Career Highlights

More than 30 years of leadership across healthcare administration, academic medicine, enterprise operations and governance.

At a glance: 30+ years in leadership · 29+ years owning and operating financially successful businesses · $30M+ enterprise led · 120+ employees · academic department of about 440 physicians, research and administrative staff

Healthcare & Academic Medicine

Manager, Department of Medicine
McMaster University, Faculty of Health Sciences, Hamilton

  • Responsible for the financial, physical and human resources of one of the Faculty's largest clinical departments: about 227 academic physicians, 96 research nurses and technicians, and 117 administrative staff.

  • Partnered with physician and academic leadership on strategic planning, resource allocation and organizational development.

  • Chaired the Department Managers' Committee and took part in the re-engineering of Chedoke McMaster Hospital.

Director of Standards
Metropolitan General Hospital, Windsor

  • Led quality improvement, customer satisfaction, risk and loss control, management information systems, occupational health and safety, Employee Health Services and hospital security.

  • Participated in budgeting, contract negotiations, labour relations and grievance processes, and supported Board evaluation and orientation.

Administrative Resident
Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care

  • Member of a multidisciplinary team of medical, financial and administrative specialists preparing health policy briefings for the Assistant Deputy Minister of Health.

Administrative Resident
Henderson General Hospital, Hamilton

  • Member of the hospital management team and Planning Committee; designed an integrated quality assurance and risk management program.

Enterprise Leadership

President & Owner, McCarthy-Ellis Mercantile Ltd. (1996–2025)
Independent dealer-owner in a national retail network, leading large single- and multi-site retail operations in Central Eastern Ontario and the GTA

  • Owned and operated a financially successful business for more than 29 years, building it to more than $30 million in annual revenue and 120+ employees.

  • Full P&L accountability, with executive responsibility for retail, automotive service, logistics, facilities, inventory, customer service and administration.

  • Led strategic and operational planning, budgeting, capital planning, risk management, compliance and succession planning.

  • Guided the organization through periods of significant economic, operational and market change.

Governance

  • Director, Campbellford Memorial Hospital Foundation

  • Member, Trent Hills Physician Recruitment and Retention Committee

  • Director, Canadian Tire Dealer Holdings

  • Chair, Central Eastern Ontario Dealer Group

  • Secretary-Treasurer, Canadian Tire Dealers Association

  • President, Campbellford/Seymour Community Foundation

  • Director, Trent Hills & District Chamber of Commerce

  • Director, Campbellford Seymour Curling and Racquets Club

Publications

  • “Quality Control and the Board of Directors,” Leadership in Health Services, March 1992

  • “Quality Assurance and the Board: What Trustees Should Expect from Quality Assurance,” Trustee, May 1991

Honours

  • Retail/Service Business Award, Campbellford/Seymour Chamber of Commerce (2001)

Education & Credentials

  • Certified Health Executive (CHE), Life Member, Canadian College of Health Leaders

  • Master of Health Sciences, Health Administration, University of Toronto

  • Master of Arts, Politics, Brock University

  • Honours BA, English and Political Science, McMaster University

Core Strengths

Strategic planning · Financial stewardship and P&L · Quality and risk management · Labour relations and negotiation · Board governance · Leading organizational change