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.

.

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.

Sean Conway
Gowlings

Mr. Conway joined Gowlings as a ploicy advisor in January of 2004. He focus will be working with clients in the energy and natural resources sector. With his extensive experience in the public sector, he is available to advise Gowlings’ clients on a broad range of business and public policy issues. Before joining Gowlings, Mr. Conway served in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario for 28 years, from 1975 to 2003.  He served in the cabinet of Premier David Peterson (1985-90), holding the positions of Minister of Education, Minister of Colleges and Universities, Minister of Mines, and Government House Leader.  His most recent position in the Legislature was as Liberal party spokesperson for energy and electricity policy.  Mr. Conway retired from the Legislature in October 2003.  In addition to his work at Gowlings, Mr. Conway is a Visiting Fellow at Queen’s University School of Policy Studies and a regular panellist on the TVO public affairs program, Studio 2.

Aleck Dadson
Direct Energy

Aleck Dadson is Senior Vice President, Direct Energy Marketing Limited. Direct Energy is the largest retailer of electricity and natural gas in Canada's competitive energy markets. He was a member of the Market Design Committee and currently serves on the IMO Technical Panel. Prior to joining Direct Energy he worked for another major North American energy company and was a partner in a major Toronto law firm, specializing in the area of energy regulation. He acted as counsel to a wide range of utilities and energy marketers in proceedings before the Ontario Energy Board, National Energy Board and other regulatory bodies. He also acted as Special Counsel to the OEB Staff regarding Ontario Hydro's bulk power rates. He is a graduate of the University of Toronto and Yale Law School.

John Dalton
Navigant Consulting

Lisa DeMarco
Macleod Dixon

Lisa is a partner with Macleod Dixon LLP.  She  is generally recognized as a Canadian expert on emissions trading and has been  invited to share her expertise around the world.  She represents a number of cogeneration and green power companies on power projects and emissions matters in Ontario and Canada.  She also represents a range of energy marketing and electricity generation clients in proceedings before the Ontario Energy Board.  In addition, Lisa acts for a number of international organizations and companies in matters related to the Kyoto Protocol.

John Dodd
CanBIO, KMW Energy Inc.

Mr. Dodd holds advanced degrees from the University of Guelph.  As a graduate student John was lead researcher and technical writer for a national study of tap use habits in Canada and a regional study of land use patterns and pollution in the Thames River basin of Ontario.  He has taught at the university level and has written numerous articles and technical papers.  In his 25-year career, he has a series of accomplishments as a businessman, corporate executive and consultant in; land development and construction, boilers and thermal equipment, water treatment technologies, effluent treatment chemistries, international trade, project management, economic development and alternative energy systems.  John has conducted business in over 15 countries to promote thermal and water treatment technologies.  He has also been active in business development and helped bring international firms such as Miura Boiler, Cetco, and Enviroflow to Canada. 

Hon. Leona Dombrowsky,
MPP Hastings-Frontenac-Lennox & Addington
Minister of the Environment, Government of Ontario
Keynote: Wed. Nov. 24, 8.30 am

Leona Dombrowsky was appointed Minister of the Environment by Premier Dalton McGuinty in October, 2003. She was first elected to the Ontario legislature in 1999 and re-elected in 2003.  She represents the riding of Hastings-Frontenac-Lennox and Addington, which is the largest riding in Southern Ontario, stretching from Napanee to Bancroft.  As an MPP Ms Dombrowsky has been active on many issues including education, health care, physician shortages, social services, children's issues, agriculture, water-taking permits and alternatives to landfill.  She also served as the Deputy House Leader of the Ontario Liberal Party and the Liberal critic for Community, Family and Children’s Services. As Minister, Ms Dombrowsky has moved to protect the quality and quantity of Ontario’s water supply, introduced a five-point plan to combat smog and taken action to increase waste diversion. In 1985, she was elected as a trustee to the Hastings and Prince Edward Roman Catholic School Board and served as board chair from 1991 to 1996.  In 1998, she became the first chair of the newly amalgamated Algonquin and Lakeshore Catholic School Board. As a trustee, she served as a director on the Ontario Catholic School Trustees Association and was a member of the Advisory Committee of the Education Quality and Assessment Office.  Ms Dombrowsky is a graduate of the University of Toronto.

