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Fashion designer Marilyn Milavsky has spent the past 18 years involved with many community projects. As a community leader Marilyn has volunteered her time and creativity to fundraising projects for organizations such as Hospice Calgary, Stars Air Ambulance, the Glenbow Museum, Esther Honens, Alberta Ballet and Calgary Opera. Ms. Milavsky recently served as co-chair of the TELUS Community Board and as President of the Alberta Canada Day Committee as well as a Calgary Ambassador for the 2010 Olympics. Her other community involvements include the Banff Centre National Campaign Cabinet, the Hotchkiss Brain Institute Advisory Committee, and the Sheep River Health Trust Advisory Committee. Ms. Milavsky is a member of the Calgary chapter for the International Women’s Forum. |
Evan Hazell is a Managing Director
within HSBC’s global investment bank.
He has been involved in Calgary’s oil
and gas industry since 1980. For the
first decade of his career Mr. Hazell
practiced as a petroleum engineer.
Since 1992 he has worked as an energy
investment banker serving a wide
range of Canadian and international
clients. In addition to Calgary Opera,
Mr. Hazell has been actively involved
with a number of other non-profit
organizations, including the Calgary
Homeless Foundation and CAWST. |
Richard Herbert is the Executive Vice President, International Exploration with Talisman Energy and is responsible for Talisman’s global exploration program. He moved to Calgary in March, 2009 after spending six years living in Moscow, working in the Russian oil and gas industry. He is a geologist by training and has lived and worked in many different parts of the world. Opera has been a passion for him for the past 30 years. |
Born in Vancouver, Leo le Nobel entered the civil service of the general insurance business “right out of high school” on July 2, 1949. Now an account executive with the International Risk Management and Insurance Broking firm of Jardine Lloyd Thompson
Canada Inc., he hopes that retirement is a long, long time away. His first opera, in 1945, was Rigoletto, performed at Vancouver’s Strand Theatre by the touring San Carlo Opera Company. It was the only source of live opera in the hinterlands long before the emergence of the regional companies. The Kirov's production of the Ring, in New York,
was the 15th time that Mr. le Nobel has attended the tetralogy performed under festival conditions. His desert island opera would probably be Tristan und Isolde but he admits that he really would miss Tosca. |
Claudia Cattaneo is the Western Business Columnist at the National Post, where she covers business and policy issues shaping enterprise across the West. During her 30-year career in journalism, Ms. Cattaneo also served as the Financial Post’s Calgary Bureau Chief and worked at the Calgary Herald, the Montreal Gazette and the Toronto Star. Born and raised in the Valle d’Aosta region of Northern Italy, Ms. Cattaneo has a degree in journalism from Ryerson Polytechnic University in Toronto and an MSc in Political Science from the Universite de Montreal. She is a director of Hospice Calgary and a member of the International Women’s Forum. Ms. Cattaneo’s two children are studying to be performing artists. |
Born in Edmonton and raised in Calgary, Don Edie attended the University of Calgary, followed by law school at the University of Alberta. He has been a solicitor practicing in the Canadian and international energy industries, with a large focus on regulatory tribunals and commercial transactions, for more than 30 years. Mr. Edie has been a partner in the law firm Carscallen Leitch LLP for the past 17 years, where he continues a full-time legal practice, while finding time to perform in many of Calgary Opera’s
mainstage productions as a chorister. Mr. Edie also sings with Scarboro United Church Choir. |
David Field has resided in Calgary since 1971. He is a Partner of Gowling Lafleur
Henderson LLP where he carries on a banking and corporate finance law practice. Mr. Field has been active in Calgary’s performing arts community for many years, having been a director and secretary of the Calgary Philharmonic Society, a trustee of the Calgary Philharmonic Foundation, a director of Theatre Calgary, and a founder and
board member of the EPCOR CENTRE for the Performing Arts. |
Beverley Foy is a Chartered Accountant, and a partner of Collins Barrow Calgary LLP. As Treasurer of Calgary Opera from 1999 to 2003, she championed the establishment of an endowment fund for the organization. During her
three years as Chair, her focus was to expand Calgary Opera’s connection with the community. Ms. Foy is also on the board of The Calgary Foundation and the Calgary Airport Authority. She has held board and committee positions with the S.A. Opera
Development Foundation, YWCA of Calgary, YMCA of Calgary, and Soroptimist International. |
Christel Johansson has 36 years of experience in the banking industry, seven years in the international division of Union Bank of Finland and 29 years of commercial banking with The Bank of Nova Scotia in Calgary. She grew up in an environment with a strong
focus on the arts and music which became a passion at an early age. Ms. Johansson’s intent is to take an active part in the effort to widen the interest in opera in Calgary and especially to reach young audiences and people who have not been exposed to opera. |
Graduating in Engineering from the University of Manitoba in 1966, Verne Johnson has over 40 years of involvement in the oil and gas industry. Initially he worked with Imperial Oil in Canada and EXXON in New York until 1981 when he left to join the independent sector where he ran a number of junior and intermediate energy companies ending with the sale of ELAN Energy in 1997. Since then he has undertaken a number of advisory roles and Board directorships in public and private companies. He is presently an advisor to Statoil Canada and is a director of Fort Chicago Energy Partners, Gran Tierra Energy, Petromanas Energy Inc., and Earth Energy Resources.
