Board of Directors

During his extensive career in the Ontario Public Service, David Lindsay served as Deputy Minister in half a dozen portfolios including Energy and Infrastructure, Northern Development, Mines and Forestry, Natural Resources, and Tourism and Culture. He also served as the Principal Secretary and Chief of Staff to the Premier of Ontario from 1995 to 1997 and was President and CEO of the Ontario Jobs and Investment Board from 1997 to 1999.

As the founding President of the Ontario SuperBuild Corporation, Mr. Lindsay oversaw provincial government infrastructure planning from 1999 to 2003. He has also served as President and CEO of the Council of Ontario Universities and President and CEO of Colleges Ontario.  

Over the past 25 years, Mr. Lindsay has served as a director on the boards of many government agencies, cultural and not-for-profit organizations, and private businesses including the Ontario Innovation Trust, Ontario Realty Corporation, the Public Policy Forum, and the Ontario Chamber of Commerce. He is currently is a Distinguished Fellow of the Queen's University School of Policy Studies, Vice Chair of Ontario Parks Board, and sits on the Ontario Greenbelt Foundation Board.

Carmine Francella brings over 30 years of experience leading teams that focus on lease negotiations, property development, and lease audits. He is currently the SVP of Leasing for First Capital REIT and oversees a portfolio in excess of 22M sf serving 150 communities across Canada. He was previously the head of lease transactions in his role as Vice President, Leasing of Scotiabank. Prior to Scotiabank he was the head of real estate for Walmart Canada in the role of Senior Director, Real Estate & Development. Carm is a Harvard Business School Alumnae with a focus on Professional Leadership.

Lynn A. Kennedy is a senior real estate executive who has been involved in all facets of real estate investment - acquisitions, dispositions, development, transaction structuring including joint ventures and financing across major product types for a number of public companies and in the private sector.  Ms. Kennedy has served as a Board member and Executive Committee member of Pensionfund Realty Limited, a private corporation, held by a number of pension plans.  Ms. Kennedy also served on a public board, Build Toronto, a corporation whose mandate was to maximize the value of underutilized assets, now CreateTo. Ms. Kennedy holds a Corporate Director Certificate from Harvard Business School. 

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 TD Bank. Mr. Mayman is also a board member of the Ontario Capital Growth Corporation, Invest Ontario and Co-Chair of the Joint Nuclear Funds Investment Committee, a joint OFA and Ontario Power Generation Committee. He received a BASc in Industrial Engineering from the University of Toronto in 1981, and an MBA from the University of Western Ontario in 1988.

John, a Chartered Professional Accountant (CPA, CA), is a corporate director who served as an officer and director of two Canadian investment dealers and subsequently as the CEO of a global investment management firm he founded in 1990.

He has over thirty years of experience in the domestic and international capital markets and seven years of experience with the IMF in Washington. His career includes extensive internal, external and comprehensive audit experience, domestically and internationally in both the public and private sectors.

He received a BBA from the University of New Brunswick (UNB) and, in 1994 was honoured with a Certificate of Achievement from UNB. John completed the Canadian ICD's Corporate Governance program in 2004. Most recently he served as the Trust Administrator (2009-2017) of the Move Ontario Trust, used to fund distributions in respect of $3.2 billion of capital investments in a heavy rail inter-regional public transit infrastructure expansion project in southern Ontario which was successfully completed in 2017.

Carol Pennycook is a partner of the law firm Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg with a diverse corporate, transactional practice including financings, complex corporate reorganizations, plans of arrangement, going private transactions, CCAA reorganizations, mergers and acquisitions and public-private partnership transactions.   Infrastructure transactions include acting for the winning consortium or their lenders for social infrastructure and transportation infrastructure projects, renewable energy and district energy projects in Canada and the USA.  Carol was formerly a member of the firm's Management Committee and a director on the board of PPP Canada (P3C), a federal Crown corporation. She was Chair of the Commodity Futures Act Advisory Committee in 2005.  She is an adjunct professor at Osgoode Hall Law School at York University and is recognized as a leading lawyer by Chambers Global, IFLR 1000, Lexpert, Best Lawyers and others and received Canada’s Most Powerful Women Top 100 Award.

Mark Romoff is the former President and Chief Executive Officer of The Canadian Council for Public-Private Partnerships (CCPPP). Established in 1993, CCPPP’s mission is to collaborate with all levels of government, Indigenous Communities and the private sector to enable smart, innovative and sustainable approaches to developing and maintaining public infrastructure that achieves the best outcomes for Canadians.

Previously, Mark was founding President and CEO of the Ontario Centres of Excellence, Canada’s leading innovation, technology commercialization and entrepreneurship development organization.

