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Français Agenda at a Glance Detailed AgendaHOSTED by:
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À LA CARTE sponsors: Atlantic Lotto Ernst & Young Fédération des caisses populaires acadiennes Royal Bank of Canada Xstrata
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September 14-15, 2011 • Ramada Plaza Crystal Palace • Dieppe, New Brunswick |
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List of Speakers
Wesley Armour grew up on his family’s farm in Taylor Village, a small farming community 20 miles southeast of Moncton, New Brunswick. After completing high school he attended College and graduated from Business Administration. Having worked on the farm with his father, Gordon, during his earlier school years and later in trucking, Wes joined his father full time upon completing his formal education. At this time in 1966, the business was incorporated and included a fleet of 10 straight trucks and 11 employees. Two years later Gordon Armour retired and Wes acquired the company at the age of 22. Today, Armour Transportation Systems, one of Canada’s 50 Best Managed Companies, has more than 3,800 pieces of equipment, over 1,700 employees, 25 freight terminals and more than 600,000 square feet of Public Warehousing. For further information on Armour Transportation Systems, please visit www.armour.ca. Wes has actively promoted the trucking industry in Canada through membership in both regional and national trucking associations. He is past President and current Director of the Atlantic Provinces Trucking Association as well as past President, past Chairman of the Board and current Director of the Canadian Trucking Alliance. In addition to Wes’ membership on trucking industry boards, he is involved with the boards of other businesses and community organizations. Most recently, he was appointed as Chair of the Atlantic Gateway Advisory Council. Wes has received several awards throughout his career in the trucking industry including:
Wes is married to the former Patricia Buck and they have two children – son Ralston, daughter-in-law Alisha and daughter Victoria. His beloved son, Angus, passed away in 2010. His family is involved with the business and will carry on the family-owned firm into the next generation. Wes enjoys snowmobiling, skiing, motorcycling, boating and traveling with his family.
In 1995, Uma started her first entrepreneurial venture, ‘Automation Design Center’ which provided consulting and software development in industrial automation. This firm became a JV with a US based hydraulics major ‘OilGear’. In 2001, Uma incorporated ‘Techitomation’, to provide IT and automation solutions and subsequently the firm evolved into Axcend which provides end-to-end IT solutions for manufacturing industries and utilities. Ms. Uma is the CEO of Axcend & she is an MBA graduate from IIM Bangalore, She earlier completed B.E. from Bangalore University and Masters in Computers from BITS – Pilani Axcend is a global industrial information integrator serving companies in the manufacturing and utilities sectors. Our aim is to drive and increase their business value through the REAL TIME enablement of their manufacturing operations. With their unique blend of competencies in Business Consulting, Industrial Automation and Information Technologies, Axcend helps clients derive competitive advantage in their manufacturing businesses. Due to their growing expertise in this space of evolving convergence of IA- IT technologies, Axcend is now a preferred product development partner to Automation OEMs and Manufacturing IT OEMs. Strategic. Visionary. Responsible. Driven. These are prevailing characteristics of Michelle Carinci’s life and have earned her recognition among Atlantic Canada’s Top 50 CEOs for 2003, 2004, 2008 and 2010, as well as induction into the Lottery Industry Hall of Fame for 2006. Michelle’s leadership has earned Atlantic Lottery recognition three times as one of Canada’s Top 100 Employers in Maclean’s news magazine annual survey. Michelle is a well respected leader, innovator and champion. Her drive, vision and commitment to the industry has continued throughout her 35 year career includes experience in leadership positions with the British Columbia Lottery Corporation, the Western Canada Lottery Corporation and the U.S.-based GTECH Corporation. She was the President of the Interprovincial Lottery Corporation (ILC), as well as an Executive Committee and Board Member. Michelle also sat on the Executive Committee for the North American State and Provincial Lotteries (NASPL) and the World Lottery Association (WLA) Executive Committee. In addition, she is the founding Chair and Co-chair of the WLA’s Corporate Social Responsibility Committee. As President and CEO of the Atlantic Lottery for ten years, Michelle was responsible for a company with a billion dollars in annual revenue and a return to shareholders of over four hundred million. She led the migration of the business from a lottery monopoly to a company positioning itself to compete in the new digital world of gaming. During her tenure significant employment growth was realized in the private sector.
Tracy is the President of MASITEK Instruments Inc, a technology company that supplies the bottling and agricultural industries worldwide. A graduate of Saint Mary's University in Halifax, Tracy has spent her professional career working in sales and marketing for two of Atlantic Canada's largest and most successful companies, Moosehead Breweries and McCain Foods International. At Moosehead, Tracy began her sales career and over the course of 7 years service, moved into the position of Sales Manager. With McCain International, she was responsible for all of the marketing programs and new product development in emerging markets including the Caribbean, Mexico, Central America, the Middle East and parts of Asia. With her new venture, Tracy is hoping to take MASITEK's technologies to record sales and distribution levels.