Hon. Dwight Duncan, MPP Windsor-St. Clair
Minister of Energy, Government of Ontario
Keynote: Wed. Nov. 24, 7.00 pm

Dwight Duncan was first elected in 1995 and was re-elected in 1999 and 2003. A respected member of the legislature, Minister Duncan served as opposition house leader from 1999 to 2003. He was also management board critic and over the years served in other critic posts. A staunch  defender of public health care and public education, Minister Duncan was vice-chair of the legislature's Standing Committee on Social Development. A resident of Windsor-St. Clair, Minister Duncan served on Windsor City Council from 1988 to 1994. He also served on the staffs of the Hon. Herb Gray, former Deputy Prime Minister of Canada, and former Ontario Labour Minister Bill Wrye. A graduate of McGill University and the University of Windsor, Minister Duncan has degrees in economics and commerce and an MBA. He has a son, Sean, aged 13.

Murray Elston
Canadian Nuclear Association

On January 5, 2004 Mr. Elston was appointed President of Canadian Nuclear Association (CNA) after having served as President of Canada’s Research-Based Pharmaceutical Companies (Rx&D) since November 1, 1998.  From January to October 1998, Mr. Elston was a member of the Energreen Solutions Group and from 1994 to 1997 served as President of the Ontario Interlink Industrial Park.  From 1981 to 1994 Mr. Elston served as a member of the Ontario Legislature, where he held a number of positions including Minister of Health, Chairman of the Management Board, Minister of Financial Institutions and Chairman of the Public Accounts Committee.  Mr. Elston is a graduate of the University of Western Ontario and holds a Bachelor of Arts and a Bachelor of Law degree.  Prior to being elected to the Ontario Legislature, Mr. Elston practiced law in Bruce County, Ontario.  Mr. Elston is Chair of Ontario’s Clean Water Legacy Trust, Chair of Walkerton Clean Water Centre and Chair of the Board of Directors of the University of Ottawa Institute of Mental Health Research.  He is also a member on the Boards of Directors of the Canadian Nurses Foundation (CNF), HydroOne, General Insurance Company of The Royal Bank of Canada and Past Chair of the Board of Directors of the Canadian Medical Hall of Fame (CMHF).

Hon. Jake Epp, P.C., B.A., B.Ed., LL.D. (Hon)
Chairman of OPG
Keynote: Wed. Nov. 24, 3.15 pm

Jake Epp is Chairman of Ontario Power Generation Inc. (OPG). He was appointed to this position in April 2004. He held the position of interim Chairman from December 2003 until his current appointment. OPG is an Ontario-based electricity generator whose principal business is the generation and sale of electricity in Ontario and to interconnected markets, while operating in a safe, open and environmentally responsible manner. Jake Epp was a member of the provincial government’s review committee that was created in December 2003 and headed by John Manley, to look at OPG’s future role in the province’s electricity market; examine its corporate and management structure; and decide whether OPG should go ahead with refurbishing three more nuclear reactors at the Pickering A nuclear power plant. The committee’s report was presented to the government in March 2004. In May 2003, Jake Epp was appointed by the Ontario government to lead a panel to review the delays and cost overruns at the Pickering A nuclear generating station. The findings of the report were released in December 2003. Jake Epp was a Member of Parliament for the riding of Provencher, in Manitoba from 1972 to 1993.  He also held three cabinet  posts: Minister of Energy, Mines and Resources (1989-1993); Minister of National Health and Welfare (1984-1989); and Minister of Indian Affairs and Northern Development (1979-1980). From 1993 to 2000, he was Senior Vice  President and Vice President at TransCanada PipeLines Ltd. Jake Epp graduated from the University of Manitoba with a B.A. in 1961 and a B.Ed. in 1965. He was appointed to the Privy Council of Canada in June 1979 and received an LL.D. (Honourary) from Western University in 1988.

Glen Estill
CanWEA

Glen Estill is the President and founder of Sky Generation Inc., an Ontario wind development company.  The company has erected a 1.8 MW wind turbine on the Bruce Peninsula, and is currently has Ontario’s largest private sector installed wind capacity. Glen is a Past President of the Canadian Wind Energy Association (CanWEA), and has served on the CanWEA board.  Glen is a member of the Renewable Energy Task Team and active member of the Ontario Caucus of CanWEA.  In 1980, he was the co-founder and Chief Financial Officer of EMJ Data Systems Ltd., a wholesale computer distributor that went public on the Toronto Stock Exchange in 1994.  Revenues for the company grew to over $200 million during his tenure, and the company achieved 100 consecutive quarters of operating profit.  Glen has a Bachelor of Economics, and Master of Business Administration from the University of Western Ontario.

