LCS Board of Directors

List of 8 members.

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  Alex Parker 96

  Bio

  Alex Parker ’96 is an alumnus from the class of '96. He graduated with a B. Comm from Queen's University and has earned both his CPA and CFA designations. Alex began his career with KPMG working for the firm in Toronto, Sydney and London from 2000-2007. In 2007, he joined Nomura, an investment bank. Alex worked for BMO from 2012 to 2019 as Managing Director, Mid-Market Mergers & Acquisitions, primarily helping entrepreneurs sell their businesses. In 2020, he joined the National Bank of Canada as Managing Director to found and lead the National Client Group M&A team for Central and Western Canada. Alex has remained connected to The Grove, participating in many events for LCS over the years in Toronto and the UK. Alex is a school trustee (rejoining in 2020) and a member of the Finance and Audit Committee since 2019. Alex and his wife, Laura and their two children live in Toronto.
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  Emmy Pullen 11

  Bio

  Emmy Pullen ’11 is an LCS alumna from the class of '11. Emmy is a licensed CPA, CA and earned a spot on the National Honour Roll for the program's Common Final Examination as one of the top 53 writers in the country. She graduated with an Honours in Business

  16 Administration and a Graduate Diploma in Accounting from the Ivey Business School (Ivey Scholar) at the University of Western Ontario. Emmy began her career in 2015 at PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP (PwC) in Toronto in audit and assurance with clients focused in the private equity and not-for-profit spaces. After sprouting a keen interest in technology and automation, she took on new responsibilities as a National Digital Assurance manager and Digital Accelerator. In 2020, Emmy joined

  the finance team at ecobee as manager, Financial Planning & Analysis. In March 2022, she returned to the finance transformation world as a Solution Consultant for Tipalti in

  Toronto. Emmy is an active member of the LCS community and was involved with the Alumni Chapter of the Grove Society since 2016. She has been a school trustee since 2019 and a member of the Finance and Audit Committee and the Tuition & Affordability Task Force since 2021. Emmy comes from a long line of Pullen LCS graduates and is a former captain of Pullen House (2011 Paper House Cup Champions). Emmy resides in Toronto and enjoys skiing, cottaging, and travelling whenever she has the opportunity to do so.
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  Cait Sainsbury 96

  Bio

  Cait Sainsbury '96 is a partner at Borden Ladner Gervais LLP in Toronto.  Cait attended LCS from 1992 (when her family moved to Lakefield) to 1996.  Cait is the sister of Greg Sainsbury ’93, A.J. Sainsbury ’99, and Andrew Sainsbury ’02.

   

  Cait graduated from Trent University in 2002 with a degree in Native Studies and Environmental Studies, and graduated from the U of T Faculty of Law in 2006.  Cait has been practicing law at Borden Ladner Gervais LLP since 2007, and is currently the Regional Manager of the Commercial Litigation Group in Toronto.  Cait represents clients in complex commercial disputes, anti-trust and securities class actions, and securities regulatory investigations.

   

  Cait is a member of the Canada Committee of Human Rights Watch, and sits on the Alumni Committee of the International Human Rights Program at the U of T Faculty of Law. She is married to Angus MacPherson and has twin daughters, Alice and Eleanor.
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  Scott Smith 87

  Bio

  Scott Smith '87, P '23 is a professional engineer (Ontario) with an MBA, finance, possessing diverse construction, project management and executive management experience.  He specializes in commercial and institutional construction, property development, LEED construction, and renewable and sustainability technologies.  Scott has been on the operations side with Bird Construction since 2010, holding various positions as Project Manager, Production Manager, Project Director, Senior Project Manager and Construction Manager.  As a Senior Project Manager of the East Rail Maintenance Facility, he oversaw the construction of a 500,000 sq. ft GO maintenance facility and as Project Director on Bird’s Target Program, he completed 5 rounds of Target Store conversions and closing out duties on the renovations and expansion of Osgoode Hall, York University, and St Catherine’s Performing Arts Centre.  Scott is currently the Construction Manager for Special Projects and ICI construction.  Scott was the President and Owner, Taycott Enterprises Inc. (2004-10) providing contract project management services.  He was the Director of Construction at Rochon Building Corporation (2005-09), and Manager Construction and Development at Frum Development Group (1999-2004) responsible for all construction activities averaging 1-2, $3-5M projects in addition to up to 15 smaller projects annually.  Scott has maintained a long meaningful relationship with LCS since his graduation, Grove Society Executive (2001-07) and trustee (since 2004), and through his philanthropic and event participation.  Scott, Jill and their family reside in Toronto with their daughter Alexis and the dog Cooper and their son Dylan '23.
  
