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Board of Trustees

As a non-profit corporation and registered charity, TWS has a Board of Trustees which is responsible for the short and long-term strategic advancement of the mission and values of Toronto Waldorf School. Here are our Board Members:

	Mohamed Dostmohamed, CA Mohamed graduated from York University in 1991 and articled with one of the "Big 5" accounting firms. He received his designation in the fall of ’93 and for the next 13 years, covered the gamut in the finance and insurance industries. He has also been an active member of the Canadian Institute of Chartered Accountants. Presently, Mohamed is an independent management consultant with a software consulting firm. Mohamed and his wife, Shenny, joined the Toronto Waldorf School community in 2006. They have a son now in Grade 3, and a daughter in Parent & Tot.
	Jacques Gaboury, LLB., Board Member Jacques is currently the Executive Director - Legal, Business Rights and Content Management, Associate General Counsel, Law Department at the CBC in Toronto. Jacques obtained his law degree from the University of Victoria in 1990. He was called to the Ontario bar in 1992 and worked as a litigation lawyer in a mid-sized Ottawa law firm until he and his wife decided to explore the world and headed off to Asia. Jacques worked for a number of years in Asia (Korea, Vietnam, and Singapore) where he advised his clients on the legal, regulatory and business issues they faced investing and doing business in Asia. In 2001, Jacques moved both physically and professionally, by joining Sony’s legal department in Munich, Germany, just prior to the formation of Sony’s mobile phone joint venture with Ericsson. Whilst in Germany, Jacques was responsible for providing legal support to Sony Ericsson’s global sales and marketing organization. After 3 years in Germany, the family decided that a return to Canada was in order, so Jacques requested to be transferred to Sony Ericsson’s offices in Mississauga, where he provided support to the management on legal and regulatory issues, including mergers and acquisitions, telecoms regulation, intellectual property and information technology.
	Steve Hall, CAIB, Secretary Steve has been involved in the insurance industry most of his adult life. He started work in an insurance company in underwriting and claims. He moved first to a surety company, and then to a brokerage company where he managed the surety department. Since 1998 he has worked in sales and built up a substantial client base in the construction industry, specializing in surety. He was made a partner in 2005 at Jones DesLauriers Insurance Management Inc., Canada’s second largest privately held brokerage. Steve has experience on the Boards of the Surety Association of Canada and the Ontario Sewer and Watermain Construction Association. Steve joined the TWS Board in 2004.
	Bill Harlow, Board Chair Bill Harlow was raised in Toronto and attended George S. Henry Secondary School, then the University of Toronto. He began his career in the family childcare business when they operated three locations in Don Mills. Upper Canada Child Care now operates almost 50 centres in the GTA as well as Kettleby Valley Camp, a summer camp for children. The family business took another direction and became the Canadian distributors of a popular plush gift toy. Ty Canada was a very successful venture, with sales growth of almost 30 times in 8 years. Bill has always believed in being involved in the community. In the late nineties he worked very closely with Sports Celebrates Festivals, a non-profit charitable organization that raises money for Special Olympics. He also sits on the board of the family business. He feels very privileged to serve on the board at TWS and feels a very strong commitment to be a part of its continued growth.
	Kevin Moynagh, Parent Circle Rep. Kevin Moynagh born in Gary, Indiana and graduated from Indiana University with a B.S. in Finance and an MBA in Operations Management. Since then, he has worked with major consulting companies in Chicago, Frankfurt and Toronto. Kevin is the owner of RKic Consulting Inc., an information technology company specializing in SAP software implementations. In this capacity, Kevin has executed and managed system implementation projects. Kevin’s involvement in TWS indirectly goes back quite a way, starting with his wife attending the teacher training program at the Rudolf Steiner centre in 1993. She taught at TWS until their first child was born in 1999. Since then, Kevin has taken an increasing interest in the philosophy of Waldorf education and also serves on the board at Hesperus Fellowship Community. Their two children both enjoy TWS and Kevin hopes his contribution to the board and the Parent Circle will help ensure they and all others in the community will continue to do so.
