Mr. Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Chair

Jean-Jacques Rousseau hails from Sturgeon Falls on the northern shores of Lake Nipissing, and moved from Ottawa to Kemptville with wife Barbara in 1992. They have one daughter. Mr. Rousseau graduated from the University of Waterloo in 1980 and obtained his CGA designation in 1986. He works for CBC as a senior financial analyst, and has played an active role in the community as a volunteer for St. John's United Church.

• Ensure that the Hospital fulfills its mission;
• Ensure that the Hospital protects its assets;
• Ensure the ethical conduct of the organization;
• Ensure a high standard of patient care by approving a process to evaluate and monitor all phases of the Hospital's quality assurance programs and accreditation status;
• Ensure the Hospital conforms to legislation and standards set by regulatory and advisory agencies;

• Determine the Hospital's vision and mission, and approve its philosophies and values;
• Develop and update a strategic plan for the Hospital and ensure that all decisions are made in accordance with the plan; and
• Monitor and evaluate plans, programs and standards to ensure that they meet the Hospital's priorities, goals and policies, and approve appropriate resources to achieve these objectives.
• Hospital Bylaws
• Board of Directors Officers and Committees
• Quality Leadership & Partnership Terms of Reference
• Governance Committee Terms of Reference

Mr. Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Board Chair
Ms. Lis Angus, Vice Chair
Ms. Karen Cooper, Treasurer
Mr. Colin Goodfellow, Chief Executive Officer
Dr. Greg Leonard, Chief of Staff
Dr. Patrick Leahy, President of the Medical Staff
Mrs. Lillian Leonard, President KDH Auxiliary
Mr. Dermid O'Farrell, President, KDH Foundation
Mr. Terry Butler, Municipal Council Member

Mr. Donovan Arnaud
Mr. Peter Currie
Mr. Dan Hart
Mr. Pete Larocque
Dr. Claude Naud
Mr. Jim Neubauer
Ms. Gayle Poapst
Ms. Alexandra Pontbriand
Mr. Bill Vanveen

Mr. Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Board Chair

Jean-Jacques Rousseau hails from Sturgeon Falls on the northern shores of Lake Nipissing, and moved from Ottawa to Kemptville with wife Barbara in 1992. They have one daughter. Mr. Rousseau graduated from the University of Waterloo in 1980 and obtained his CGA designation in 1986. He works for CBC as a senior financial analyst, and has played an active role in the community as a volunteer for St. John’s United Church.

Ms. Lis Angus, Vice Chair

Lis Angus grew up on a farm near Rimbey, Alberta, but has lived in Ontario since 1965. Lis has a BA from Carleton University, and an MA and MBA from York University. She met her husband, Ian, at Carleton, and they were married at his family home in Kemptville in 1969. Lis’ began her career working with disturbed children and adolescents (at the Royal Ottawa Hospital and at Lakeshore Psychiatric Hospital in Toronto). Later, following further studies, Lis and Ian launched Angus TeleManagement Group, a telecommunications consulting and publishing firm, which they operated in Toronto for twenty-six years, meanwhile raising two daughters. They moved back to Kemptville fulltime in 2002 when their youngest left for university, and are now retired. Lis joined the KDH Board in 2006 for a two-year term as the Auxiliary’s President, and was elected as a regular Board member in June 2008.

Ms. Karen J. Cooper, Treasurer

Karen J. Cooper is a partner of Carters Professional Corporation and practices charity and not-for-profit law with an emphasis on tax issues from the Ottawa office, having formerly been a Senior Rulings Officer with the Income Tax Rulings Directorate of Canada Revenue Agency, as well as former counsel for the Department of Justice in tax litigation. Ms. Cooper also has considerable teaching experience, including presenting workshops for The Institute of Chartered Accountants of Ontario, as sessional lecturer at Carleton University School of Business teaching Business Law, and part-time professor at the University of Ottawa, Faculty of Common Law, and is a contributing author to The Management of Charitable and Not-for-Profit Organizations in Canada (LexisNexis Butterworths). Ms. Cooper has been recognized as a leading expert in charity and not-for-profit law by Lexpert.

Ms. Cooper also currently serves on the Board of Directors of the Canadian Land Trust Alliance.