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  Maurice Switzer 63

  Bio

  Maurice Switzer is an alumnus from the Class of 1963. Maurice is a journalist, educator, and advocate for human and treaty rights. A citizen of the Missisaugas of Alderville First Nation, he was the first Indigneous student at Trent University and the first Indigenous publisher of a daily newspaper in Canada. He serve as Director of Communications for two First Nations political organizations – the Assembly of First Nations in Ottawa and the Union of Ontario Indians / Anishinabek Nation. Maurice has been an Adjunct Professor of Communications and Indigenous Studies at the University of Sudbury and Huntington University on the Laurentian University campus. He served as a member of the Ontario Human Rights Commission and is currently a member of the Commission’s Reconciliation Advisory Group. He lives in North Bay, where he is involved in the launch of a community Equity and Diversity committee and currently serves on the board of the local Indigneous Friendship Centre. Maurice became a School Trustee in October 2021.
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  Cara Westcott 

  Bio

  Cara Westcott, P '14, '16 is active with a wide variety of charitable organizations. Cara has served as President of the Parent Chapter of the Grove Society and a member of the Grove Advisory Committee and the Head Search Advisory Committee. She became a Board member in 2016, the Vice-Chair of the Board in 2019 and is the President of the Grove Society for 2020/21.

   

  She has a Master’s degree in Health Administration and worked in health and social services policy development and service delivery for many years.  Later, Cara changed direction into landscape design, working on municipal, institutional, commercial and residential projects.

   

  Cara and her husband James are the proud parents of Sam ’14 and Alex ’16.
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  Daniel Woolf 

  Bio

  Daniel Woolf served as the 20th Principal and Vice-Chancellor of Queen’s University (2009-2019) and is now Principal Emeritus and a professor in the Department of History at Queen’s, which awarded him an honorary Doctor of Laws degree in 2019. He is also an Honorary Fellow at St. Peter’s College, Oxford University, where he took his D.Phil. degree in 1983, having graduated from Queen’s in 1980. Daniel’s prior appointments were as Dean of Arts, University of Alberta (2002-2009); Dean of Humanities, McMaster University (1999-2002); and a Professor of History, Dalhousie University (1987-1999).  He currently serves on the Boards of Directors of Historica Canada (2012- ) and the Higher Education Quality Council of Ontario (2020- ). Daniel brings to the LCS Board of Directors an external perspective as a leader in post-secondary education, an educator, author, and professional historian.  In Daniel’s 10 years as Principal he was responsible for rebuilding the school’s profile, and implementing a number of organizational, management and governance changes, including reform of its Board of Trustees and University Council, and the introduction of an activity-based budget model.  He led Queen’s through an extensive series of planning exercises and took a proactive role regarding the school’s challenges around culture sensitivity, mental health issues and the freedom of speech.  Daniel led the university into its most ambitious fundraising campaign, the Initiative Campaign, exceeding its $500M goal by $140M.  Growing up in Winnipeg he attended two different independent schools and has a strong interest in school-higher education transition. Daniel has 3 adult children, and he and his wife, Julie Gordon-Woolf, live northwest of Kingston in the village of Yarker, Ontario.
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  Susan Wright 

  Bio

  Susan Wright is a management consultant who has undertaken governance and strategy projects for a variety of public and non-profit organizations.  She has had the opportunity to work with approximately 30 independent schools in Canada including Lakefield College.  Susan completed a B.A. (Honours) degree at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario and a M. Phil. Degree on a Commonwealth scholarship at the University of Glasgow, Scotland.

   

  Susan brings an external perspective to the trustee role, as a teacher of a Non-Profit Leadership Strategy and Change course at the University of Toronto and the Governance module for the Canadian Accredited Independent Schools (CAIS) Leadership Institute.  Her past volunteer roles have included being a Chair of the Conference of Independent Schools of Ontario (CIS Ontario) and a variety of volunteer roles at Havergal College including; serving as Chair of the Board of Governors, a member of the Advancement, Strategy, Governance and Finance committees, as well as the Havergal College Foundation.