Centre of Excellence in Security, Resilience, Intelligence

Advisory Board

Rear Admiral James J. Carey, United States Navy (Ret.)

• Former Chair, U.S. Federal Maritime Commission and United States Presidential Advisor
• Chairman, The Flag and General Officers' Network

Lieutenant-Colonel Walter J. Perchal, Canadian Armed Forces

• Program Director
• Managing Director, IC Inc.

Dr. George Jackowski

• Chair & CEO Pivotal Therapeutics
• Holder of over 140 international pharmaceutical patents

Rear Admiral Donald P. Loren, United States Navy (Ret.)

• Former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Homeland Security Integration, U.S. Department of Defense and United States Presidential Advisor
• Former Deputy Director for Operations Support, U.S. National Counterterrorism Center

Major General Donna Barbisch, United States Army (Ret.)

• Former Director, Chemical, Biological, Radiological, and Nuclear Program Integration, Office of the Secretary of Defense, U.S. Department of Defense

Chief Armand LaBarge

• Former Chief, York Regional Police
• Part President, Ontario Association of Police Chiefs

Robert G. Kearns

• President and Founder, Kearns Insurance Corp.
• Founding Director of the Ireland Canada Chamber of Commerce

Martin Hubbes

• Executive Vice-President and CIO, AGF Funds Inc.
• Member of the Toronto Society of Financial Analysts

Pat DiCapo

• Managing Principal, PowerOne Capital
• Director of the Limited Market Dealers Association

Major-General David A. Fraser, Canadian Armed Forces (Ret.)

• Former Commandant, Canadian Forces College
• Former Project Director of Joint Headquarters Renewal, Canadian Armed Forces

Chief Shayne Mintz

• Chief, Burlington Fire
• Board of Directors, Ontario Association of Fire Chiefs

Speaker List

Major-General Donna Barbisch, DHA, United States Army (Ret.)

• President, Global Deterrence Alternatives
• Distinguished Fellow, Center for Infrastructure Protection and Homeland Security, George Mason University
• Former Director, Chemical, Biological, Radiological, and Nuclear Program Integration, Office of the
• Secretary of Defense, U.S. Department of Defense

Roy Boerschke, Ph.D.

• Senior Advisor, Security Directorate, Chief Information Officer Branch, Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat
• Former Special Advisor, Environmental Health Program, World Health Organization
• Former Director, Global Water Quality Initiative, World Health Organization

Lieutenant-Colonel Cal Bricker, Ph.D., Canadian Armed Forces

• Vice President, Public Affairs, Waste Management Canada
• Board Member, Canadian Journalism Foundation
• Staff, Canadian Forces College

Lieutenant-Colonel Angelo Caravaggio, OMM, CD, Ph.D., Canadian Armed Forces

• Director, Centre for National Security Studies, Canadian Forces College
• Research Fellow at Centre for Centre for Military Strategic and Disarmament Studies, Wilfred Laurier University
• Former Chair of Executive Development, Canadian Forces College

Lieutenant-Colonel Terry Farrell, United States Army Reserve Command

• Domestic Nuclear Detection Office, Department of Homeland Security
• Former Logistic Support Officer, Logistics Civil Augmentation Program, Afghanistan
• Former Exercise and Special Staff Officer in the Homeland Defense Office, Deputy Chief of Staff, U.S. Department of Defense

Major-General David A. Fraser, OMM, MSC, CD, Canadian Armed Forces (Ret.)

• Former Project Director of Joint Headquarters Renewal, Canadian Armed Forces
• Former Commandant of Canadian Forces College
• Former Commander Multi National Brigade (Regional South Command), International Security Assistance Force (Afghanistan)

Blake Goldring, M.S.M., LL.D., CFA

• Chairman & Chief Executive Officer, AGF Management Limited
• Chairman, Canada Company
• Member, Canadian Council of Chief Executives

Ian Heigh, MSc

• Humanitarian logistics expert with International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent / UN World Food Programme and various other programs
• Lead, humanitarian logistics emergency response for major operations since 1994 (Great Lakes, Hurricane Mitch, Kosovo Civil War, Indonesia Tsunami, Pakistan EQ, Haiti EQ, and others)
• Currently Director and Humanitarian Supply Chain Management Specialist, Everywhere – Humanitarian Response and Logistics Services, LDA.

David Hyde, M. Sc., CPC

• Former Chief Security Officer, Cadillac Fairview
• Certified Advanced Level CPTED Practitioner
• Certified Threat Risk Assessor (International Security Management and Crime Prevention Institute)

Michel Juneau-Katsuya

• Former National Coordinator of the Port of Entry Interdiction Program, Counter Terrorism, Canadian Security Intelligence Services
• Security Intelligence Services
• Former Chief, Asia-Pacific, Report and Analysis Branch, Canadian Security Intelligence Services
• President & Chief Executive Officer, The Northgate Group

Chief Armand LaBarge, BA, MA, OOM, York Regional Police (Ret.)

• Past President, Ontario Chiefs of Police
• Graduate of the FBI National Academy
• Advisor, Children of Hope

Rear Admiral Donald P. Loren, United States Navy (Ret.)

• Former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Homeland Security Integration, U.S. Department of Defense
• Former Deputy Director for Operations Support, U.S. National Counterterrorism Center
• Former Deputy Director J-5, Strategic Plans and Policy Directorate for Political-Military Affairs, The Joint Staff, U.S. Department of Defense

Chief Shayne Mintz, BA, MPA, Burlington Fire

• Board of Directors, Ontario Association of Fire Chiefs
• Ontario Fire Service Section 21 Health and Safety Advisory Committee, Ontario Ministry of Labour
• Member, CSA Z1600 Emergency Management and Business Continuity Technical Committee

Lieutenant-Colonel Walter J. Perchal, Ph.D., CD, Canadian Armed Forces

• Graduate and Undergraduate Faculty, Disaster and Emergency Management, York University
• Former Special Advisor to the Chief of Land Staff (Army Commander), Canadian Armed Forces
• Managing Director, IC, Inc.

George Platsis, BBA, MBA, MA-DEM

• Director, Research Center, National Defense Foundation (Washington, DC)
• Chief Administrative Officer, SRI Professionals, Inc.
• Advisory Board, Science in Service to Humanity Foundation

Senior Police Official, Peter Sloly, BA, MBA

• Executive Command
• Graduate of the FBI National Academy
• Member of the Police Executive Research Foundation

Colonel F. William Smullen, BA, MA, United States Army (Ret.)

• Director, Maxwell School of National Security Studies, Syracuse University
• Former Chief of Staff to Secretary of State Colin Powell
• Former Special Assistant to Joint Chiefs Chairman Admiral William Crowe Jr.

Dimitri Soudas

• Former Director of Communications for the Prime Minister of Canada
• Executive Director, Communications, Canadian Olympic Committee
• Former Senior Advisor for Quebec, the Prime Minister's Office of Canada

Chief William Stewart, FIFireE, CFO, CMM, AdeC, Toronto Fire Services

• Past President, International Association of Fire Chiefs
• Past President, Metropolitan Fire Chiefs Association
• Past President, Institution of Fire Engineers (Canada Branch)

The opinions of the speakers do not imply endorsement by any government agency or other organizations the speakers may be affiliated with. Given the positions and high level of responsibility our speakers hold, their availability is subject to change.