Trisha is co-founder and President for the ‘Nursing Content Solution’, MedSenses Inc. Seeing the need for increased access to continuing education for nurses and the collection of evidence-based e-learning practices in healthcare, MedSenses was born. With a clinical background in coronary, addictions, pediatrics, neonatal and flight nursing, she has authored hundreds of hours of clinically relevant e-learning courseware. Having built and delivered training both at the University and Institutional education levels, Trisha brings a qualified approach to how we, as nurses, learn. Trisha has spent the last eight years of her career researching e-learning strategies and how these may be modified or applied to our community of nurses around the globe. Acting as a primary clinical advisor to many technology and publishing companies throughout North America, she has written, been published, and presented numerous times on a healthcare-specific e-learning model. Trisha hopes the payoff will be offering hospital administrators with qualified tools in providing their staff with greater job satisfaction & sense of value; she believes that education is the key to a higher quality healthcare environment.
Jane’s professional career began as a Chartered Accountant and Auditor with Clarkson Gordon (now Ernst & Young). She went on to pursue a PhD in Management at McGill University and was a professor and researcher for many years, holding academic appointments with Queen’s, Concordia and McGill. Jane's research was in the area of incentive contracting and corporate governance. She published in academic journals and secured major research funding including from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. In 2001, only months before the unfolding of Enron, Jane accepted an offer to head-up the Executive Compensation practice in Montreal for Mercer. Jane was a National Partner with Mercer and managed the Human Capital business in Eastern Canada when she left in 2007 to join Alcan as Vice-President, Compensation and Benefits. After the purchase of Alcan by Rio Tinto, the UK/Australian mining giant, in October 2007, Jane accepted the position of Global Practice Leader – Total Rewards for Rio Tinto and has spent the last three plus years commuting between Montreal and the UK. In February of this year, Jane switched sectors and went from mining to money when she moved to Scotiabank! She now works as Senior Vice President Total Rewards and works out of Scotiabank’s corporate headquarters in Toronto. Scotiabank has more than 70,000 employees in 50 countries around the world. Jane serves on the Board of Regents of Mount Allison and chairs the Investment Committee. Jane continues to call Montreal home and commutes there on weekends to join her family.
Joann brings her passion for facilitating life transitions especially in the lives of women where she has been mentor and coach to many in non-traditional roles, including engineering, science and technology. With a Bachelor of Science in Chemical Engineering from the University of Alberta, an MBA in Learning Organizations and Change Management from Athabasca University, and as a Wel-systems® Facilitator and Life Transitions Coach, Joann has taken advantage of the opportunities for growth and transformation that she has encountered along her diverse and varied career path. Joann’s career has included Engineering, Audit and Consulting positions in the Oil and Gas Industry as well as regulatory experience with Indian Oil & Gas Canada and Northern Oil and Gas with the Federal Government. Her community development experience with the SK Government’s Municipal Affairs, HRDC – Rural Dialogue implementation, and INAC Land Claims & Self-Government Negotiations and Implementation serves her well in addressing the challenges business development in small communities. Joann looks forward to playing a lead role on the Women in Business Initiative and to the excitement of embracing supplier diversity, increasing Women business growth in technological fields and in export, contributing to NB’s economy. Her vision is “NB Women Business Owners and Entrepreneurs leading the way in economic growth and prosperity”.
Lily Durepos is the 2011 Provincial Female Entrepreneur of the Year Award
Winner for
New Brunswick. She
is the co-owner of Alliance Assurance Inc. – with a head office
located in Grand Falls and 10 offices/point of sales situated
throughout the province.
Throughout her 30-year career, Sucharita has enjoyed bringing together teams to work on entrepreneurial projects. The teams she has built have worked on developing innovative products and processes to leverage opportunities, and create a win-win for all the stakeholders. She has founded two not-for-profit media organizations, Madhyam and VOICES, heading them as Founder Director. During this time, she was instrumental in the introduction of FM community radio in India (70 licences granted so far) and South Asia and in setting up a Rural Development Fund for accelerating teledensity and universal telecom access in India. In 2010, she initiated a Base of the Pyramid Technologies Group with the participation of NASSCOM, International Finance Corporation, various government agencies, a telecom company, and social entrepreneurs. The objective is to bring innovative business models and technology solutions to those at the “Bottom of the Pyramid” in hitherto untapped markets in India and other economies. Her training and experience in Communication and Policy Advocacy has enabled her to create multi-stakeholder engagement strategies for the organizations with which she has worked. She has effectively delivered outcomes by connecting with and enrolling relevant participants and stakeholders to create focused road maps for each stakeholder to accomplish their stated objectives, and enabled the delivery processes. Sucharita’s long experience of project management (in Advertising and Media, two non-profits, UNESCO, and the IT industry) ensures that she plans meticulously, reviews consistently and ensures delivery on the mission and road map agreed upon. She consciously encourages diversity of views: this enables ownership and innovation by a multi-disciplinary team. That’s how she can often deliver results in surprisingly short timeframes. Her latest entrepreneurial venture, Triple Bottomline, works with corporations to enable sustainability through implementing responsible business and Profit-People-Planet strategies. A mother of two girls, Sucharita is also a certified deep sea diver and enjoys travelling to experience different cultures.
