Michael Iacovelli
Michael Iacovelli is the Chairman of the Board of Humber River Health.
Michael is the Chief Executive Officer of Ben Machine Products Company Incorporated, a large manufacturer of cutting-edge aerospace and defense components in the Greater Toronto Area. He is also an Executive Board Member of the Ontario Aerospace Council. Michael has been a lawyer for over 20 years, practicing in the area of corporate law and commercial litigation. He is the author of three published books and has taught at various Ontario institutions. Most importantly, he is committed to the community. He is the founder of the York Region Cycling Coalition, a group committed to improving cycling safety in the community, and a committee member on the hospital foundation’s Team Revolution.
Bruce Levitt
Bruce Levitt is the Vice Chair of the Board, Chair of the Nominating, Governance & HR Committee, and serves on the Quality Assurance Committee.
Bruce Levitt is the President of Levitt-Safety Limited in Oakville. With over 350 employees, Levitt-Safety offers a vast array of fire and safety services, products and expertise to its industrial sector clients looking to address their fire, safety and environmental challenges. It Has been honoured as one of Canada’s 50 Best Managed Companies since 2012.
Bruce’s previous experience includes time as a Board Member of HSE Integrated, Canada’s largest publicly traded provider of health and safety services to the oil and gas industry. He has also served as Marketing Manager for Orr Safety Corporation in Louisville, Kentucky.
He holds a Master of Business Administration from Dalhousie University, earning the highest academic grades in class for both years, while also serving as Class President. Bruce has a Bachelor of Arts (Economics) from the University of Western Ontario in London.
Mr. Levitt has been very active in the Ontario and International Chapters of YPO (Young Presidents’ Organization) – a global platform for chief executives to engage, learn and harness the knowledge, influence and trust of the world’s most influential and innovative business leaders. It has over 24,000 members in more than 130 countries. He is a former Board Member of, and a former President of, the Toronto French School Alumni Association.
Carole Malo
Carole Malo is the Vice Chair of the Finance & Audit Committee and serves on the Transformation and Innovation Committee.
A senior finance and investment Executive with 25 + years of global experience, in the development, procurement, implementation and financing of large and complex energy and infrastructure projects in Canada and internationally. She has held senior roles in both the public and private sector including Vice-President, Project Finance, Infrastructure Ontario; Vice-President, Corporate and Structured Finance, Aecon Group; Director, Investment Projects and Affiliates, Hydro-Quebec; European Head, Global Project & Structured Finance Royal Bank of Canada; Vice President and European Head, SNC Lavalin Capital.
Ms Malo has also run her own consultancy firm since 2009 , specialized in providing independent strategic advice and support to public and private sector sponsors as well First Nations in the infrastructure and energy fields as well as in public-private partnerships. Clients have included, Infrastructure Quebec, Caisse de depots et Placements du Quebec, Via Rail, PPP Canada, the Canadian Council for Public Private Partnerships.
Carole has served on a number of public, private and not-for-profit sector boards and strategic and finance committees over the last couple of decades including the Hamilton Utilities Corporation, the United Way (Women Gaining Ground), the Massey Centre for Women, the Thornhill Golf and Country Club and the Badminton and Racquet Club of Toronto.
Carole currently serves on the National Energy Board, the Advisory Board of TOK Transit Limited Board and the Humber River Health Board.
Among her many qualifications, Carole holds a BA.A. Finance (Hons) from the Ecole des Hautes Etudes Commerciales in Montréal, is a Chartered Financial Analyst, and is a Canadian Board Diversity Council 2016 Fellow in Board Governance. She speaks English and French fluently, as well as Spanish at an intermediate level.
Paul Pellegrini
Paul Pellegrini serves on the Finance & Audit, and Transformation and Innovation Committees.
Paul is the founder and Executive Chair of Sussex Strategy Group, with over 30 years of experience in government relations and public affairs. He specializes in advising clients in the healthcare, life sciences, infrastructure, and transportation sectors, using his relationship-building skills to help them succeed at all levels of government.
Paul has played pivotal roles in transforming a downtown Toronto hospital into a cutting-edge healthcare, research, and education facility and guiding a national rail company through a major infrastructure project approval process. He continues to advise clients on policy, politics, and corporate strategy.
