About Us
Our Board
(Two vacancies)
* indicates Board members who are also Volunteer Advisers
*R. Wayne Gladstone, C.A. (Port Perry, ON)
R. Wayne Gladstone launched Gladstone Consulting Inc. in 2003 to provide strategic and financial advice to clients.
A former Senior Vice-President, Finance and Administration, at the Ontario Municipal Employees Retirement System (OMERS), Mr. Gladstone was responsible for the financial and technological infrastructure of a global investment program with $33 billion in assets. At OMERS, accountability included corporate strategic planning process and budgets, financial services and reporting, banking and master custody services, operational support for investment activities, risk management framework, office services and subsidiary compliance.
For seven years, he served as Chair of the Executive and Audit Committee of
OMERS Resources Board of Directors. For almost 30 years, he was a member of the Government Finance Officers’ Association and for six years, he served on the Financial Services Commission of Ontario, Sub-committee on Auditing & Accounting.
Mr. Gladstone is a member of the Board of Directors (2006-2009) of the Lakeridge Health Services in Durham Region, Ontario, and on January 1, 2008, joined the board of the Hospitals of Ontario Pension Plan (HOOPP), which is one of the biggest and most respected pension plans in Canada.
Mr. Gladstone joined CESO’s Board of Directors in early 2008 and was later named Board Chair.
Lois V. Frank, B.Sc. M.A. (Spring Coulee, Alberta)
After graduating from St. Mary's School in Cardston, Alberta, Lois V. Frank’s first job was as Script Writer/Assistant Producer with Blackfoot Radio in Cardston, Alberta where she wrote scripts for radio programs and was a Radio Announcer. She worked for a time before going back to school to earn her Bachelor of Science in 1985 from the Utah State University, in Logan, Utah.
Combining work and education has been a life-long trend for Professor Frank. She earned her Masters of Arts Degree in Education Administration, Curriculum & Instruction from Gonzaga University in Spokane, Washington in 1985 and is working toward her Ph.D. in the Doctoral Program in Leadership Studies at that same institution. For the past ten years, Professor Frank has worked as a Lecturer/Researcher in the Native American Studies/Management/Criminal Justice department at the University of Lethbridge, Alberta.
Over the years, Professor Frank has worked in various positions, including a time as President/Owner of Aboriginal Training Solutions and President of Lois Frank Enterprises & Frank & Associates Limited, from 1985 to1993. She also worked as a Project Manager with Blood Tribe Police Service, Writer/Film Producer of U of L & Gallant Productions with Legacy Films, and Policy Advisor with Environment Canada.
From 1990 to 1993, Professor Frank worked as Chairperson for the Treaty 7 Business Development Center and then from 1993 to 1995, and as an Independent Education Trainer with the Federal Business Development Bank.
In 1989/90, she was awarded the Calgary Female Entrepreneur of the Year and was nominated for Democracy Award, Utah State University. Prof Frank has received several certificates and achievements including the Alberta Jubilee Medallion from Alberta Solicitor General, the Certificate for Suicide Prevention Training from Canadian Mental Health, and a Certificate for Investigative Reporting & Radio Arts, L.C.C.
Professor Frank has served on many professional associations and most recently for two years starting in 2006, was the Chairperson of the Blood Tribe Police Commission.
She joined the CESO Board of Directors in 2009.
Meredith (Sam) Hall Hayes (Pointe Claire, Quebec)
Sam Hayes is the former President and CEO of CSL Group Inc., a large and growing Canadian company with worldwide interests.
The company specializes in self-unloading bulk carriers with inland, coastal and deep sea trading capabilities that offer shippers versatility and reliability. It employs approximately 700 people, more than 500 in its various domestic operations. In addition to having five offices across Canada, The CSL Group’s foreign offices include Boston, Singapore and Sydney, Australia.
Mr. Hayes’ overall leadership and managerial abilities are coupled with a strong financial background as well as a successful track record of strategic planning and implementation.
The company’s operations and ship building activities have given Mr. Hayes additional extensive exposure to Western Europe, Indonesia, India, China, Brazil and Ukraine
Mr. Hayes joined the company in 1981 as Director of Finance and prior to becoming President and CEO in 1995 he was Executive Vice-President & CFO for several years.
Mr. Hayes joined CESO’s Board of Directors in 2008.
Daniel A. Kyba* (Edmonton, Alberta)
Daniel A. Kyba worked as a journalist before becoming an Analyst with KPMG Management Consulting. He left KPMG in 1991 to open his own research boutique, Kyba & Associates out of Edmonton, Alberta.
Mr. Kyba received a B.A. in Political Science from the University of Saskatchewan, and studied journalism at the University of Western Ontario, and Applied Research and International Business at Grant MacEwan Community College in Edmonton, Alberta. He is currently working toward his Bachelor of Science in Development & Economics from Britain’s London School of Economics. His language skills include basic knowledge of Ukrainian, French, Japanese, and Melanesian Pidgin.
Mr. Kyba has extensive experience with both international and Aboriginal development as well as business advisory and governance. Through CESO, he has conducted about 30 Aboriginal and eight international assignments. His non-CESO international development experience includes serving in Papua New Guinea as a high school teacher and in India as a governance advisor. He became a CESO Volunteer Adviser in 1994 and joined the Board in 2008. He is also a member of Transparency International - Canada.
