Board Members
Sybil Dahan, ICD.D, Director & Board Chair
President and Chair Altius Healthcare (division of Devonian Health Group)
Biochemist by training, this visionary leader recognized, early on, her passion for marketing and began her career in Montreal as a pharmaceutical representative. She eventually led an international career, first in Chicago and then as the GM and Chairman of Abbott Scandinavia, in Sweden. Back in Montreal, as President of Triton Pharma, she mobilized a team, provided a vision and performed beyond expectations ultimately leading to the acquisition of the company. She decided then to become an entrepreneur and co-founded Aspri Pharma Canada, in 2014, and subsequently repeated this endeavour with Altius Healthcare, now a division of Devonian Health Group.
What motivates her? Working with small businesses, putting them on the path of growth and establishing a stable and performing team. The strength of her leadership relies on combining her passion for science with the art of marketing, while ensuring transparency and listening skills remain at the core of her values. She applies this approach both with commercial businesses as well as non-for-profit organizations for which she holds the position of Chair of the Board.
It is with this passion and drive that she decided to join the Board of Directors of CCC, having recently learned that the information and accessibility to services available to people affected by a concussion is almost non-existent in Canada.
Stephani Kingsmill, ICD.D, Director & Board Vice-Chair
Stephani Kingsmill is an experienced executive who served in a wide range of roles during her 30-year career with Manulife Financial Corporation. She was a member of the Company’s global Executive Leadership Team for a decade, most recently as Senior Advisor to the CEO (2018-2019). Previously Ms. Kingsmill was Executive Vice President, Human Resources (2010-2017), responsible for the Company’s workforce of 35,000 people located primarily in 13 countries. Prior to that, she was Senior Vice President & General Manager, Real Estate (2006-2010), responsible for Manulife’s multi-billion dollar investment portfolio of prime office and industrial properties in Canada, the US and Asia. She also has experience in the company’s core financial services business lines with increasingly senior roles in strategy, marketing and product development in Manulife’s US Division, Canadian Division and global third party asset management business.
Ms. Kingsmill is currently a Trustee and Chair of the Compensation, Governance & Nominating Committee of NorthWest Healthcare Properties REIT, and a member of the Capital Assets & Finance Committee of the Queen’s University Board of Trustees.
Ms. Kingsmill was named one of Canada’s 100 Most Powerful Women by the Women’s Executive Network in 2008, 2009 and 2014. She holds a Bachelor of Commerce degree from Queen’s University and the ICD.D from the Institute of Corporate Directors.
Podcast Producer
David McGuffin
David is a broadcast journalist, podcast host and producer who reports on Canada for National Public Radio. Prior to his return home to Ottawa, he was a Supervising Editor with National Public Radio in Washington, DC on its flagship news and current affairs program, Morning Edition.