2011 Games Management TeamChris Morrissey, CEO
Lindsay Hugenholtz, Deputy CEO
Clare Tidby, Director, Marketing and Sponsorship
Gary Furlong, Director, Operations
CarrieHotton-MacDonald, Director, Human Resources and Volunteers
Tara Larsen, Director, Finance, IT, and Administration
Melissa MacKinnon, Director, Communications & Community Relations

2011 Games Board of Directors

Jean-Paul (JP) Deveau
Chair, Board of Directors

JP is the President of Acadian Seaplants Limited (ASL), a bio-tech company specializing in the manufacturing, cultivating and processing of marine plant products for global health & beauty, animal feed and agri-chemical markets.  It also cultivates unique, edible seaweed products for the Asian food market.  Acadian Seaplants exports value-added, seaweed-based products to over 70 countries throughout the world and employs over 300 people in nine countries.

Mr. Deveau was born in Moncton, New Brunswick.  He obtained his B.Sc. at Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia in 1979, his Bachelor of Engineering (Industrial) with distinction from the Technical University of NS, Halifax, NS (now Dalhousie University) in 1981 and his M.B.A. (Small Business) from McGill University, Montreal, Quebec in 1986.

Jean-Paul Deveau currently serves as Past-Chair of BioNova (the Nova Scotia Biotechnology & Life Sciences Industry Association) and sits on the Board of Directors of the Canadian Manufacturers and Exporters (Nova Scotia Chapter), is a member of the Board of Directors of RDÉE-Canada (Le Réseau de développement économique et d’employabilité), and is a member of Council of the International Seaweed Association (an international group of academic and industrial users of seaweed responsible for organizing international seaweed symposia). 

Chuck Bridges
Vice-Chair, Board of Directors

Chuck Bridges is Vice-Chair of the Halifax 2011 Canada Games Board of Directors and Chair of the Games Legacy Committee. Outside his volunteer role with the Games, Chuck currently serves as Vice-President, Stakeholder Relations, for the Atlantic Lottery Corporation.  He was previously Vice-President (Assoc.), External Affairs, at Saint Mary's University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, where his contributions were felt across the entire university. He received the Distinguished Service Award from the Canadian Council for the Advancement of Education, an Outstanding Contribution Award from the Commerce Society at Saint Mary’s, and an Honorary Gold “M” from the Saint Mary’s University Students’ Association. He holds a Master of Business Administration from Saint Mary's University.

An active community leader, Chuck also serves on the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) and has volunteered his time to numerous other organizations including the Pan Am Games and Neptune Theatre.

What will Chuck bring to the Games? Dedication and a dream.

Community Members
Mervyn Broome
Judy Steele
Louis Comeau
Lois Dyer-Mann
Brian Lane
Patrick O’Regan
John Rogers
Capt. John Newton

Government Members
Dan English (HRM)
Coun. Mary Wile (HRM)
Duff Montgomerie (NS)
Julia Rivard  (Canada)

Canada Games Council
Sue Hylland
Wayne Trask

2011 Games Operations Committee

Mike Bell - Executive Vice-Chair
Mike Musial - Senior Volunteer Project Manager
Roger Arsenault - Division Chair, Language Services
Keith Coughlan - Assistant Division Chair, Language Services
Hugh Richards - Volunteer Project Manager, Language Services

Mark Brown - Division Chair, IT
Vik Paliwal - Assistant Division Chair, IT
Bev Easton - Volunteer Project Manager, IT

Lauchlin McKenzie - Division Chair, Administration & Finance
Andrea Coish - Assistant Division Chair, Administration & Finance
Sheri Hussey - Volunteer Project Manager, Administration & Finance

Jim Houston - Division Chair, Logistics
Ryan Ernst - Assistant Division Chair, Logistics
Jim Stewart - Assistant Division Chair, Logistics
Shauna Blundon - Volunteer Project Manager, Logistics

Brian Lane - Division Chair, Sport
Tony Folkins - Volunteer Project Manager, Sport
Mark Smith - Assistant Division Chair, Sport
Dianne Norman - Assistant Division Chair, Sport

Marcel McKeough - Division Chair, Ceremonies & Culture
Krista Laybolt - Volunteer Project Manager - Culture & Ceremonies

Bill Moore - Division Chair, Athlete Services
Keith Boutilier - Assistant Division Chair, Athlete Services
Andrew Munn - Volunteer Project Manager, Athlete Services

Al Wilson - Division Chair, Venues
Bill Vye - Assistant Division Chair, Venues
Richard Netherton - Volunteer Project Manager, Venues

John Rogers - Division Chair, Marketing & Sponsorship
Heidi Weigand - Assistant Division Chair, Marketing & Sponsorship
Heather Tulk - Assistant Division Chair, Marketing & Sponsorship
Jeff Smith - Volunteer Project Manager, Marketing & Sponsorship

Shelley Alward-MacLeod - Division Chair, Volunteers
Curtis Cartmill - Volunteer Project Manager, Volunteers
Lisa Marie MacDonald - Volunteer Project Manager, Volunteers

Francine Ouimet - Member-at-Large - Sport Canada
David Burton - Member-at-Large - Canadian Heritage
Rosalyn Smith - Member-at-Large - HRM Liaison 
Aaron Nutting - Member-at-Large - Province of NS
Patrick Kenny - Member-at-Large - Canada Games Council
Kelly Dearborn - Member-at-Large - Canada Games Council