Ted Ferguson
The Delphi Group

Ted is an expert in the fields of sustainable energy solutions, corporate sustainability and climate change. He has worked for leading edge companies and initiatives which seek to bridge the gap between business needs, energy issues, environmental concerns, and long-term sustainability. He leads the Energy and Environment business unit at Delphi, designing innovative and sustainable solutions to issues related to energy consumption and production.  Ted also leads this business unit’s services to companies and governments trying to solve complex policy and management needs around corporate greenhouse gas regulations and policy. Prior to joining Delphi, Ted worked for BC Hydro, where he was responsible for corporate sustainability strategy and climate change risk management, focussing on green power development and energy efficiency. Ted also has worked for Foreign Affairs Canada, helping to develop the first set of rules and guidelines for the international emission markets. Ted was project coordinator for Canada’s earliest foray into greenhouse gas trading.

Julia Frayer
London Economics

Julia Frayer joined London Economics’ Boston office in February 1998. She is a Principal at London Economics International LLC. Julia has worked extensively in the US, Canada, Europe, and Asia in valuing electricity generation and wires assets, water and wastewater networks, as well as gas transportation assets.  Julia performed the modeling and price forecasting supporting London Economics International LLC’s successful market analysis related to generation asset valuations in New York, New England, PJM, California, the Midwest, Alberta and Ontario. As part of these analyses, Julia and her team of economists and consultants have developed and applied proprietary real-options based valuation tools, models of strategic bidding behavior, and sophisticated power system simulation tools.

James Gillis
Ontario Deputy Minister of Energy, Government of Ontario

James recently joined the Ontario Public Service as Deputy Minister of Energy. Prior to this, James spent several years in the investment Banking Group at TD Securities, with an industry focus on energy utilities.  James is a graduate of the University of Toronto, where he earned an Honours BA and MBA.

Paul Gipe
Ontario Sustainable Energy Association
Keynote: Wed. Nov. 24, 2.00 pm

Paul Gipe has written extensively about wind energy for both the popular and trade press. He has lectured widely in Europe, North America and the South Pacific on wind energy and how to minimise its impact on the environment and the communities of which it is a part. For his efforts the World Renewable Energy Congress honoured Gipe as a "pioneer" in 1998 and the American Wind Energy Association named him as the industry's "person of the year" in 1988.  His book Wind Energy Comes of Age was selected by the (American) Association of College and Research Libraries for its list of outstanding academic books in 1995. His Wind Energy Basics has been translated into Spanish and Italian. Gipe was one of the lead authors and he co-edited Wind Power in View: Energy Landscapes in a Crowded World, published by Academic Press in 2002. Wind Power in View is an authoritative international collaboration on wind energy and its place on the landscape. His new book, Wind Power: Renewable Energy for Home, Farm, & Business was recently published by Chelsea Green.  Mr. Gipe is currently an adviser to the Ontario Sustainable Energy Association.

Julie Girvan
Consumers Council of Canada

Ms. Girvan is an independent consultant who currently advises the Consumers Council of Canada in its role representing the interests of residential consumers in both electricity and natural gas matters in Ontario.   She has been involved extensively with the restructuring initiatives in both the natural gas and electricity sectors.  Ms. Girvan was a member of the electricity industry’s Market Design Committee and was the residential representative on the IMO’s Technical Panel for two terms.  She spends a large part of her time managing interventions in proceedings before the Ontario Energy Board. Prior to becoming a consultant Ms. Girvan spent several years as a Project Manager at the Ontario Energy Board. She has a B.A. from McMaster University and an M.A. in Public Administration from Carleton University.

David Hajesz
Large Final Emitters Group, Natural Resources Canada
 

Harold Huber
McCarthy Tetrault

Judith Hull
Environment Canada

Sasha Jacob
Dundee Securities

Paule Juneau
Hydro-Québec

Paule Juneau is Team Coordinator – Public Affairs for Hydro-Québec. As such, she supervises a team that is responsible for stakeholder relations both in Quebec and in the international arena.  An attorney with a master's degree in international law, she has worked in private practice and in different areas of the energy sector, including government authorizations, international infrastructure projects and international regulatory affairs. She now acts as a special advisor to Hydro-Québec's CEO, André Caillé, in his role as Chairman of the World Energy Council.

Charles Keizer
Ogilvy Renault

Mr. Keizer, National Co-chair of Ogilvy Renault's Energy Law Team, practises corporate/commercial and administrative law, primarily in the energy sector. His corporate and commercial experience includes corporate mergers, acquisitions and project finance. Mr. Keizer advises clients undertaking transmission and generation projects in respect of a variety of aspects including financing, project development, regulatory and contractual matters. He has also negotiated interconnection and operating agreements on behalf of transmission companies inside and bordering Ontario.  Mr. Keizer has advised one of Ontario’s largest privately owned electrical utilities on generation and transmission matters and was lead counsel in respect of an $85 million 164 km transmission line project. He has also acted for various municipal electric utilities with respect to corporate matters and mergers and acquisitions.  He represents clients with respect to applications before the Ontario Energy Board on transmission and distribution rates and leave to construct matters. He has advised project proponents with respect to the development of international power lines. He advises clients on a variety of power and gas purchase arrangements.

