For ten years, Owen Tobert, P.Eng., MBA, has been the City Manager for The City of Calgary, with an annual operating budget of almost $3 billion, a yearly capital budget of $2 billion and 15,000 employees. He reached this highest non-elected position in the City through many years of excellence in increasingly senior engineering positions within the City. Owen has made significant impacts on the City of Calgary through the introduction of a corporate project management framework, increased financial planning, fostering of a culture that puts citizens first, and the City's excellent response to the devastating June 2013 flood.