Dean Duperron

Dean Duperron is best-known for his work with Sprott-Shaw Community College. Duperron purchased the educational institution with his partner in 1991. At the time, the school consisted of one classroom with 26 students, during his tenure at the helm of Sprott-Shaw Community College, it grew to 24 campuses in British Columbia, as well as multiple global satellites, and to include degree programs. Duperron also spearheaded the innovative Class Act scholarship program.

Class Act Canada is a program that was devised to showcase British Columbia as the best place to live and learn. The Class Act scholarship program challenged entrants to upload a 60 to 90-second video to the Internet outlining “What I would do to improve my community with a degree or a diploma from Sprott-Shaw College”. The 10 winning students, from countries included Peru, Ukraine, India, Korea, Philippines and Canada, were selected by judges after more than 7.7 million votes were cast worldwide between September and December 2009.

Dean Duperron is currently the President and CEO of The Duperron Group, which is largely a real estate investment firm that also provides business mentorship to young entrepreneurs, Angel Funding and educational development. For nearly two decades, Mr. Duperron has been a strong real estate investor, originally purchasing small single family dwellings, and eventually moving to purchasing solid investment multi-family homes in both Canada and the United States.

Dean Duperron currently serves on the Residential Construction Industry Training of British Columbia (RCITO) board, as well as on the Executive of the Board, serving as the Treasurer, of board of the Professional Builders Institute of British Columbia (PBIBC). PBIBC’s mission is to “increase the professionalism of the residential building, through education, training and certification…work[ing] in collaboration with BC Housing to develop a recommendation and process for minimum qualification standard required for certification and licensing” (pbibc.ca Mission and Mandate). This means that Duperron is directly involved in deciding the qualifications required for residential construction professionals in British Columbia. RCITO defines the overall industry training needs in British Columbia, establishes training and occupational standards, promotes training programs, quantifies training results, and sponsors new apprentices. RCITO specifically concentrates on five industries in the residential construction sector – new home building and renovation; log and timber building; forced air, hydronics and geothermal residential heating; aboriginal housing; and residential maintenance. Duperron served on this board for over 10 years and was the Chair of the Accreditation Committee.

The Duperron Group presently owns several real estate holdings, including a 28 unit multi-family apartment building in British Columbia, a multi-building multi-family apartment complex in Houston, Texas, several single and dual family homes, and has previously owned commercial real estate. In 2011,Dean Duperron was honoured with two awards from the Real Estate Investing Network (REIN) – Rookie of the Year and the Top Player. The REIN organization boasts 3500 members, $3.5B in investment in Canada and is Canada’s fo remost choice for any investor who wishes to be successful in real estate.