Mike Kurichuk
AMPCO, Association of Major Power Consumers in Ontario

Mike Kuriychuk is Manager of Energy Development at Bowater, Thunder  Bay, where he has been leading the company through the many changes created by electricity restructuring in Ontario. Mr. Kuriychuk has recently been elected as Chair of the Board of AMPCO, the Association of Major Power Consumers of Ontario. He has also held Chair positions in the Boards of Directors of the Thunder Bay municipal economic development corporation and the local utility, Thunder Bay Hydro, as well as leading the Canadian Pulp and Paper Association’s™ Energy Committee. He brings a strong  interest in electricity policy development with the goal of enhancing the Ontario economy and supporting customer interests through effective  regulatory and market structures.

Geneviève Lavallée, CFA
DBRS

Geneviève is a Vice President, and has been with DBRS since 1998.  Geneviève has had primary responsibility for the Canadian electricity companies and gas distribution utilities within the Energy portfolio since 2001.  She is responsible for various credits and stability ratings within the Canadian portfolio of electricity and gas distribution companies.  Previously, Geneviève had primary responsibility for the Government Finance group and assisted the Structured Finance Group with government-related entities, including airports. Prior to joining DBRS, Geneviève was with the federal Department of Finance, where she worked in a number of areas, including debt management, intergovernmental tax policy and economic analysis and forecasting. Geneviève has a Bachelor of Social Sciences (Economics and Math) from the University of Ottawa (1991), a Masters degree in Economics from the University of Western Ontario (1992) and her Chartered Financial Analyst designation (1998).

David A.N. Lever
McCarthy Tetrault

David Lever is a partner in McCarthy Tétrault LLP’s Corporate Finance and Mergers and Acquisitions Group in Toronto and is co-chair of its National Energy Group. His practice has a specific focus on project finance, corporate finance and mergers and acquisitions in the energy area.  Mr. Lever has been actively involved in the power industry since 1988. During this period he has acted for developers, investors and lenders in connection with wind, hydro, nuclear and co-generation power projects in British Columbia, Alberta, Ontario, Québec, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia and the United States. Mr. Lever has provided counsel in the areas of development, financing, contract negotiation, permitting and regulatory matters and ownership structures. He has extensive experience in financings for public and private corporations and income funds in both public and private markets. Mr. Lever also has significant experience in the purchase and sale of businesses in the energy industry.

Peter Love
Canadian Energy Efficiency Alliance

Peter Love is a Principal in Summerhill Group, specialists in  Transforming Markets to Sustainability through the development and management of energy/environmental programs.  One of the organizations that Summerhill manages, with Mr. Love the Executive Director, is the Canadian Energy Efficiency Alliance, a multi-stakeholder organization that is the leading independent voice in Canada to promote energy efficiency and its related benefits to the economy and the environment.  Peter is also President of EnerQuality Corporation that delivers the R-2000 Standard for energy- efficient new homes in Ontario and is developing other complimentary programs.   Mr. Love received his MBA from the University of Toronto.

Charlie Macaluso
Chief Executive Officer, Electricity Distributors Association (EDA)

Charlie Macaluso is Chief Executive Officer of the Electricity Distributors Association (EDA). Mr. Macaluso has more than 20 years experience in the electricity industry.  He is recognized for his work, dedication and knowledge of the energy industry, both from a municipal and provincial perspective. He is also known for his high level of leadership in the risk management and insurance areas. He is an astute and accomplished business leader with a proven track record in the energy and insurance industries. As CEO, he spearheaded the reform of the Association to meet the emerging competitive electricity marketplace, and positioned the Association as “The Voice of Ontario’s Electricity Distributors.”

David B. Matthews
Enbridge

David Matthews has 25 years of energy experience in gas and electricity with Enbridge Consumers Gas, the Ontario Energy Board and B. C. Hydro. In addition to his current responsibilities as Manager of Regulatory Strategy at Enbridge, Mr. Matthews is the Chair of Brantford Power a mid-size electricity distributors and the Vice Chair of Brantford Energy. As the Senior Board Advisory to the Ontario Energy Board, Mr. Matthews was a key contributor to the deregulation of the natural gas industry and the introduction of the Energy Competition Act.  During his career in the energy industry,  Mr. Matthews has focused on business development, government relations, change management, financial assessment, regulatory policy, natural gas distribution and electricity transmission.  He holds a BA in Economics and Masters in Business Administration from the University of Western Ontario.

