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A Bump In The RoadBrent Marshall grew up

surrounded by family and friends in a mobile home park in the small north-ern interior B.C. town of Houston, located in the heart of the Bulkley Val-ley. A town whose popu-lation in 2016 was still less than 3000 people. Brent’s was a very hum-ble upbringing. “Growing up we didn’t have much, and I was determined to change that both for my-self and my family,” Mar-shall noted. He also real-ized that schooling and education were important and he graduated with an engineering degree and soon after began working as a firefighter. This was the career that introduced him to the business of helping others.

Then, as the result of a very serious accident, Brent had to change career paths and soon found him-self working in the auto-motive business. This was a major bump-in-the-road but Marshall’s drive for success never diminished, and resulted in him lead-ing one of the largest new car and truck dealerships in Canada.

Along with his desire for business success came

a need for speed and fast cars, which led him to de-veloping a fully sanctioned, National Hot Rod Associa-tion (NHRA) quarter-mile drag racing facility just out-side of his now home town of Prince George, British Columbia. But to get this done, he needed the as-sistance of other business leaders and some heavy construction equipment… there was a lot of that northern B.C. soil that had to be relocated.Friends Need Friends

Marshall recalled that two of his friends, Tracey Russell and Corey Timms were working in the heavy construction equipment business for the Inland Group where Tracey was Vice President of Equip-ment Operations and Co-rey was Inland’s Director of Construction Equipment Sales. Brent went on, “I knew that we needed the best, most reliable con-struction equipment to get this huge job off the ground and completed, as any profits derived were going to go to local chari-ties. So I went to the Inland Group and they more than came to the party. They made my purchasing a Case 850K dozer, a CX50B compact excavator and a

450 skid steer easy and the Inland team delivered them right when needed. As a re-sult, this incredible facility got finished on time and was fully sanctioned by the NHRA. Today it operates as a not-for-profit company with all proceeds going to charity. It was and contin-ues to be a win-win for ev-erybody.”

British Columbia based Inland, now with locations from Canada’s Yukon to the southern United States, is one of the oldest and largest, full-service Ken-worth truck dealers in the world as well as a premier provider of Case construc-tion equipment, Link-Belt excavators and Tigercat forestry equipment.A Drive For Business

By age 40, Marshall’s drive for business success had him involved either as an owner, partner or shareholder in more than eighteen successful compa-nies. This has allowed him to guide and direct these companies to donate large portions of their profits to charity.

Now making his fam-ily home in Kelowna, Brit-ish Columbia, Brent has teamed up with a couple more of his long-time friends, Craig Behiel and

Geoff Pears to form the V2R Construction Group. In so doing this has lead him back to his friends Tracey Russell and Corey Timms and of course the Inland Group. “In form-ing this company, we had done our homework and didn’t want to be like many of the other local construc-tion companies.” Marshall went on, “We wanted only quality equipment that was reliable and got the job done. I had had such great success with Case Con-struction Equipment and the incredible service from Inland Group in the past so I gave them a call and once again their outstand-ing team provided us with exactly what we needed.”Helping Others

One of the tenets of Brent Marshall’s business success is his insistence that whatever company he owns, directs, manages, works with or is a custom-er of, is that they donate a portion of the profits de-rived from the business to local charities. This drive to help people, a passion that was born years earlier in his firefighter career, con-tinues to burn even more brightly today. Over the years, his philanthropic efforts have resulted in

millions of dollars being donated to a wide variety of British Columbia-based charities including Canuck Place, Ronald McDonald House and BC Children’s Hospital, to name just a few. A Drive for Charity

Currently, Brent Mar-shall refers to himself as semi-retired. But that sta-tus is difficult to believe. Not only is he one of the owners of the V2R Con-struction Group he is also a co-owner of the Tempest Aviation Group, a premier distributor of aircraft and helicopter parts and has recently sold his Re-Max Realty franchise office in Prince George. “Business gets me up and going ev-eryday, but my real pas-sion is for charity.” Brent went on, “I love being able to give back.”

This is where his need-for-speed comes back into the picture. Marshall is very much involved with the Kelowna-based Au-gust Auto Group and the August Family Foundation and their annual Okanagan Dream Rally. The Dream Rally gathers a group of high performance car own-ers, with their exotic Fer-raris, Lamborginis, McLar-ens, Porsches and BMWs, to list just a few, to take a large number of children-

in-need on an exciting tour of the Okanagan. This year both the children, as well as the car owners, and the organizing committee were doubly excited when the Dream Rally was kicked off with a super low fly-past, over the rally starting line in downtown Kelowna, by one of Canada’s CF-18 jet fighters. When this hap-pened the sounds of the excited screams of the chil-dren almost eclipsed that of the roar of the jet.

There is a real glint in Brent’s eye when you bring up the subject of the Dream Rally. “I just love seeing the excitement on children’s faces and we are well on our way to being able to raise and donate over $1,000,000.00 (no this is not a typo) …one million dollars… to Ronald Mc-Donald House BC and Yu-kon to help families staying within the organization’s facilities receive the help and care they need. With a big smile, Brent Marshall notes, “I still have a need-for-speed, and a drive for business success but my real passion these days is for charity.” b

Ronald Mullins is a Kelowna, B.C. based writer/photographer and is a regular contributor to Supply Post.

Small Start. Big Winners.FRONT PAGE STORY:This is the story of one British Columbia businessman and how he has used his tremendous business success to come to the aid of thousands of fellow Canadians who are in need of a hand up. This is the story of Brent Marshall, entrepreneur and philanthropist. By Ronald Mullins

Brent Marshall (foreground) keeps his need-for-speed alive as a key member the Okanagan Dream Rally partnering with August Luxury Motorcars and the August Family Foundation.

These folks are the driving force behind the Okanagan Dream Rally. Left to right: Mike Pullen, Christie Clifford, Brent Marshall, Michelle August, Irene August, Brian August, Brooke Cunningham, Matt August.

Brent Marshall, co-owner of V2R Construction is very satisfied with the performance of every piece of Case Construction Equipment he has purchased from the Inland Group.

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