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.
Matthew Anderson, Board Member
Formerly Vice-President and Chief Information Officer of the University Health Network, Matthew Anderson was appointed as Chief Executive Officer, Toronto Central Local Health Integration Network (LHIN) in the Spring of 2008. Prior to this appointment, he led the development of the Toronto Central LHIN’s e-Health Strategy, served as Chief Information Officer for North York Community Care Access Centre, St. John’s Rehabilitation Hospital, Toronto Community Care Access Centre, Toronto Rehabilitation Institute, University Health Network (UHN) and West Park Healthcare Centre.
Anderson has been recognized nationally as an exceptional Canadian leader who has made an outstanding difference in the advancement of e-Health. In 2004, he accepted Canada’s Top 40 Under 40 award published annually in the Report on Business. In 2005, he was named CIO of the Year at the Canadian Information Productivity Awards, held in partnership with CIO Canada magazine.
Ken Deane, Board Member
Ken Deane is Assistant Deputy Minister of the Health System Accountability and Performance Division at the Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care. Prior to this, he was chief operating officer of the London Health Sciences Centre and St. Joseph's Health Care in London, Ontario. Deane has also served as president and CEO of St. Joseph's Health Centre in Toronto, president and CEO of Hotel-Dieu Grace Hospital in Windsor, vice-president of finance and chief financial officer of Hamilton Health Sciences Centre, and executive vice-president and chief financial officer of Grand River Hospital in Kitchener.
He has served on various boards, most recently on the board of directors of the Workplace Safety and Insurance Board where he was the chair of the human resources and compensation committee.
Lisa R. Lifshitz, Board Member
Lisa R. Lifshitz is a partner at Gowlings LLP and a member of the firm’s Technology Industry Practice Group where she specializes in the areas of information technology and business law.
For the past three years, Lexpert (annual Canadian legal directory) has named Lifshitz as a “leading lawyer” in the Computer and IT Law field. She has also been named a "leading lawyer" in the Technology Law field. Lifshitz is currently a director and treasurer of the Canadian IT Law Association; Vice Chair, Subcommittees, of the Cyberspace Law Committee of the Business Law Section of the American Bar Association; and a member of the editorial advisory board of e-Commerce Law & Strategy, a U.S.-based publication focusing on technology law issues.
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.
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.
Dean Carol Stephenson, Board Member
As dean of the Richard Ivey School of Business at the University of Western Ontario, Carol Stephenson holds the Lawrence G. Tapp Chair in Leadership and travels extensively between London, Ontario, and Hong Kong to oversee the second Ivey school campus.
Stephenson also serves as Director of ING Canada, is a Member of the General Motors of Canada Advisory Board, Chair of the Ontario Research Fund Advisory Board, and of the Federal Government’s Advisory Committee on Senior Level Retention and Compensation. In November 2006, she was appointed by the Federal Government to serve on the Board of Directors of the Vancouver Olympic Games Organizing Committee (VANOC). Stephenson was inducted into the Hall of Fame of the Canadian Information Productivity Awards, and in 2008 was inducted into Canada’s Telecommunications Hall of Fame. She has also been named one of Canada’s Top 100 Women.