BOARD OF DIRECTORS
MANON PINARD, President
Area Sales Manager, Bayer Inc.
Manon is currently the Area Sales Manager, Ontario West for Bayer Inc., for their Diabetes Care Division. She has served many not-for-profit causes including volunteering with the Canadian Diabetes Association as the President of the North York Chapter and as a softball team coach for the Ontario Special Olympics. Most recently she has lent her support to the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation where she helped raise funds through organizing a golf tournament. In addition to her 10 years with Bayer, Manon has worked in publishing, sales and paralegal.
RYAN FLEMING, Treasurer
Associate Trader, TD Securities
Ryan is currently finishing his MBA at the Richard Ivey School of Business specializing in Finance. He will be joining TD Securities on their trading floor rotational program in 2012 and has 6 years of commercial lending experience at TD and RBC previously. Ryan has an undergraduate degree from the University of Western Ontario in Accounting and has completed the Canadian Securities Course in 2006. Ryan was elected Community Service Prefect in high school, completed the Bronze level of Duke of Edinburgh and has worked with various charities, most notably the Canadian Cancer Society and Wildlife Preservation Canada. Moreover, Ryan is a music fanatic and loyal Maple Leafs fan.
RENEE CHARLES, Secretary
Organizational Learning & Development, The Forzani Group
Bio coming soon.
MARC COOPER
Camp Director, Camp Tamarack
Marc Cooper is the full time camp director at Camp Tamarack, one of Canada’s premiere residential camps. He is responsible for all facets of the business including budgets, marketing, site development, programming, staffing and community outreach. His creativity, people skills, and love of life are apparent both at Tamarack and in the general camping world. He has done extensive volunteer work with the Ontario Camps Association, including the Health Care Committee and Conference Steering Committe. In addition to camping and kids, Marc’s other passion is painting. He is an emerging artist who has had several exhibits in Toronto. Marc’s favourite job is being a husband and dad.
STEPHEN ADLER
Manager, Leadership Giving, MS Society of Canada
Formerly at Canada's largest health charity in the major gifts department, Stephen is now the Manager of Leadership Giving for the MS Society of Canada responsible for the end MS Campaign in Ontario in addition to managing relationships with individual, corporate, foundation and other high impact partners.
A Communications professional, Stephen has a background in broadcasting with ABC Sports, NBC Sports, FOX Sports, ESPN's Sunday Night Baseball and CBC's Hockey Night in Canada before moving to the public media relations field with the Toronto Phantoms (Arena Football League) and Wichita Wrangler's (Kansas City Royals 'AA' Baseball Club), MECA Communications, The Comedy Network and EDR Media Services.
Stephen has a Certificate in Fund Raising Management from Indiana University-Purdue University, a Post Graduate Diploma (Corporate Communications) from Centennial College and a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Ottawa.
In 2010 Stephen was nominated as one of Canada’s Top 40 Under 40 and in November 1988 was a guest on The Oprah Winfrey Show.
ABI AJIBOLADE
Shelter Coordinator, The Redwood Shelter & Parent of an H.A.C. Camper
Abi Ajibolade has been the Shelter Coordinator with The Redwood since 2007. Abi joined The Redwood in December 2004 as the Legal and Education Counsellor and moved into her present position in March 2007. She has over 15 years experience working with underserved disadvantaged populations, as a strong advocate for social change.
Abi has sat on the Board of Ernestine’s Women’s Shelter and is a member of many other organizations working hard to ensure social justice, including Immigration Legal Committee, an organization working actively to ensure that no one is illegal and whose baby project is the Shelter Sanctuary Status, a growing movement of over 120 Anti-violence Against Women organizations across Turtle Island (Canada).
Abi is a lawyer trained abroad and has completed her law school requalification process in Canada. Abi is an OCASI Trainer on Domestic Violence in Immigrant/Refugee communities and a Certified Non-violent Crisis Prevention Intervention Instructor.
PETER KATZ
Professional Musician and music educator
“One of the most promising songwriters of our time” B.Y.E. Magazine. Winner of the CBC Galaxie Rising Star Award, Curve Music/Sony Music Canada recording artist Peter Katz captivates listeners with his unique brand of folk music. Playing 150+ dates a year all over the world, Katz’s remarkable grassroots efforts have resulted in him independently selling over 10,000 copies of his discs and landing support spots with such notable artists as Bedouin Soundclash, Tokyo Police Club, Murray McLachlan and many others. Peter is also the composer of ‘The Camp Song” which was commissioned by the International Camping Fellowship. In addition to his blossoming music career, Peter is also a passionate supporter of young songwriters. He has been a proud mentor for The School Alliance of Student Songwriters for the past 5 years as well as a guest artist on several occasions for the Arts Smarts programs. www.peterkaz.com
