Meet Brian Riddell
Brian Riddell is a business leader and innovator who understands that the unique value of relationships with individuals and the Cambridge North Dumfries community they represent leads to the best ideas about positive change that will come from the community.
He is a professional business executive and educator with vast experience in education, communications, strategic management, engineering manufacturing, sales, and marketing. He has won various sales awards over the years.
Brian is an expert in building long-lasting relationships with key contacts within the community and external entities. He wants what is best for our community and will work to achieve those goals.
Brian holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Wilfrid Laurier University, as well as diplomas in Industrial Engineering, Applied Photography, and various certificates from the University of Chicago, Conestoga College, and Mohawk College. He is also a licensed Industrial Millwright.
For the past several years, he has been a professor teaching and mentoring students at Conestoga and Mohawk colleges. He works with students from various backgrounds including students from the E.C. Drury School for the Deaf and Brian was engaged with young Indigenous students through Ryerson University outreach programs.
Brian’s over a twenty-five-year career in senior management roles in the sales and marketing divisions of major international tire manufacturers offered him the opportunity to learn how to develop positive lasting relationships and gave him insight on how to work together to achieve common goals. This career gave him the opportunity to work across Canada and the United States and understand how other high-performing individuals and their companies achieve success.
Brian’s involvement in the community is extensive. He is currently a member of Cambridge’s Art and Culture Advisory Board and a past member of the Cambridge Heritage Advisory Board. He also has volunteered and coached for many years with the Cambridge Minor Baseball Association and has been a ski race coach at Chicopee and Glen Eden Ski clubs for over twenty years.
Brian also plans to be a strong and involved advocate for our healthcare system, affordable housing, our economy, and the future of our environment of which he is one of its strongest supporters.
The effects of climate change on our environment are close to Brian’s heart. He recently traveled to Iceland and used his skills in photography as a pilot and flew remote piloted drones over receding glaciers. He recently held an exhibit at the Museum Gallery in Kitchener as part of their “ALARM” Series in 2020 called “Melting Ice”.
Brian’s priority is to get Cambridge and North Dumfries back to a pre-covid operational level. He also wants to initiate new programs to bring good-paying long-lasting employment to the area such as the trades and develop new infrastructure projects that will benefit the community and attract new business such as IT and tourism opportunities.
He wants to engage with businesses and community groups to understand their challenges and help to resolve them and to strike a balance between economic growth, social programs, affordable housing, and the environment.
Brian has been a lifelong resident of Cambridge and lives with his wife Suzanne and has raised two sons Brian and Jared. He also owns a small business operating in the City of Cambridge.
Brian strongly believes in two principles.
“Leave things better than I found them and treat others as you want to be treated.”
