Mark Regier

Chief Executive Officer

CEO for over 25 years, Mark is a familiar face at Prairieland Park. Before moving to the CEO position, Mark worked at Prairieland as the CFO and holds the designations of Chartered Professional Accountant (CPA,CMA), Certified Fair Executive (CFE) and Chartered Director (C. Dir). Mark has been key to the growth and success of the corporation over the last two and a half decades. He is a champion of Prairieland Park, and his passion inspires and continues to lead the management and staff.

Korilee Burgess

Executive Assistant

Korilee has been with Prairieland for over 20 years. She is currently the Executive Assistant to the CEO and worked previously in the Finance Department for 15 years.

Korilee’s responsibilities include assisting with the Prairieland Board of Directors and committees, managing the corporate events planning, Human Resource responsibilities for the Corporation and Office Manager. Korilee is also the first point of contact for the members of Prairieland and manages the events that help to celebrate our volunteers, members, clients and sponsors.

Dan Kemppainen

Chief Financial Officer

As CFO Dan is responsible for presenting and reporting the financial reports, strategic planning, budgeting and forecasting. Most of his 30 years at Prairieland Park has been within the Accounting Department he now manages. As a CPA, CMA with a background in food and beverage, Dan is an incredible asset to Prairieland Park.

Allan Sorowski

Director, Facilities & Operations

Allan returned to Saskatoon and began working at Prairieland Park in 2013 after spending 7 years in Vancouver where he worked as the Chief Engineer and Director of Operations at Canada Place and then as Operations Manager for Port Metro Vancouver. Allan is responsible for project development and management related to the facility as well as leading the Operations team with event operations, repair and maintenance of buildings and grounds including electrical, HVAC, plumbing, custodial, site infrastructure and emergency systems.

Jason Hynd

Director, Sales & Events

A member of the Prairieland Park team since 2007, Jason is currently responsible for the Sales department and the Events department. Jason is proud to be one of the founding members of the Off The Leash Luncheon Alumni Committee and the Synergy 8 Community Builders board, as well as volunteering his time coaching minor hockey.

Jay Boechler

Manager, A/V Productions

Using his more than 10 years industry experience, Jay grew the AV Department at Prairieland Park into a full-service Technical Services Department in just 5 short years. Now managing a team of five technicians, the department is focused on being leaders in the Audio Visual Industry in Saskatchewan.

Kyle Chudyk

Manager - Client Services

Kyle joined Prairieland Park in 2009 as an Event Coordinator and saw the rentals side of the Corporation grow exponentially through his time in that role. In 2019 he took over a Supervisory role of the Event Management Department and quickly moved into Manager – Client Services overseeing all aspects of the Event Management Department and its valued annual returning rental clients.

In Kyle’s time away from work, along with his wife, he is kept on his toes chasing after his two sons at the family cabin and spending as much time outside as possible with them whether on the ATV trails, out on the lake or in the yard.

Rick Fior

Manager of Racing Operations

Manager of Live Racing, Simulcast Wagering and Race Secretary, Rick has been involved in racing his whole life. Throughout his 40+ years at Prairieland Park and Marquis Downs he’s been the clocker, entry clerk, clerk of scales, paddock judge, horse identifier, assistant race secretary and race secretary. These varied experiences add greatly to the overall knowledge of track operations and help Rick daily in his role managing racing at Prairieland Park.

Shawn Irwin

Controller

Responsible for all accounting activities and to monitor internal controls, Shawn’s role as Controller allows him to interact with nearly all the departments at Prairieland Park to ensure everything is on track and remains profitable. His over 15 years’ experience in the accounting department and managing the Prairieland Park IT Department makes him perfect for this role.

Outside of work, Shawn spends most of his time chasing after three kids actively involved in soccer and hockey.

Mike Kirkham

Manager - Sports on Tap

New to the Prairieland Park Management team, Mike brings with him over 20 years of experience in the Food and Beverage Industry. As a lifelong sports enthusiast, he is looking forward to using his experience and passion to build on recent successes and take Sports On Tap to the next level. Active in the community, Mike volunteers for Scouts and coaches soccer, basketball and baseball.

Susan Kuzma

Manager - Special Events

Prairieland Park produces and co-manages a number of events annually with the event management experience of long-time staff member – Susan Kuzma. With the company for over 37 years, Susan has firsthand knowledge of the history of Prairieland Park, and as an active member of many fair and event associations, she keeps on top of trends in entertainment buying and event production. The experience of the Special Events team can assist you in producing your next live stage production at Prairieland Park.  This department also oversees Prairieland Park’s flagship event, the Saskatoon EX annually.

Caroline Laird

Manager - Sales

Caroline has been with Prairieland Park for over 23 years; overseeing the Sales Department and formerly the Rentals department responsible for facility sales and services which has grown significantly to become full service Sales and client service Event Management departments with industry-leading customer service – in what has become a world-class facility. She contributes much of the growth and success to the Prairieland Park teams’ commitment of service excellence.

Caroline is a member of the Canadian Association of Exposition Managers (CAEM)

Kristy Rempel

Manager, Marketing

Self-employed event manager for almost 10 years, Kristy comes to Prairieland Park with a background in marketing and event management. Recently returning to school to obtain her BAC from the University of Saskatchewan, Kristy is a lifelong learner and thrives on new challenges. Focused on strategic marketing and promotions specific advertising she is excited to grow the team and the scope of the marketing department at Prairieland Park.

Sharon Odnokon

Manager, Food & Beverage

As Food and Beverage Manager for 10 years, Sharon brings her 35 years of industry experience to the management team of Prairieland Park. With the Corporation for almost 12 years, she started as Food and Beverage Supervisor at Emerald Casino.

Dedicated to the industry, Sharon has taken many continuing-education classes and has taught the Serve-it-right Course at STEC and the U of S. She also remained active as part of the Hotel and Restaurant Management Advisory Committee at Sask Polytechnic for 6 years.

Colleen Woodley

Manager, Facilities & Operations

Colleen has worked at Prairieland Park for over 20 years. She started as a groundskeeper and worked through the Operations department to the position of Manager.

In her spare time, she enjoys gardening, photography and going to the movies.