Gord McBrien
Ontario Power Generation

Joyce McLean
Toronto Hydro Energy Services Inc.

Joyce McLean is the Director of Environmental Affairs at Toronto Hydro.  Joyce has a 24-year career in the environmental field, including as:
   - a project manager for North America’s first urban wind turbine
     at Exhibition Place;
   - a senior political advisor to two Ontario Environment Ministers;
   - an Ontario representative on the International Joint Commission’s
     Great Lakes Water Quality Board;
   - a self-employed policy consultant and writer on environmental issues;
   - Great Lakes campaign director for Greenpeace International,
     and Chair of the Board of Directors, Greenpeace Canada;
   - Chair, Board of Directors, Green$aver, and
   - Director, Canadian Wind Energy Association.
Educated in political science, marketing and journalism,
Joyce makes her home in Toronto.

Rob McLeese
Access Capital

Mr. McLeese is the founder and President of Access Capital Corp. (“Access”), a Toronto based Financial Advisory firm specializing in the independent power industry.  Access has been involved in over $1.5 billion of independent power production project financings. Through Access, Mr. McLeese provides advice to buyers and sellers of alternative energy projects (and companies) and has provided project reviews and rating services for lenders, owners and utilities (from 5 MW to 300 MW). Technologies with which Access has closely worked include: gas fired cogeneration, hydraulic, biomass, waste coal, other renewables, and district energy.  Mr. McLeese is Deputy Chairman and Chief Financial Officer of three power projects in the U.S. (a 47 MW biomass, a 33 MW waste coal and 50% of a 53 MW waste coal fueled power plant). He played a major role in the development and financing of one of the projects and the acquisition and re-financing of the other two.  Mr. McLeese is a Past President of APPrO (the Association of Power Producers of Ontario).  He is a Director of Creststreet Power and Income Fund, which is co-developing two wind projects; 54 MW in Quebec and 30 MW in Nova Scotia.  He is also a Director of the Toronto Atmospheric Fund. 

David S. O’Brien
CEO, Toronto Hydro
Keynote: Thurs. Nov. 25, 1.30 pm

David O'Brien was appointed Chief Executive Officer, Toronto Hydro Corporation effective July 5, 2004. Prior to joining Toronto Hydro Corporation, Mr. O'Brien was on a six-month secondment with Ontario's Ministry of Energy from the City of Mississauga, where he initially joined as Associate Deputy Minister of Energy and then later appointed as Deputy Minister. He assisted in the management and coordination of priority energy projects, including examination of the recommendations of the Electricity Conservation and Supply Task Force, and played a key role in the development of the strategy for the province's electricity sector reforms. David O'Brien began his career 31 years ago in the City of Sudbury where he rose to the position of City Manager. Since then he has held the position of City Manager for the Region of Ottawa Carleton, the City of Gloucester, the City of Ottawa, and most recently, the City of Mississauga where he was City Manager since 1995. Mr. O'Brien has also served as Chief Executive Officer of Enersource Corporation, the parent company of Hydro Mississauga.

Paul Norris
Ontario Waterpower Association

PAUL NORRIS is the founding President of the Ontario Waterpower Association (OWA)  – a non-government organization established in May 2001 to represent the collective interests of the province’s waterpower industry.  Paul joined the OWA following a career with the Ontario Public Service that included senior policy and management positions in public lands, water resources, fisheries, wildlife and communications.  He has represented waterpower interests on the Ministry of Energy’s Electricity Conservation and Supply Task Force, was appointed to the Ministry of the Environment’s Clean Energy Panel on Environmental Assessmentand is co-chair of the Renewable Energy Task Team.

Tom Parkinson
CEO of Hydro One
Keynote: Thurs. Nov. 25, 8.30 am

Tom joined Hydro One in 2001 as President and CEO of Hydro One Network Services and was promoted to President and Chief Operating Officer in July 2002 and then President and CEO in January 2003. He was awarded the prestigious Leader of the Year Award by the Ontario Energy Association in September 2004. Prior to joining Hydro One Tom was President and CEO of NorthPower in Australia from 1995 through 2001.  Tom was President and CEO of Oxley Electricity & Water from 1994 to 1995, and a senior executive with Illawarra Electricity from 1981 to 1994. He was with BHP Steel from 1977 to 1981. Tom is the Vice Chair of the Canadian Electricity Association and on the Board of Independent Electricity System Operator in Ontario.

