When her family moved to Canada in 2011, Mary Anne Velayo has 20-plus years of entrepreneurial experience working in distribution of consumer goods and pharmaceutical products and has proven track record in the fields of enterprise development, finance, and marketing. She earned her bachelor’s degrees in Psychology and Business Management as well as her master’s degree in Education.
As a charter member of the Rotary Club Vancouver Mountainview (RCVM) since 2017, Mary Anne served as Club Administration Chair in 2018, has led major fundraisers and became Club President in 2019-2020. During her term as Club President, RCVM was given Rotary Citation (Gold level) and won D5040 Highest Number of New Members sharing the achievement with another club. She is a Paul Harris Fellow +5 and recently joined the esteemed Paul Harris Society.
Mary Anne has also been engaged in community services and newcomers’ settlement assistance and been extensively involved in helping non-profit organizations and community groups especially the Filipino community.
During the 
some staffing numbers Terrace Skeena Valley Rotary ordered up 44 dozen donuts and 44 boxes of coffee from the South Side Tim Hortons in Terrace to give to workers in the various departments such as IT, maintenance, record keeping, stores, kitchen support, janitorial and housekeeping, office workers, care aides and more.
