Ward has been an owner of the Backlot for the past 4 years with his business partner Mark, but estimates he has worked at the Backlot for 15 of its 18 total years of existence.  He was born in Saskatoon, and moved to Kelowna with his parents.  Several years later he moved to Vancouver where he got started with bartending at the Odyssey.  After returning briefly to Kelowna, he moved to Calgary with a friend.

In Calgary, Ward bartended and DJ’d at a variety of different LGBT bars and clubs: Del Rockos (later to become Boyztown), the Rekroom when it first opened, 318, BBX, Detour, and Metro The Club (Boyztown).  Through much of this, he took shifts to help out Ken, the previous owner of the Backlot, before becoming an owner himself.  "We’re here to have fun with the customers.  ...That’s our thing.  Ken started up a really good legacy here, and I’m hoping we’re doing a really good job of carrying it on," he says.

Ward doesn’t have a lot of free time, but enjoys going out on weekends with friends to what they call "the dinner club", sampling different restaurants around town, followed by a visit to the casino.  He has been in relationships in the past, but currently he is happily single and not actively looking for anyone.