Robert Power
Chief Executive of Power LLP

Robert Power is recognized by LEXPERT and American Law Media as a leading energy and regulatory lawyer and as one of the "Leading 500 Lawyers" in Canada for 2002, 2003 and 2004. Mr. Power has a wide range of experience in regulated industries, infrastructure and government procurement programs, and has been extensively involved in the restructuring of the Ontario electricity market. He has acted as special counsel to the Ontario Legislature investigating multiple nuclear reactor closures and related issues. For two years he has led a high level consultation process between major electricity developers/investors and the Ontario Premier's Office.  Mr. Power served two terms as Chair of the Board of the Ontario Trillium Foundation (Canada's largest foundation, distributing over $100 million annually to the non-profit sector) from 1998 through 2004. He is a recent past International Convenor for the International Organization for Standardization (ISO), facilitating a working group of 35 nations in developing ISO standards.

Ken Quesnelle
Electricity Distributors Association (EDA) Chair

Ken Quesnelle is the Vice-President of Woodstock Hydro Services Inc. and Chair of the Electricity Distributors Association. Ken has been a very active participant in the remodeling of the electricity sector in Ontario over the past several years, having taken a leadership role on numerous industry task forces and advisory groups. He has over 25 years of experience in the utility business with a focus on electricity distribution.  As EDA Board Chair, Ken networks with a wide variety of electricity sector stakeholders, thus gaining a very global perspective on the issues the industry faces.

Mike Richmond
McMillian Binch LLP

Mike Richmond is a commercial lawyer with McMillan Binch LLP, practising exclusively in the field of Energy Law. Mike has acted for generators, distributors, developers, NUGs, commercial and industrial loads, and energy  wholesalers and retailers. He has provided advice in relation to power purchase  and gas purchase agreements, as well as development and connection agreements, and has worked with renewable energy providers in the financing and development  of power projects. In 2001-2002, Mike served as Senior Energy Policy Advisor to Ontario’s Minister of Energy, responsible for overseeing the restructuring of Ontario’s electricity markets. In addition, as acting press secretary, Mike was the primary media contact for the Government of Ontario on the issue of electricity restructuring. Mike has also advised numerous clients regarding lobbying strategy and compliance with the Lobbyists Registration Act, 1998.

Leslie-Ann Robertson
Foreign Affairs Canada

Leslie-Ann Robertson is a Policy and Program Analyst with the CDM & JI Office at Foreign Affairs Canada.  Her geographic focus is on Clean Development Mechanism projects in the Caribbean and Central America as well as Joint Implementation projects in Central and Eastern Europe and Russia.  She also works on several policy issues within the office, including linkages to domestic climate change policies.  Before joining Foreign Affairs in 2003, Ms. Robertson worked as a Climate Change Policy Advisor with the Pembina Institute.  Here she focused on ensuring appropriate policies were implemented to address climate change.  She also researched and wrote on various solutions to climate change, including opportunities available to a variety of audiences, such as individuals and companies. Ms. Robertson has an Honours degree in Environmental Science from Carleton University, where she focused her studies on the issue of climate change.

Mark Rodger
Borden Ladner Gervais

Partner and co-chair of BLG’s Energy Markets and Infrastructure Group in Toronto. Specializes in the commercial, regulatory and government relations components of electricity and natural gas markets and with respect to infrastructure revitalization.  Extensive experience in all aspects of electricity sector restructuring since 1990.  Throughout this period served as counsel to a broad range of stakeholders including municipal, provincial, and national governments, large industrial, institutional and commercial energy consumers, Local Distribution Companies, generators, energy retailers, out-of-province electricity importers and energy regulators.  Significant M&A experience involving Local Distribution Companies including the first ever long-term lease involving an Ontario electricity distribution utility.  Counsel to municipalities and private sector clients regarding the restructuring and commercialization of water and wastewater assets and other public infrastructure initiatives.  Elected as one of the top 500 lawyers in Canada by Lexpert Magazine because of his expertise in the energy field.

Andrew Roman
Miller Thomson

Andrew Roman has over twenty-five years experience in a broad range of regulatory law. In recent years, much of his practice has focused on energy law. He has assisted clients in negotiating and drafting agreements and in obtaining financing for energy projects. He has helped to shape energy policy in Ontario through his work as a legal consultant to the Macdonald Committee, the Ministry of Energy, and the Ontario Energy Board. His work for these three clients are reflected in the ideas and wording of the Committee’s Report, the Ministry’s White Paper and the Energy Competition Act.  Mr. Roman has also practised as legal counsel representing clients before various boards including the Ontario Energy Board and the National Energy Board, and at all levels of court, including the Federal Court and the Supreme Court of Canada. Mr. Roman is the author of more than 90 publications and a book. He has been a sessional lecturer at four law schools and, in the Winter 1998 term, was the holder of the Chair of Natural Resources Law at the University of Calgary.

