Samuel Travis

A pioneer in Career Transition, starting Calgary's first Career Transition specialist firm back in 1980. Robert Lewis International Inc. (their first large client was Petro-Canada, for what was then called "Outplacement and Relocation Counselling") became HR Tech, which became Advantage Tech Inc in 1989. Over the past 35 years, hundreds of companies and thousands of workers have been helped to reach a satisfactory conclusion.

International consulting firm then headquartered in New York, specializing in Real Estate development and Oil & Gas. He was responsible for providing specialized legal counseling, conducting Executive Searches within the Oil & Gas, Real Estate and Financial/Security segments of the business community: and for providing Career Transition Counseling, which services he introduced to the firm’s Canadian and U.S. clients. Sn the Company’s Executive Committee as a shareholder.

International consulting firm in the Energy, Computer Technology and Human Resources fields

Served for four years as an officer of Alberta’s largest land developer, Carma Developers Ltd., where he headed the Law, Human Resources and Corporate Communications functions in the positions of Corporate Secretary & General Counsel. Sam helped the organization solidify and expand to a $1 Billion company by representing Carma in negotiations concerning the purchase and sale of substantial assets, corporate acquisitions and various joint ventures in both Canada and the United states.

Private practice with one of Canada’s largest law firms, Macleod Dixon LLP. He was mainly involved in Taxation, Anti-Inflation Board work, Oil and Gas and senior corporate matters for the Firm’s clients.

Four years of extensive corporate and human resources experience through his non-legal association with Canadian Pacific Ltd. He served as Assistant to the Vice-President, Personnel and Pensions at Head Office in Montreal, Quebec. responsible for Pension Plan Administration and Employee Benefits for subsidiaries. He also served as Manager, Passenger Pricing and Rules, of another subsidiary, CP .Air in Vancouver, British Columbia. At that time, the youngest manager in CP’s history.

Thesis entitled "Uniformity Has Its Limits, Articles 3 and 4 of the Warsaw Convention as an Exercise in Comparative United States and Canadian Constitutional Law".

Field Of Study Economics (with Distinction); majored in both Economics and English, Phi Betta Phi