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Sir Richard Branson and Virgin Mobile at Lift in Vancouver

Aug 8, 2005

By Catherine Barr

 

Rebel billionaire and Virigin megacorp's own Sir Richard Branson literally flew into town last Monday as he kite-surfed into Squamish to hype his new Virgin Mobile division here in Canada. Later that night, a special invite only cocktail reception was held at Lift restaurant where guests met his all-girl X-treme athletic team and discussed his new suborbital space division - Virgin Galactic. X-treme wannabes can apply onliine to join the team at <www.virgin.com/mobile/xtreme>


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Lift restaurant got some help from Monk McQueen's as the staff served only the best on the rooftop patio. From left: GM Robin Apel, chef Morgan Harlos, Kim Lin, head chef Jeff Batt and manager Steve Henderson.
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Sir Richard Branson and Craig Turner
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The affable Andrew Black, CEO of Virgin Mobile Canada, was introduced to CTV's newest weekend weather girl, Karen Khunkhun (left), and Urban Rush host Fiona Forbes.
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Western Canada regiional manager Zahir Khoja (left) welcomed "retail therapist" Peter Furnish, friend David McInerney and main marketing man Nathan Rosenberg to Vancouver.
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Sir Richard thanks the crowd for attending.
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Sir Richard Branson, who plans on taking people into space in 2007 with Virgin Galactic, gets ready to pop the champagne.
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To Sir with love - Richard Branson poses with the girls of his new extreme sports team which Virgin Mobile will sponsor in surfing, snowboarding and skateboarding.
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Vancouver Virgin rep Rich Watters raised a glass to the occasion with Kristina Buczacky (left) and Ashley Holt.

 

     
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