New Seneca College Board of Governors Executive and Appointees, September 2010

Seneca wishes to thank its Board of Governors for their tireless dedication to the College and its students over the last academic year.

The College’s deepest appreciation goes to Helen Hayward, who has served as Board Chair for the past two years, along with Vice chairs Bill Hogarth and Denise Cole. In May, the Board elected Bill Hogarth as the new Board Chair, with Ms. Cole continuing as a Vice Chair, along with Ashif Somani and Richard Goyder. Congratulations to Seneca’s new Board Executive.

In September, the Board will also have Oscar Bobadilla as the newly elected student representative. Oscar will take over for outgoing student representative Peter Agaliotis.

The College is also pleased to welcome five new external members to the Board to replace outgoing members John Bodolai, Patricia Barbato, Andy Canham and Bob Richardson, all of who have served Seneca with distinction during their tenures.  

These accomplished individuals were chosen from a large number of applications submitted by outstanding professionals, dedicated to volunteerism and the advancement of postsecondary education in Canada.

The successful candidates who will be joining Seneca’s Board of Governors include:

Thomas Carrique, Superintendent, York Regional Police

Superintendent Carrique joined York Regional Police in 1990 and currently serves as the officer-in-charge of staff services, which includes recruiting, training, professional development and human resources.He has also been a Special Investigation Unit Liaison officer and the officer-in-charge of the Organized Crime Bureau.

Superintendent Carrique’s diverse policing career includes assignments in uniform patrol, criminal investigations, investigative services, traffic, marine, public order and the Ministry of Community Safety and Corrections’ Criminal Intelligence Service Ontario.

He earned a certificate in terrorism studies from the University of St. Andrews and graduated from the United States Department of Justice Drug Unit Commander’s Academy, as well as Roads University, with a master’s degree in leadership and training.

Case Ootes, Councillor, City of Toronto, Ward 29, Toronto-Danforth

Mr. Ootes entered municipal politics as an East York councillor in 1988. He was elected to Metro Council in 1994 and to the amalgamated City of Toronto in 1997. Mr. Ootes was then appointed as the first deputy mayor of Toronto, a position he held for six years. He has served on many committees, agencies, boards and commissions.

Currently, Mr. Ootes sits on the Economic Development Committee and on the Toronto and East York Community council. He also represents many local boards, such as Greektown on the Danforth Business Improvement Area (BIA); the Danforth BIA; the Pape Village BIA; the Don Valley Brickworks advisory committee; and the East York Community Centre advisory board. He has also served as an “Expert in Residence” for Seneca’s Centre for Financial Services.

Mr. Ootes graduated from York University with a master’s degree in business administration and had a distinguished management career with Imperial Oil.

Mike Shaver, Vice President, Engineering for Mozilla Corporation

Throughout his career, Mr. Shaver has demonstrated a tremendous commitment to helping people understand, build, and benefit from an open source community, where software is shared among individuals and organizations.

He worked at Netscape Communications and later zerøknowledge, Cluster File Systems and the Oracle Corporation. Beginning his career as a developer, he quickly rose through the ranks and eventually gained Internet fame as a founding member of the Mozilla Organization in 1998.

Mr. Shaver is a strong supporter of Seneca through his involvement with applied research projects, participation on the School of Computer Studies advisory committee and as a guest lecturer. His expertise has helped Seneca become world leader in teaching open source software and development.

Mr. Shaver received an honorary degree from Seneca in 2008 and sits on the advisory board of StopBadware.org.

David Tsubouchi, Associate Counsel, Miller Thomson LLP

Mr. Tsubouchi brings a wealth of experience from the public sector as an elected official municipally and provincially. He served two terms on Markham Council and as chair of the Town’s Planning Committee.

Mr. Tsubouchi has held numerous cabinet positions with the Ontario government, including minister of culture, solicitor general, minister of consumer and commercial relations and minister of community and social services. As former Chair of the Management Board of Cabinet of the Province of Ontario, Mr. Tsubouchi was directly responsible for the operations of the Ontario Realty Corporation. As well, he has been instrumental in expanding gaming in Ontario to commercial casinos and race tracks, through the creation of the Alcohol and Gaming Commission. Mr. Tsubouchi has also consulted on international gaming projects in Vietnam, Belize and Cambodia.

He has a strong history of advocacy for students and engagement in Seneca activities—specifically as the honorary chair of the College’s Markham Campus Capital Appeal. Mr. Tsubouchi  hold a bachelor’s degree in English from York University and received his LL.B and J.D. from Osgoode Hall Law School and his LL.D from Assumption University.
 

Governance at Seneca

Seneca College of Applied Arts and Technology is overseen by a Board of Governors comprised of members from the community at large and College employees. The Board is supported by the administration of the College.

The Board of Governors is appointed by the College Compensation and Appointments Council (formerly the Council of Regents). Under Regulation 34/03 of the 2002 Ontario Colleges of Applied Arts and Technology Act, the Council is responsible for the appointment of external governors to each of the college boards.

There may be 12 to 20 external governors, as long as the total is an even number. Four governors are elected from within the college representing students, academic, administrative and support staff. The college president is an ex-officio member of the board.

Nominated by the colleges, external members are candidates who have the skill and experience to assist boards in achieving their strategic direction.

Board members are appointed by the Council for a three-year term and are eligible for reappointment to a second three-year term. A member may serve a maximum of six consecutive years.

To assist governors with their key responsibilities, the Council provides the following  responsibilties for college boards of governors within Section 3.1 of its Governors Resource Manual.

The college board of governors is responsible for:

1. setting the college vision, strategic direction and overall goals and outcomes within the context of the appropriate laws, government policies and local needs;
2. establishing the governance structures to enable the achievement of expected institutional outcomes with clear lines of communication and internal accountability;
3. hiring the CEO (i.e. the president); delegating to the CEO accountability for the performance and operation of the college; and evaluating the CEO’s performance;
4. approving the college’s annual business plan, budget and annual report;
5. assessing periodically the effectiveness of the board with respect to the governance and the attainment of corporate goals and outcomes;
6. ensuring that appropriate corrective action is taken where expected outcomes of quality of performance is not being achieved.

View the Seneca College Board of Governors By-Law