ANGELA RUFFER
Owner/ Director of Bavaria Restaurant

Angela Ruffer is the Owner/ Director of Bavaria Restaurant, Angela and her late husband Joel Thibault opened Bavaria Restaurant in February 2000.

Angela was born in Bavaria; Munich Germany, and has lived in Whistler for 23 years.

She is a very successful entrepreneur, and holds a BMA degree (Bachelor of Management Arts), a college degree in property Management, and a College Diploma as BC Court interpreter. (Qualified to interpret, legal proceedings in, and for the Courts of British Columbia Canada; in the English and German languages.)

In 2002 she was nominated and voted “Business Woman of the Year”.

Angela wrote restaurant editorials for a major Vancouver magazine, and worked at Expo 86 for 3 months in Operation Staffing. (Hiring, and training of staff for the Expo site.) She owned and operated Whistler Executive Accommodations Ltd. For 9 years, a large property management company, she also started one the first cosmetic salons in Langley, BC; called “Figuration slimming and Cosmetic centre” she had a total of three salons one in Langley, White Rock and Surrey. Her hobbies include skiing, swimming, hiking, and lots of traveling.