
Bob Mackin
The Vancouver city hall bureaucrat in charge of the FIFA World Cup 26 host committee office billed taxpayers almost $470,000 in 2024.
Jessie Adcock made less than the highest-paid City of Vancouver employee, Police Chief Adam Palmer ($487,224), but nearly $100,000 more than city manager Paul Mochrie ($387,110).
Adcock’s pay last year was also double Premier B.C. David Eby’s annual rate ($227,112.17).

Jessie Adcock (LinkedIn)
The annual statement of financial information for 2024 shows a total $397,354 paid to Adcock’s company, Adcock Capital and Advisory Services. But Natasha Qereshniku, the communications lead for the FIFA secretariat, said that was for January to October only.
For the full year, Adcock received $469,804, because payments for November and December 2024 were made after the 2024 accounting close-out. Of the total, $2,400 was for expenses.
Adcock’s contract was originally set Jan. 8, 2024 at an hourly rate of $300 with an expectation to work an average 25 hours per week until October. “The total value of this contract is not to exceed $270,000 exclusive of applicable taxes,” said the document, obtained under freedom of information.
However, Adcock’s deal was quietly extended in July 2024 through the end of the World Cup wind-down phase in September 2026.
Who is Jessie Adcock
Adcock is a former HSBC executive who spent eight years in senior roles at City of Vancouver from 2013 to 2021, heading the technology and development and licensing departments.
She took a break in 2015 to run unsuccessfully for Justin Trudeau’s Liberal Party in the Port Moody-Coquitlam riding, but joined the federal bureaucracy in 2022. First as CEO of the Canadian Digital Service, then as senior assistant deputy minister of the Treasury Board Secretariat and senior advisor to the chief information officer.
theBreaker.news requests to interview Adcock have been denied.
Who else
With less than a year until Vancouver is one of 16 co-hosts of the biggest World Cup in history, 29 people are working under Adcock on the project. Some of them are contractors and some of them are seconded from other civic departments.
City hall’s freedom of information office refused to provide the first names of the secretariat staff and contractors. theBreaker.news confirmed their first names through other sources, including the individuals’ social media profiles.
Contractors:
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Katie Brougham, venue operations manager
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Dave Jones and Lisa Sweet, Integrated Safety and Security Unit (ISSU) co-leads
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Alyssa Reyes, volunteer program lead
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Erik Vu, medical advisor
Staff:
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Alyssa Brownsmith, Fan Festival lead
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Anthony Cavrlj, security programs manager
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Alejandra Cerbon, senior manager of financial planning and analysis
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Andrew Chachula, senior emergency management specialist
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Michelle Chan, administrative assistant
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Kevin Cho, financial analyst
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Thomas Daley, project manager
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Danielle Duplissie, project manager, ISSU
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Jude Freeman, operations manager
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Taunya Geelhoed, operations lead
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Kenny Gemmill, Vancouver Fire and Rescue Services lead
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Rosemary Hagiwara, coordination and alignment lead
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Ashley Hooper, engineering operations lead
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Seldon He, financial analyst
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Benafsha Iradia, operations manager, parallel events
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Kirsten Jasper, manager, operational readiness
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Shannon MacLachlan, emergency management specialist
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Dan Maloney, project manager
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Kevin Nguyễn, strategy lead
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Natasha Qereshniku, communications lead
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Sherwood Plant, transportation and mobility lead
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Arthur Ruiz, senior marketing and digital strategist
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David Stein, landscape architect
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Blair Wong, accounting clerk
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