Mr. Colin Goodfellow, Chief Executive Officer

Colin Goodfellow joined the hospital as CEO in spring 2005. He possesses organizational and change leadership experience in both public and private sectors. Recent experience includes leading a life science commercialization consultancy and leading a national campaign for the creation of the Canadian Institutes of Health Research. (CIHR). He served as Vice President for strategy and operational performance at the Toronto East General Hospital.

Colin has an MBA from Queens University and is a certified management accountant.

Dr. Greg Leonard, Chief of Hospital Staff

Dr. Patrick Leahy, President of the Medical Staff

Dr Leahy is a family physician and has been working at KDH since 1995. He received his medical degree from the University of Western Ontario in 1992. Dr Leahy and his wife Dawn have one daughter ,Arden, who is 6 years old.

Mrs. Lillian Leonard, President KDH Auxiliary

Mr. Terry Butler, Municipal Representative

Mr. Dermid O'Farrell, President, KDH Foundation

Dermid is a local entrepreneur that is nationally recognized in his field. He has been President of O'Farrell Financial Services Inc. since 1997 when he and his wife, Donna Lee, started the firm. By providing financial and estate planning services, Dermid has become very clear on the impact that each person can have on the quality of one another's lives. As a result, he and his entire team are active in the community.

Along with the Kemptville District Hospital Foundation, Dermid has served as a past board member of the Grenville Community Development Corporation, past President of the Mountain & District Lions Club and past Grand Knight of the Knights of Columbus Holy Cross Council 5333. He currently sits on the Economic Development Committee for North Grenville. Dermid brings his business acumen and personal energy to serving the community.

Mr. Donovan Arnaud

Donovan Arnaud is currently serving as Program Manager for the Continuity of Constitutional Government Program within the Privy Council Office of the Government of Canada. His career includes over twenty five years of service with the Canadian Forces as a Senior Naval Officer, four years as a Senior Ministerial Official with the Ministers of National Defence and Supply Services Canada, the private sector as a business development consultant and over ten years in emergency management with the Federal Government. His military background includes service as Project Director of two Major Crown Projects, Command of various minor war vessels, training bases and facilities, foreign postings and assignments, and numerous operational and staff positions throughout Canada. Mr. Arnaud has served on the hospital board for five years.

A native of Montreal, Donovan Arnaud was educated at Sir George Williams University, Montreal, Quebec and the National Defence College, Kingston, Ontario.

Mr. Peter Currie

Peter is a retired senior business executive, having served as Chief Financial Officer of each of Nortel Networks Corporation, Royal Bank of Canada (RBC Financial Group), and North American Life Assurance Company. Mr. Currie has also been active on a number of private sector and not for profit Boards of Directors currently including: Atomic Energy of Canada Limited (Chair); Intelius Inc. (Director); ViXS Systems Inc. (Director). He has also served on the following Boards of Directors: Canadian Tire Corporation Limited; Affinion Group Inc.; Arise Technologies Inc.; York University; York University Investment Corp.; Quinte Healthcare; Toronto East General Hospital; CD Howe Institute; and Symcor Inc.

Mr. Currie graduated from York University with Bachelor of Arts (Economics) and Master of Business Administration degrees.

Peter is delighted to join the Board of KDH, recognizing its pioneering role in the delivery of innovative health care solutions and its uncompromising focus on its patients and the communities it serves.

Peter and his wife, Barb, moved to Manotick in 2010 and look forward to enjoying the many features of the region and being close to their children and grandchildren, who also live in the area.

Mr. Dan Hart

Daniel Hart is a design architect and construction coordinator with Intelcan an Ottawa based company specializing in Air Traffic Control and Aviation Infrastructure projects worldwide. Mr. Hart has been with Intelcan for 11 years and previous work experience includes design work with the Ottawa firms of Mohaupt & Craig and Douglas Hardie and Associates and abroad with the Japanese firm of MHS in Osaka Japan. Mr. Hart graduated from Carleton University with a Bachelor of Architecture in 1989.

Mr. Hart is honored to serve on the Board of the Kemptville District Hospital, recognizing the value and importance the hospital brings to this growing community.

Dan and his wife Mary moved to the Kemptville area in 1997 and currently have three boys, Benjamin, Jeremy and Alex.

Mr. Pete Larocque

Pete is a currently the Managing Director of CoreTracks, a management consulting firm based in Ottawa. With an MBA from Queen’s, he has over 24 years of management and leadership experience at a local, national, and international level in profit, non-profit, and public sector organizations and has extensive knowledge and business experience, from a strategic and tactical level right through to providing direction with day-to-day operations.

