Dana Hayden

Corporate Director &
Independent Consultant

Dana is a seasoned corporate Director who has also provided consulting services to public, private, and NFP organizations in strategic and business planning, governance, resource development, and public infrastructure development since 2014.

Dana has extensive experience in all 3 pillars of corporate sustainability: environmental, social responsibility, and governance.

Dana is Chair of the Board of Infrastructure B.C. and a Director on the Board of Mosaic Forest Management where she chairs the Governance and Nominations committee. Dana also chairs the SFU Beedie School of Business Advisory Committee and is a member of the Institute of Corporate Directors Victoria executive.

Dana held 6 Deputy Minister positions and was President and CEO of 3 Crown Corporations during her 30-year career with the B.C. government. Dana has a B.Sc. in Forest Science, a M.Sc. in Natural Resource Economics, and is a Chartered Director (C. Dir). Dana received the King Charles III Coronation medal for service to the public of British Columbia in 2024, was inducted into Canada’s 100 Most Powerful Women Hall of Fame in 2016, and received the Vancouver Influential Women in Business award in 2014.

During her more than 30 years with HSBC Bank Canada, Susan held a variety of executive management positions working with the banks domestic and international sectors in the areas of Risk Management and Governance, Compliance, and Corporate Sustainability.

Susan is an experienced director with extensive audit, risk, and governance expertise. She is currently the Audit Committee Chair for Infrastructure BC. Susan was both Chair and Audit Committee Chair of the Royal Canadian Mint, a multi-billion dollar Crown Corporation, during her twelve years on the Board. She also served as a Board Director of the Mutual Fund Dealers Association.

Eric Denhoff is a Consultant for E.A. Denhoff and Associates Ltd. Previously Mr. Denhoff was a Special Advisor, Market Access for the Government of Alberta in the Office of Premier. He also was a Deputy Minister of Environment, Parks and Climate Change and Deputy Minister Climate Change Office for the Government of Alberta. Active in his community, Mr. Denhoff has served as a Director for the Greater Victoria Hospital Society, Hospice Victoria, Fair Trade Canada, and the Energy Council of Canada.

Kristi Simpson is the Vice President Finance & Operations at the University of Victoria. In this role she has a breadth of responsibilities including financial services, human resources, campus security, facilities management, internal audit, general counsel, university systems and financial planning. Over her almost 19 years at UVic she has planned, financed and overseen a variety of construction projects totaling over $400M including a new student housing and dining project with a budget over $228M. This project will be the largest Passive House project in North America once complete in 2023. She is currently the member of 5 Boards: Ocean Network Canada, University of Victoria Foundation, Heritage Reality Corporation, UVic Investment Properties and past chair of the Canadian University Reciprocal Insurance Exchange (CURIE).

Dave Clancy is currently the president of HHI Service Inc a firm that provides advisory services to municipal clients in the delivery of major capital infrastructure programs. Previously he was the Project Director for the Capital Regional District’s Wastewater Program. A Senior Executive with 40 years of experience and leadership in the managerial, technical, legal, delivery and financial aspects of water and wastewater utility infrastructure in both the municipal and private sectors. Has been charged to develop and deliver strategic business plans across various industry sectors focused on increased market share and revenue enhancement through both organic growth and acquisitions. His unique balance of experience and expertise has resulted in him being routinely nominated to deal with challenged businesses and projects around the world. Throughout his career he has assembled and led multidisciplinary teams carrying out large, complex and innovative infrastructure programs and projects. He has played key roles in both the consultancy and DBFO/Concession/P3 sectors. He has led or participated in major infrastructure programs in both North America and globally ranging in value from $10 million to over $1.0 bn. In his latest assignment he was tasked to organize and deliver a major infrastructure program on Vancouver Island. In just over four years he delivered $775 million of wastewater infrastructure on time and under budget.

Justin Napoleon is the former Chief of the Saulteau First Nation. He has worked as a technician on wind energy projects, a power engineer in gas plants and is a successful small business owner in the natural resources and civil construction sectors. During his time as Chief, he led the completion of the Sukunka Wind Project which is the largest indigenous-owned green energy project in BC. He has also helped to guide the development of the Saulteau First Nations’ flagship economic development company, Mistahiya Corporation which is involved in diversifying the business interests of the nation. He is also leading a number of community-focused initiatives, such as the construction of a new cultural centre. Justin holds a Certificate of Second Class Power Engineer from Technical Safety British Columbia.

Allison has been a partner at Intermark Law, a small downtown Vancouver boutique law firm for over 10 years and has been practising law for over 25 years in the areas of corporate and commercial law. She holds a Bachelor of Commerce with a major in Finance at the University of Manitoba a law degree at the University of Windsor. Prior to her current role, she was recruited to work for a large public forestry company as in-house counsel where she worked for 7 years before being promoted to Senior Legal Counsel. She volunteers on the Board on the North Shore In-line Hockey Association and has been the Co-Chair of the Canadian Bar Association BC section of the Canadian Corporate Counsel Association. She has also taught a business law course at UBC’s Allard Law School.

For over 25 years, Kyle Downie has been a leader in the workforce development space. In his current role as CEO of SkillPlan, Mr. Downie focuses on developing strategies to improve the skills of workers in the construction industry in North America through the Building Trades Unions and their affiliated contractors and training providers. He holds Executive Management in Strategic Leadership from the UBC Sauder School of Business, Bachelor of Education and Bachelor of Physical Education in Physiology, both from the University of Alberta, and is a certified Power Engineer from Northern Alberta Institute of Technology.