2021 Board of Directors
Gillian Watters, Chair
Program Director,
KEYS Job Centre
Yafan Huang, Vice Chair
President & Chief Scientific Officer,
Performance Plants Inc.
Lyndsay Wise, Treasurer
Director of Market Intelligence,
Information Builders
John Sheridan, Secretary
Retired CEO,
Ballard Power Systems & Bell
Dave Carnegie, Past Chair
Senior Environmental Consultant,
Malroz Engineering Inc.
Gary Oosterhof
Councillor,
Countryside District
Don Aldridge
Retired Executive Director,
Centre for Advanced Computing,
Queen's University
Mary Rita Holland
Councillor,
Kingscourt-Rideau District
Anne Vivian-Scott
President & CEO,
BKIN Technologies Ltd.
Wayne Hill
Councillor,
Lakeside District
Bryan Paterson
Mayor,
City of Kingston
Ryan DaSilva
Industrial Millwright,
Cancoil Thermal Corporation
Lanie Hurdle, Ex-officio
Chief Administrative Officer,
City of Kingston
Megan Knott, Ex-officio
Executive Director,
Tourism Kingston
Board Member Recruitment Process
Each year, Kingston Economic Development conducts a recruitment process to fill vacant volunteer Board positions. We work closely with the City of Kingston to recruit qualified community members to fill those vacancies.
Applications are received by the City of Kingston. For more information, please visit the City's recruitment website.
Below is a diagram that explains the recruitment process:
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