Darcy
Grant, BSc CS, I.S.P., PMP, ITCP An active member of our IT community, Darcy has held executive positions at the local and provincial section levels of the Canadian Information Processing Society, the Board of Directors of the NB Chapter of PMI and as their Chair of the Local Events Committee in Fredericton. Darcy currently sits on the Board of Directors at Science East. Her volunteer involvement in the IT community has recognized in 2002 when she was awarded the IT Hero Award by the Information Technology Association of Canada. In 1999 she was one of the founding members of CIPS’ Women in IT program in Fredericton, aimed at encouraging young women to pursue careers in technology. In the fall of last year she took up the cause again focusing on providing networking and mentoring opportunities for women in New Brunswick’s ICT Sector, connecting women with programs and activities around the province that support professional development, and once again promoting increased enrolment of women into Computer Science, Engineering and other ICT degree and diploma programs. After gaining her CS degree from UNB in 1986 Darcy began her career working with the Canadian Air Force in Cold Lake Alberta on real-time air combat training systems for our fighter pilots. This was followed soon after by work with the Canadian Navy on the Canadian Electronic Warfare System deployed on many of our Naval vessels. Having no interest in entertaining a round with the Canadian Army, Darcy transitioned into a Consulting career , providing advice and direction to clients in retail, manufacturing, government,, finance, and the pharmaceutical industry, as well as acting as a Senior Project Manager, Change Manager, and playing a leading role in managing a number of operational integrations arising out of corporate mergers. Currently Darcy is working as a Senior Consultant with Ambir where she is engaged as a Change Manager on a major project with the Provincial Government.
Lori Marshall is a Vice President with the Thunder Bay Regional Health Sciences Centre, where she is responsible for strategy and performance management. Ms. Marshall has held a variety of administrative positions from CEO with the Nipigon District Memorial Hospital to Vice President Patient Care at Lakeridge Health Corporation in Oshawa, Ontario. She believes strongly in volunteerism and sits on several provincial and local Boards. Ms. Marshall is a Registered Pharmacist with the Ontario College of Pharmacists and is a Certified Health Executive with the Canadian College of Health Services Executives. She holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Pharmacy from the University of Toronto and a Masters of Health Administration from the University of Ottawa. Lori’s proudest accomplishment is serving as a role model for her three daughters and learning so much from them in return.
Recently, Sally’s took on the role as Tech South East’s (TSE) Community Engagement and Outreach Coordinator. Sally is focused on increasing awareness of Tech South East, its member community, partnering organizations, stakeholders, as well as the tech sector and life science sector in South East New Brunswick. A major role of Sally’s is to align and promote organizations working to attract youth into the technology and life science sectors. Sally was named one of the Top 50 Emerging Leaders in Atlantic Canada by 21Inc in 2010. She was a member of the ChemGreen Innovation Team who won the 2009 New Brunswick Innovation Foundation (NBIF) BreakThru Business Plan Competition. Sally was featured on the cover of Progress Magazine as one of top 20 “People we love” who represent the spirit of Progress (Vol.16 No. 3). Recognized as a post-secondary activist and business innovator, Sally’s entrepreneurial spirit and dynamic background will bring forth new initiatives to engage the members of TSE and community. Sally holds a Bachelor of Commerce from Mount Allison University and her Commercial Pilot's License from Moncton Flight College. She is a member of the Greater Moncton Women’s Progress Club. Sally remains heavily involved in developing leadership and citizenship values in the next generation through her commitment to the Canadian Cadet Movement where she is an officer with the Cadet Instructor Cadre (CIC), branch of the Canadian Forces. Sally is an Alumna of Canada World Youth, Youth Leaders in Action Program and took part in an intercultural exchange in Ontario and Tanzania in 2009.