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Sian Mathews practices as a lawyer, specializing in private client matters. She serves as a director of Canada Post Corporation, Calgary Municipal Lands Corporation and Heritage Park Society. Sian is a regular speaker at national conferences and contributor to legal journals on tax, trust and charity law topics. Sian and her husband Gerry are avid music lovers, as are their children, Maggie, Owen, Jennifer and Jake. |
Lachlin McKinnon is a Senior Consultant at Conroy Ross Partners, where he leads the firm's executive search practice in the public and not-for-profit sectors. After an early unsuccessful audition for the World Opera Company's production of Aida, Lachlin went to law school. He subsequently served as Special Advisor to Governor General Adrienne Clarkson, and practised civil litigation in Calgary. Lachlin holds an ARCT in Piano Performance. Active in the community, Lachlin also serves as Chair of the Board of Directors of The Doorway, a not-for-profit organization that assists young people transition from street to mainstream living. |
Pat Menzies is a long-time Calgary Opera volunteer and has contributed to a broad range of not-for-profits and art organizations. She is a Director of Art a la Carte, a member of the Hotchkiss Brain Institute Community Advisory Board and a past member of the Calgary Region Persons with Developmental Disabilities Board. Ms Menzies is President of Menzies Strategies, a strategic planning and consulting company. Other organizations she has been involved with include Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra, Hospice Calgary, Rescue Mission for breast cancer and Storehouse. Ms Menzies views Calgary Opera as an integral piece in Calgary’s cultural life, and is excited to be a part of the innovative and vibrant Calgary Opera community.
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Jerry Olynuk is a graduate of the University of Saskatchewan, holding degrees in Political Studies and Law, as well as the Chartered Financial Analyst designation. Mr. Olynuk is Vice-President, Portfolio Manager with Matco Financial Inc., a Calgary based investment firm. His personal and professional interests focus on the management of foundations and non-profit organizations. Jerry is married with two children and is actively involved with a number of sports and community organizations in Tuscany. Prior to joining the board, he and his wife Debbie have been long time subscribers and supporters of Calgary Opera.
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A native of Ontario, Jim Reader has had
a 30-plus-year career in banking in
a variety of Canadian communities.
Currently a Director with ATB
Corporate Financial Services, Mr.
Reader and his family came to Calgary
in 1993 via Winnipeg. Mr. Reader is
a strong believer in contributing to
the community and currently has
sub-committee involvement with
the Calgary Homeless Foundation.
Past board involvements include the
Calgary Land Trust, the Winnipeg
council for Business Economics, and the
North Bay YMCA. IN 2005 Mr. Reader
received an Alberta Centennial Medal
for outstanding contributions to the
province of Alberta. |
Monica Sloan is Managing Director of JKS Holdings and past CEO of Intervera Data Solutions, a firm specializing in strategic information management for the energy sector. For much of Ms. Sloan’s career she has helped to build and sustain innovation within existing and new business and community ventures. Ms. Sloan is a member of a number of public, private and not-for profit boards, including past Chair of Calgary Opera. She has a BSc in Applied Earth Sciences, a BA in Economics, an MSc Engineering all from Stanford University and an MBA from Harvard University. She loves to volunteer and hopes that in her next life she will come back as an Italian mezzo-soprano. |
John Torode has been in the real estate business in Calgary since 1972. Combining art and real estate has been an important part of his projects. Properties that include this passion are arriVa, Hotel Arts, Kensington Riverside Inn and Ramsay Crossing. John was formerly on the boards of the EPCOR CENTRE for the Performing Arts, Theatre Calgary and CPO. Presently on the Board of Theatre Junction, John has tried to help non-profit organizations with the real estate needs. |
Sheila Wappel-McLean graduated from the Bachelor of Interior Design program at the University of Manitoba. Since 1980, she has been actively involved in the design & arts community in Calgary. Sheila is recognized in the design community as a leader in the design & management of resources, timelines, budgets and personnel. Many of her large commercial projects have received Provincial and National Design Excellence Awards. Sheila has been directly involved in fundraising for Calgary Opera as a co-chair and committee member for several projects and she believes that as an organization, Calgary Opera is a fundamental mentor and leader in the Canadian arts community. |
Janice Woodward has been a Chartered Accountant for 25 years, and her work experience has included leadership roles as an assurance manager and leader of staff recruiting in the Calgary office of a national accounting firm. More recently, she has worked on a contract basis for various Calgary businesses. Janice is active in the community and has served on the Boards of the Calgary Patriots Swim Club, the Calgary West Electoral District Association of the Conservative Party of Canada, and in various capacities with other community organizations. |
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