Aubrey Diem was a photographer and professor. In 1960, Aubrey Diem left his native Detroit, MI to move to Canada, where he taught Geography at the University of Waterloo, and later became a Canadian citizen. Aubrey Diem’s life was devoted to photojournalism, and writing on history, geography, and politics. Aubrey Diem purchased a home in Zinal, Switzerland in 1968 but continued to travel extensively.

Dirk Brinkman is the CEO of a reforestation company. He studied the Philosophy of Religion at Calvin University in Grand Rapids, Michigan, and came to BC in 1968. After a few years of lumberjacking, he and a group of friends won one of the first tree-planting contracts in Canada. co-founder, Joyce Murray, incoporated Brinkman and Associates Reforestation Ltd. in 1979. Brinkman and his company have planted over a billion trees since 1970. Dirk has received several awards, including the Canada Forestry Achievement Award and an honourary membership to the Association of BC Forest Professionals. He was also appointed as a Director to the HEDC Natural Resources Board and to the Heiltsuk Resource Operations Board. Dirk is the co-founder and a Director of The Earth Partners LP which specializes in large scale forest and ecosystem restoration conservation biomass projects in the US.

Avery Brundage was the fifth President of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), from 1952 to 1972. The only American to attain that position, Brundage is remembered as a zealous advocate of amateurism and for his involvement with the 1936 and 1972 Summer Olympics, both held in Germany. Brundage was born in Detroit, MI on September 28, 1887 to a working-class family. When he was five years old, his father moved his family to Chicago and subsequently abandoned his wife and children. Raised mostly by relatives, Brundage attended the University of Illinois to study engineering and became a track star. He competed in the 1912 Summer Olympics, where he participated in the pentathlon and decathlon, but did not win any medals. He won national championships in track three times between 1914 and 1918 and founded his own construction business. He earned his wealth from this company and from investments, and never accepted pay for his involvement in sports.

Following his retirement from athletics, Brundage became a sports administrator and rose rapidly through the ranks in United States sports groups. As leader of America's Olympic organizations, he fought zealously against a boycott of the 1936 Summer Olympics, which had been awarded to Germany before the rise of the Nazi regime and its subsequent, escalating persecution of Jews. Brundage successfully prevented a US boycott of the Games, and he was elected to the IOC that year. He quickly became a major figure in the Olympic movement and was elected IOC president in 1952. As President of the American Olympic Committee, Brundage fought strongly for amateurism and against the commercialization of the Olympic Games, even as these stands increasingly came to be seen as incongruous with the realities of modern sports. The 1972 Summer Olympics at Munich, West Germany were his final Games as president of the IOC. The event was marred by tragedy and controversy when eleven Israeli team members were murdered by Palestinian terrorists. At the memorial service, Brundage decried the politicization of sports and refused to cancel the remainder of the Olympics, declaring "the Games must go on." Although those in attendance applauded Brundage's statement, his decision to continue the Games has since been harshly criticized, and his actions in 1936 and 1972 sometimes seen as evidence of anti-Semitism. In retirement, Brundage married his second wife, a German princess. He died on May 8, 1975 at age 87.

Flip McCririck is a ski and action sports photographer based in Golden, CO. Originally from the East Coast of the United States, he moved West for college, studying business at Western State University in Gunnison, CO. He graduated in 1984, then moved to Pasadena, CA to study a Bachelor of Fine Arts in advertising at ArtCenter College of Design. After graduating in 1989, he went on to work as an art director in advertising at Garrison Lontine in Denver, CO, then worked some internships in Los Angeles, CA. A friend who was living in Vail at the time invited Flip to shoot the Pro Mogul tour stop. He came, he shot photos, and he submitted his images to the tour’s organizers, who were impressed enough to invite him back to the next event in Aspen, CO. The tour photographer got caught selling his multi-day pass that had a few days left on it and got fired immediately, and Flip got hired instead. He has been a freelance photographer and owned his business, Flip Photo, since 1991. Flip went on tour to shoot with Shane McConkey, Kent Kreitler, Dean Cummings, Seth Morrison, and Brad Holmes; he shot events in the US, Europe, and Japan. From 1998 to 2003, he was the photo editor for Freeze Magazine, and from 2013 to 2016, he was the photo editor for The Ski Journal. He was a photographer on the 2013 film McConkey. Flip has worked with Nike, Red Bull, Oakley, and Target, and he has made photography books for Warren Miller Entertainment’s magazine, Snow World. He is married, has a child, and is based in Golden, CO. He has more recently begun shooting fly-fishing.

Joan Davidson is the daughter of Ed Worth and Betty Tapley Worth, the latter of whom was the niece of Myrtle Philip and daughter of Paul Clifford Tapley. She is from Brooksville, Maine and made her first visit to Whistler with her parents and her husband, Owen Davidson, in 1999.

John “JC” Cole is a strength and conditioning trainer for athletes, including skiers Mikaela Shiffrin and Lindsey Vonn. As director of human performance at Ski and Snowboard Club Vail and the director of Minturn Fitness Center, he also has worked with NFL and race-car champions. He learned to ski on the Colby College towrope in Waterville, Maine when he was five. He first gained experience as an on-hill and strength-and-conditioning coach for the U.S. Paralympic Team in 2002. Cole currently lives with his wife and two sons in Vail, CO.

