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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.
Peter Laffin
Chair of the Board, Tech-Access Canada
Director – Office of Shared Services, Industry Solutions
Northern Alberta Institute of Technology (NAIT), Edmonton, AB
Melanie Ross
Vice-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
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
Lyndon Ashton
Secretary of the Board, Tech-Access Canada
Associate Director, Economic Development & Planning,
Niagara College, Niagara on the Lake, ON
Stephen Reaume
Treasurer of the Board, Tech-Access Canada
Director of Research, Lambton College
Sarnia, ON
Nathalie Méthot
Dean, Education and Research
La Cité, Ottawa, ON
David Courtemanche
Chief Executive Officer,
Merinov, Gaspé, QC
Chloé Bois
General Manager, and NSERC Industrial Research Chair for Colleges in Functional Printing, Printability and Graphic Communications Institute (ICI)
Ahuntsic College, Montreal, QC
Richard Gale
Director, Camosun Innovates
Camosun College, Victoria, BC
John Stratton
Program Director, SEATAC
Nova Scotia Community College (NSCC)
Dartmouth, NS