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Our Leadership

Sunnybrook Foundation’s leadership is united in an unwavering commitment to inspire lasting support for Sunnybrook. Comprised of our volunteer Board of Directors, Governing Council and Executive Team, our leadership brings a wealth of experience from across a variety of industries and sectors. Get To Know Our Leadership Team!

Our Board of Directors is a committed group of volunteer leaders who bring diverse backgrounds and their own Sunnybrook experiences to their governance role. They support our Executive Team in achieving our goals while ensuring the Foundation remains deeply connected to the community.

Officers

Phillip Crawley, C.M., CBE
Chair

Serving on Sunnybrook Foundation’s Board since 2015, Phillip Crawley is the former Publisher and CEO of The Globe and Mail. 

Carey Diamond, Vice Chair
Managing Partner, Whitecap Venture Partners
Chris Clark, Treasurer
Former CEO, PricewaterhouseCoopers
Lisa Borsook, Secretary
Executive Partner, Weirfoulds LLP 
Robert Beutel
President, Oakwest Corporation 
(Ricco) A. S. Bhasin
Partner, Torys LLP 
William W.L. Cheng
President, Premier Candle Corporation
Karen Diamond
Board Director 
Perry Dellelce
Founder & Managing Partner, Wildeboer Dellelce LLP 
Michael Faralla
Head of Global Mining, TD Securities 
Anne Odette Kaye
Co-President, E. & G. Odette Foundation, and President, The Odette Kaye Family Foundation 
Mike Lord 
President, Temerty Group
Umeeda Madhany
President, Sofina Foundation | Executive Deputy, Office of the Chairman, SofinaFoods 
Neil McLaughlin
Group Head of Personal & Commercial Banking, RBC 
Maneesh Mehta
Co-Founder, The Black Box Institute 
Sheldon Pollack
CEO, OV2 Capital Inc. 
Cliff Rand
Partner, Aird & Berlis LLP
Baljit Sierra
President and CEO, Novo Plastics Inc. 
Adi Mor Sitelbah
General Counsel, GLH Asset Management Corporation 
Dr. Andy Smith, MD, MSc, FRCSC, FACS
President & CEO, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre 
Jennifer Tory, C.M.
Board Director 
Alexandra von Schroeter
Managing Director & Co-Owner, Cumberland Partners Ltd. 
Dr. Harindra Wijeysundera 
Chief Schulich Heart Program & Division Head Cardiology, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre
Carol Wilding
President & CEO, Chartered Professional Accountants of Ontario 

Committees of the Sunnybrook Foundation Board 

Phillip Crawley, C.M., CBE
Chair
Carey Diamond
Vice Chair
Lisa Borsook
Secretary
Chris Clark
Treasurer
Cliff Rand
Perry Dellelce 
Jennifer Tory, C.M.
Mike Lord
Mike Lord
Chair
Lisa Borsook
Vice Chair
Jennifer Tory, C.M.
Carol Wilding
Sheldon Pollack
Neil McLaughlin
Robert Beutel
Chris Clark
Chair
Michael Faralla
Michael Kavanagh
Neil McLaughlin
Phillip Crawley, C.M., CBE
Maneesh Mehta
Robert Beutel
Ricco Bhasin
Umeeda Madhany
Chair
Stacey Murphy 
Linda Campbell 
William Cheng 
Anne Odette Kaye 
Brian Prendergast 
Adi Mor Sitelbah 
Karen Diamond 
Michael Faralla 
Dr. Harindra Wijeysundera
Poul Winslow
Chair
Rags Davloor 
Gord Love 
Alexandra von Schroeter 
Anca Drexler 
Louise Morwick
Priti Singh 
David Clare 
David Simmonds
Chair
Phillip Crawley, C.M., CBE 
Iliana Oris Valiente 
David Jowett 
Shannon MacDonald 
Dr. Andy Smith 
Kelly Cole 
Carol Annett 
Baljit Sierra 

Governing Council members serve as Sunnybrook Foundation ambassadors and voting members. Their primary governance responsibility is to elect the Directors of the Foundation Board at the Annual General Meeting each year. 

