Mike Marshall
Partner & CEO
Mike has spent much of his career in the leadership of the design and construction of some of Canada’s most innovative timber structures. Having led many innovative adventure projects, Mike is a valuable resource when it comes to leading and steering design teams through the challenges of concept creation, constructability, and budgeting.
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Steve Stevenson
Partner & COO
Steve oversees the project rollout and implementation for all of KinsolPlay’s projects. His discipline in front end planning and organization of our projects ensures smooth interaction with other contractors on site and delivers confidence to our clients that they are in good hands when it comes to getting it built on schedule, on budget, and in compliance with the CSA requirements.
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Jaime Blacklock
Natural Playground Specialist, Marketing & Media Coordinator
With a great sense of humor and her love of play, coupled with her decades of customer care (and Mom) experience, Jaime helps our clients understand the benefits of our playground systems and the skills that children who use them for play can gain. She also manages everything to do with our media and marketing endeavours, graphics, branding, and keeping up our presence on the social media channels - generally just making sure we look good on all fronts! Which we do, if we do say so ourselves. Jaime’s genuine nature and steadfast reliability, coupled with just the right amount of sass, make her a trusted team member who brings both unwavering dependability and a refreshing, vibrant energy to the Kinsol workplace.
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Tyler Hiltunen
Vice President of Operations
Tyler has a wealth of industry and operational management knowledge through his experiences in both facilities and project management in the Civil Construction and Energy industries. He brings a focussed approach to both project and operational management to the Kinsol team, having achieved not only his PMP certification, but also a Masters Certificate in Project Management from the University of Victoria. An incurable optimist, Tyler never fails to keep the team’s sightlines on the opportunities for growth in every situation.
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Heather Slade
Project Manager
Heather is an accomplished, forward-thinking Project Coordinator with an extensive portfolio of success spearheading new projects and in all aspects of business optimization. She is a creative problem-solver with solid tactical execution & project management skills, adept at prioritizing, multi-tasking, and pivoting to adapt to ever-changing work environments. We feel incredibly lucky that she showed up at our door, and Heather wasted no time proving herself to be an invaluable addition to the Kinsol team.
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Murray Hatfield
Project Coordinator & Shop Foreman
After an exciting career touring the world as an entertainer, Murray eventually settled into an entirely new life here at Kinsol, leaning on his life-long love of carpentry to convince us to hire him. As it turns out, it was a good choice on our part, as Murray has continued to prove his skills, not only in carpentry, but in an organizational capacity as well. The skillset he built during his decades of self-employment translate perfectly into the roles of foreman and project coordinator here at Kinsol and frankly, we just don’t know what we’d do without him.
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Carley Sandwith-Craig
Project Coordinator & Office Administrator
Carley has a mastery of organization like nobody we have ever met, and you can be certain when you ask her to do something that it will be done expertly and efficiently - but chances are, she anticipated the need and has already done it. With her signature combination of steadfast reliability and hilarious wit, Carley has proven herself to be an indispensable member of the Kinsol team. Carley is currently on maternity leave but we eagerly anticipate her return in Spring, 2025.
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Chris Bertin
Playground Supervisor, CPSI Certified
Chris is an experienced builder with years of construction experience, and a unique expertise in the creation of hand-made musical instruments. An adventure seeker himself, Chris’ whole approach to play fits perfectly with the vision of our playground team. As a CPSI certified builder, Chris ensures that all finished construction meets the CSA guidelines.