Pete has been very active in his community, and has served on the Boards of the Christmas Exchange, the Canadian Special Olympics Winter Games, the Sunshine Foundation of Canada, the Ottawa-Carleton Association for Persons with Developmental Disabilities, and he was a co-founder and Director of the South Nepean Youth Organization. In addition, Pete has been a mentor for the Ontario Government’s Summer Company program, Junior Achievement Titan Business program, member of the judging panel for the University of Ottawa's Business Plan Challenge, and a volunteer for the Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation's Run for the Cure, Ottawa Heart Institute Telethon, Newport Restaurant Christmas dinner to name a few.

He joined the Board of KDH in 2009.

Dr. Claude Naud, EdD

Dr. Naud brings to the Board a varied and extensive background as a former senior executive in the field of educational and academic leadership, change management, organizational, and professional development. He has served on several national, provincial, and local organizations including the Saskatchewan Health Resource Council and Academic Health Sciences Network.

Claude is the president New Summit Consulting, a small firm specializing in strategic planning, organizational renewal, and program development. As new comers to Kemptville, both Claude and Kathy are enjoying the area and looking forward to devote their time and energy in support of the district hospital. Dr. Naud joined the Board in January 2009.

Mr. Jim Neubauer

Jim Neubauer is a high-energy, committed professional with more than 26 years of experience in the North American telecom sector. For more than 15 years Jim held Senior Management leadership positions, in Sales, Operations and Marketing.

He has successfully managed large and small operations (national in scope, hundreds of employees, $100+ million targets and budgets), community programs, as well as technology and transformation projects. He brings a unique style of leadership and people management skills that enables organizations to comfortably embrace and leverage new technologies to better compete and succeed.

Most recently Jim has entered into the Education sector and is now a Full-time Professor at Algonquin College in the School of Business.

Jim has a Engineering Degree from the University of Windsor and an MBA from the University of Ottawa.

Jim and his family moved to the Kemptville area in 2007.

Ms. Gayle Poapst

Gayle was born in Kingston Ontario and moved to Brockville to study nursing in 1983. Following graduation as a Registered Nurse, she worked at St. Vincent de Paul Hospital in Brockville. She continued her studies earning a BSc Nursing (University of Ottawa) and an Executive MBA (Queen's University). Her nursing career took into the Home Care system where she worked for 15 years the last few years as Director of Client Services for CCAC.

In 2006 her family relocated to Kemptville where she started her own business ~ The Bodhi Tree Yoga Centre. She now teaches yoga and trains yoga teachers; traveling to India for ongoing training. She combines her health care and yoga experience to provide yoga therapy to individuals recovering from traumatic injuries or living with life threatening illnesses. She is mother to five adult children and lives in Kemptville with her husband Jeff.…

Mrs. Alexandra Pontbriand

Alexandra is a Chartered Accountant, and is currently the Corporate Controller at First Air airlines. Prior to this, she worked for KPMG LLP as an Audit Manager and specialized in not-for-profit organizations. Alexandra is a graduate of the University of Ottawa, where she has also taught various Accounting courses on a part-time basis. Alexandra believes in giving back to the community, and is very proud to serve on the board of the Kemptville Hospital.

Alexandra Pontbriand has lived in Kemptville since 2001. Besides volunteering for the Hospital, she helps coach a U5 girls' soccer team. Alexandra plays women's soccer house league herself, and enjoys gardening and camping.

Alexandra is married to David, and together they have two young daughters.

Mr. Bill Vanveen

William Vanveen is a senior partner at Gowlings, one of Canada's largest law firms. He obtained his law degree from Queen's University and has a graduate law degree from Oxford. As a litigator, he has appeared in all levels of court in Ontario, as well as the Federal Court and Federal Court of Appeal and the Supreme Court of Canada. He has conducted civil and criminal litigation across a range of legal areas. He is recognized for particular expertise in life sciences, including matters related to physicians and the pharmaceutical industry. Prior to joining Gowlings in 1986, William spent four years as an assistant professor at the University of Windsor, Faculty of Law. He has also taught as a sessional lecturer at Queen's Law School. He is a frequent speaker and writer on legal topics. Although living just across the river on the Ottawa side, William and his wife, Angela, consider Kemptville home, having moved to the area in 1999. He joined the KDH Board in June, 2010.