
3 Island leaders being inducted into P.E.I. Business Hall of Fame
Another trio of Prince Edward Island business leaders is being inducted into the Junior Achievement P.E.I. Business Hall of Fame Thursday evening.
"It is the aim of JA P.E.I. that by celebrating the achievements of outstanding business leaders of today, Island students will be inspired to follow their example," the organization said in a news release.
The induction ceremony is being held at the Delta Hotels by Marriott Prince Edward in Charlottetown.
The 2025 inductees are Wayne Carew, Kim Green and Wayne Proude.
Wayne Carew is perhaps best known as the chair of the 2023 Canada Winter Games Board, organizing one of the biggest sporting events ever brought to the Island, and from his time as the owner of Carew Chev Olds Cadillac and Carew Ford Lincoln.
But he also chaired the Slemon Park Corporation Board and the Summerside Regional Development Corporation and has been a board member of the Charlottetown Area Regional Planning Board.
He is currently senior counsel at Confederation M&A, "where he provides expert advice on mergers and acquisitions," according to a news release from the Hall of Fame.
Kim Green resuscitated the closed Kays Bros Ltd. into Kays Wholesale Inc., where she was owner and CEO until she sold the Charlottetown-based business in December 2021, having grown it from four employees to 30.
The following year she acquired the Olde Village Bakery in North Rustico and doubled that business's sales before selling it in February 2025.
She is a former CEO of Tourism Charlottetown & the Convention Partnership and a former president of the Tourism Industry Association of P.E.I. Before setting out on life as a business owner, she was VP of sales and marketing at Rodd Hotels & Resorts and national sales manager with Delta Hotels and Resorts.
Wayne Proude's name is nearly synonymous with the retail footwear business on Prince Edward Island.
He started out at Wright's Shoes in Charlottetown in 1958 before moving to a job managing the shoe department for Ellis Brothers in Sherwood.
"One and a half years later, he was given the opportunity, at age 24, to buy out the shoe department," the news release from Junior Achievement said. Proude's Shoes was thus born in May 1965 and exists to this day, with Proude's son Kevin serving as its president today.
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