Board Members
Phyllis Clark
Edmonton, Alberta
Chair of the Board of Directors
Biography
Phyllis Clark graduated from the University of Toronto with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science and Economics and completed her Doctorial Candidacy and Master of Arts in Economics at the University of Michigan.
From 2002 to 2016, Ms. Clark served as the Vice-President (Finance and Administration) and Chief Financial Officer at the University of Alberta, following five years as Vice-President (Finance and Administration) at York University. Previously, she was Assistant Deputy Minister of Ontario's Management Board Secretariat and, between 1991 and 1992, was the province's Chief Economist and Assistant Deputy Minister of Finance.
Ms. Clark is currently serving on the Board of the Alberta University Hospital Foundation and the Glenn Gould Foundation, the Alberta Investment Management Corporation, the Inuvialuit Investment Corporation, and the Edmonton Symphony and Concert Hall Foundation.
Ms. Clark was appointed as Chair of the Mint's Board of Directors on May 11, 2018.
Fiona L. Macdonald, ICD.D.
Vancouver, British-Columbia
Board Member
Biography
Fiona L. Macdonald holds a BA in International Relations and an MBA from the University of British Columbia, and is a member of the Institute of Corporate Directors. Ms. Macdonald is currently a director of MN8 Energy, which is one of the largest independent owners and operators of solar and battery storage in the USA. Ms. Macdonald is the Chair of their People Committee. In addition, Ms. Macdonald is the Chair of the Board of Directors for the Greater Vancouver Food Bank.
Ms. Macdonald's past Board appointments include the following. She was a Board Member and Chair of the Management Resources and Compensation Committee, and a Member of the Audit and Governance Committees of GMP Capital, a financial institution traded on the Toronto Stock Exchange. Ms. Macdonald was also a Board Member of the BC Ferry Authority and the Real Estate Board of Greater Vancouver. Finally, Ms. Macdonald was the past Chair of the BC Chapter of the Institute of Corporate Directors, where she currently remains as a Member of their Advisory Board.
Ms. Macdonald was appointed to the Mint's Board of Directors on June 11, 2018. She is the Chair of the Human Resources and Workplace Health and Safety Committee.
Serge Falardeau, ASC, CPA
Sainte-Marie de Beauce, Quebec
Board Member
Biography
Serge Falardeau has several years of experience as Chief Executive Officer for various manufacturing and service companies with national and international business operations. Mr. Falardeau is a Certified Corporate Director and also holds a Bachelor's degree in Business Administration from Laval University and is a Chartered Professional Accountant (CPA, CA). Mr. Falardeau has also been a board member of PH Tech Inc., Texel Inc., ADS Composite Materials Group and Bocenor BF Group Inc.
Mr. Falardeau was appointed to our Board of Directors on October 18, 2017. He is a member of the Audit Committee and of the Human Resources and Workplace Health and Safety Committee.
Pina Melchionna
Toronto, Ontario
Board Member
Biography
Pina Melchionna is currently the President and Chief Executive Officer of the Canadian Institute of Traffic and Transportation (CITT), a learning and development organization offering professional certification in supply chain logistics. Prior to her role at CITT, she worked for several national banks and financial institutions and started her career as a lawyer.
Ms. Melchionna holds a Bachelor of Arts from York University, a Juris Doctorate law degree from Osgoode Hall Law School and a specialized Master of Business Administration in Financial Services from Dalhousie University. She completed the ICD-Rotman Directors Education Program and earned the ICD.D designation in 2015 and the Competent Board Global ESG (CBG.D.) in 2022.
Ms. Melchionna is a member in good standing of the Ontario Bar Association. She has served on the board of SGI Canada and also sits on the board of the Raymond James Trust Company. She is also a sessional instructor at Centennial College, British Columbia Institute of Technology, Ascenda School of Management and the Schulich School of Business.
Ms. Melchionna was appointed to our Board of Directors on June 2, 2019. She is the Chair of the Governance and Nominating Committee.
Cybele Negris
Vancouver, British-Columbia
Board Member
Biography
Cybele Negris is a tech CEO, serial entrepreneur, experienced corporate director, sought-after speaker, mentor, columnist and a Hall of Fame inductee of Canada’s Top 100 Most Powerful Women.
Cybele co-founded Webnames.ca in 2000, steering its evolution into the security driven, brand-protection focused, proactively client centric registrar that is Webnames Corporate today.
Specializing in governance, security, risk, and compliance, Cybele serves as an ICD.D accredited director on numerous corporate boards, among them the Royal Canadian Mint, AGF Management, BCAA, BlueShore Financial, and Damon Motorcycles. She is also Vice-Chair of Science World and the Small Business Roundtable of BC, and chairs the Departmental Audit Committee for Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada. She has a long history of mentoring, advocacy and promotion of women, girls, and woman-identifying persons in STEM/STEAM.
