Roy Lamont

President

Throughout 30 years of experience in the glazing and construction industry, Roy recognized a niche for a Canadian owned and operated glass hardware company. Canada needed a company that recognized the importance of strong aesthetic design with the flexibility to respond and create unique products/solutions for specialized projects. Roy’s naturally creative instinct kicked in, and in building on his background of various roles within the construction and glazing industry, he created Stella Custom Glass Hardware in 2001. He then made his number one priority to form a collaborative and intelligent team committed to design and innovation, pushing the design envelope whenever possible. Stella has become a company of passionate professionals who are consistently discovering new technologies and trends. They care about design excellence, each other and successful projects!

Today, Roy is involved in projects at a conceptual stage, working collaboratively with architects, engineers, and glazing contractors at the outset to create the framework for outstanding structurally glazed systems.

Adam Stephenson

Director of Engineering

As Director of Engineering Adam manages the Design and Engineering Team who ensures our customers custom glass hardware needs become a reality. This includes managing the collaborative work with all project stakeholders externally and internally from initial concept to final site inspections while holding to the design intent, budgets, and timelines.

With a degree in Integrated Engineering from UBC, Adam brings extensive management, engineering, design, and manufacturing experience to the Stella team. Managing large cross-functional technical teams, he has launched multiple new and innovative products in the LED, Renewable Energy, and Biomedical sectors.

Andres Lopera

Director of Operations

An Industrial Engineer with post degrees in International Business and Supply Chain management, Andres joined the Stella team with over 15 years’ experience in the Apparel and Chemical Sector. Andres demonstrates this wealth of knowledge everyday with his insights and continuous improvements as he heads up Stella’s supply chain and shop operations.

Stella is a great fit for Andres – “we create beautiful and custom glazing features, get to work on unique and iconic projects, and the internal culture of the company makes it all fun!”

Outside of Stella, Andres spends his time with friends and family enjoying cooking, working with his hands and just being outside. His four-year-old son keeps things fun as he too likes to build things.

Andres secret talent may lie in his ping-pong playing abilities – he’s swept Stella’s monthly tournament since he joined.

When asked if his preference is for tea or coffee, Andres simply replied “While I am from Colombia…”

Christina Ren

Accounting Manager

Christina is the Accounting Manager here at Stella. She is responsible for management of our accounting department and support HR administration.

She oversees day-to-day accounting functions and schedules for tax compliance. With her many years work experience in accounting firm and industry, as well as her completion of CPA PREP education program, Christina is pleased to support senior management on financial reporting, forecasting and budgeting.

Outside of work, Christina enjoys spending time with her family and friends, cooking and gardening.

Katie Wilkinson-McNab

Marketing & Business Development

External marketing, new digital opportunities, and business development are core in Katie’s role at Stella. On Katie’s first day Stella was presented with a sparkly, multi-dimensional crystal and the challenge to make this “crazy” design actually happen in the form of a structural glass wall. Katie was part of the core Stella team that made the impossible occur throughout the construction of the award-winning Sparkling Hill Resort and has been hooked since then on Stella’s approach in transforming stunning architectural design visions into constructible reality.

Katie has worn several different hats at Stella; her current role is marketing-focused but brings into context her knowledge of the industry, prior operational experience, and system-planning to create strategies that involve the full process scope.

When not at Stella, Katie is creating adventures with her husband and their two young daughters. Walks in the forest, jumping in puddles, baking morning muffins, and applying glitter glue to anything are generally the chosen activities of her crew.

Karim Al-Tabbaa

Business Development

As Stella’s self-proclaimed “brand ambassador”, Karim’s role is to assist our clients in their designs and projects with the additional support of our technical team.

Karim joins Stella with a deep love of design backed up by both education and experience.
Educated in both Architecture and Interior Design and with past job experience as an Interior Designer, he understands the design vision of a project.
Additionally, from his previous role as a sales consultant for luxury lifestyle goods, Karim is a great listener who instantly “gets” what the client is looking for and can pull together a team to deliver results.

Karim is a “foodie” who enjoys creative fusion food; ask him for some recommendations, he’s thrilled to share his favourite spots!
Summer is his “happy time” enjoying the sun, nature, general greens and flowers, and of course patios!

Bill Lee

Technical Sales Coordinator

Bill is Stella’s technical sales coordinator, his main role is to take in potential project inquires and assess project requirements, scopes, and design functions regardless of the project sizes. He also assists clients with any technical queries relating to various company’s products.

Bill is also responsible with internal coordination between product designer, project manager, procurement officer, drafters, and structural engineer within the company during active project life cycle.

One of Bill’s core value is the continuous lifetime learning experience. All the past and current experiences have gradually sharpened Bill’s technical skills tremendously. Learning something new everyday gives Bill a great incentive to move forward.

Outside of work, Bill loves to spend time around nature, like bike riding, jogging and hiking.

Lesley Smith

Business Development

Lesley’s experience in the industry over the past decade brings value to our clients in many ways. While meeting with our clients, contractors, design architects, engineers and specification writers to understand the requirements of both the project and client, she is able to provide the tools required for a smooth transition from design intent to execution.

