{"id":5134,"date":"2026-04-17T19:42:52","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T19:42:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fnmpc.ca\/conference\/?post_type=speaker&#038;p=5134"},"modified":"2026-04-17T19:43:58","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T19:43:58","slug":"mark-brown","status":"publish","type":"speaker","link":"https:\/\/fnmpc.ca\/conference\/speaker\/mark-brown\/","title":{"rendered":"Mark Brown"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-custom-alignment\"><strong>Mark Brown,<\/strong> COO, PFN Group of Companies Inc &amp; President, Pro Metal Industries Ltd.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-custom-alignment\">Mark Brown holds the role of Chief Operating Officer of Pasqua First Nations Economic Development Corp, PFN Group of Companies Inc.&nbsp; and President of Pro Metal Industries Ltd, 100% owned by Pasqua First Nation. Pro Metal is Canada\u2019s premier First Nation Defense advanced metal fabrication and machining company.&nbsp; Pro Metal holds several certifications including Canadian Controlled Good.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-custom-alignment\">In his roles,&nbsp; Mark is responsible for the overall execution of strategy and operations. Mark\u2019s vision, along with Pasqua, is to create generational economic prosperity for the Nation through it\u2019s business units for the Nation and it\u2019s members. This done through creating generational wealth, meaningful careers and capacity building.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-custom-alignment\">Mark has over 25 years experience in business in senior roles in leadership, finance and operations in various industries including oil and gas, manufacturing and construction throughout Western Canada. He has been awarded the Deputy Minister Award for his efforts in Covid response for First Nations throughout Canada. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-custom-alignment\">His motto in business and life is \u201cif you are not growing, you are dying\u201d He has two&nbsp; daughters&nbsp; and happily married to his wife Melody.&nbsp; You may occasionally catch him on the golf course, however he does not have nearly enough time to be any good but remains determined.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":5136,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":true},"conference_year":[44],"speaker-type":[],"class_list":["post-5134","speaker","type-speaker","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","conference_year-44"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fnmpc.ca\/conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speaker\/5134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fnmpc.ca\/conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speaker"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fnmpc.ca\/conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/speaker"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fnmpc.ca\/conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fnmpc.ca\/conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"conference_year","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fnmpc.ca\/conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/conference_year?post=5134"},{"taxonomy":"speaker-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fnmpc.ca\/conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speaker-type?post=5134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}