Carol Wilding
Chair
Anne Odette Kaye
Vice Chair
Sheryl Kerr
Vice Chair
  • Alan B. H. Abrams 
  • David Agnew 
  • Lesley Alboini 
  • Gail Appel 
  • Mark G. Appel 
  • David D. Archibald 
  • Salvatore M. Badali 
  • Shane S. Baghai 
  • Sharon Baghai 
  • Mauro Baldassarra 
  • Jennifer M. Bassett 
  • Paul L. Bertin 
  • Austin C. Beutel 
  • Elaine Beutel 
  • Tracey J. Black 
  • K. A. Bowman 
  • Donald R. Brown 
  • Linda C. Campbell 
  • Richard Carl 
  • Celine Chen 
  • Andrea Chisholm 
  • Robert W. Chisholm 
  • James R. Christie 
  • Gerald R. Connor 
  • Carol A. Cowan 
  • George N. Currie 
  • Aubrey L. Dan 
  • Marla L. Dan 
  • Rags Davloor 
  • Catherine A. Deluce 
  • Gloria Di Giovanni 
  • Harry G. Emerson 
  • Joel Feldberg 
  • John T. Firstbrook 
  • Elizabeth Flavelle 
  • Tom Flynn 
  • John R. Gardner 
  • Albert Gasparro 
  • Lily Goodman 
  • Anita Gupta 
  • Marie A. Heffernan 
  • Trent H. Henry 
  • Susanne Holland 
  • Gordon J. Homer 
  • J. M. Horgan 
  • Mary-Ellen Horgan
  • Marilyn Hull 
  • Garry L. Hurvitz 
  • J.D. Jackson 
  • Michael Kavanagh 
  • Michael Kaye 
  • Burton V. Kelly 
  • Edward J. Kernaghan 
  • Ann Kerwin 
  • Michael M. Koerner 
  • Sonja N. Koerner 
  • Donald Lang 
  • Ana P. Lopes 
  • Phillips Lounsbery 
  • W. Carl Lovas 
  • Gord Love 
  • Nancy MacKellar 
  • Walter M. Macnee 
  • Janet H. MacPhail 
  • Veronica S. Maidman 
  • Shelley McGirr 
  • Virginia V. McLaughlin 
  • Rosemary McLeese 
  • Barry McLellan 
  • Mark R. McQueen 
  • Theodore R. Meighen 
  • Gregory A. Milavsky 
  • Malcolm Moffat 
  • William F. Morneau 
  • Stacey Murphy
  • Gulshan Nanji 
  • Pyarali G. Nanji 
  • Narmin-Nimi Nanji-Simard 
  • Jennifer Pagnutti 
  • Louis P. Pagnutti 
  • Maureen Parkinson 
  • J. Brian Prendergast 
  • Valerie Pringle 
  • Leonard Racioppo 
  • Heather Reid 
  • Cristina Ronald 
  • Maureen Sabia 
  • Gerrard B. Schmid 
  • Joseph M. Schmitt 
  • Seymour Schulich 
  • Som Seif 
  • Leonard P. Sharpe 
  • Lydia H. Sharpe 
  • Amanda Sherrington 
  • John L. Sherrington 
  • Georgia H. Sievwright 
  • Willard S. Sutherland 
  • James C. Temerty 
  • John W. Thompson 
  • Marvin Tile 
  • Stephen Tile 
  • Elizabeth Tory 
  • Gregory W. Tsang 
  • Annette M. Verschuren 
  • Marcia B. Visser 
  • Frederic A. Waks 
  • John D. Wetmore 
  • Charles M. Winograd 
  • Poul Winslow 
  • Andrea L. Wood 
  • Paul Zentil

Our Executive team comes from a diverse range of professional backgrounds. Together, they are united in their efforts to ensure that Sunnybrook is the place to be – even in the toughest and most challenging moments.  