Before launching Sussex, Paul was a trusted advisor to cabinet ministers at Queen’s Park and Parliament Hill, providing expertise in crisis communications, stakeholder relations, and issues management.
Paul’s commitment to charity and community service has been publicly recognized with the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee medal and the Lieutenant Governor’s Community Volunteer Award. He has chaired the Boards of the Columbus Centre of Toronto and Reach for the Rainbow and served as the Ontario Campaign Chair for Friends of the Canadian Museum for Human Rights. Currently, he serves on the Campaign Cabinet for Cortellucci Vaughan Hospital.
Paul holds an Honours BA in Public Policy and Administration from York University.
Outside of work, Paul enjoys testing recipes for his outdoor pizza oven, spending time with family, and improving his golf game.
Joan Smart
Joan Smart is the Chair of the Quality Assurance Committee and serves on the Nominating, Governance & HR Committee.
Joan Smart is a legal and compliance executive with an extensive regulatory and litigation background. Her expertise includes designing and implementing effective compliance and ethics programs. She is an experienced manager of large global teams and change management, and was a regulatory advisor to executive management and boards.
Joan is a former Senior Vice-President, Chief Compliance and Regulatory Officer (CCO), for Scotiabank. In the newly created global CCO position, she was responsible for establishing, and directing the execution of, a strategy for effectively managing compliance risk across the Scotiabank group of companies of 85,000 employees in over 50 countries.
From 1991 to 1996 Joan served as Vice-Chair of the Ontario Securities Commission. Her responsibilities included chairing hearings on complex enforcement, regulatory and policy matters, including with respect to market conduct, take-over bids and corporate governance. She managed legal actions involving the OSC and actively participated in regulatory policy making. Joan is a published author on administrative law, securities law and litigation.
She is a past-director of Proudfoot House for women in transition from incarceration.
Bruce Teron
Bruce Teron serves on the Finance & Audit and Nominating, Governance & HR Committees.
Bruce is a Partner with Deloitte, and a leader in its Monitor Deloitte strategy consulting practice. He brings over 20 years of experience working with executive management teams to shape and execute their strategic and growth agendas, including extensive M&A and post-merger integration work. Bruce has worked across a broad range of industries, most particularly financial services and wealth management, as well as pharmaceuticals, fast moving consumer goods and telecommunications. Based in Canada, Bruce has also worked extensively in the US, UK, Switzerland, France, Germany, Mexico, Chile and Brazil.
Bruce is proud to have served for nine years on the Board of Directors of the Hicks-Dellcrest Centre.
Bruce earned a BCom from Queen’s and an MBA from Harvard.
Margaret Beatty
Margaret Beatty serves on the Quality Assurance and the Nominating, Governance & HR Committees.
Margaret is a 40-year industry executive, former hospital CEO, nurse and independent director. She has a track record of senior leadership and administrative experience in the management of diverse human, financial and clinical resources in complex environments undergoing change across Ontario. Using innovations in clinical and business models, enabling technology and mentoring, Margaret has assisted investment, philanthropy and healthcare boards, guided senior teams and advised government in the navigation of initiatives aligned to their missions to create quality, access and improve performance.
As an executive and consultant, she has provided leadership to organizations seeking to remain standalone while being an exemplary partner. Margaret has created and implemented regionalized models in multi-site hospitals to improve access to care. She has also led three provincial associations of community service providers to merge into one organization. As Vice President of Programs, Chief Nurse Executive she held accountability for clinical programs and in partnership with the private sector, held the quality license for a 200-bed long-term care home (487 beds). As President and CEO, she oversaw a hospital’s transformation while leading a significant financial turnaround, and improved access to care without involuntary layoffs or a reduction in services. Post the turnaround, the hospital achieved its Accreditation with Exemplary Standing with higher satisfaction scores.
Margaret has held board appointments in healthcare and university governance. In the latter, she worked with the university to implement Truth and Reconciliation strategies to improve access to medical school for Indigenous students. She has implemented thoughtful communications to diverse stakeholders and facilitated a new philanthropy mandate for a hospital foundation resulting in a successful major fundraising campaign.
