Board of Directors
The Mississauga Food Bank Board of Directors provides volunteer oversight and leadership to operations and strategy for the organization.
Current Directors are:
Nancy Creede, President & Chair
Nancy has spent much of her career working in the telecommunications industry in a variety of senior management positions with Bell Canada. She has extensive experience in call centre and customer service operations as well as training, Human Resources and strategic and business planning. Since leaving Bell, she has consulted in these areas on many projects mainly in the not for profit sector. Nancy’s background includes a strong commitment to community involvement as a long time volunteer with Junior Achievement and previously as a Board Secretary and Treasurer for Interim Place, a women’s shelter in Peel.
Christopher Hart, Vice-President
Christopher Hart graduated with a Bachelor of Arts from Vassar College in 1985. He received his law degree from Dalhousie University Law School in Halifax, Nova Scotia in 1989 and was called to the Bar of the Province of Ontario in 1991. He practiced environmental and corporate/commercial law at the Toronto firm of Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt until 1984. In 1984 he joined the law department of General Electric Canada Inc. where he provides legal advice to GE Corporate Environmental Programs and various GE businesses concerning environmental, health and safety compliance, remedial sites and general corporate/commercial matters and agreements.
Melanie Borho, Treasurer
Melanie is a Chartered Accountant working as an audit senior manager for BDO Canada LLP where she has worked on the audits of various organizations, including not-for-profit organizations, charities, insurance companies, distribution companies and various owner-managed and small to medium size business. She has been a Director of The Mississauga Food Bank since 2005 and was elected Treasurer in June 2006. She earned her Bachelor of Business Administration from Wilfrid Laurier University.
Colleen MacNeil, Secretary
Colleen comes with a strong educational and employment background in food services and finance. She has held several senior positions over the years from Sector Controller to General Manager. Colleen brings a significant understanding of business and team building. Colleen currently works as General Manager of Special Operations Projects with Aramark Canada. She has a passion for food, wine and fun! Colleen joined the Board of The Mississauga Food Bank in December 2009.
Hon. Navdeep Bains
Navdeep completed his Masters in Business Administration (MBA) from the University of Windsor and has also obtained the Certified Management Accountant (CMA) designation. Prior to being elected as a Member of Parliament, Navdeep worked in Accounting and Financial Analysis at Ford Motor Company of Canada as a Financial Analyst. Navdeep served as a Member of Parliament for Mississauga Brampton South from 2004 to 2011 and has extensive parliamentary committee experience and in-depth knowledge of political party organizational structures. Presently, he is an adjunct lecturer at the Master of Public Service program at University of Waterloo.
Brad Butt – MP
Brad is the Member of Parliament for Mississauga-Streetsville. Brad has volunteered his time and energy to many organizations and committees. In 2009, Brad received an Award from the Mayor & Members of Council for 30 years of volunteer service to the City of Mississauga. He joined The Mississauga Food Bank’s Board of Directors in February 2009.
Karen DeGiobbi
Karen works as an audit manager for KPMG LLP in their Toronto office with a number of clients, both private and public, in the energy, mining, industrial, and consumer markets sector. She has an Honours Bachelor of Business Administration from Wilfrid Laurier University, and was admitted to the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Ontario in 2008. She joined The Mississauga Food Bank’s Board of Directors in September 2011.
Sam Feuer
Sam has held senior management positions in the worlds of banking, publishing, technology and management consulting. More importantly, he has several years of “hands on” experience as grandfather of five wonderful grandsons (although his wife, Jeanette, is the real “guiding light” in this arena). Prior to his retirement in 2007, he headed large, multi-year multi-million dollar programs for one of Canada’s major chartered banks. Prior to joining The Mississauga Food Bank, he was a long time member of the Board of Directors of NALD (National Adult Literacy Database), a world class non-profit organization supporting Canadian and international adult literacy communities.
Teresa Gobran
Teresa is a chemist working for the Ministry of The Environment. She has great knowledge and experience in small business; start-up planning, purchasing, marketing, accounting as well as importing. She is a member of Anba Abraam Board of Directors, involved in United Way and Federated Health Annual Campaigns, a Sunday School Teacher for over 30 years and has been involved in a multitude of fundraising events including the planning and organizing of 3 Annual Conventions (Family Convention, Youth Convention, Children Convention) for over 500 attendees each. She managers and operates a gift shop at the Canadian Coptic Center, volunteers at St. Mary’s Food Bank and has been on The Mississauga Food Bank Board since November 2005.
Christopher (Chris) Hatch – Ex-Officio Director
Jeff Hui
Jeff graduated from the University of Waterloo with an Honours Degree in Mathematics and Business Administration. He is currently a Project Manager at St. Michael’s Hospital. Jeff has previously served on the Board of Directors of the Mississauga Board of Chinese Professionals & Businesses and as an Executive Council member on the Young Leaders Council for the United Way of Peel Region. Jeff has been a Director of The Mississauga Food Bank since 2005, co-chaired the inaugural 2007 Gala Dinner, and is currently the Chair of the Nominating Committee.
David Irwin
After graduating from the Ivey Business School at Western, David joined Deloitte where he spent over 40 years in various roles as audit partner, national HR Partner, managing partner of the Mississauga office and the national leader of the audit practice learning programs.
He has lived in Mississauga for over 40 years and has been involved in various community organizations in Mississauga including the Treasurer of the Board of Trade, campaign chair of United Way of Peel and chair of the Board of the Living Arts Centre for 6 years. David joined The Mississauga Food Bank Board in 2011.
Rob Mitchell
Rob Mitchell has lived in Mississauga since 1995 with his wife Faten and four children. They love the parks and quiet neighbourhoods. Rob has an MBA from The University of Western Ontario and has worked for the last 15 years designing, building and selling medical device and healthcare software. Rob is active with several charities and saw that even here in our wealthy community many people struggle to pay for food and housing. He joined The Mississauga Food Bank to help it grow to meet the ever increasing demand for food.
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