Directors.

Kurt Pregler is the CIO for TransLink, Metro Vancouver’s regional transportation authority, which provides transportation services across 23 communities, moving more than 500,000 people per day. In this role, he is responsible for digital strategy, governance, cybersecurity, project delivery, and technology services for the enterprise, partnering with the executive leadership team to drive TransLink’s priorities. Kurt is passionate about the role technology plays to deliver excellent customer service, improve the organization, and make Metro Vancouver a better place to live.

Kurt previously led the Compass Card & Fare Gate Project, TransLink’s automated fare collection system. In this role, he was tasked with turning the project around after lengthy delays and technical issues. Within a year, he led his team to successfully deliver Compass, one of Metro Vancouver’s largest and most complex public-facing transformation projects.

Over the past two years, he has co-sponsored the organization’s Future of Work program and led the organization’s mobilization of staff to a remote working environment in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. In late 2020, Kurt’s resiliency and leadership was further required to lead TransLink’s response and recovery to a ransomware attack.

Kurt is now focused on ensuring the enterprise’s digital platforms can support new regional transportation services resulting from the expansion of the SkyTrain network, bus fleet electrification, mobility-as-a-service, and the many other ambitious goals set out in TransLink’s Transport 2050 strategy.

Kurt is a Certified Management Consultant (Honours), an Information Technology Professional, Project Management Professional, and a Fellow of the Business Technology Management Forum. He is also a board-certified Qualified Technology Expert and serves on the E-Comm 9-1-1 Board of Directors.