Board of Directors - Biographies

Tony Ross serves as the Chair of Infrastructure Ontario. Prior to this, Mr. Ross worked as a Business Consultant for RG Group where he advised, among others, Manulife Financial, the Government of Newfoundland, the University of Toronto, York University, Ottawa Congress Centre, Hydro One, TD Securities, Merrill Lynch Canada, Scarborough Hospital and Telus.

Before RG Group, Mr. Ross was Vice-Chairman of Merrill Lynch, where he directed the activities of the Capital Markets group.

Patrick J. Dillon is the Business Manager and Secretary Treasurer of the Provincial Building and Construction Trades Council of Ontario. He has held this position since 1997.

He began his career in the construction industry as an apprentice electrician in 1961 and became a journeyman in 1966. Following 18 years of experience in the construction industry, he was elected Business Manager of Local 105 of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW). In 1991, he was elected Executive Chairman of the IBEW Construction Council of Ontario where he was responsible for establishing the very successful Provincial Organizing Department.

Mr. Dillon was appointed by the Government of Ontario to serve on the Board of Directors of the Workplace Safety and Insurance Board (WSIB). He also serves as a director on the following organizations: Ontario Construction Secretariat (OCS), the Construction Safety Association of Ontario (CSAO), Construction Sector Council of Canada and the De Novo Treatment Centre. Dillon also served on the Hamilton Harbour Commission.

In addition, Mr. Dillon is active in his hometown of Hamilton where he is an avid curler and golfer.

Mr. Dillon is married and has two children.

As President and Chief Executive Officer of Infrastructure Ontario, David Livingston oversees the crown corporation responsible for executing large-scale public infrastructure projects for the Government of Ontario. Infrastructure Ontario also runs the Province’s strategic infrastructure financing programme.

Mr. Livingston obtained his B.Sc from the University of Western Ontario in 1973 and his MBA from Queen’s University in 1976. He and his wife have two grown children.

Mr. Livingston is a Director of eHealth Ontario, Ontario Infrastructure Projects Corporation, Ovarian Cancer Canada and The Children’s Aid Society of Toronto.

As chief executive officer of the Ontario Financing Authority, Gadi Mayman is responsible for the Province’s borrowing and debt management programs and banking and capital markets relationships. He is also CEO of the Ontario Electricity Financial Corporation.

Prior to joining the Ontario Ministry of Finance, Mr. Mayman worked as a treasury officer at the Export Development Corporation in Ottawa and in the International Division of the TD Bank.

Mr. Mayman is also a board member of the Ontario Clean Water Agency.

Isabel Meharry is the Chief Financial Officer for Green Shield Canada which specializes in group and individual health and dental programs and administration.

A Chartered Accountant since 1980, Isabel has more than 25 years in senior financial and operating roles. Prior to joining Green Shield Canada, she held the position of President and Chief Executive Officer of Financial Executive International Canada. She has also served as the Executive Consultant to the Chairman and CEO of Sun Life Financial of Canada in Hong Kong, as an Executive Vice President Operations of Aviva Insurance Company, as the Chief Financial Officer of the Insurance Corporation of British Columbia and as the Chief Auditor at North American Life Insurance Company (now part of Manulife).

Isabel is the Chair of the Board of Director's of Kerry's Place Autism Services, and on the Board of Directors of the Scarborough General Hospital, and serves on the Council of the Insitute of Chartered Accountants.

Isabel holds an MBA from Schulich School of Business, is a Chartered Director and was recently awarded her FCA.

Linda Robinson is a senior partner at Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP, a leading Canadian law firm, and Chair of Osler's national business law department. Linda has a corporate law practice with a particular emphasis on mergers and acquisitions, business and financial restructuring and shareholder matters. Ms Robinson has a long standing interest in infrastructure renewal with an MSc in Urban and Regional Planning Studies from the London School of Economics.

Jim Schwindt is a Professional Engineer who started his career at Traugott Construction Limited in 1973 as an estimator and project manager. He was then promoted to General Manager in 1978 and became President and controlling partner in 1982. He retained this position until his retirement at the end of 2005.

Throughout his career, Mr. Schwindt has served as the director and chairman of numerous associations, such as the Council of Ontario Construction Association, the Ontario General Contractors Association and the Grand Valley Construction Association.

Mr. Schwindt graduated from the University of Waterloo in 1973 with a Bachelor of Applied Science in Civil Engineering.

Darija Scott is Managing Principal of SCOTT Associates Architects Inc., which she co-founded in 1987. The Toronto-based firm’s current project and consulting work in the international area centres around public/private infrastructure projects.  This field has become an area of specialization for Darija.  She has worked around the world on several high profile transport privatization projects with a diverse group of clients including operators such as Lockheed and Hughes, contractors Bouygues and Skanska, as well as entities such as British Aerospace and Aeroports de Paris, and various airport authorities.

Her firm SCOTT Associates were the Design Architects for Terminal 3 at Toronto Pearson and have several major assignments at Pearson including the design of the new 13, 200-vehicle garage at Toronto’s new terminal development as well as the upgrade and expansion of Terminal 3.

Darija runs the firm's Business Development divisions in both Canada and the US.

Mr. Salerno currently serves as the President of Integrity Works, Inc., a consultancy firm focused on providing a variety of business services to the private and public sectors related to corporate governance, regulatory compliance and business ethics.

From 2000 until 2005, Mr. Salerno served as Managing Director of Global Investment Banking and Investment and Corporate Banking at BMO Nesbitt Burns. From 1995 to 2000, Mr. Salerno served as Chief Executive Officer and Vice-Chair of the Ontario Financing Authority, where he advised the Minister of Finance on many initiatives, including the restructuring of Ontario Hydro. Prior to that, he held many positions of increasing responsibility in the Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Transportation, where he led the development and implementation of the original Highway 407 public-private partnership.

He has also served on a number of boards, including Cornerstone Capital, the Ontario Clean Water Agency and Superbuild Corporation.