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, Hydro One and Telus.

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

Mr. Ross is the Chair of the OPSEU Pension Trust, the Vice-Chair of KP Autism Services and a member of the Investment Committee of Cystic Fibrosis Canada.

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 January of 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.

Mr. Dillon was appointed by the Government of Ontario to serve on the Workplace Safety and Insurance Board (WSIB), Infrastructure Ontario, the 2015 Toronto-Greater Golden Horseshoe Pan Am Games Committee, and recently the Appointments Council for the Ontario College of Trades.

Appointed by the Federal Minister of Public Safety, Mr. Dillon also sits on the Advisory Board of Correctional Services Canada (CORCAN). He is also a member of the Toronto City Summit Alliance where he joins other civic leaders in addressing the City's issues and challenges moving forward.

Mr. Dillon also sits on a number of construction industry boards, including those of the Ontario Construction Secretariat (OCS), the Construction Sector Council of Canada (CSCC), the Workers' Arts and Heritage Centre and the De Novo Treatment Centre.

In his hometown of Hamilton, Mr. Dillon is an avid curler and golfer. He is married with two children and three grandchildren.

As President and Chief Executive Officer of Infrastructure Ontario, David Livingston leads the crown corporation responsible for both managing the renewal of Ontario’s public infrastructure, as well as executing assigned business initiatives.

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 Infrastructure Ontario, eHealth Ontario, Ovarian Cancer Canada and the Children’s Aid Society of Toronto.

As chief executive officer of the Ontario Financing Authority (OFA), Gadi Mayman is responsible for the Province’s borrowing and debt management strategy, and its 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 at the Export Development Corporation in Ottawa and in the International Division of the TD Bank. He received a B.A.Sc. in Industrial Engineering from the University of Toronto in 1981, and an M.B.A. from the University of Western Ontario in 1988.

Mr. Mayman is also a board member of the Ontario Capital Growth Corporation and Co-Chair of the Joint Nuclear Funds Investment Committee, a joint OFA and Ontario Power Generation Committee.

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 retired partner of Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP, a leading Canadian law firm, where she was a senior partner in the Corporate group and Chair of Osler's national business law department. 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.

Director since: February 21, 2007

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, was the Design Architects for the original Terminal 3 at Toronto Pearson, and has had several recent major assignments at Pearson including the 120,000m2 expansion and retrofit of Terminal 3 and the design of the new 13,200-vehicle Terminal 1 parking garage.

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.

John Swinden is a retired partner from Ernst & Young Toronto. In his 39 year career with the firm he practiced auditing and accounting in a number of areas that included audits of large construction companies, computer audit specialty services, micro computer audit practice support and forensic accounting. He also served as the chief financial officer for the Canadian practice. His final responsibilities were for risk management and lived in London UK where he served as the world-wide director of risk management for Ernst & Young International.

Mr. Swinden holds a B.Com. from the University of Toronto and has been elected a Fellow of the Ontario Chartered Accountants Association. He is a Certified Fraud Examiner and holds a certificate in conflict resolution. He has been actively involved in professional and community activities over the years, including directorships at Young People's Theatre, Transparency International Canada and Toronto Summer Music Foundation. Currently he is a director and audit committee chair of a private Ontario based North American auto parts company as well as a director and treasurer of Stevenson Memorial Hospital in Alliston.