Board of Directors

Meet the Board of Directors
Appointed By Order In Council
February 16, 2002

Wayne Ehgoetz, Chair

Wayne Ehgoetz is President and Chief Executive Officer of Congress Financial Corporation (Canada) as well as a number of First Union Bank subsidiaries, and has complete responsibility for all aspects of their operations in Canada as well as the U.K. and Europe. First Union is the fourth largest bank in North America, with in excess of U.S. $360 billion in assets and 110,000 employees.

Congress, the primary operating entity in Canada, is involved in sophisticated debt restructuring in both merger and acquisition as well as distressed debt financing, and enjoys a 65% market share among its competitors.

Born in Stratford, Ontario, Mr. Ehgoetz has both graduate and undergraduate degrees in Business Administration. He has had extensive experience in the Schedule A Bank, Schedule B Bank and Trust Company industries, and sits on numerous boards in both private and public sectors.

Julia Anne Shea

Julia Anne Shea is currently a Professional Practice Leader at the Workplace Safety and Insurance Board. Ms Shea is responsible for providing leadership, guidance and support for nurse case managers and promoting nursing education and research to enhance client outcomes. A nurse by background, Ms Shea's previous board experience includes Jessies Centre for Teenagers, The Ontario Foundation for Visually Impaired Children, Runnymede Chronic Care Hospital. C.M. Hincks Centre as well as being a founding director of both the Parkdale Community Health Centre and Operation Herbie and The Hospital for Sick Children. Ms Shea has also served in an advisory capacity for several other community support organizations.

Tom Reber

Tom Reber is Executive Vice President and Director, Cardinal Factor Corporation, an internet application service provider. He is also the Corporate Finance Advisor to TLContact Inc., a Chicago based provider of application service technologies and media content to the health care industry.

Mr. Reber has over 25 years in the Canadian Financial Services market in the areas of corporate finance, mergers and acquisitions, corporate reorganizations, restructuring and joint ventures. He has held senior executive positions, as head of Corporate Finance for the National Bank of Canada (for central Canada) and as Managing Director, Corporate Finance, Deutsche Bank Canada. More recently he was Senior Vice President and Director with the Financial Advisory Services arm of one of the "big five" accounting/consulting firms. He serve on the business affairs advisory committee of Liberty Village New Media Centre.

Robin Mcleod

Rob McLeod's career spans over 40 years, primarily in sales management roles in the telecommunications industry. Rob spent much of his career at Bell Canada in progressively more senior sales training and management positions.

Rob left Bell Canada after 26 years, to try his hand at something more entrepreneurial. McLeod and Associates, a successful sales and distribution business was his first venture. Learning from that experience, he then re-entered the telecommunications field as that industry was being deregulated. Rob joined a competitive new entrant and for several years enjoyed selling competitively in a new and growing market.

In 1989 Rob joined Plantel, an engineering consulting company with a division that specialized in supplying skilled professionals to the telecom industry.

Rob retired in 1992 and, since then, has devoted his energies to community and volunteer work.

Anne Millar

An educator and academic administrator, Anne Millar recently retired from a tenured academic position at the University of Toronto and currently works part-time on administrative projects.

Anne Millar was born and raised in Toronto and received her elementary and secondary education in Toronto schools. Following studies at Queen's University in Kingston where she received a Bachelor of Arts degree, and studies at McMaster University in Hamilton where she received a Bachelor of Physical Education degree, Anne completed the teacher education program at Althouse College of Education, University of Western Ontario. Later she earned a Master of Education degree from Queen's University.

After spending several years as a secondary school Health and Physical Education teacher and department head in Woodstock, Ontario and in Toronto, Anne was appointed as an Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Education, University of Toronto. There she taught and held various academic administrative posts including Assistant Dean, Associate Dean and Acting Dean before becoming Associate Dean of Education at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education of the University of Toronto after the amalgamation of the two education institutions in 1996.

During these years as an academic administrator, Anne was responsible for curriculum reform and program implementation; the development and implementation of an infrastructure to foster research activities; managing change; hiring faculty; student, faculty and staff relations; and relations with other divisions of the University, other Ontario universities, school boards, and the provincial government. She was involved in financial planning and budget management and participated in many committees, internal and external to the University. She was a central participant in planning for and implementing the merger of the Faculty of Education and the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education.

Anne lives in Toronto with her husband Donald Gutteridge.

Brunhilda Haiplik

Brunhilda (Hildy) Haiplik is a graduate of the Hospital for Sick Children School of Nursing, McGill University Nursing Faculty and York University Environmental Studies Masters Program.

Since 1989 Hildy has been employed as an International Consultant primarily in Indonesia. Her specialty has been gender and poverty equity, participatory hygiene and sanitation education and community development for rurual communities and capacity development . She is currently providing consultancy for a World Bank funded Water and Sanitation Project in 7 provinces in Indonesia.

Muriel Richardson

Muriel Richardson's career has been in the Health Care Field as a nurse, primarily in the field of Pediatrics. Experience has covered a wide range of positions in education, management and project development at four different Health facilities in Toronto and Montreal, but principally at The Hospital For Sick Children in Toronto. Progressive management positions' functions included coordinating and facilitating nursing services, providing leadership, financial administration, and promoting education and research to enhance patient care. Project development was predominantly in the evolving field of Quality and Risk Management. Responsibilities included creating and implementing individual components to developing and managing a facility wide program. Currently retired, Muriel has become involved in the Japanese natural healing modality of Reiki as a Level Two Practitioner, and is also a volunteer in the Heath Care community.