Leadership
Senior Staff
Deb Lester
Chief Executive Officer
Chelsea Minhas
Chief Program & Impact Officer
Tracy Brown
Director, Philanthropy
Susie Nygard
Director, People & Culture
Yolanda Zeng
Director, Finance & Operations
Ariela Friedmann
Director, Communications & Marketing
Maya Singh
Director, Business Transformation & Strategic Initiatives
Stephanie Gillingham
Senior Director, Program Services
Senior Staff may be reached at 604-685-5437.
Board of Directors
Mélanie Hennessey, Chair
Vice President, Corporate Communications
NOVAGOLD Resources Inc.
Steve Munford, Vice Chair
President & Chief Executive Officer
Trulioo
Jayana Darras, Treasurer
Partner, Audit & Insurance
Deloitte
Peter Lukomskyj, Secretary
COO
L7J Strategy
Christian Kittleson
Partner
Deloitte
Christine Stahler
Partner, Braid Strategy and Planning LTD.
David Byres
President and CEO
Provincial Health Services Authority
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Dr. David Byres is currently the president and CEO of the Provincial Health Services Authority ensuring that BC residents have access to a coordinated provincial network of high quality specialized health care services. He brings more than thirty years of experience in the health sector including previously serving as the associate deputy minister, clinical leadership for the B.C. Ministry of Health. He held responsibility across a number of divisions in the Ministry including Primary Care, Pharmaceutical, Lab and Blood Services, Specialized Services, Population and Public Health, Health Sector Workforce and Beneficiary Services, and the Office of Indigenous Health.
David spent more than 15 years with Providence Health Care including as executive vice president and later served as the chief nurse executive in BC for the Ministry of Health. His health career began in community mental health and as a registered nurse in medicine, mental health, community, and emergency settings.
David is actively involved in research and is currently a co-principal investigator examining a health equity intervention framework to promote the provision of equity-oriented care in B.C.’s emergency departments. He is also co-investigator with PORTIA: a multi-pronged observational program of outcomes research on treatment with injectables for addiction.
David holds a doctorate in nursing practice, a bachelor of arts degree in psychology and a bachelor and masters of science degree in nursing. He is an adjunct professor with the School of Nursing at UBC and adjunct assistant professor at the University of Victoria. He is a certified health executive with the Canadian College of Health Leaders, recipient of the Dean’s Medal of Distinction from the UBC Faculty of Applied Science and inducted as a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Nursing.
Jane Dardi
Mediator
Joy MacPhail
Chair of BC Ferries
Services Board
Lisa Dalton
Tamara Wong
Partner
Borden Ladner Gervais LLP
Wade Grant
Interim Chief of Staff
Musqueam Indian Band
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