John E. (Jack) Scott
Atomic Energy of Canada

Jack Scott has 20 years’ experience in creating and growing international businesses and teams around innovative technologies.  As Director – Business Structure & Financing and Director – Marketing, Canada for Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd. (AECL), Jack works to create opportunities to build new businesses around AECL products and technologies for AECL’s worldwide markets and provides marketing direction for major project development in Canada.  Jack has held positions with multinational corporations and SME organizations in infrastructure development services, engineering/construction, telecommunications, advanced security materials and industrial software.  Starting his career with Bell Canada/BCE in line operations, then corporate development, Jack created new service processes within a highly structured, unionized workplace.  Jack led process reorganization, computer-based tool development and change management programs generating up to 350% improvements in performance and productivity.  He represented Canada in developing international high-speed digital telecommunications standards in the late-1980s.  His role in the 1990s was to develop the growth strategies of AGRA Inc. (AMEC Inc.) a Canadian-based multinational engineering, construction and technology company.  Within the AGRA executive team, Jack led activities to create, reorganize, divest and acquire operations worldwide, resulting in profitable growth from $300 million to $1.5 billion annual revenue.  Jack’s roles also included “technology cultivation” – building businesses around promising technologies for growth or spin-off – and leadership of AGRA’s security materials subsidiary, developing and marketing anti-counterfeit technologies around the globe.  Joining ADCOM Inc. as President and CEO in 2001, Jack led the transition to build a responsive, North American electronic conferencing services organization upon ADCOM’s Canada-wide market base in videoconference systems.  Competing with technological and economic alternatives, Jack’s initiatives sustained ADCOM’s over 50% market share in a challenging period of technology displacement.  Jack is a registered Professional Engineer, a member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers and the Canadian Institute of International Affairs and a past member of the Conference Board of Canada Strategy Development Council.

Kristi Sebalj
Associate, McMillan Binch LLP

Kristi is a business and regulatory lawyer working in the energy and environmental sectors.  She has extensive experience providing legal and strategic advice to clients on a variety of energy projects involving generation (including gas-fired, co-generation and renewable power), transmission and distribution as well as natural gas supply, pipeline and tolling issues. Kristi also facilitates energy-related commercial transactions including gas, electricity and steam sales or purchase contracts, transmission connection arrangements and commercial contracts related to the purchase, sale or construction of energy-related assets. She assists clients with regulatory matters such as entry into and participation in the IMO-administered markets, IMO compliance, OEB and NEB licensing, approvals and compliance and advocates before various boards and tribunals.  Kristi is a graduate of Dalhousie Law School where she received a certificate Environmental Law as well as her LLB.  She holds a B.Sc. and M.Sc. in Biology from McMaster University.  She is a member of the Ontario Energy Association's Environment Committee, the Ontario Waterpower Association, the Onshore/Offshore Technologies Association of Nova Scotia and the Ontario, Canadian and International Bar Associations.

Amir Shalaby
IMO / IESO

Mr. Shalaby is Manager, Regulatory Affairs for the IMO. He has worked in the electricity industry in Ontario since 1975.  The IMO’s mandate is to direct the operation of Ontario’s Grid, and  establish, administer, settle, and monitor electricity  markets in Ontario.   His current responsibilities relate to representing the interest of the IMO in regulatory proceedings and participating in relevant regulatory policy developments within Ontario , Canada, and in the U.S.  Mr. Shalaby obtained a bachelor and master degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University Of Waterloo (1974, 1975), and an MBA from the University Of Toronto (1978).

James Sidlofsky
Borden Ladner Gervais LLP

James is a Partner in the Energy Markets and Infrastructure Group in Borden Ladner Gervais LLP’s Toronto office.  He was admitted to the Ontario Bar in 1988.  He holds an Honours B.A. (Philosophy, 1983 – College of Arts and University Gold Medallist) from the University of Guelph, an LL.B. (1986) from the University of Toronto, and a Diploma in Public Administration (1999) from the University of Western Ontario.  James advises electricity distributors, generators and retailers, and industrial and commercial electricity consumers, on a wide range of regulatory matters.  He represents clients before the Ontario Energy Board in electricity and natural gas-related proceedings, including applications for rates, OEB code amendments, approvals of sales of electricity distribution utilities and gas storage facilities, and “leave to construct” applications; as well as “generic” proceedings such as the OEB’s Transmission System Code Review.  James is the Chair of the Industry Task Force on Distributed Generation, which is participating in the OEB’s proceeding in respect of the development of the 2006 Electricity Distribution Rate Handbook.  The DG Task Force is a volunteer ad hoc group formed in March, 2003.  It consists of approximately 70 industry participants, including consumers, distributors and retailers/marketers in the electricity and gas sectors, with an interest in furthering the establishment of policies that would create a supportive environment for the development of DG projects.