She has a background in policy, communications and issues management. As an advisor, she has been on numerous initiatives and committees shaping healthcare at the provincial and national level (Federal Aboriginal Diabetes Strategy, Multi-Resistant TB Strategy; provincial Chronic Ventilation Service Expansion and Step Up to Diabetes Program). Margaret holds two Master’s Degrees, in Health Administration and Health Law. She obtained the ICD.D in 2016 and is a former Assistant Professor at the Northern Ontario School of Medicine where Truth and Reconciliation strategies were developed for Indigenous students to improve access to medical school.
Gary Teelucksingh
Gary Teelucksingh is the Vice Chair of the Transformation & Innovation Committee, and serves on the Finance & Audit Committee.
Gary is a Partner at Capco, a global business and technology management consulting firm. His experience extends across wealth and investment management, banking, brokerage, and financial planning. Gary has held executive roles including COO, Head of National Sales, Chief Compliance Officer, Product Management, Head of Wealth Operations, Head of Americas Region. Gary holds a Masters degree in mathematics from the University of Western Ontario and an MBA from the Richard Ivey School of Business.
Joseph Quarin
Joseph Quarin is the Vice Chair of the Finance & Audit Committee and serves on the Transformation and Innovation Committee.
Joseph is a successful public company Chief Executive Officer (TSX and NYSE), corporate executive and director. He was the Chief Executive Officer and Director of Progressive Waste Solutions Ltd., a North American non-hazardous solid waste management company from January 2012 until the US$4.8 billion reverse-merger with Waste Connections Inc. in 2016. Joseph joined Progressive’s inaugural leadership team in July 2000 and played an integral role in its success and growth from US$100 million to US$2 billion in revenue.
Joseph served in progressively senior leadership roles during his 15+ year tenure with the Company. As Chief Financial Officer, he led the Company’s income trust IPO in April 2002, followed by a transformative acquisition that tripled the company’s size to enter the U.S. market in 2005. Joseph subsequently transitioned to an operating role as Executive Vice President & Canadian Chief Operations Officer, rising to President & Chief Operating Officer before becoming Chief Executive Officer. Prior to Progressive, Joseph honed his corporate finance and business management skills with roles at Edgestone Capital Partners, KPMG Corporate Finance, Deloitte and Arthur Andersen.
Joseph is currently President and Chief Executive Officer of Q5 Capital Inc., a private investment company; and he is a Director and strategic management advisor to private and public companies focused on leadership, growth and operating initiatives that drive value creation. Joseph also established a charitable foundation in 2017 and is passionate about contributing to and supporting social and philanthropic causes.
Joseph holds a Master of Business Administration (with Distinction) from the Ivey Business School at Western University, a Bachelor of Commerce (Honours) from the Smith School of Business at Queen’s University, and is a Chartered Professional Accountant and Chartered Accountant. Joseph was recognized as #10 on the Financial Post’s Top 100 CEO Scorecard 2016, and named one of Canada’s Top 40 Under 40TM in 2004.
Joseph became a Director of the Humber River Health Board in June 2019 and serves on the Finance & Audit Committee. He also serves as a Board member of Spark Power Corporation (TSX: SPG), VIQ Solutions Inc. (TSXV: VQS), Edo Revenue Royalty GP and EJ Trademark GP, and Eagle River Capital, LLC.
Serge Gattesco
Serge Gattesco is the 2nd Vice Chair of the Board, Chair of the Transformation and Innovation Committee and serves on the Finance and Audit Committee.
For the past 10+ years, Serge Gattesco served in various Executive roles for PwC Canada first as National Managing Partner for PwC Canada’s Audit and Assurance Group, and then as National Managing Partner of Strategy and Operations. He retired as a Partner from PwC as of January 1, 2020.
Throughout his career, he acted as a Senior Relationship Partner (SRP) on many of their largest Canadian clients in various industries with extensive experience in dealing with both large and small Canadian and foreign multi-national public and private companies.
He is well versed in audit, accounting, systems and controls, risks and other general local and global business issues.
