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Board of Directors
The Board of Directors and Executive Team at Tech-Access Canada are committed to excellence in governance, transparency and ethics, and strive to continuously improve the governance structure and processes of the organization. The Board is composed of TAC leaders who were elected by the network membership and they are responsible for setting and adjusting the organizational objectives of Tech-Access Canada.
Melanie Ross
Chair of the Board, Tech-Access Canada
Research Chair, Green Building Technologies
Applied Research and Innovation Services
Southern Alberta Institute of Technology (SAIT), Calgary, AB
Richard Gale
Vice-Chair of the Board, Tech-Access Canada
Director, Camosun Innovates
Camosun College, Victoria, BC
Jean-Philippe Jacques
Vice-Chair of the Board, Tech-Access Canada
Director, Innofibre
Centre d’innovation des produits cellulosiques
Cégep de Trois-Rivières, Trois-Rivières, QC
Stephen Reaume
Treasurer of the Board, Tech-Access Canada
Director of Research, Lambton College
Sarnia, ON
Jennifer Andersen
David Courtemanche
Chief Executive Officer,
Merinov, Gaspé, QC
Lyndon Ashton
Associate Director, Food and Beverage Innovation Centre,
Niagara College, Niagara on the Lake, ON
Lorna Baird
Manager, Entrepreneurship and Innovation,
Technology Access Centre for Livestock Production (TACLP),
Olds College of Agriculture & Technology
Michael Long
Secretary of the Board, Tech-Access Canada
Dean, Applied Research and Innovation
College of the North Atlantic