Meet our Board
Thank you to Women’s College Hospital Foundation’s Board of Directors. This group of incredible volunteers is a passionate team of business and community leaders who are committed to helping us revolutionize health care by advancing women’s health and broadening access to care for all Canadians.
For additional information about our Foundation Board of Directors, please contact Darren Zagoruy, Manager, Board of Directors & Office of the President, at 416-813-4708 or darren.zagoruy@wchospital.ca.
A Message from our Board Chair – Debbie Simpson
On behalf of the Board of Directors and the staff team at Women’s College Hospital Foundation, thank you to each member of our community – each donor, supporter, champion and advocate. Thank you for supporting us in what we do, believing in our mission, vision and values.
Women’s College Hospital is a leader in advancing women’s health and broadening health care access for all Canadians. This is possible through the longstanding generosity of our incredible donor community. With your support, the Foundation fuels the Hospital’s excellence in research and health care, supporting the Hospital and its extended mandate for exemplary patient care, research, education and innovation, underscored by its unique and necessary focus on equity.
Your generosity is revolutionizing healthcare, and our gratitude knows no bounds.
Meet your board of directors for 2021/2022:
Debbie Simpson
Board Chair
Executive and Corporate Director
Linda L. Bertoldi
Chair, Governance Committee
Managing Director,
Brookfield Asset Management Inc.
Valerie Chort
Vice-President, Corporate Citizenship, RBC Executive Director, RBC Foundation
Carol Cowan-Levine (ex officio)
Chair, Advisory Council
Child and Family Therapist
Private Practice
Wendy Daniels
Chair, Inclusion, Diversity, Equity & Access Taskforce
Retired Financial Services Executive
TD Bank
V. Ann Davis
Retired Partner,
KPMG Canada
Elizabeth L.W. Fanjoy
Vice-President & Associate General Counsel, Personal Banking
CIBC Legal Department
Ozench F. Ibrahim
Chair, Audit & Finance Committee
Partner, Financial Services
KPMG LLP
Ron McEachern
Chair, Development Committee
CEO & Chairman,
Niagara Ventures Inc.
Anne McGuire (ex officio)
Board Representative
WCH Association of Volunteers
Heather McPherson (ex officio)
President & CEO
Women’s College Hospital
Paul Melville-Gray
President,
Boss Print & Creative Services
Silvia Montefiore, FCPA, FCA
Canadian Managing Partner, Business Enablement & Operations
KPMG LLP
Jennifer Ocampo-King
Co-Chair, Women for Women’s Committee
Director, Prime Brokerage
TD Securities Inc.
Eden M. Oliver
Past Board Chair
Corporate Counsel & Director
Eden M. Oliver PC
Jennifer Reynolds
President & CEO,
Toronto Financial Services Alliance
Maria Theofilaktidis
Executive Vice-President, Chief Compliance Officer & Head Enterprise Risk
Scotiabank
Katherine Tweedie
Managing Director, Canada
Ninety One (formerly Investec Asset Management)
David Urbach (ex-officio)
Interim Vice President & Medical Executive
Women’s College Hospital
Kara Wood
Founder & President,
Succinct Social Media
Robert Yeung
Co-Chair, Women for Women’s Committee
Managing Director & Head,
Global Equities and Financing Solutions, Global Markets
BMO Capital Markets
Samra Zafar
Author and Speaker