He has taught on various occasions at the Roman’s Institute of Corporate Directors on Audit Committee Effectiveness.
As National Managing Partner of Strategy and Operations, he developed significant experience in operations from all perspectives; Finance, IT, Sales & Marketing, Real Estate, Business Transformation, Human Capital and Change Management. As the National Managing Partner of the Audit and Assurance group, he had full accountability for the Canadian Audit and Assurance practice. This included quality, methodology, risk management and all aspects of operations from people to profitability.
He has been Board member, Chair of Finance committee and Treasurer of the Toronto Region Board of Trade.
He was the founding Chair of the Accounting and Finance Advisory Committee of the Ted Rogers School of Management at Ryerson (TRSM) and sat in that capacity for 5 years and is currently on the Deans Council of TRSM.
He is the past Treasurer and Board Member of Camp Oochigeas, a camp for Children with Cancer and served on the Board of the Ontario Division of Canadian Cancer Society, and on the Audit Committee of the Canadian Diabetes Association.
Lastly, through his professional career, he has had the opportunity to be on full-time secondments in the health care sector. These secondments ranged from approximately 6 to 9 months in length. His secondments included VP Operations and CFO of Markham Stouffville Hospital, CFO of what is now Cancer Care Ontario, and CFO of Brampton Memorial during its merger to form Willam Osler Health Centre.
Celeste Iacobelli
Celeste Iacobelli serves on the Nominating, Governance and HR Committee, and the Quality Assurance Committee.
Celeste completed high school in Toronto at Chaminade College School (1972) and graduated from York University (B.A. 1978) and Osgoode Hall Law School (LL.B. 1978). He was called to the bar of Ontario in 1980. He practiced law primarily in the fields of municipal and land use planning law. He retired from the Law Society of Ontario in 2021.
Celeste has been active in community affairs having served, inter alia, as a Commissioner and as Chairman of the Vaughan Hydro Electric Commission, as a member of the York Region District Health Council Steering Committee, as a director of the Vaughan Chamber of Commerce and as a member of the Board of Governors of Villa Charities Inc. He was appointed by the City of Vaughan Council as a City of Vaughan Ambassador in 2002. He has been active in a number of volunteer roles with the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Toronto.
Celeste has assisted many community groups and organizations with pro bono assistance throughout his career. He has been recognized with a number of awards, including the Villa Charities Heart & Hand Award, the Serra Ontario Governor’s Award and the 2008 Professional Excellence Award from the Canadian Italian Business and Professional Association. He was honoured with a 2012 Queen’s Jubilee volunteer recognition medal.
Ingrid Wilson
Ingrid Wilson is the Vice Chair of the Quality Assurance Committee and serves on the Finance & Audit Committee.
Ingrid Wilson is a Senior Human Resources Executive & CHRO and Equity and Inclusion Strategist, with over 30 years of global experience in corporate human resources strategy, board, and business strategy. Ingrid is a recipient of the Top 25 DEI Person of the Year Award, 2021, The Canadian Multicultural Group and LINKEDIN DIRECTORY OF 1000+ WOMEN WHO INSPIRE THROUGH THEIR WORK, Jul 2022 and TOP 100 HR Professionals, National Diversity Awards 2023. She serves on non-for-profit, community and advisory boards and committees, including as a Board Member, AIDS Committee of Toronto; Community Member, Region of Peel, Diversity, Equity and Anti-Racism Committee (DEAR); Board Director, Governance and Audit at the Canadian Association of Black Insurance Professionals (CABIP); Founding Advisory Committee Member, System-3 Inc., and Advisor, Governance and Human Resources Committee, Black Opportunity Fund (BOF) and has previously served as Board Chair and Vice Chair on other non-for-profit boards.
Ingrid has organizational experience with crown corporations, education, retail, media, non-for-profit, public sector, healthcare, unionized environments, private and public companies, information technology in fast-paced environments, in regulatory environments, with global expertise working for organizations with diverse operations, including the US and Europe. She has a deep knowledge and understanding of Diversity, Inclusion, and Equity through lived experiences, through developing and executing on inclusive talent management and leadership development strategies and working with vulnerable and racialized communities.
