About us
Board of Directors
Raymond V. Hession, Chair
Appointed Chair of eHealth Ontario’s Board of Directors by the Lieutenant Governor in Council, Raymond Hession has had wide experience in governance in the private, public, community service and broader health sectors over the past 30 years. This includes many years buying, selling and managing information technology, decision support and transforming business services.
He has served as Chair and CEO of Paxport International and of Xios Corporation; Lead Independent Director of Adherex Technologies Inc; Chair, President and CEO of Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation; the founding Chair of Ontario Health Quality Council; and Chair of The Ottawa Hospital / The Rehabilitation Centre of Eastern Ontario / and Royal Canadian Mint. He has also worked as a trustee of the Royal Ottawa Health Care Group; a panel member for the Effectiveness Reporting and Auditing in the Public Sector (CCAF); and Deputy Minister of Supply and Service Canada as well as Regional Industrial Expansion Canada.
Jean-Pierre Boisclair, Board Member and Chair, Finance and Audit Committee
As Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of The Conference Board of Canada, Jean-Pierre Boisclair is responsible for the Board’s financial and physical resources and its performance and risk management practices. Prior to this, he operated a professional counsel and advisory practice serving governments and other large public sector organizations; was President of CCAF-FCVI (formerly the Canadian Comprehensive Auditing Foundation); Chairman, Independent Panel on Modernization of Comptrollership Government of Canada; and Partner, Macgillivray & Co., Chartered Accountants and Management Consultants.
He has served on various boards and is currently Chair of the Board, the Ottawa Children’s Treatment Centre and a past Governor / Chair of the Audit Committee and member of the Quality Committee, the Ottawa Hospital. He is a member of the Ontario Institute of Chartered Accountants and the Ordre des Comptables agréés du Québec.
Howard Dickson, Board Member, Chair of the Quality Committee
Howard Dickson served in the public sector as the Government Chief Information Officer of Hong Kong and as Assistant Deputy Minister and CIO for the Canadian Department of National Defence. Previous roles in the private sector included Senior Vice President, Operations at National Trust, Principal at Ernst and Young, Vice President Information Services at Guaranty Trust, Assistant General Manager at CIBC, and project management at CN.
He has extensive experience on boards and committees and served as a panel member and key contributor to the 2004/5 Special Task Force on the Management of Large Scale Information and Information Technology Projects for the Government of Ontario.
Dr. Rachel Helen Ellaway, Board Member
Dr. Rachel Helen Ellaway is the Assistant Dean Informatics and Associate Professor for Education Informatics at the Northern Ontario School of Medicine in Sudbury, Ontario.
Dr. Ellaway is a scholar in the area of informatics applied to health care education – particularly in the areas of professional education, training and assessment, as well as simulation, open and collaborative methods, technical and semantic interoperability and the sociopolitical construction of technologies and systems. In 2005, her work in developing and implementing profession-focused educational systems, was recognized by the University of Edinburgh through the award of a Queen’s Anniversary Prize for Higher and Further Education – the first such award given to work involving learning technologies.
David Hallett, Board Member
David Hallett is Associate Deputy Minister of the Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care. A results oriented senior executive, Mr. Hallett has extensive transformational experience acquired over 25 years of working in the private and public sectors. Previous public sector roles include a temporary assignment at eHealth Ontario as the agency’s Chief Operating Officer; Associate Deputy Minister for Ontario Shared Services, Ministry of Government Services; and Chief Information Officer, Central Agencies I&IT Cluster.
Prior to this, Mr. Hallett spent 15 years as an executive at Loblaw Companies Limited and the Oshawa Group Limited. He holds an MBA from the Richard Ivey School of Business at the University of Western Ontario and an Honours in Business Administration from Algonquin College in Ottawa.
J. David Livingston, Board Member
As President and Chief Executive Officer of Infrastructure Ontario, J. David Livingston oversees the crown corporation responsible for executing large-scale public infrastructure projects for the Ontario government. Livingston has 30 years of financial industry experience, where he ultimately rose to executive vice-president of corporate development at TD Bank Financial Group. At Infrastructure Ontario he has created a team of private and public experts that use innovative tools to deliver complex projects on time and on budget.
