David McBride - 2nd Vice President

David McBride

David McBride – 2nd Vice President

David was born and raised in Montreal, where he completed his education, at Sir George Williams University.

On December, 21st 1964, David started his career with the CN/TCA Credit Card Bureau.  A short six months later he was on his way to Winnipeg on a one way ticket.  Who knew back then that the Bureau would eventually become the basis for the enRoute Credit Card.

David held a number of Supervisory positions in the Cargo Billing and Accounting areas. He was later promoted to Manager, Commercial Credit and Credit Card Accounts area, and then to Manager, Refund Services in the Revenue Accounting world. David eventually returned full circle to his roots as the Manager, Credit Card Accounts enRoute.  David also represented Air Canada on the ATA Credit Panel and was the Chair in 2000.

 In May 2001, David retired as Manager, Credit and Collections, with 36+ years of service.  David has volunteered on the Board of Directors of the Airline Credit Union, and was the President till March 1979.
 David and his wife Maureen have been married for 43 years and have two grown children, Stephen who lives in Victoria, B.C. and Ryan who lives in Winnipeg.

He has been quite active in the sailing community, sailing at the Falcon Yacht Club where he was Commodore in 1981 and 1988.  He spent many years volunteering for numerous organizations, and to mention a few, the Manitoba Sailing Association Board of Directors for several years, and volunteered at the Pan AM Games on Race Committee in 1967, and then again in 1999 on Race Committee as DRO.  He has also volunteered nationally at the Youth Championships and Canada Games when his sons sailed competitively.

 Since 1997 David has been involved and still is currently with the Manitoba Marathon on the Technical Committee.   He enjoys travelling and spending the warmer months at the cottage in the Lake of the Woods area; he still loves to sail, curl and play the occasional golf game.

David joined Pionair’s in 2001 where he continues to participate.  David, along with Maureen have attended the last three annual general meetings and looks forward to working with the Executive, District Directors and the Pionairs Membership.