Meet the Board

George A. Gillespie, C.A.

George A. Gillespie is Administrative Partner of McColl Turner Chartered Accountants in Peterborough and has served previously as Treasurer with the Greater Peterborough Futures Committee and Peterborough Information Centre and Volunteer Bureau Inc.

George serves as Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Community Futures Development Corporation and is also a member of the Practice Inspection Committee of the institute of Chartered Accountants of Ontario.

Mr. Douglas Armstrong

Doug Armstrong is the owner of a small consulting business specializing in government relations, organizational changes, strategic management and governance. Doug served as the CAO of Peterborough County for over two decades and is a past Manager of the Greater Peterborough Chamber of Commerce.  Doug is a Board Member on the Greater Toronto Airports Authority and has served as a member of the GO Transit Board of Directors.  Serving on the Peterborough Regional Health Centre Foundation Board, he was Vice Chair and Treasurer, and was appointed as a Governor Emeritus in 2008.

Doug serves as Vice Chair of the Board of Directors of the Community Futures Development Corporation and a member of the Association of Municipal Clerks and Treasurers of Ontario, International Institute of Municipal Clerks and Association of Municipalities of Ontario.

Dan Stanford

Dan Stanford is President of Cabinetree in Peterborough, a company he started in 1988. Dan is also past President of the Peterborough District Construction Exchange and past Chair of the Board of the Greater Peterborough Chamber of Commerce.

Dan serves as treasurer of the Board of Directors of the Community Futures Development Corporation.

Gerry Bennett

Gerry Bennett is retired from the Royal Bank of Canada (after a 42 year career which includes Corporate and Small Business Lending, Branch Manager and Training Manager). He also operated his own consulting business in Toronto prior to returning to Peterborough.

William (Bill) Morrison

Bill Morrison has been the owner of the Best Western Otonabee Inn since May of 1972. He has been involved in a number of tourism and economic development associations in our region and is a past Director of Tourism Ontario.

Phil Burrett

Phil Burrett, President of BRT Provisioners Inc. (Import and Export) and Best-West Pet Foods Inc. (Retail)

Crystal Wieland

Crystal is the Economic Development Officer for the Township of Douro-Dummer.

Drew Merrett

Drew is the owner of Merrett Home Hardware Building Centre in Peterborough. He has 22 years of retail experience dealing with all aspects of running a successful franchise company. Drew is an active member of the Peterborough Northumberland Crime Stoppers Board of Directors and is a past director of the Peterborough Sales and Advertising Club.

Kathy Windrem

Kathy Windrem is a Principal with BDO Dunwoody LLP Chartered Accountants and Advisors.  Kathy manages the Peterborough office and is also a member of the  BDO Dunwoody Advisory Committee for the Ontario Lakelands Region. Kathy is a Past Chair of the Greater Peterborough Chamber of Commerce.

Randy Northey

Randy is a partner and business lawyer with LLF LAWYERS. He practiced law in Toronto from 1985 until 2004 when he moved back to his hometown of Peterborough. He is involved in the community as Vice-Chairman of Peterborough Housing Corporation and Treasurer of The Art Gallery of Peterborough.

Bob Behan

Bob is a financial advisor with the Protectors Group. He has experience as a business owner/operator of a distribution company and as a business management consultant. He is a member of the Board of Directors for the Peterborough Downtown Business Improvement Area and is the Chair of the Business After Hours Committee of the Greater Peterborough Chamber of Commerce.

Kim Appleton

Kim Appleton is the CAO and a founding partner of Emmatt Digital Solutions Inc. Since 1998, Emmatt has been assisting businesses to be more efficient, thereby more profitable, through the adoption of leading-edge technologies such as document scanning, database, and Internet development. Kim is also a Past President of the Women’s Business Network of Peterborough and currently sits on the both the WBN Board and its 50th Anniversary Committee as Technical Director.

Robert (Rob) McCarthy

Rob grew up on a 300-acre family farm. He graduated from the University of New Hampshire in 1973 with a BSc degree from their College of Life Sciences and Agriculture. Rob spent years working in the corporate community, many as a District and Divisional General Manager. A strong business acumen was gained through extensive people and business training. Rob has served on many local Boards of Directors and committees such as the Peterborough Construction Exchange, Durham Construction Exchange, Peterborough Golf and Country Club and local sports associations.

Dr. Raymond Dart is an Associate Professor in the Business Administration Program at Trent University and former Principal of Peter Gzowski College. He teaches in organization analysis, entrepreneurship and market research areas in the undergraduate business program, and also teaches and supervises research in the Sustainability M.A. program. He is particularly interested in connections between business and community development, and does research and consulting work in the social enterprise area.

Terry Merrill

Terry Merrill has held the position of General Manager of the Holiday Inn Peterborough Waterfront since September 2000, is the Vice-President of the Peterborough Destination Association, Past Chair of the Peterborough and Area Chamber of Commerce and has more than 30 years experience in the Hospitality Business.

Judy Heffernan

Judy Heffernan currently serves as General Manager of the Community Futures Development Corporation.

Judy offers a background in retail credit & cash management.