Our Board of Directors is a group of volunteers committed to FBC’s mission to find treatments and cures for blinding eye diseases. The Board includes representatives from the corporate and medical worlds, as well as individuals affected by vision loss.

Executive Committee & Officers

Tara James, Chair, Senior Legal Counsel, RBC, Toronto, Ontario

George Sheen, Vice Chair & Treasurer, Partner, PwC (retired), Toronto, Ontario

Mike Harwood, CHRE, Executive Member, Strategic Human Resources Executive, Michael Harwood Associates, Mississauga, Ontario

Tiffany Goodlet, Executive Member, Certified Management Consultant, August Leadership, Toronto, Ontario

Mary Ashbourne Smith, Executive Member, Vice President (retired), TD Finance Shared Services, Toronto, Ontario

Directors

Michel Cayouette, PhD, Chief Scientific Advisor, Vice President, Research & Academic Affairs at the Montreal Clinical Research Institute, Research Associate Professor, University of Montreal, Montreal, Quebec

Marco Fillion, C.Dir, FCIA, FSA, Retired Partner, PwC Canada, Markham, Ontario

Selena Friesen, OD, Optometrist, Waverley Eye Care, Winnipeg, Manitoba

Geoff R. Hall, LL.B., LL.M., Partner at McCarthy Tétrault, Toronto, Ontario

Michael Minos, VP Finance, TD Bank Financial Planning program, Toronto, Ontario

Jim Riley, Managing Director & COO, The Catalyst Capital Group Inc., Toronto, Ontario

Mike Seed, CIM, First Vice President & Portfolio Manager, Seed Financial Group, CIBC Wood Gundy, Edmonton, Alberta

Tahir Shafiq, Independent Management Consultant, Markham, Ontario

Byron Sonberg CPA, CA, MBA, ICD.D, Retired Managing Director, Goodmans LLP, Toronto, Ontario

Deepa Yoganathan, MD, FRCSC, DABO, Ophthalmologist, Windsor Eye Associates, Windsor, Ontario, and Assistant Professor in the Department of Ophthalmology and Vision Sciences, University of Toronto