Berry Vrbanovic

Berry Vrbanovic (born August 19, 1966) is a Croatian-Canadian politician who has served as mayor of Kitchener since the 2014 municipal election.

[1] Vrbanovic attended St. Jerome's High School, and graduated from Wilfrid Laurier University with a Bachelor of Arts degree in political science and a diploma in Business Administration.

Prior to entering municipal politics, he worked in Kitchener's clerk's office and the information technology division.

[2] Prior to his election to the mayoralty in 2014, he represented Ward 2 as a city councillor on Kitchener City Council from 1994 to 2014.

[1] He ran as an Ontario Liberal Party candidate in Kitchener Centre in the 1999 provincial election, losing to Wayne Wettlaufer.