Chiyoko Kakino is the Vice President of Brand Expansion in Western Canada for CENTURY 21 Canada. She has a background in marketing and sales, with over 25 years of experience specializing in strategic planning, repositioning of brands and local store marketing.

She has been in the franchising environment for the majority of her life, and she really dedicated her career to helping business owners be successful and grow their businesses. She has worked for national and international restaurant chains, she has run a cosmetics esthetics company for Jim Treliving, from the hit TV show Dragon's Den, and almost 7 years ago, she joined CENTURY 21 Canada.

During that time, she had the honour of revitalizing the brand here in Canada and has helped to create a complete and inclusive back-office tech platform. Most recently, she has moved over to focus more on expanding the brand by opening new brokerages.  She is 121% committed to helping brokerages succeed.