Livingston obtained his B.Sc. from the University of Western Ontario in 1973 and his MBA from Queen's University in 1976. He is a director of Ovarian Cancer Canada and The Children's Aid Society of Toronto.
Sue Matthews, Board Member
Sue Matthews is a chartered accountant and business advisor. She is also a faculty member of CMC Canadian Management Centre, where she facilitates design and delivery of programs to clients on governance and accountability, and financial analysis. Prior to this, Ms. Matthews worked at Sibson and Company, consulting in the firm’s human capital practice and was a co-founder and partner with Langdon Associates prior to its merger with Sibson and Company.
She serves on various boards including Global Credit Pref Corp., Global Credit Trust, TIS Preservation and Income Fund, The National Ballet of Canada Endowment Foundation and Carolyn Sifton Foundation. She is a member of the Canadian Institute of Chartered Accountants and the Institute of Corporate Directors.
Shaun McGuire, Board Member
Shaun McGuire is Medical Director, Medical Affairs at the Ottawa Hospital and family physician at the Riverside Family Health Team. In addition, he is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Family Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, at the University of Ottawa.
He has held various board positions including Chair of The Ottawa Hospital Family Practice Partnership, The Ottawa Hospital, Vice Chair, Medical Advisory Committee, The Ottawa Hospital and the Medical Director and Head of the Department of Family Medicine, Ottawa General Hospital. Shaun has also served on the board of The Ottawa Hospital Academic Medicine Organization. He holds BSc and MBA degrees in addition to his MD and is a Fellow of the College of Family Physicians of Canada.
Maureen O’Neil, Board Member
Maureen O’Neil is President of the Canadian Health Services Research Foundation. Previous positions include President of the International Development Research Centre; Interim President of the International Centre for Human Rights and Democratic Development; President of the North-South Institute; and Deputy Minister of Citizenship for the Government of Ontario.
She serves on various boards including Chair of the Board of Trustees of the International Institute for Environment and Development; a member of the Board of Trustees of the International Institute for Sustainable Development; a member of the International Advisory Group, Think Tank Initiative (IDRC and Hewlett Foundation); Chair of the Advisory Council on Corporate Social Responsibility of Canada’s Export Development Corporation and Vice-Chair of the Board of Trustees of the World University Services Canada. Ms O’Neil has represented Canada on the UN Commission on the Status of Women and on OECD committees, and has been a member of the UN Committee for Development Planning and the Board of the UN Research Institute for Social Development. She has a BA in Sociology from Carleton University and Honorary LLDs from Wilfrid Laurier University, Carleton University and the University of Ottawa.
Greg Reed, Board Member
Greg A. Reed is President and Chief Executive Officer of eHealth Ontario. He also serves on its board of directors. After obtaining a B.Sc. in Computer Science at the University of Toronto, Greg began his career as a Systems Engineer with IBM. He then attended Harvard Business School where he earned an MBA, after which he spent 20 years with international strategy consulting firm McKinsey & Company in New York, London (UK) and Toronto. There, he worked to turn around distressed companies, assisted telecom and technology firms, and co-founded McKinsey’s global Electronic Commerce Practice. During the past several years Greg has been the CEO of both a wealth management company and a Canadian bank.
Greg is a Director of the National Arts Centre Foundation where he chairs the Finance and Audit Committee, is Vice-Chair of Business for the Arts, and is a former Director of the National Ballet of Canada.
Heather Sherrard, Board Member
Heather Sherrard is vice-president of clinical services at the University of Ottawa Heart Institute where she is responsible for all aspects of care by clinical staff and operating budgets of $40 million. Sherrard has held a variety of clinical and administrative positions in the acute care hospital sector, most of which have been in the area of cardiovascular care. She has been involved with the University of Ottawa Heart Institute since 1998 first as a nursing coordinator, and then the director of nursing.
Sherrard holds two joint appointments with the University of Ottawa and is actively involved in the education of Masters students in Nursing and Health Administration. She is a member of the editorial board of the Canadian Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing. She has worked on a number of provincial committees associated with the care of cardiac patients. She also provides consulting services to other provinces in the area of cardiac health services.