Over his twenty five year career with the government of Canada, Mark served as Executive Director in the Department of Industry and as a senior diplomat in the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (Global Affairs Canada), serving in Nigeria, Mexico, Malaysia, Japan and the United States.

He is a member of the Board of Directors of the Central Canadian Public Television Association (PBS-WNED); Australia-Canada Economic Leadership Forum; i-CANADA Board of Governors; and is Vice-Chair of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe Working Party on Public-Private Partnerships Governing Council. He also served as Chair of the Canadian Smart Cities Challenge Jury.

He earned a Bachelor of Science from McGill University, a Masters in Applied Science from the University of Waterloo, and is a graduate of the Harvard University Kennedy School of Government Senior Executives Program and the Directors Education Program of the Canadian Institute of Corporate Directors and holds the ICD.D (Certified Director) designation. Mark is also a recipient of the 2012 Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal.

David Shiner is an experienced business professional with extensive expertise in the private and public sectors.  Having owned and managed private corporations and serving as a Toronto City Councillor for 27 years Mr. Shiner understands well how business and governments operate.  His public appointments included Chair of many city committees responsible for planning & development, finance, public works and government management.  He served as Chair of Build Toronto and Vice-Chair of Create TO, the City of Toronto's Real Estate & Development Corporations.  HISs experience is wide-ranging having been appointed to numerous public and not for profit boards including Enwave District Energy, Toronto Hydro, Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto International Film Festival, Toronto Transit Commission, Evas's Shelters for homeless youth and the Canadian Film Centre.  Mr. Shiner is a recipient of the Queen Elizabeth II Golden Jubilee Medal for his exemplary contribution to his community and a graduate of the ICD - Rotman School of Management Directors Program.

Annesley Wallace is Executive Vice President and Global Head of Infrastructure for OMERS. She has developed a highly successful track record as a creative and results-driven leader across various industries and roles in engineering, finance, pensions, and infrastructure. Her current mandate includes the leadership, strategic direction, and performance of the global OMERS Infrastructure team and portfolio.

Annesley joined the OMERS Infrastructure investment team in 2012 and played a leadership role in managing investments across energy, transportation, and social infrastructure sectors to deliver long-term value for the OMERS pension fund.

More recently, Annesley was the Chief Pension Officer, responsible for a team that provides all front-line service to OMERS 500,000 pension plan members and 1,000 employers across Ontario. Annesley currently serves on the boards of Bruce Power, Infrastructure Ontario, and the Toronto Region Board of Trade

Annesley has a Bachelor of Science (Mechanical Engineering) degree and a Master of Science (Mechanical and Materials Engineering) degree from Queen's University, as well as a Master of Business Administration degree from the Schulich School of Business at York University. She is also a registered Professional Engineer in Ontario and a former recipient of Canada’s Top 40 Under 40 award.

Jeff Wesley is a lawyer with the Anderson Law Group with offices in Wallaceburg and Chatham. Before joining the Anderson Law Group Jeff worked at Union Gas for 34 years (he retired in 2018) where he developed and implemented the groundbreaking Indigenous Relations Program in 1999. Jeff personally visited over 80 Indigenous communities developing many successful programs that are still in operation today. Union Gas and Six Nations Natural Gas were awarded the Ontario Aboriginal Partnership Award. As part of the Major Projects Group at Union Gas Jeff was instrumental in achieving timely permits and approvals for large diameter pipe installations with specific accountabilities for municipalities and the Niagara Escarpment Commission. He was a subject matter expert when it came to municipalities and permitting bodies like the Niagara Escarpment Commission and was a recognized problem solver on major projects. As part of his role at Union Gas Jeff was on call 24/7 to mitigate/resolve any appeals that threatened project timing and completion.

In 2018 Jeff also retired from 24 years as an elected official having served the community of Wallaceburg as Mayor and also as a Councillor in the amalgamated Municipality of Chatham-Kent where asset management and lifecycle funding were key parts of the municipality. As an elected official Jeff served in many leadership roles including Chair of the Public Utilities Commission dealing with water and waste water projects. Jeff was a very active supporter of the community serving as Chair on the local hospital board and the Save Our Sydenham Committee which was instrumental in saving the local hospital. For his work in the community Jeff was honored with the Queen's Diamond Jubilee Medal and in 2018 was selected as the Chamber of Commerce Citizen of the Year.

Jeff has a Honors B.A. from Western University (1980) and a LL.B from the University of Windsor (2007) where he and his daughter (who is also a lawyer) were in law school together and teamed up to win the Hicks Morley Labour Moot.

Jeff brings a well-rounded understanding of both the private and public sector to the Board.