Jim Baillie
Non-Executive Chair of the IMO
Keynote: Wed. Nov. 24, 2.00 pm

James Baillie is the non-executive Chair of the Independent Electricity Market Operator, Ontario’s ISO. He is counsel in the firm of Torys. He has previously been chair of the Ontario Securities Commission (1978 to 1980). He is chair of Corel Corporation and a director of Sun Life Financial Services of Canada Inc. and of Sun’s United States subsidiaries, including MFS Inc. He practices at Torys in the general area of business law, with an emphasis on financial institutions and securities law. He does not practice law in the electricity area.

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Tom Brett
Gowlings

Mr. Tom Brett is a senior partner and Vice-Chairman of the Energy Department of the national law firm of Gowling Lafleur Henderson LLP, where he specialises in the transactional and regulatory aspects of energy law. Mr. Brett is a director and past president of the Independent Power Producers’ Society of Ontario.  He has represented end users, marketers, pipelines, and power producers in various contractual matters, development projects, and regulatory proceedings.

David Brown
Stikeman Elliott

Carol Buckley
Director General, Energy, Natural Resources Canada

David Butters
APPrO President

David Butters is President of APPrO. He comes to APPrO from Hill & Knowlton in Toronto, where he was Vice President, Public Affairs, and Director of their Canadian Energy Asset Group. He has been active in the sector as Secretariat to the Stakeholders Alliance for Competition and Customer Choice. His professional background also includes work for Bruce Power, TransAlta, AECL, Fortis, Toronto Hydro, the Association of Major Power Consumers in Ontario, and as Chief of Staff to a federal cabinet minister. Mr. Butters also has an extensive background in advertising and marketing communications.

Alex Bystrin
Oakville Hydro

Alex Bystrin is an energy industry executive with extensive experience managing district energy and electricity distribution companies.  Alex has a long track record of delivering financially successful and environmentally beneficial energy initiatives.  He played a leadership role in building the infrastructure for Toronto’s district heating and cooling systems, including the Deep Lake Water Cooling initiative.  Alex is currently leading the development of renewable power and distributed energy generation facilities.  Alex was appointed President and CEO of Oakville Hydro Corporation in May, 2000. In this role, he is responsible for the holding company and its three subsidiaries:  Electricity Distribution; Energy Services; and Data Communications.  Alex is a graduate of the Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering of the University of Toronto (B.A.Sc.), and the Richard Ivey School of Business, University of Western Ontario (MBA).

Bruce Campbell
IMO, Vice President, Corporate & Legal Affairs

Bruce joined the IMO in June, 2000 after 26 years in private legal practice. He holds the position of Vice-President, Corporate and Legal Affairs.  In that capacity he is responsible for corporate strategy and business development; regulatory affairs; corporate relations and communications; and legal affairs.  He has extensive background within the electricity industry, having acted as legal counsel in planning, facility approval and rate proceedings throughout his career in private practice.  Bruce is a graduate of the University of Waterloo and Osgoode Hall Law School.

Hon. Donna Cansfield,  MPP Etobicoke Centre
Parliamentary Assistant to the Minister of Energy
Keynote: Wed. Nov. 24, 1.30 pm

Donna Cansfield was elected in 2003. Ms. Cansfield has been a trustee for over 15 years on the Etobicoke and Toronto District School Boards and has served as chair of both boards. She has  been the vice-chair for the Toronto Foundation for Student Success which helps feed 60,000 young students each school day and offers counselling to families in need. Through her recent roles as president of the Canadian School Board Association and as a steering committee member for the Early Childhood Development Study, she has gained a national perspective on a variety of social issues. She was also a director of Prime Mentors of Canada, a national  organization founded in 1987 to reach out to at-risk children aged nine to 13.  Ms. Cansfield also served as a director of Beatrice House, a residence for  the homeless. She has served as a front-line volunteer and board member with the Dorothy Ley Hospice, a service organization that supports people who are  terminally ill.

Dave Charleson
Enbridge Gas Distribution

Dave Charleson is the Director Energy Policy & Analysis at Enbridge Gas Distribution.  He has been with Enbridge for 16 years and has held a variety of roles in the Operations, IT, and Finance areas of the organization.  In his current role, he is responsible for the Company’s gas supply and customer profiling/load research activities. These responsibilities include the development and advancement of the Company’s strategy related to gas supply, upstream transportation, and storage within the industry.  This includes addressing matters related to increased demand associated with power generation.  Dave holds an Honours Bachelor of Math degree from the University of Waterloo.

Barry Chuddy
Enersource Hydro Mississauga Services

Mr. Chuddy is Executive Vice President, Business Development and Marketing of Enersource Hydro Mississauga Services, covering all non-regulated businesses within Enersource Corporation. After leaving Emera in Nova Scotia in 2003, Barry took on this new role at Enersource, after working on a consultative basis supporting the Corporations many new initiatives related to emerging markets in distributed generation, demand side management, and green power.  Barry is now fully responsible for these initiatives and expansion within each of the Corporation’s various affiliate businesses. Barry Chuddy has two decades of electricity industry experience, holding senior positions in TransAlta and Emera and working throughout Canada and the U.S. Northeast focusing on electrical generation development, acquisition and optimization.  While working with TransAlta in Ontario, Barry led the development of their Ottawa, Windsor, Sarnia and Mississauga co-generation projects. Barry oversaw a number of TransAlta’s development activities worldwide while he took on other areas of increasing responsibility after relocating to the Company’s head office in Calgary in 2000.

Ron Clark
Fraser Milner Casgrain

Ron has advised over 25 municipalities on corporatization of their distribution assets and has advised various stakeholder groups, including generators, retailers, lenders and distributors, on legislative and policy matters relating to electricity markets. He has also advised on electricity restructuring in Albania, Macedonia and the Regional Southeast European market. In his corporate/commercial practice, Ron advises corporations, municipalities, financial institutions and individuals on commercial agreements, asset and share purchase transactions, mergers and acquisitions, private placements and secured lending transactions.  He has also advised on telecommunications matters, including disposition of dark and lit fibre networks. He is the author of numerous articles which have appeared in publications such as The Globe and Mail, Municipal World, and Electricity Today. He appears regularly on television and at industry conferences as an energy industry expert. He is the President of the Toronto Branch of the Canadian Institute of International Affairs and is Chair of the Ontario Electricity Association Task Force on Ontario’s proposed electricity legislation.