Stephen Somerville
Probyn and Company

Stephen Somerville is a member of the Probyn & Company team responsible for business development, acquisitions, RFP proposals, and monetizing the "green" attributes of renewable energy facilities owned and/or operated by The Probyn Group and Clean Power Income Fund. Stephen received his Honours degree in Economics from the University of Waterloo and his MBA degree from The University of Toronto.  He represents The Probyn Group on the Board of Directors of the Association of Power Producers of Ontario (formerly, IPPSO) and was a participant in the IPPSO Taskforce on Distributed Generation. He also served as a member of the Renewable Portfolio Standard implementation-working group and of the Canadian Electrical Association Taskforce – “Capital Cost Allowances (CCA) Rates For The Electric Power Industry”.

Safouh Soufi
SMS Energy Engineering, APPrO 2004 Conference Chair

Safouh Soufi is the founding President of SMS Energy-Engineering Inc., a consulting firm that specializes in the engineering and project management of power generation and cogeneration projects based on fossil-fired and renewable technologies.  Mr. Soufi has over twenty years’ worldwide experience in the design, construction, commissioning, start-up and operation of power generation facilities. Prior to SMS he worked for one of the world's largest engineering firms where he held various senior engineering and management positions. He also worked at several plant sites of an integrated power generation company where he assumed various design and operation responsibilities. In the early 90’s he was involved in several of Ontario independent power generation projects.  Later, when the Market Design Committee was established he became increasingly involved in the development of the Ontario deregulated electricity market. In 1998 he was elected to the Independent Power Producer Society of Ontario’s (IPPSO) Board of directors and serves as a Chair of the Board’s conference committee.

William Sutherland
Manulife Financial

Bill Sutherland is Vice President - Project Finance and heads the Project Finance Group at Manulife Financial Corporation. Bill is well known within the Canadian independent power market and U.S. renewable power sector.  He and his group have been leading arrangers and providers of finance to the power sector over the past 6 years.  Prior to joining Manulife in 2002, Bill created and headed the project finance group at Clarica Life Insurance Company.  He is a seasoned corporate banker with 24 years business development, relationship management and corporate and project finance experience.  He has been actively involved in numerous project and structured finance transactions within the power, mining, forestry and pipeline industries and has considerable experience as an arranger, underwriter, lead lender and agent of highly structured transactions.  Bill holds a BSc (Mechanical Engineering) and MBA from Queen’s University.

George Vegh
Office of the General Council

George Vegh, joined the Ontario Energy Board as General Counsel in April, 2004. George has frequently acted as counsel at Energy Board proceedings and at all levels of courts and tribunals, up to and including the Superior Court of Canada. He has also served as Chair of the Industry Task Force Session on Distributed Generation. In addition to his significant legal achievements, George has also been a widely quoted writer, public speaker and commentator on the electricity and natural gas sectors.

Hon. Howard I. Wetston, Q.C.
Chair of the OEB
Keynote: Wed. Nov. 24, 11.00 am

Howard Wetston, was appointed Chair of the Ontario Energy Board on June 30, 2003. Previously he served as Vice-Chair of the Ontario Securities Commission from January 13, 1999. From June 16, 1993 Mr. Wetston was a Judge of the Federal Court of Canada, Trial Division and ex-officio member of the Federal Court of Canada, Appeal Division. From October 1989 to June 1993, Mr. Wetston was the Director of Investigation and Research (DIR) (now Commissioner of Competition), Bureau of Competition Policy. From October 1986, he served as Senior Deputy DIR where he was accountable for the overall direction and management of Mergers and Acquisitions.  Before entering private practice, he served as General Counsel to the Canadian Transport Commission and Assistant General Counsel to the National Energy Board and prior to that as General Counsel to the Consumers’ Association of Canada and Legal Counsel to the National Energy Board. From 1976 to 1980, he was a member of the Department of Justice as Crown Counsel and previously Crown Counsel in the Nova Scotia Attorney General’s Department.

Skip Willis
ICF Consulting

Skip Willis is the Vice  President and Managing Director Canadian Operations of ICF Consulting, a global  energy and environment consulting company.  He advises business and government on issues relating to climate change and is a consultant to major industry associations in their negotiations with the federal government relating to the large final emitters. He was a business advisor to the Canadian Delegation at COP 9 in Milan and will be attending COP 10 in Buenos Aires.