It is her goal to not only meet but exceed expectation for the clients throughout the entire life cycle of the projects by attending meetings, assisting with samples, negotiating contracts, expediting urgent issues and to simply address the needs of the entire team.

Mariana Moreti Cecilia

Product Design/Technical Sales

If you’ve contacted Stella recently to inquire about a new project, chances are you’ve had the privilege of speaking to Mariana. As Product Design/Technical Sales, Mariana works with our glazing contractor clients to ensure we’re fully understanding the project/application prior to quoting by analysing the drawings, specifications and/or suggested hardware. Mariana also creates the Stella quotes and supports our clients through our ordering process prior to releasing the project to our production team. Mariana follows up the project in production and gets to send the happy email with your shipping confirmation and tracking number.

Rest assured you are in great hands when working with Mariana! Prior to her arrival in Canada, she was a Mechanical Engineer in Brazil where she provided support to sales, created designs, and produced SolidWorks drawings within the industrial area mining sector. Her experience assists her in communicating what our clients need as well as understanding the key requirements for stronger production and design.

Mariana loves the Stella’s dynamic nature and enjoys working with our clients on each day’s new and unique projects.

While tea is her preferred beverage, Mariana doesn’t have much time to sip it. Outside of Stella, she keeps very busy chasing her toddler and exploring new places with her family.

Kimberly Wong

Buyer/Logistics Specialist

Kimberly works closely with our Director of Operations, Andres, to handle the trifecta at the core of our products – buying, logistics and inventory. She’s in constant contact with our key vendors to ensure our clients receive our Stella products within their critical project milestones.

We’re thrilled to have Kimberly part of the team with her extensive background. Her education includes a Diploma in International Trade and Transportation as well as a BBA in Supply Chain. Kimberly joined Stella with much prior experience as a buyer overseeing and creating processes for inbound/outbound shipping. She is hyper-aware of key client deadlines having previously worked with the ticking timeclock that is perishable food items.

When she’s not at Stella, Kimberly is happily visiting friends and family and dreaming of future days of increased travel.

And to the tea or coffee query – Kim is team coffee all the way!

Vladimir Boulankov

Senior Designer & Project Coordinator

As a Professional Production Engineer and Designer with an Industrial Engineering background, Vladimir is one of Stella’s Senior Designers.

With a lengthy resume specializing in the optimization of technology, equipment, and tools, Vladimir strives to say everyday that “the product and project have been made better”. He is in constant collaboration with the Stella team and his clients to re-imagine and improve the products and projects we’re working on.

Stella products come alive in Vladimir’s mind – his design process involves taking them apart in his head and carefully considering how parts will be installed on-site. He always considers the end-user (installer) of the product and firmly believes that “1 hour on paper design can easily save 10 hours on-site in install time”. His unique expertise from the production machine floor also grounds his design in manufacturing best practices so products can be made in the most cost-effective manner too.

When not at Stella, Vladimir is with his family. A unique activity is their epic one-day road trips. Vladimir often drives with his family from Vancouver to the Okanagan and back in one day; he credits his unwavering focus to specialized training shared from a friend (a race car driver) in Russia.

Hugo Franco

Project Manager

As a project manager, Hugo works in the early project stages with our design and engineering team to produce shop drawings and glass drawings for customers, ensuring we’ve interpreting their scope of work correctly and addressing any questions that arise during this process. As the project progresses, Hugo transfers the critical information to our production team to enable them to move ahead on fabricating, packaging, and shipping hardware. Hugo stays close to the projects throughout the entire lifecycle, working with customers during the site installation to help clarify queries and resolve potential issues.
Hugo is a huge asset on the Stella team with his education (degree in Civil Engineering) further supported with his over eight years’ experience problem solving directly on construction sites.

Hugo brings cross-Canada construction experience having slowly moved his way across the country with numerous years living in Toronto, followed by Calgary prior to joining Stella in Vancouver. He jokes that the only place left for him to move further west is Victoria, but we’re not letting him go from Stella! Stella’s “Happy Place to Work” goal is achieved by Hugo; he really enjoys the wide range of projects he works on at Stella from transit lines to malls to civic and community centres. Stella nimbleness appeals to Hugo who likes the fun and dynamic nature of his days with us.

When not at work, Hugo is a self-described gamer. His wife and he enjoy going for drives and discovering new communities around Vancouver. As for beverage choice between tea and coffee, Hugo replies with a smiling “Pshh, what’s tea?”; he’s definitely another member of Stella Team Coffee.

Bruce Logan

Designer & Project Coordinator

Bruce is an industrial designer with a passion for problem-solving, innovative design and dark roast coffee. At Stella, Bruce is tasked with project managing, drafting and 3D design, along with the rest of day to day tasks and relations required to get extraordinary projects completed, while exceeding our client’s expectations.

