Board of Directors

Courtenay Bygrave
Elected to Board: October 17, 2006
Courtenay has a child with multiple disabilities who came to live at our Glenaden residence in 2005. Prior to 1995, Courtenay was a member of the Ontario Plymouth Chrysler's Sales team, helping to make his dealership number one in sales in Canada within three months. Since then, Courtney has started his own home repair business which gave him the opportunity to work and care for his daughter at the same time.

Eric Clarke - Treasurer
Elected to Board: October 19, 2004
Eric is a partner in the Toronto office of PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC). Eric and his wife, Jennifer, moved to Toronto in 2003 from London, England where they lived for 7 years while on assignment with the London office of PwC. Eric and Jennifer have 2 children. In addition to Safehaven, Eric is also a board member of the Young People's Theatre, a Toronto theatre that promotes child development through the arts.

Paul Fraumeni - Vice-President
Elected to Board: October 14, 2008
Paul Fraumeni is the father of a resident who has lived at the Clayland residence since it was opened. In addition to this child, Paul and his wife Frances have two other children. A professional writer, editor and creative director for 30 years, Paul has been Director, Research Communications at the University of Toronto for the past 13 years. Most of his career has been focused on providing communications counsel and services to Canadian not-for-profit organizations, such as Ronald McDonald House, the National Ballet of Canada, Saint Mary's University, York University, Sheridan College, Baycrest and St. Michael's Hospital.

Valentin Hortiguela - President
Elected to Board: October 17, 2006
Val is the father of a wonderful young man with multiple physical and mental challenges, diagnosed under the umbrella of CP. His family has been a respite client of Safehaven for many years - before the respite care facility was even opened! He was involved with the respite facility family/community advisory group and contributed to the successful outcome. Val, an architectural technologist with over 20 years experience in a variety of built forms, was instrumental in designing the renovation of Safehaven's Aurora residence. He is presently working with ABBARCH (Ontario) Architecture.

Nicole McKinney
Elected to Board: October 14, 2008
Nicole's marketing and communications experience and expertise is focused around brand development. She produces memorable (WOW! Comment from satisfied clients) projects that assist in growing a brand. Nicole owns BCAD Group, Building Cultures and Defining Brands - a fully integrated marketing and communications agency, Share (A division of BCAD Group) specializes in interactive business solutions, creative development and design for both traditional, online and in-store and technology strategy and build. Professional alliances and corporate partnerships for past projects include Neinkamper, Crabtree and Evelyn, Kerr and Company, SONY, Moet and Chandon, Kitchen Aid and Home Depot. Past public relations campaigns include George Brown College and Bruce Mau's Institute without Boundaries, in conjunction with Bruce Mau's Exhibit Massive Change Art Exhibit.

Fern Mozersky
Elected to Board: October 16, 2007
Fern has 30 years of advertising and marketing experience in national, retail and non-profit accounts. Her extensive background in non-profit ranges from capital campaigns to event planning, from bio-ethics to family advocacy. She has dealt with dozens of organizations, boards, professionals and families within the health care system. Some of the organizations she has been involved with either professionally or as a volunteer are: The Hospital for Sick Children; Holland Bloorview Kids Rehab (Play and Learn Nursery School Site); Mount Sinai Hospital; Princess Margaret Hospital; North York General Hospital; Toronto Rehab; The Easter Seals Society; Safehaven; Starlight Children's Foundation; Baycrest; UJA Federation; United Nations and the Heart and Stroke Foundation. As a parent, Fern is in a unique position. Her youngest child Paul died at 4 years of age with multiple neurological complications and her oldest son has been aggressively battling brain cancer. Her daughter is a graduate of the communication disorders program.

Karen Oster - Secretary
Elected to Board: October 14, 2008
Karen is a child and educational psychologist with over 30 years of experience in paediatric rehabilitation and special education. While at Holland Bloorview Kids Rehab, she founded Play and Learn the first integrated preschool in the province of Ontario. It became a model for inclusion in early childhood education programs. As Senior Research Consultant at the Roeher Institute (a national research and policy development organization for persons with disabilities), she coordinated projects concerning models of service delivery. She has worked on two film projects with TVO on inclusion. As a volunteer with CESO (Canadian Executive Services Overseas), she worked in Sri Lanka and the Philippines teaching best practices to support children with special learning needs. Karen has taught at Ryerson University and most recently, coordinated Student Support Services for a private school system in Toronto. She has participated on Boards of the Children's Museum, Jennifer Ashleigh Foundation, Trent Centre for Community based at Education Trent University. She is a new board member of the Rails End Art Gallery and Centre in Haliburton, Ontario.

Janet Quinn
Elected to Board: October 14, 2008
Janet is the mother of a young man who has been a resident of Safehaven since its inception. He originally was at the Clayland residence but now lives at the Glenaden residence. Janet is one of the founding families of Safehaven and has served on the Board of Directors in past years in various positions, including President, and has been involved with many committees over the years. Janet is the Managing Director of Field Sales & Finance for Carlton Cards.

Andrew Weir
Elected to Board: September 28, 2010
Andrew is Vice President, Communications for Tourism Toronto and created the Relax, Recharge, Renew program that has now won several international awards for corporate social responsibility and in which Safehaven is an active partner. Prior to joining Tourism Toronto, Andrew was Director of Communications for the Minister of Children and Youth Services at the time the new ministry was formed, following ten years as a communications professional in the health care field. He and his wife, have three young children.

Erin McGinn
Elected to Board: September 28, 2010
Erin is Chief of Staff, Office of the President at Ryerson University and in this role is the principle advisor to the President in relation to the execution of the university's priorities. Previous roles included Policy Advisor in the Office of the Premier of Ontario and Director, Operations and Government Relations at the University of Toronto. Erin and her husband Andrew live in Toronto and have two daughters. She was born and raised in North Bay, and tries to get home at every opportunity.

Karen Riley
Elected to Board: September 28, 2010
Karen is a human resources professional with over 35 years experience in banking and human resources with TD Bank Financial Group. In the various positions she has held globally, she has been responsible for implementing strategic HR policies and programs that support the business and for providing expertise, advice, counsel in managing HR issues. She is currently a Vice President Human Resources, Corporate Office for Finance, Treasury, Audit and Corporate Strategy & Development businesses.