A four-time winner of Canada's Top 100 Most Powerful Women and nine-time winner of PROFIT W100, some of Cybele’s other recognitions include Business in Vancouver Top 500 business leaders in the Tech Innovators category (2021,2022), BC Business Most Influential Women in Business 2018, 2017, 2015, and Business In Vancouver’s Influential Women in Business 2010 and Top 40 Under 40 2003.
Ms. Negris was appointed to our Board of Directors on October 18, 2017. She is the Vice-Chair of the Board of Directors, and a member of the Audit Committee and the Human Resources and Workplace Health and Safety Committee.
Gilles Patry, C.M. O.Ont.
Ottawa, Ontario
Board Member
Biography
Dr. Gilles Patry is President Emeritus and Professor Emeritus at the University of Ottawa. He is the former President and Chief Executive Officer of the Canada Foundation for Innovation. Dr. Patry also served as Executive Director of the U15 Group of Canadian Research Universities.
Dr. Patry holds a B.A.Sc. and M.A.Sc. in civil engineering from the University of Ottawa, and a Ph.D. from the University of California, Davis. He has received honorary doctorates from the University of Waterloo, McMaster University, the University of Lyon (INSA-Lyon), Western University, Carleton University, the University of Ottawa and McGill University.
Dr. Patry is a Member of the Order of Canada, a recipient of the Order of Ontario and a member of Professional Engineers Ontario. He is a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.
Dr. Patry is a member of the Board of Trustees at Queen’s University and chair of the Department Audit Committee at Fisheries and Oceans Canada.
Dr. Patry was appointed to our Board of Directors on June 11, 2018. He is Chair of the Audit Committee.
Barry M. Rivelis, ICD.D
Vancouver, British-Columbia
Board Member
Biography
Barry Rivelis is President of PBC Solutions, a wholly owned subsidiary of Pacific Blue Cross (PBC). PBC Solutions delivers health benefits services to governments and other large payer organizations and was created in 2022.
Barry has extensive experience in health, insurance, government, and telecommunications and held executive roles ranging from strategy to operations. Prior to his current role, Barry was Sr. Vice President and Chief Strategy and Information Officer at PBC where he led the transformation of its enterprise-wide technology environment and new corporate strategy. Since August 2020, Barry led the effort to secure the business and the subsequent creation of PBCS. Before joining PBC, Mr. Rivelis was the Chief Information Officer of the Provincial Health Services Authority, Vancouver Coastal Health and Providence Health Care and, before that, Vice President, Health Care at Telus Corporation, where he was instrumental in the creation of Telus Health. Prior to joining Telus, Mr. Rivelis was a Vice President of Cap Gemini in Vancouver and a partner with Ernst & Young in Toronto – one of the youngest consulting partners in the Canadian firm's history.
Mr. Rivelis is a Member of the Information Technology Advisory Council of the University of British Columbia and an Honourary Governor of the Vancouver Foundation. He is a past member of the Board of the Vancouver Foundation and the Canadian Chamber of Commerce. In 2021, Barry was noted as a member of Business in Vancouver's (BIV) BC 500, the 500 most influential business leaders in British Columbia. In 2019, Barry was chosen as the BIV’s Chief Information Officer of the Year.
Mr. Rivelis holds a Bachelor of Arts (Hons) from York University, an MBA from the Schulich School of Business and the ICD.D designation from the Institute of Corporate Directors.
Mr. Rivelis was appointed to our Board of Directors on July 1, 2019. He is a member of the Audit Committee, as well as the Governance and Nominating Committee.
Evan Price
Saint-Laurent-de-l'Île-d'Orléans, Quebec
Board Member
Biography
Evan Price has extensive experience as a senior executive and entrepreneur in a variety of industries and companies. He was President and CEO of CO2 Solutions Inc., a company providing carbon capture technology to industrial emitters, until it was acquired by Saipem S.p.A. in 2019. In 1992, he also co-founded Auberge Saint-Antoine, a Relais & Châteaux hotel property, in Québec City, Quebec.
Mr. Price has over three decades of professional experience in Canada and internationally, including in corporate governance as the Chair of the Board of IOU Financial, a fintech company providing loans to small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in North America. He has held roles on the boards of private and publicly-listed companies, as well as non-profit organizations and foundations. Mr. Price is currently a Member of the Advisory Council of the Royal 22nd Regiment.
Mr. Price holds an MBA (Honours) from INSEAD (France), and a Certificate in Corporate Governance and a B.Sc. in Forestry Engineering from Université Laval.
Mr. Price was appointed to our Board of Directors on April 21, 2023. He is a member of the Audit Committee and the Governance and Nominating Committee.