	Versha Prakash Versha is currently Vice President, Operations at Trillium Gift of Life Network, a provincial agency responsible for coordinating organ and tissue donation for transplantation. Prior to that she worked at the Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care. Versha has a Bachelor of Science and a Master’s degree in Health Administration from the University of Ottawa. Born in Vancouver, Versha has also lived in the United States and India. After completing her studies in Ottawa, she settled in Toronto in 1989. She has two sons studying at TWS and has been a parent at the school since 2000. Versha is honoured to serve on the Board and is keen to contribute to further the school’s growth and continued success.
	Michèle Andrews Rossi, Administrative Director Michèle has a Bachelor of Commerce from Queen's University and a Master of Education from the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE) at the University of Toronto. Her work experience includes 10 years in leadership roles in the private sector, and 8 years as an independent consultant working in strategic planning, organizational change and leadership development. She and her family joined the TWS community in 1996. She became the Administrative Director in the spring of 2005 after serving on the Board of Trustees for three years, most recently as Chair. She is an active participant in the work of AWSNA (Association of Waldorf Schools of North America) and has completed the Waldorf Collaborative Leadership Program at the Rudolf Steiner Centre in conjunction with Antioch University in the spring of 2006 with a number of her TWS colleagues. In her role as Administrative Director she is a member of the TWS leadership team (Circle of Chairs), Finance Committee and Board of Trustees. She also enjoys teaching Career Studies in our High School.
	Todd Royer, Faculty Chair Todd begin his teaching career at TWS in 1998 and has served as Faculty Chair since 2003. He was a class teacher in our Lower School, taking a class from Grades 1 to 8. He is a graduate of the Waldorf Teacher Education program at the Rudolf Steiner Centre Toronto. He completed the Waldorf Collaborative Leadership program at the Rudolf Steiner Centre in conjunction with Antioch University in the spring of 2006. Todd has B.A. from Taylor University in Fort Wayne, Indiana, and a M.Div. from Princeton in New Jersey. In his role as Faculty Chair he is a member of both the TWS leadership team (Circle of Chairs) and Board of Trustees. He enjoys playing music, woodworking and dreaming about building a straw bale house.
	Greg Scott, Board Member Greg, an alumnus of Toronto Waldorf School, has a B.A. from York University and is a graduate of the Rudolf Steiner Centre Toronto teacher education program. He enjoys both creative woodwork and the outdoors in his free time.
	Alan Ward, Past Chair Alan has spent the last 14 years at Staples where he is the Vice President, Human Resources. A native of Montreal, Alan graduated with a Bachelor of Social Work degree from McGill University. Heading west to Calgary to make his way in the world, he pursued a career in social services as a Juvenile Probation Officer before heading up a job preparedness program for socially and economically disadvantaged individuals.He decided to shift career gears and returned to school to earn an MBA from the University of Western Ontario.Targeting the field of Human Resources, he honed his craft with Canadian Tire before joining Staples Business Depot in the company’s early days.Alan brings to the Board a common business sense perspective and an abiding belief that extraordinary results can be achieved within a community of committed individuals.
	David West, Vice Chair For 25 years David has owned and operated West Photo, a portrait and wedding studio in Richmond Hill. David presently holds a Craftsman and Masters of Photographic Art designation from the Professional Photographers of Canada, and has twice won the prestigious Photographer of the Year award from the Professional Photographers of Ontario. He attended University of Toronto where he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts and then a Bachelor of Education. He was an elementary school teacher in Toronto for 5 years before leaving teaching to pursue his childhood passion for photography. David has been actively involved with a number of service organizations. For many years he was a member of the Board of Directors, and eventually the President, of the Professional Photographers of Ontario. He currently serves as a member of the Board of Directors of the Richmond Hill Chamber of Commerce, and is the Chair of the Advocacy Committee at the Chamber. David feels that as an active citizen of the community he can, in a small way, make it a better place in which to live and work. In David’s “spare time” he enjoys spending time at the cottage with his family and friends. While at the cottage, he enjoys canoeing, hiking, sailing, and of course, photography.

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