HEAD Sport GmbH is a sports equipment manufacturing company headquartered in Kennelbach, Austria. The company is a group that includes several previously independent companies, including the original "Head Ski Company" (founded in the United States in 1950); Tyrolia, an Austrian ski equipment manufacturer; and Mares, an Italian manufacturer of diving equipment. Head currently produces a wide range of products for skiing, snowboarding, swimming, tennis and other racket sports. Head Sport was founded in Baltimore, Maryland in 1950 by aeronautical engineer Howard Head, after he took a ski trip and was astonished to see his skis were made of wood in an era when metals and plastics were replacing wood in many product designs. Head worked at the Glenn L. Martin Company, where they used a form of aluminum and plastic laminate to build the fuselages of aircraft, and he felt the same material would make an ideal ski. After two years of constantly breaking skis, by the winter of 1950, they had a design that not only stayed together, but made turning dramatically easier. The Head Standard would rapidly grow in sales through the 1950s, until it and other Head designs were capturing over 50% of the US market during the 1960s, making them the leading ski manufacturer in the US and the UK. Head resisted the change to fibreglass construction. In 1967, Howard Head hired Harold Seigle as company president, and became the Chairman of the Board and CEO. Bored of the results, in 1969, Head sold the company to the AMF, and took up tennis. He later bought a controlling interest in Prince Sports. In the late 1960s, a tennis division was created when Howard Head figured out a way of strengthening the tennis racket by introducing the aluminum frame. The idea became a success and was first introduced in the 1969 US Open. After Howard Head's departure, one of the tennis players that Head sponsored, Arthur Ashe, won Wimbledon, defeating favored Jimmy Connors in 1975. Also during the 1970s, Head acquired a diving manufacturer, Mares, and a ski binding company, Tyrolia. While under AMF ownership, Head manufactured tennis racquets in Boulder, Colorado and Kennelbach, Austria. Also in 1969, Head signed Olympic champion ski racer Jean-Claude Killy to endorse a new metal and fiberglass ski, the Killy 800. Head subsequently developed a product line of Killy skis. In 1985, Minneapolis-based Minstar Inc. acquired Head through a hostile takeover of AMF. Two years later, Head started making athletic footwear, and introduced the "Radial Tennis Shoes". The following year, Head opened a new plant in Austria in order to produce more tennis rackets. In 1989, management bought out Head, Tyrolia, and Mares, to form HTM. The takeover was backed by private equity firm Freeman Spogli & Co. In 1993, HTM was sold to tobacco conglomerate Austria Tabak. Johan Eliasch, the current chairman, took over the company in 1995, which in 2014 was a Netherlands Antilles corporation. For a short time, around 1995, Head offered golf clubs as well. In 1997, Head created the first titanium and graphite tennis racket. Over the next two years, Head acquired three more companies, DACOR, BLAX, and Penn Racquet Sports. Penn tennis balls are used in many high-profile tournaments worldwide, while Penn racquetballs are the official balls of the IRT and US Racquetball Association. In 2000, HEAD was taken public and is reformed as HEAD N.V.. In March 2009, Head shut down the Penn ball manufacturing factory. Now all tennis balls are produced in China. Head also licenses its brand to makers of clothing apparel (including shoes), accessories, bicycles, skates, watches, balls, fitness equipment, and drinks. Head proved to be successful in 2012, with three Major winners during the year: Novak Djokovic at the Australian Open, Maria Sharapova at the French Open, and Andy Murray at the US Open. In 2013, HEAD again became a privately owned company.

Gary Black was an American CEO of Ski Racing Magazine. A native of Baltimore, Gary Black attended the Calvert and Gilman schools, and graduated from the University of Pennsylvania. He combined his passions for newspaper publishing, adventure, and skiing in 1984 when he purchased Ski Racing Magazine, the journal of international ski racing, founded in 1968 by the late Bill Tanler. In his tenure as publisher, Black supervised the evolution of Ski Racing from a newspaper to a modern digital instant-news format, in the process becoming the global voice of alpine ski racing. Black had previous experience in publishing through his family's Baltimore Sun, which was purchased by his grandfather, Van Lear Black, in 1915. He left that publication in 1984 to pursue his real passion, acquiring Ski Racing and moving to Waitsfield, Vermont. He moved his family to Sun Valley in 1995. He served for nearly 20 years on the International Ski Federation's PR and Mass Media Committee and, more recently, as a representative on the FIS Alpine World Cup Committee. A lifetime skier and avid outdoorsman, Black served on the National Ski Patrol at Oregon Ridge, Wisp, Squaw Valley and Portillo. He was also a member of Ski Club Arlberg for more than 40 years. He played a key role as a trustee for the U.S. Ski and Snowboard Foundation, as well as locally on the board of the Sun Valley Ski Education Foundation, and was instrumental in the initiation of the Sun Valley Ski Academy. He died at the age of 75 at his home in Sun Valley.

Charlie McClaine was lawyer from the United States who is known for developing the Tapley's neighbourhood in Whistler in the 1980s.

E.O. (Edward Osborne) Wilson is an American biologist, theorist, naturalist, and author who specializes in the study of ants. He has been called the "father of socio-biology and biodiversity" due to his environmental advocacy.