Dale Botting Dale Botting is Chief Executive Officer Enterprise Saskatchewan. Dale was born and raised in Prince Albert, Saskatchewan later attended high school in Saskatoon and undergraduate studies at the University of Saskatchewan (U of S). He has several university degrees in science, education, geography and planning, and post-graduate studies from the universities of Calgary and Saskatchewan.
Dale has had a long and full career in private business, the public service and economic development. Upon completion of his final degree, he worked with the Saskatchewan Department of Environment, and then became Prairie Region Manager for MacLaren Plansearch, a subsidiary of Lavalin Inc. In the early 1980’s Dale came back to government as a senior policy analyst to the Premier on resource policy, regulatory reform, and organizational development. He also helped plan and establish the former Saskatchewan Department of Science and Technology.
From 1985 to 1996, Dale was at the Canadian Federation of Independent Business (CFIB) establishing its first provincial offices in Manitoba and Saskatchewan. Over these 11 years he built numerous new initiatives and provincial offices to support small business in Canada, from coast to coast. He was promoted to CFIB’s Head Office in Toronto, and then returned home as it’s first ever Vice-President for Western Canada.
Dale than tackled the challenge as CEO of the Saskatchewan Association of Rehabilitation Centres (SARC) and its enterprise division, SARCAN Recycling, from1996 to 1999. He briefly returned to economic development to lead the Strategic Sector Development for the Saskatchewan Government, and then moved to become CEO of the Saskatoon Regional Economic Development Authority (SREDA). From late 2005 until November 2008 Dale then became the President and CEO of the Saskatchewan Trade and Export Partnership (STEP), working on behalf of over 400 businesses in the export sector. Over the years Dale has also run his own international consulting business - Botting Leadership and Development Corporation - and has been a long serving Director of his family’s construction business
In late 2007, Dale was appointed Deputy Minister to the new Ministry of Enterprise and Innovation following the election of the new Brad Wall Government. He was tasked to design and build the new flagship operating agency, Enterprise Saskatchewan, and was confirmed as its first CEO after the Act establishing this new public-private partnership was proclaimed, and the entire Ministry was transformed in to this exciting new model of economic development and governance. Dale also has a dual responsibility as Senior Coordinating Official for the Saskatchewan Cabinet Sub-Committee on the Economy, and also represents the Province’s strategic interests on the Boards of Tourism Saskatchewan, STEP, the Canadian Light S |
