Executive Team

Michael Fenn
Interim President and CEO

Michael Fenn was appointed interim President and CEO of eHealth Ontario on December 21, 2009 by the Ontario Cabinet. His appointment runs to the beginning of March 2010, while eHealth Ontario's board of directors conducts a search for a permanent CEO.

Michael Fenn has served as Special Advisor to the Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care, before which he was CEO of two new Crown agencies, the regional transportation authority Metrolinx and the Mississauga Halton Local Health Integration Network. Mr. Fenn was an Ontario Deputy Minister for more than seven years.

Michael Fenn is a graduate of York University and the University of Western Ontario. He is known as a public-sector champion of client satisfaction and job satisfaction through customer focus and productivity improvements. His articles and presentations on public policy and public administration have appeared in a number of journals, books and conferences.  Over the course of his career, Mr. Fenn has been the recipient of a number of professional awards, including the 1997 Ontario Lieutenant Governor’s Medal of Distinction in Public Administration.

Senior Executives

Doug Tessier
Acting SVP, Development and Implementation

Doug joined eHealth Ontario in April 2009 after 26 years of service with the Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care.

Most recently at the Ministry, Doug led the eHealth Program driving the strategy and governance Cabinet submissions that created eHealth Ontario. His leadership in ehealth has included roles as the first chair of Canada’s Electronic Health Record Working Group; co-chair of the Interoperability Working Group of the Advisory Committee on Health Informatics; chair of several national workshops on ehealth topics including client and provider registration, personal health information and drug information systems.

Doug holds a degree in Mathematics and Computer Science from Queen’s University, diplomas in Business Administration –Data Processing and Accounting from St. Lawrence College in Kingston, and is a Certified Information Systems Auditor. He has recently worked extensively with the Queen’s University Executive MBA program facilitating high-performance teams and as project advisor on global business projects relating to health care and ehealth.

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Rob Basque
SVP, Operations

Rob is responsible for raising eHealth Ontario’s internal capacity to the level of a leading IT service provider. He has over 20 years experience in senior operations roles with leading service provider organizations, most recently as Senior Manager, Data Centre Services at Capgemini. Prior to this, he worked at Ontario Power Generation.

 

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Patricia Li
Acting Senior Vice President of Corporate Services

Appointed to the position of Acting Senior Vice President of Corporate Services on November 23, 2009, Patricia is responsible for Finance, Privacy and Security, Stakeholder Relations and Communications, Strategy/Business Planning/Vendor, Shareholder Relations and Policy.

Patricia has served in several capacities as an Assistant Deputy Minister in Culture, Government Services and Consumer and Business Services ministries.

She is a graduate of the Richard Ivey School of Business, University of Western Ontario and a Certified General Accountant. Patricia has been a director at the Ontario Pension Board since 2007.