As Canadian Skies' co-founder and co-publisher, Mike has been covering the aviation sector for 18 years in both words and pictures. Prior to launching Vertical helicopter magazine with his wife, Linda, in 2002, Mike's work had been published in aviation publications and journals around the world.

Mike was bitten by the aviation bug at the age of eight, when he watched his first air show in London, Ontario, Canada sitting on his dad's shoulders. When he was old enough to hold a camera, his obsession turned to photography. Failing miserably later in life to woo women with his camera (that is, until Linda came along), he discovered that capturing aviation on film was the next best thing. Mike was able to turn his hobby into a career by the mid-90s, and it wasn't long before he was flying in the back of F-18s with the Canadian Air Force as well as becoming an official photographer for the world-renowned Snowbirds air demonstration team.

Although Mike tries to include aviation and photography in many aspects of his life, he has managed to acquire some other exciting interests, too, including cooking, housecleaning and yard work. He resides in Kitchener, Ontario with Linda and their three children (Mitchell, Hanna and Madison - the "MHM" of MHM Publishing), as well as two dogs, three hamsters and a rabbit that thinks it's a cat

Linda, Canadian Skies' co-publisher and co-founder, spent the better part of her career in a sales and marketing position with a major telecommunications company in North America. This, despite being a farm girl at heart: growing up on a family farm in rural Ontario with seven brothers and sisters, she spent many a summer day baling straw, picking stones and cleaning out pig pens!

In 2001, after bringing her twin girls home to an already busy household and a two-year-old son, Linda planned to dedicate her time to raising her family. Unable to stay still for long, however, she eagerly joined Mike in launching MHM Publishing, named after their three children. Mike and Linda saw a niche that was not being covered by existing publications, and decided to devote Vertical to the North American civil helicopter market.

Now, with a dedicated team of 14 working on three publications – Canadian Skies, Vertical and Vertical 911 – Linda divides her time between managing MHM publishing, running a household, and raising those three kids, two dogs, three hamsters and Jack-Jack, the rabbit that thinks he's a cat.

Prior to joining MHM Publishing, Derek was a senior business development manager managing top accounts at Storeimage, where he worked for 14 years. He is a graduate of Conestoga College.

Derek and his wife, Beth, have two children, Danielle and Ethan. He enjoys many activities, but currently dedicates much of his time toward achieving his karate black belt.

Tim Muise is a long-time aviation publishing professional who was first introduced to the industry during his stint with National Military Publishers, where he produced airshow programs and orientation magazines for the Canadian Department of National Defence. In subsequent years, Tim published several trade magazines for what is now known as Annex Publishing and Printing, where he went on to become publisher of the company's two aviation titles, Wings and Helicopters. Tim joined MHM Publishing in spring 2011 to help launch Canadian Skies magazine. With over two decades of experience in aviation publishing, he has come to understand and appreciate the intricacies of this great industry.

Tim and his wife Sheila are the proud parents of six children: Darryl, Allison, Lindsay, Tyler, Matt and Zak. All are outdoor enthusiasts and love camping, hiking and a slew of activities. When he has spare time, Tim loves to golf and feeds his passion for aviation by attending airshows and other industry events. Customer service and putting readers first are the values Tim has always focused on throughout his publishing career. "Keeping readers engaged, informed and entertained, combined with building relationships and taking the time to understand the needs of our advertisers, are the reasons why Canadian Skies has become the most-read magazine in Canadian aviation," he says.

Lisa Gordon has been an aviation enthusiast since the early 90s, when she was a part-time dispatcher at a flight training school in Hamilton, Ont. She went on to work at two other flying schools while pursuing a journalism degree at Ryerson University in Toronto. Lisa worked at FlightSafety Canada and was the editor of the COPA Flight newspaper before joining Naylor Publications, a firm dedicated to producing custom publications for more than 500 associations in Canada and the U.S. After a decade as Managing Editor at Naylor, Lisa is happy to be back in the industry and excited to be part of the team launching Canada's premier aviation magazine, Canadian Skies.

A former restaurant critic with a penchant for adventure, Elan is equally comfortable in Michelin-starred restaurants or hanging off the ramps of Chinooks in Afghanistan (well, maybe a little more comfortable in the restaurants).
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Leanne graduated with a degree in psychology and a minor in geography from Wilfrid Laurier University, where she also played lacrosse. She also has a diploma in HR management from Conestoga College.

Always stylish, Leanne loves fashion and shopping, and also likes to dance. Mostly, though, she loves to laugh!

Jen is naturally one of the key mechanisms in the social scene at the Vertical office. The reasons for that could be many: her easygoing personality, her ability to make almost anything that comes her way laughable, her love for speaking in the third person... We could go on and on, but more than likely it's just her willingness to go for drinks with very little notice.