Randy Roy
Randy Roy was born, raised and lives in Prince George with his wife and newborn daughter where he is active in his church and with the Knights of Columbus. As a young man, he served as president of the Conservative club at the University of Northern BC and served as party secretary of the BC Conservatives in 2014-15.
His expertise in voter identification and get out the vote efforts earned him organizer positions in the successful Manitoba Progressive Conservative general election campaign in 2016 and the BC Liberal campaign in 2017. And he held a senior position in the Brad Trost federal Conservative leadership campaign in 2019.
He has also worked in the non-profit sector, as a fellow of the Canadian Jewish Public Affairs Committee in 2013-14 and for the National Firearms Association.
Much of his “data wizard” reputation comes from his important work in what is considered one fo the greatest GOTV (get out the vote) upsets of modern political history, the Donald Trump campaign in Michigan in 2016.
He is also experienced as a legislative caucus staffer in Manitoba and BC 2018-22.
He met his business partner and co-founder of Canadian Public Opinion Research on the Ellis Ross leadership campaign for the BC Liberals in 2022.
Azim Jiwani
Azim Jiwani is the son of Afro-Indian Ismaili Muslim immigrants who settled in Port Moody, where he was raised. He moved to Halifax to obtain his degree from Dalhousie University. It was at Dalhousie where he became politically active and played a key role in the Nova Scotia Progressive Conservative Party’s upset victory in the 2021 provincial election.
A key organizer, as Director of Communications, for Ellis Ross’s runner-up campaign to lead the BC Liberal/BC United Party in 2022. On that campaign, he met co-founder and partner Randy Roy, with whom he started Public Opinion Research Canada.
In the 2022 municipal elections, he was retained by six municipal election campaigns throughout mainland British Columbia and on the strength of that work, was appointed chief of staff to John Rustad when he accepted the leadership of the BC Conservative Party, a position from which he presided over the most rapid, meteoric rise of a provincial political party since 1952.
Today, he splits his time between Victoria and his home in East Vancouver.
Azim Jiwani
Azim Jiwani
Azim Jiwani