Founder

 John Simke, C.A., is the founder and Chair of CORE. He retired as a partner of PricewaterhouseCoopers in 2006, where, for 22 years as a management consultant, he worked on change and performance improvement projects for large corporations and governments.  Through his career John has specialized in management innovations, in particular those that involve outsourcing, shared services, public-private partnerships and other forms of organizational collaboration.  In addition to founding CORE, he was the founding President and Board member of the Canadian Council for Public-Private Partnerships, an organization formed in 1993 to foster innovative approaches to financing, building and operating public infrastructure. He was also a founding director of the Smartrisk Foundation, an organization dedicated to helping individual Canadians better manage risk in their lives. He is currently on the Board of the Innovation Institute of Ontario.

Officers

Richard Corley
Board Secretary; Partner, Blakes
Greg Gulyas
Board Chair CORE
Jennifer James
Vice-Chair; Director, Supplier Governance, Procurement & Strategic Sourcing, BMO Financial Group

Directors

Dr. Ron Babin
Associate Director and Assistant Professor, IT Management, Ryerson University, Ted Rogers School of Management
Charbel Bachaalani
Senior Director, Outsourcing Services IT, Bombardier Aerospace
Ian Chan
Partner, Deloitte
Susan Doniz
Group CIO, AIMIA
Jim Eckler
Chief Operating Officer, Health Shared Services, BC
Suzanne Gagliese
HP Enterprise Services
Greg Gulyas
Chairman, Board of Directors
Jennifer James
Director, Supplier Governance, Procurement & Strategic Sourcing, BMO Financial Group
Jeffrey Kastner
General Manager, Strategic Purchasing, Operations & Corporate, Air Canada
Leslie Keating
Senior Vice President of Strategic Outsourcing, IBM Global Technology Services Canada
Allan Leonard
Director, Strategic Partnerships, BC Hydro
Daniel Logan
Partner, Torys LLP
Art Mannarn
Executive Vice-President, CIBC Global Operations and INTRIA, CIBC
Graham Paul
Chief Information Officer & Vice President, Strategic Planning, Canadian Wheat Board
Mary Whatman
Founding Partner, Parhelion Global Communications Advisors

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