Suzanne Robichaud is Vice-President, Primary Health Care of Vitalité Health Network. At the time of her appointment, Ms. Robichaud had been director of Telehealth and Research for the Beauséjour Regional Health Authority from 1998 to 2008. In this capacity, she acquired several years of experience in the field of e-health information and communication technologies. She contributed to identifying, developing and coordinating innovative primary health care projects. Ms. Robichaud began her career as a nurse and acting team leader at the Ottawa General Hospital in 1982. After a short stint at the Dr. Georges-L. Dumont Regional Hospital as a manager in the Emergency Department, she joined the team of the Montfort Hospital in Ottawa as a clinical manager in Medicine and Emergency, from 1991 to 1995. She then returned to New Brunswick as a nurse manager in Nephrology at the Beauséjour Regional Health Authority from 1996 to 1998. Ms. Robichaud earned a nursing diploma from the École d’enseignement infirmier Providence in 1981 and a Bachelor of Health Science degree from the Université du Québec à Hull in 1990, In addition, she has completed numerous professional development courses.
Before working as a Lead Designer, Diane started her career with NB Power in 2001 in the Operational Safety Group in the Nuclear Safety Unit. She was involved in outage heat sink planning, requesting approvals from the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission (CNSC), reviewing events for reportability to the CNSC and revising the station’s Operating Policies and Principles. Diane graduated from the Chemical Engineering program in 1998 at the University of New Brunswick (UNB), Fredericton. After graduating from University, Diane worked for McCain Foods Limited as an Environmental Engineer for the Canadian plants. Diane loves the social aspect of her work as she is constantly dealing with various personnel. Her keenness for learning the technical details and applying them to a particular situation is very gratifying. Working at a nuclear power plant is in her mind an “excellent place to grow as a technical person because you are constantly learning and stretching your abilities. The environment has such variety and complexity.” For Diane, “the satisfaction of knowing you’re achieving the greater goal of refurbishing the plant in a quality manner by verifying the design documentation is incredibly motivating.”
Lynn Roger is the Senior Vice-President, Talent Strategies and Executive Resourcing. Under her leadership, the ‘customer voice’ has moved to the very top of the HR agenda, and the alignment between business and HR strategy has strengthened, including a more disciplined and focused approach on Human Capital Planning, Employee Engagement and Leadership Development. Early on, her team broke new ground in response to Canada’s rapidly changing demographics, where they introduced a cutting edge collective approach with a consistent methodology for the assessment of talent across BMO Financial Group. Lynn’s extensive background in Human Resources includes Employee Relations, Talent Acquisition, Leadership Development, Succession Planning and the development of corporate and business specific HR strategies. Throughout her career she has lead many teams in several of BMO’s banking operations. Lynn joined the bank in 1979, has a breadth of experience in both business groups and in the corporate centre, including various roles in Talent Management. In her current mandate she has enterprise-wide accountability for advancing the Talent and Diversity & Inclusion agenda.Lynn is a Fellow of the Institute of Canadian Bankers and holds a Master of Business Administration in Financial Services from Dalhousie University. She is the Chair of the BMO Employee Charitable Foundation and is a member of the Advisory Council Centre of Excellence, for the Toronto Financial Services Alliance (TFSA). She has two beautiful twin daughters that are pursing their dreams and both girls are the pride and joy of their parents.
Dale Weil, Senior Vice President, Integrated Healthcare Solutions and Pharmaceutical Solutions, is responsible for the management of two divisions: McKesson Integrated Healthcare Solutions and McKesson Pharmaceutical Solutions.
Weil joined McKesson Canada as Vice-President, Eastern Canada in August 1999. From January 2004 to March 2005, she held the position of Vice-President, Hospital and Specialty Pharmaceutical Solutions. Prior to joining McKesson Canada, Weil was Vice President and General Manager, Québec Refrigerated Products Division for Ault Foods Ltd. For many years Weil acted as both Director for the national board of the Kids Help Phone, and Chairman for its Quebec chapter "Jeunesse J'écoute." Since 2001, Weil has been an Administrator for the Board of Directors for the Association québecoise des pharmaciens propriétaires (AQPP). Dale currently sits on the board for the West Island Palliative Care Foundation. Weil earned both her Bachelor of Science in Marine Biology and Master of Business Administration from McGill University.
Theresa is a Wharton’s Ivy League MBA with a major in Entrepreneurship and also possesses a Bachelor in Technology from Memorial University. She is an exceptional hands-on visionary Leader, performance driven Entrepreneur and International Project Manager with more than 20 years of relevant diverse industry experience in small entrepreneurial ventures and world-renowned organizations such as UPM-Kymmene, Allstream and Atlantic Lottery Corporation. Background includes twelve years entrepreneurial experience, control of a $12 million operating budget and multimillion dollar capital budgets. As a youth, she received the Duke of Edinburgh’s Gold Award from then Governor General Madame Jeanne Sauvé. With Sauvé as a role model, Theresa is dedicated to social responsibility and serves as a New Brunswick Ambassador. In addition, she has been on the YWCA Board of Directors, a big sister twice with Big Brothers/Big Sisters and a volunteer in many charitable organizations. Theresa is the owner and CEO of a management consulting company, Atwood Consulting Group Ltd and a new exciting internet start-up, Atwood Technology Inc. |
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