Ingrid has pursued excellence in human resources, board, and leadership strategy through the CHRP and CHRL designation, and through programs at Queens University and the Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto where she currently serves on the HR Advisory Group for Executive Development programs focused on HR Leaders. Ingrid also currently serves on the Appeals (Regulatory) Board Committee, Human Resources Professional Association.
Jennifer Laidlaw
Jennifer Laidlaw is the Vice Chair of the Nomination, Governance and HR Committee and serves on the Transformation and Innovation Committee.
She is a transformational leader, advisor, and coach who works with CEOs and senior executives to develop and deliver on bold, unprecedented change initiatives that result in powerful legacies aligned with strategy, people and purpose.
With almost 20 years of experience that spans multiple sectors, including the corporate, regulatory, public and non-profit sectors, Jennifer is a highly effective mobilizer of internal and external partnerships, strategic stakeholder alliances, and broad networks that produce extraordinary outcomes.
Jennifer is currently the Country Head of the 30% Club Canada. In this role, she is engaging leaders in corporate Canada to drive inclusive innovation across sectors and reinforce their commitment to advancing all women and non-binary folks. In addition, she is engaging 30% Club members to join the 50:30 Challenge and aspire to broader diversity in leadership as a competitive advantage.
She led the development of a progressive, global gender-balanced leadership strategy, designed to change talent composition at the executive level across the enterprise through engaging men, creating awareness of privilege and shifting from “fixing women” to fixing the workplace.
Jennifer then spent several years working directly with the CEO, to lead the development of the 30% Club Canada, including a national Advisory Committee of Chairs and CEOs. This work resulted in significant progress on the boards and c-suites of corporate Canada, including the achievement of the goal of 30% women on boards listed on the TSX composite.
In a key executive leadership role at the Ontario Securities Commission, Jennifer worked with the Chair and CEO as well as the Board of Directors to architect its transformation into a 21st -century regulator.
She currently serves as Board Director and Advisory Committee member for several national non-profit organizations, universities and businesses, including the Humber River Health Centre and Informed Opinions.
Jennifer is a graduate of the University of Toronto, where she earned an MA and completed her undergraduate studies at Wilfrid Laurier University. She holds a Certificate in Managing in a Regulatory & Enforcement Environment from the Harvard Kennedy School of Management.
Dr. Danielle Martin
Dr. Danielle Martin is Professor and Chair of the Department of Family and Community Medicine (DFCM), University of Toronto. DFCM is the largest academic department of family medicine in the world and home to the World Health Organization (WHO) Collaborating Centre on Family Medicine and Primary Care.
Dr. Martin is an active family physician and a respected leader in Canadian medicine. In 2006, her first year in practice, she helped launch Canadian Doctors for Medicare, the voice for Canadian physicians who believe in “a high quality, equitable, sustainable health system built on the best available evidence as the highest expression of Canadians caring for one another”.
Danielle’s policy, clinical and academic expertise, combined with her commitment to health equity, have made her a highly regarded health system leader. She holds a Masters of Public Policy from the School of Public Policy and Governance at the University of Toronto. In March 2014, Dr. Martin’s presentation to a United States Senate Subcommittee about the Canadian health care system brought her international acclaim and has been viewed by over 30 million people across the globe. Her national bestselling book ‘Better Now: 6 Big Ideas to Improve the Health of all Canadians’, was released in 2017 and is used by students and lay people across Canada who want to learn more about Canada’s health system.
Dr. Martin spent eight years as a senior hospital executive, most recently as Executive Vice President and Lead Medical Executive at Women’s College Hospital (WCH), where she was also medical lead of the hospital’s COVID-19 pandemic response. At WCH, she also led the establishment of Women’s Virtual, Canada’s first virtual hospital.
The recipient of many awards and accolades, in 2019 Dr. Martin became the youngest physician ever to receive the F.N.G. Starr Award, the highest honour available to Canadian Medical Association members.
Ex-Officio Members
- Barbara Collins (President & CEO)
- Dr. S. Zaki Ahmed (Chief of Staff)
- Dr. Prab Jhajj (President, Medical Staff Association)
