Governance

GreenCentre Canada is incorporated as a not-for-profit Canadian corporation. We report to a Board of Directors comprising representatives from industry, academia, government and fourth-pillar organizations. GreenCentre’s primary accountability is to the Audit Committee of the Board of Directors.

Our board members are:

Laurie Borg
NexCycle Canada

Laurie Borg joined NexCycle Canada as President in March 2008. NexCycle Plastics has a plastics recycling operations in Brampton, Ontario focusing on recycling polyethylene and polypropylene resins. He is also responsible for NexCycle’s glass operations in Guelph, Ontario. Prior to joining NexCycle, Mr. Borg  spent six years in the plastics industry as Chief Operating Officer for Canadian General Tower Limited, the largest manufacturer of automotive seating cover stock and swimming pool liners in North America. Previously he  held a variety of senior positions with KPMG and Ernst & Young, specializing in the area of mergers and acquisitions.

Eric Kelusky
NOVA Chemicals

Eric Kelusky is Vice President of Technology for NOVA Chemicals and responsible for all research and development in Canada and the USA, covering petrochemicals, polymers, catalysts and new businesses. Previously, he was Director of Polyethylene Research for NOVA Chemicals in Calgary and led the development of new catalyst, process and polymer technologies. Dr Kelusky has also held positions as the Business Vice President for High Performance Polymers and was most recently the Executive Assistant to the CEO of NOVA Chemicals. He received his PhD in Chemistry and NMR spectroscopy from the University of Ottawa and the National Research Council of Canada in 1983. He then held a variety of R&D and manufacturing roles with DuPont Canada in areas of polymer science.

Francesca Kerton
Memorial University

Dr. Francesca M Kerton is Assistant Professor (Green Chemistry) in the Department of Chemistry, Memorial University of Newfoundland. She received her BSc in Chemistry with Environmental Science at the University of Kent and her PhD in Chemistry at the University of Sussex. She was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of British Columbia in Canada and subsequently a lecturer and then Royal Society University Research Fellow at the University of York, UK. The author of Alternative Solvents for Green Chemistry, she has contributed to many books and journal articles. Her research interests are green chemistry including solvent replacement, catalysis and renewable feedstocks

Louis Lamontagne
NSERC Council Executive Committee

Dr. Louis Lamontagne sits on the Executive Committee of the NSERC Council. Previously, he was President, CEO and Director of PainCeptor Pharma Corporation, a company that focused on the development of drugs to treat chronic pain. Prior to that, he was President and CEO of Neurochem Inc., a company he developed from a research concept. He has also served as President and CEO of the Ottawa Life Sciences Technology Park and has held a series of senior research positions in govenrment, academia and the private sector, including Group Leader of the Institute of Biologiical Sciences at the National Research Instittute of Canada. He holds a PhD in immunology from McMaster University and held a Post Doctoral Research Fellowship at the School of Public Health at Harvard University.

Nathalie Martin-Ionesco
Veolia Water Systems

Dr. Nathalie Martin-Ionesco is Water Treatment Additives Business Development Manager at Veolia Water Solutions and Technologies (VWS), a world leader in water treatment solutions and services. She has worked at Veolia Water in a variety of management positions for more than 20 years, with experience in the company’s chemicals/additives, commercial (food and beverage), technical and operation contracts divisions, among others. Dr. Martin-Ionesco received her PhD in Chemical Engineering from Ecole supérieure de Physique et de Chimie industrielles de la Ville de Paris. 

Ellen McGregor
Fielding Chemical Technologies Inc.

Ellen McGregor is the Chief Executive Officer of Fielding Chemical Technologies Inc., Canada’s largest Canadian company permitted to recycle solvents and refrigerants and a leading provider of recycled chemical products, procurement and HAZMAT training services. Formerly, Ms McGregor was Manager of Training & Development at Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt. There, she designed and delivered training programs to lawyers and support staff on a wide variety of subjects, including effective integration of technology into the practice of law. She is also currently 2009 Chair, Mississauga Board of Trade; Director, Ontario Environmental Industries Association; Director, Credit Valley Conservation Foundation; a member of the Advisory Council to the Principal, University of Toronto Mississauga; a member of the Environmental Committee for the Community Foundation for the City of Mississauga and member of the Economic Development Committee for the City of Mississauga.

John P. Molloy
PARTEQ Innovations

John Molloy has overseen commercialization of intellectual property at Queen’s University since 1986. During that time PARTEQ has generated more than 40 technology companies that have attracted more than $900 million in investor funding and created more than 700 jobs. Since inception PARTEQ has returned more than $26 million to Queen’s and its inventors. He has also led the creation of a number of venture funds focused on investing in early-stage, high-growth business opportunities arising primarily from research at Queen's. Under his guidance, PARTEQ became the first Canadian technology transfer office in Canada to host a national Centre of Excellence in Commercialization and Research with the launch of GreenCentre Canada.

Kerry Rowe
Queen's University

Kerry Rowe is Vice-Principal (Research) at Queen’s University. In leading the promotion and development of research programs, he interacts with researchers on campus, government, the granting councils, research foundations and other universities and industry on research issues and projects. He is responsible for about $200 million in research annually ranging from the humanities to health sciences. Dr. Rowe is Chair of the Board of PARTEQ Innovations Inc., which has been highly successful in the commercialization of research conducted at Queen’s and the Board of Innovation Park at Queen’s University.

Peter Snucins, Chair
Polycorp Ltd.

Peter Snucins is founder and CEO of Polycorp Ltd., a leading designer and manufacturer of engineered polymer products. He is the former President and COO of Clairvest Group Inc., a Canadian publicly listed merchant bank listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange. He has created and managed a number of both publicly listed and privately held companies, and served in various capacities on a number of Boards in a broad range of sectors including investment and finance, (Chairing the Audit and Ethics Committees of a Canadian Chartered Bank), pharmaceutical, transportation, natural resources, communications and media, and advanced technologies.

Rick Tabor
Stepan Company

Rick Tabor is currently a Research Associate in Stepan Company’s Synthesis Group.  His key responsibility for the past six years has been to fill Stepan’s innovation portfolio with early-stage products and business development opportunities.  For the previous 24 years he created value-added polyurethane and polyolefin product concepts and commercialized them, both at Stepan Company and at Dow Chemical Company. His career has produced 14 external publications, 39 patents and eight major product launches.  Mr. Tabor graduated Magna Cum Laude with a BS in Chemistry from Texas A&M in 1980. 

Matthew J. Zaluzec
Ford Motor Company

Dr. Matthew J. Zaluzec is Manager of the Materials and Manufacturing Research at Ford Motor Company's Research and Innovation Center.  He has 20 years of automotive materials and manufacturing experience.  His research staff is focused on light weight materials development including metals, paint and plastics research, energy conversion materials development, and nano-materials development.  He also manages Ford's world-class analytical materials characterization and surface science laboratories.  His core research delivers advanced materials and manufacturing technology in the development of lightweight body architectures, power train systems and interiors.  Dr. Zaluzec received his PhD in Materials Science Engineering from University of Illinois. He has received numerous technical achievement awards and has been granted 40 U.S. patents (110 worldwide) and has published/presented more than 75 technical papers.  In addition to numerous professional memberships, he is currently chair of USAMP (United States Automotive Materials Partnership), a division of USCAR (United States Consortium of Automotive Research).