Louise R. Marchand (Ottawa, Ontario)
Louise Marchand is a senior, international development professional, with over 20 years of senior management experience at the Director and Director General levels, principally with the Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA), which she joined in 1980. She retired from the Canadian Public Service in 2008, following the completion of a three-year assignment as Canadian Ambassador to Senegal with cross-accreditation to Cap Verde, Guinea-Bissau, Guinea and the Gambia. She intends to pursue her career in international development work through new channels including consultancy services.
Over the course of her career, Louise has served in many senior management and policy positions including field assignments in Tanzania, Pakistan, Australia and Senegal. She has also managed CIDA’s Caribbean Regional and West Africa Programs (Ghana, Ivory Coast, Guinea and Benin). In 1997, Louise joined the Australian Agency for International Development (AusAID) through an exchange program where she guided a major organizational change and led major new programming for Papua New Guinea and Vietnam.
Louise returned to CIDA in July 2001 as Director, Policy and Planning, Central and Eastern Europe Branch in Ottawa. In September 2002 she was appointed Director General, Humanitarian Assistance, Peace and Security Programs, advising at the highest political level on the Canadian response to humanitarian and conflict crisis such as Iraq, Afghanistan, Democratic Republic of Congo and Iran. She chaired the Good Humanitarian Donorship Initiative; managed relationships with UN, foreign and Canadian partners in advocacy; humanitarian, peace and security assistance delivery; and served on the Board of the Pearson Peacekeeping Centre.
Louise, who is fluent in both English and French, received her Bachelor of Arts from the University of Ottawa in 1977 and her Masters Degrees in Public Administration and Macro and Micro Economics in 1979.
In 2008, Louise joined the Board of Directors of La Fondation Paul Gérin-Lajoie as well as that of CESO.
*David R. Newhouse (Peterborough, ON)
David Roy Newhouse is the first Principal of the new Peter Gzowski College at Trent University and Chair of the Department of Native Studies. He is an Associate Professor in the Department of Native Studies and the Business Administration Program.
Professor Newhouse is Co-Chair of the Trent Aboriginal Education Council. He was the IMC/U of S Aboriginal Scholar in Residence at the University of Saskatchewan in Saskatoon in 1998/99. He also teaches in the Graduate CED Program at Concordia University.
An Onondaga from the Six Nations of the Grand River community near Brantford, Ontario, Prof. Newhouse currently serves as editor of the CANDO Journal of Aboriginal Economic Development, the first peer-reviewed academic journal devoted to Aboriginal economic development issues.
He is the past Chair and a current member of the Council for the Advancement of Native Development Officers (CANDO) Standing Committee on Education. He also served as a member of the Policy Team on Economics for the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples.
His research interests are focused on the way in which Aboriginal traditional thought and western thought are coming together and creating modern Aboriginal societies. His current exploration is on the development of Aboriginal democracies.
Anne Noonan (Gatineau, Quebec)
Anne Noonan is the President of Nika Inc. and formerly the President of Anne Noonan Associates.
For over two decades, Ms Noonan has worked extensively with Aboriginal community groups and federal and provincial departments in promoting Aboriginal interests.
She is the Executive Co-Chair, Board of Directors, Aboriginal Human Resources Council.
Her past memberships include Ontario Hydro, Board of Directors; Canadian Hunger Foundation, Board of Directors; Canadian Aboriginal Economic Development Strategy, Vice-Chair, National Board; Bank of Montreal, Aboriginal Leaders Advisory Group. Her advisory roles have included the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples, Urban Self-government for Aboriginal Peoples, 1993; Advisor to the Principal, Office of the Auditor-General-Audit, Department of Employment and Immigration, 1993-94; Advisor to Environment Canada and the Forest Products Association of Canada – Clean Air Forum 2004.
Ms Noonan’s personal strengths include her leadership skills, her working knowledge and understanding of Aboriginal issues and her proven ability to work with and build trust within Aboriginal communities.
Ms Noonan joined CESO’s Board of Directors in 2008.
Dana Reiter* (Lumby, British Columbia)
Dana Reiter is a Fellow with the International Leadership for Environment and Development program, a global network of visionary leaders who engage with sustainability challenges and opportunities. She was an International Advisor at the University of British Columbia and while on the United National University affiliated Ship for World Youth where she developed the curriculum and lectured on activism for social change to 300 youth from 18 countries.
A Métis living in British Columbia, Ms Reiter has worked in Whitehorse with the Ta’an Kwäch’än First Nation and in Bella Bella, British Columbia with the Heiltsuk First Nation.
She received her B.A. and a Graduate Certificate of Intercultural Studies from the University of British Columbia. She also has a Masters Degree in Intercultural Service, Leadership and Management from the School for International Training in Brattleboro, Vermont, which she pursued thanks to funding from a Rotary International Ambassadorial scholarship and a SIT Intercultural Leadership award.
Ms Reiter is newly registered CESO Volunteer Adviser. She joined the roster in January 2008, completed an assignment in Russia in August 2008 where she delivered workshops on civic education and youth leadership, and joined the CESO board later in the year.
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