As a graduate of Emily Carr University in Vancouver, Bruce is in touch with the local design community and furthers his design thirsts outside of work with endeavours in Graphic & Product Development projects…all while also sharing the enduring escapades of his two toddlers with his adventure-driven wife.

As a Project Manager and Design Professional, Bruce strives for continued advancement & efficiency while making time to listen & learn to assist with continued growth and advancement. A lasting motivation to make our customer service experience as beneficial and valuable as possible is what drives Bruce in every project he undertakes.

“Innovative inspiration is everywhere, it just needs to find you working!” – Bruce

Ariel Magdangal

VUE Team Lead

Ariel is the authority on VUE with seven years’ experience working on every facet of these doors at Stella.

As VUE Team Lead, Ariel is responsible for the entire product cycle. From the pre-shop activities (checking BOMs and drawings) to overseeing the multi-stage QC process on the doors, his expert knowledge of our bi-folding and sliding doors serves him well. His experience on the shop floor ensures that he is aware of any project delays; he is laser-focused on ensuring that our doors ship on time and without error. He also likes a challenge and helps our clients make custom modifications to the doors if needed to work with their unique space.

Ariel graduated as a Civil Engineer in the Philippines and has prior experience as a structural steel detailer with AutoCAD prior joining Stella.

Ariel is quick to smile and one of the nicest guys you’ll have the privilege of working with. He loves Stella because of the values we live and practice; respect and integrity are core reasons why Ariel appreciates the Stella team and Stella’s president Roy.

When Ariel is away from work and just relaxing, his happy place is outside mountain-biking, snowboarding, and being with his family.

Ariel has time-dependent preferences for coffee and tea with coffee being his preferred beverage at the start of the day and prior to long meetings.

Varun Kumar Kottoori

Mechanical Designer

As a Mechanical Designer, Varun is a core part of Stella’s design team. He works closely with project managers, collaborating with them to transform proposed 2D AutoCAD products into fully visualized 3D Solidworks ones prior to their manufacture. Varun ensures the structural strength of the products by conducting FEA Analysis as well as physical testing. Varun is also responsible for the maintenance and expansion of Stella’s test report library for all our standard and custom parts. Additionally, as Stella pushes the envelope with the use of new materials and finishes, Varun conducts specialized research projects on these.

Varun has always been interested in how machines function; this interest drove him through his studies earning a Bachelor’s in Mechanical Engineering and then a dual Post Grad in Applied Mechanical Design as well as Practical Elements of Mechanical Engineering.

Stella is thankful to have Varun on our team; he literally moved across the country from Ontario to join Stella. Varun feels his cross-country move paid off as he loves the in-depth dialog that occurs everyday at Stella in questioning, improving, and considering new product elements.

When not at Stella, Varun is a Marvel comic fan; he loves watching the characters he grew up reading come to life in movies. Varun also devours suspense thriller novels in his spare time and is gripped by their stories.

Ivan Leung

Mechanical Designer

Ivan joined Stella with the perfect variety of experience (hands-on, education, and relevant industry) to be our in-house Mechanical Designer. At Stella, Ivan is responsible for quality checking to ensure our designs will work prior to being put into production, problem-solving on-site solutions, and leading our team’s creation of 3D SolidWorks drawings.

Ivan spent the earliest years of his career apprenticing as an auto mechanic; his hands-on technical aptitude helps him visualize our projects. His education as a BCIT graduate of Mechanical Engineering Technology (Major in Design) is further supported by relevant industry experience; Ivan genuinely knows glass having joined Stella after working as a Mechanical Designer at a leading glass fabricator.

Ivan has spent time on site ensuring the workability of some of our most unique projects and he loves it! His favourite Stella projects are the truly custom ones where each product has been carefully designed for its function.

When not at Stella, Ivan is active! From volleyball to badminton, biking to snowboarding, Ivan is happiest pursuing sports.

In response to his preference of tea or coffee, Ivan rejects both and reaches for his favourite Maltesers chocolates!

Venkata Bhargav Chunduru

Hardware Designer

As you see more of our drawings switch from 2D to 3D, you can attribute this to Venkata Bhargav.
Venkata is spearheading the transformation of our drawings using programs such as SolidWorks and Revit to better assist in visualization for our glazing and architectural clients.

Venkata is well-skilled for this change within Stella. After completing a Master’s in Industrial Engineering at the University of Windsor, Venkata worked with a team in Ontario to convert drawings (and even hand sketches!) to 3D renders.

Venkata moved from East Coast Canada to specifically join Stella in Vancouver. He didn’t even perceive it as a big move; just a great opportunity! He was (and is!) excited to be part of the Stella team as he loves creating new processes with different challenges everyday.

He loves Stella’s west coast mountains.
Venkata is having a great time hiking and exploring his new hometown including new discoveries of restaurants with food from his home country (any suggestions for Vancouver’s best biryani would be greatly appreciated by him!) and hunting down sneaker shops to add new ones to his Jordan collection.

Venkata is chocolate lover. He prefers hot chocolate over coffee and is trying to find the Vancouver’s best chocolatiers (again any suggestions please!).