Each member is dedicated to building a strong foundation of philanthropic support for Sunnybrook. Support that is essential in our work to trailblaze patient care, collaborate with the best and brightest, accelerate ideas into action, and navigate the most complex situations.  

Learn about what inspires their work to help make Sunnybrook special. 

Kelly Cole headshot President & Chief Executive Officer
Kelly Cole headshot
Kelly Cole
President & Chief Executive Officer

Sunnybrook’s philanthropic community of donors and volunteers is essential to advancing the Hospital’s vision to invent the future of health care through life-saving innovation, research, and care. As President and CEO of the Sunnybrook Foundation, Kelly works with the Hospital’s leadership team to align fundraising strategies with Sunnybrook’s priority initiatives; she builds connection between the community and the hospital to facilitate donor investment; and she leads the Foundation team in its mission to grow financial support for Sunnybrook.

Kelly has an extensive background in academia and health-care fundraising and is recognized for her transformational leadership and success developing strong collaborative teams. As Vice-President, University Advancement, Western University, she played a lead role in the “Be Extraordinary” campaign, which surpassed its goal.

Prior to Western University, Kelly was the President and CEO of West Park Healthcare Centre Foundation in Toronto. Kelly holds an MBA from Wilfrid Laurier University and an Honors Bachelor of Mathematics from the University of Waterloo.

Asha Reheja headshot Vice-President, Chief Financial Officer 
Asha Reheja headshot
Asha Raheja
Vice-President, Chief Financial Officer 

Asha leads the Foundation team in promoting a culture of sound fiscal responsibility and stewardship of resources.  She provides executive level governance and management oversight for financial planning, budgeting, reporting and accounting operations and controls. Asha is also responsible for guiding the human resources of the Foundation.

Passionate about delivering impact in mission driven organizations, Asha has more than 25 years of leadership experience in finance, information systems and operations in the not-for-profit and private sector. Her leadership style focuses on building high-performance teams, as well as creating collaborative and effective relationships with board members, senior volunteers and other stakeholders to achieve organizational goals.

Prior to joining the Sunnybrook Foundation, as Vice-President, Chief Financial Officer at The Princess Margaret Cancer Foundation she was part of the senior management team that led the growth of annual net fundraising revenue, and successfully completed the “Billion Dollar Challenge” campaign ahead of schedule.

Ana-Maria Hobrough headshot Executive Vice-President, Philanthropy 
Ana-Maria Hobrough headshot
Ana-Maria Hobrough
Executive Vice-President, Philanthropy 

Ana-Maria champions an integrated approach to encourage philanthropic investment, deepen our base of leadership support and grow donor impact over the long-term for Sunnybrook’s priority initiatives. She leads strategy for individual, institutional and legacy giving in partnership with the Foundation CEO, senior leadership teams, board members and volunteers. She fosters strong collaboration between the Foundation and Hospital, building upon a culture of philanthropy to achieve Sunnybrook’s vision of delivering the highest level of care, research and education.

Having served in a variety of leadership roles over 16 years at the University of British Columbia, Ana-Maria has a proven track record of mission-based transformations and redefining Canadian best practice for fundraising reporting, research and digital engagement. She holds a Bachelor of Arts from the University of British Columbia

Christina Topp headshot Vice-President, Marketing & Community Engagement
Christina Topp headshot
Christina Topp
Vice-President, Marketing & Community Engagement

Christina is responsible for building a broad base of support for Sunnybrook through story-telling, brand building, community engagement and fundraising. She provides leadership to the marketing and communications, events and community giving portfolios, and together, these teams build relationships and inspire community engagement and giving.

Christina has twenty-five years of experience in the non-profit sector spearheading initiatives that drive revenue, create sustainable partnerships and build brand reputation at national and local levels. She holds a MBA from the Schulich School of Business and an Honors Bachelor of Arts from the University of Guelph.

What makes Sunnybrook special to Christina is the people.  From the world-class, talented teams in the Hospital who provide exceptional, compassionate care, to the community fundraisers who put their heart into raising funds for Sunnybrook, to the dedicated monthly and annual donors, it is the people that make Sunnybrook special.