Board of Directors

As a corporation without share capital, instead of shareholders, the GTAA has members who are also its directors.

The GTAA is governed by a 15-member board of directors who serve a term of three years and are eligible for reappointment to a maximum of nine years. 

Seven directors are appointed by the board from a pool of candidates on a cyclical basis. All but three are identified through a search process.

Those three are selected from candidates nominated by the Named Community Nominators:  

• The Board of Trade of the City of Brampton
• The Board of Trade of the City of Mississauga
• The Toronto Board of Trade
• The Law Society of Upper Canada
• Association of Professional Engineers of Ontario
• Institute of Chartered Accountants of Ontario

The board appoints five directors from the following municipalities serviced by Toronto Pearson:

• York
• Halton
• Peel
• Durham
• City of Toronto

Each municipality is entitled to provide the names of three candidates on a rotating basis. The board then appoints one of the three candidates to each available director position.

The Government of Canada is also entitled to appoint two directors, and the Province of Ontario, one director.

Current Members

Marilynne Day-Linton has served on the GTAA’s Board of Directors since May 2004. She was elected to a two-year term as chair effective January 1, 2009 and was subsequently re-elected to a second two-year term effective January 1, 2011. Ms. Day-Linton has a business background having held senior management positions with Signature Vacations, the Gemini Group and Wardair International.
Named Community Member (Nominated by the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Ontario) 

Douglas Armstrong is a retired executive and serves as a board member for a number of professional and community service committees.
Federal Member 

Scott Cole is chairman and chief executive officer of Cole Engineering Group Ltd., a civil engineering company with over 130 professional and technical staff providing municipal engineering, transportation and waste/wastewater services to regions, municipalities and the private development industry.
Municipal Member (York Region) 

Paul Currie is a chartered accountant and the managing partner of Currie & Co. He is a seasoned executive with senior officer and director level commercial experience in North America, Europe and Asia.
Named Community Member (Nominated by the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Ontario) 

Shaun Francis is chairman and chief executive officer of Medcan Health Management Inc., a leading health care services provider. 
Federal Member 

Stephen Griggs is president and chief executive officer of OP Trust, a company that invests and manages one of Canada’s largest pension funds and administers the OPSEU Pension Plan, a defined benefit plan with approximately 82,000 members and retirees.
Municipal Member (Peel Region) 

Brian Herner is a senior corporate advisor, founder and past president and CEO of BIOREM Technologies Inc., a leading supplier of biofilters for air pollution control with over 600 installations world-wide for control of odour and chemical emissions.
Municipal Member (Halton Region) 

Vijay Kanwar is currently president and chief financial officer of K.M.H. Cardiology and Diagnostic Centres Inc., North America’s largest provider of nuclear cardiology services.
Provincial Member 

Norman Loberg is a retired Enbridge Inc. senior executive, chairman of the Credit Valley Board of Directors, past chairman of Tourism Toronto and a director of several public and private sector boards.
Community Member 

Terry Nord is a senior advisor to start-up cargo airlines in Asia (China and Indonesia) and to aircraft leasing companies on aircraft purchase lease contracts. He has held various senior executive positions with DHL Express (Brussels, Belgium), FedEx Express (Memphis, Tennessee), Air Canada, Altius Corporation and Canadian Airlines International.
Community Member 

Poonam Puri is Associate Dean, Research, Graduate Studies and Institutional Relations at Osgoode Hall Law School at York University; Associate Director of the Hennick Centre for Business and Law; and Head of Research and Policy, Capital Markets Institute at the Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto. She is one of Canada's leading experts on corporate law, securities regulation, corporate governance and corporate and white-collar crime.
Community Member 

Richard Soberman is an associate of Trimap Communications Inc., and former chair of civil engineering at the University of Toronto. He is a transportation specialist.
Named Community Member (Nominated by the Toronto Board of Trade & the Professional Engineers of Ontario) 

Danielle Waters is managing director of BDC Travel, a leading global travel management company with over 13,000 employees and offices in 90 countries, and the principal of Waters Edge Consulting. She has senior operational and management experience in the travel industry.
Community Member 

Ian is an Executive Vice President at Maple Leaf Sports and Entertainment and is active on the Boards of St. Michael’s Hospital and the Toronto Community Foundation. Ian has recently received a Fellowship of Chartered Accountants from the Institute of Chartered Accountants.
Municipal Member (Durham Region)  

David is the former Chair and CEO of the Ontario Securities Commission, and is now retired following an extensive career in Canada’s financial services industry. Prior to his appointment to the Ontario Securities Commission, David was Vice Chair of the Bank of Nova Scotia and Chair and Chief Executive Office of Social Capital.

Municipal Member (City of Toronto)