2017 Canada Summer Games: Operational and Capital Successess and Legacies

With over thirty years of sport leadership experience, Jeff Hnatiuk was selected to be the President and CEO of the 2017 Canada Summer Games Host Society. Currently, Jeff works as  President & CEO of Sport Manitoba, where he returned after completion of his secondment to the 2017 Canada Summer Games.

Among his many accomplishments, Jeff has served on the Advisory Committee to the Faculty of Physical Education and Recreation Management at the University of Manitoba, sat on the Board of Directors for the 1999 World Junior Hockey Championships and the 1999 Pan American Games Legacy Committee. He is a member of the National Task Force commissioned for development of a National Alternate Dispute Resolution System for Sport in Canada and was part of the organizing committee for the 2002 North American Indigenous Games.   In 2009 a Winnipeg Free Press panel of media and sporting heavyweights selected Jeff Hnatiuk as “most influential sports figure in the province”.