Meet Our Leadership
CEO - Rich Threlfall, P.Eng
Rich is the CEO and one of the founding members of the Housing Okanagan Foundation, and is responsible for the day-to-day operation of the Foundation, with a keen focus on bringing new housing partnerships and opportunities to the foundation and seeing those opportunities through the development lifecycle to create affordable homes for households in our community.
Throughout his prolific real estate development career spanning over 18 years, Rich has gained significant full life cycle Land Development and Construction experience from land acquisition, conceptual analysis and design, through municipal rezoning processes and construction. Rich has an engineering degree in Aerospace Engineering, however, has his Professional Engineering License in Civil Engineering, with a focus on Land and Real Estate Development. That background, coupled with extensive real estate development and construction experience, Rich brings a unique lens of project delivery that is holistic and deliberate in nature.
Project asset classes include multiple large master planned communities, multifamily buildings, and commercial projects in various municipalities across Western Canada.
Driven by a passion for innovation and desire to make a difference to the broader community, Rich has generated extensive experience in land development, management, and business and is an integral member of Housing Okanagan.