Board of Directors | Lumenix

BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Scott Delaney, Chairman & CEO

Scott D. Delaney is an experienced entrepreneur, private equity investor, CEO and operator with a track record of building innovative high growth companies and leading high performing teams through complex problems. Mr. Delaney’s broad leadership experience is distinguished by achievements rooted in strategic planning, mergers and acquisitions, capital markets, operations and international development.

Mr. Delaney is the Chairman, CEO of Lumenix where he has been instrumental in the strategic direction, operations, and financing of the firm. Mr. Delaney was previously a founder and partner of Impax Management Ltd. (“IML”), a Toronto based principal investment firm and the founder, President, Chief Executive Officer, and Chairman of the Board of Directors of Impax Energy Services Ltd. (“Impax”), a diversified energy trust. Prior to, Mr. Delaney was an investment banker with leading global investment banks. Prior to, Mr. Delaney worked in production operations and commodity marketing for a leading global oil and gas exploration company.

Mr. Delaney presently serves as Co-Chair of the Fulbright Canada Advisory Board and as a Director of the Yorkminster Park Baptist Church. Mr. Delaney has previously served as a Director of other organizations, including the Yee Hong Centre for Geriatric Care, the Yee Hong Foundation and the Institute for Study of International Development at McGill University. Mr. Delaney is a long term member, and a past Chapter Chair, of the Young Presidents’ Organization. Mr. Delaney holds an economics degree from Carleton University and a Master’s degree from the Harvard Kennedy School of Government where he was a Fulbright Scholar.

The Right Honourable Joseph Clark, Director

The Right Honourable Joseph Clark, is a founding partner and Vice-Chairman of Stratus Royalty Corporation. Mr. Clark is also co-founder and Chairman of Clark Sustainable Resource Developments Ltd. (CSRD), and has led a career marked by activities spanning the globe. Elected eight times to the House of Commons of Canada, he served in Parliament for 25 years before retiring in June 2004.

He has served his country as Prime Minister, Secretary of State for External Affairs (Foreign Minister), Minister of Constitutional Affairs, Acting Minister of both National Defense and Justice, Leader of Her Majesty’s Loyal Opposition, and National Leader of the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada. Mr. Clark has long-standing personal and professional interests in Africa, including service as Chairman of the Commonwealth Committee of Foreign Ministers on South Africa, the committee instrumental in motivating global pressure for the end of apartheid in the country.

He has served on the boards of several international NGO’s and Canadian and international companies. Additionally, he has been a visiting scholar at the University of California, Berkeley, and American University in Washington, DC, and was a Public Policy Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in 2004. Mr. Clark is also Professor of Practice for Public-Private Sector Partnerships in the Centre for Developing-Area Studies, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada and is a member of the Global Leadership Foundation.

George Brookman, Director

George Brookman is well known in Calgary’s business and volunteer community. He is a third generation Albertan and was born in Calgary. Most of his early career was spent in the Real Estate Development Industry; initially with Manulife Financial and then later as Vice-President of Development for ATCO Ltd. Most of this time was in the development and operation of high rise commercial and residential buildings.

In 1984, he acquired West Canadian Industries Group, which today is considered by many to be Canada’s leading digital print and document management organization. The company operates as West Canadian Digital Imaging in Calgary, Edmonton and Fort McMurray and is a partner in VISTEK West, a significant retail force in the camera and photo retail business.

Until recently, West Canadian also operated Commonwealth Legal in Toronto, Calgary and Vancouver. This company, which became Canada's largest litigation support company, has recently been sold to RICOH Canada. One of West Canadian's newest ventures is in the rapidly growing photo book industry through the new "Ookpix" brand website.

In addition to his own company, Mr. Brookman serves on the Board of Directors of Penn West Exploration as the Chairman of the Governance Committee. He is currently on the Board of Directors for Travel Alberta as well as the Calgary Flames and the Calgary Stampede Foundations.

As a volunteer, Mr. Brookman is the Past President and Chairman of the Board of the Calgary Stampede; Past Chairman of Tourism Calgary and Past President of the Downtown Rotary Club of Calgary. In May of 2013, Mr. Brookman successfully chaired the "Turning Points" Dinner on behalf of the Calgary Women's Emergency Shelter.

This event saw an attendance of over nine hundred people and raised a net income of over half a million dollars. In 2014, Mr. Brookman conceived and chaired a new event, "Breakfast on the Bridge" on behalf of the Military Family Resource Centre. The event netted over $170,000.00 for MFRC.

Mr. Brookman is Co-Chair of "Transformation Calgary", a group of Calgary business leaders determined to enhance the quality of life in Calgary through encouraging development of sports, arts and cultural facilities within the city. Mr. Brookman is a recipient of the Pinnacle Award for Business; the Distinguished Business Leader Award from the Haskayne School of Business and he has received an Honorary Degree in Applied Technology from S.A.I.T. Polytechnic Institute.

David Tuer, Director
Since November of 2013, Mr. Tuer has been the Chairman of Optiom Inc.; in 2015 he became Executive Chairman. From May 2008 until June 2015, he was the Vice Chairman and CEO of Teine Energy Ltd. He is an independent businessman and was Chairman of the Calgary Health Region from 2001 to 2008. He has held senior executive positions in various energy companies throughout his career. He is the former President and Chief Executive Officer of PanCanadian Petroleum Limited, prior to its merger in 2002 with the Alberta Energy Company to form EnCana Corporation. He also serves on the Board of Directors of Canadian Natural Resources Limited.
Andrew Wilkes, Director

Andrew Wilkes is currently a Portfolio Manager with Mackie Research Capital Corporation.  Mr. Wilkes has managed money for private clients at MRCC over the past 12 years and was previously employed at Raymond James Ltd., Goepel McDermid Inc., and CIBC. 

Mr. Wilkes has pursued charitable endeavours as a board member for East Coast Charity Ball, East Coast Connected and has been awarded the Certificate of Philanthropy by Mount Allison University.

ADVISORY BOARD

Kelley McKinnon, Advisor

Executive leadership roles at public and private institutions, including the Ontario Securities Commission (Chief Litigation Counsel and Deputy Director Enforcement), Competition Bureau of Canada (Senior Deputy Commissioner, Head of Mergers Branch), BMO Financial Group (Chief Regulatory Officer; Chief Compliance Officer, Capital Markets) and Queen’s University (Vice Chair, Board of Trustees; Chair, Governance).

Three decades of conflict resolution, strategic change management, special investigations and governance advisory with recognized expertise in capital markets, regulatory process and risk, compliance, crisis response and board governance including ethics and conflicts; Currently a Senior Fellow at Harvard focusing on purpose-driven companies, tri-partnerships in ESG and sustainability, integrative policy development and new leadership models.

Dr. John-Arne Røttingen, MD, PhD, MSc, MPA, Advisor

John-Arne joined Wellcome as Chief Executive Officer (CEO) in January 2024 and leads the charitable foundation’s mission to support science to solve the urgent health challenges facing everyone.

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John-Arne has held many international roles in health and research, including most recently as Ambassador for Global Health at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Norway. Prior to this, he was founding CEO of CEPI (Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations), which Wellcome helped to launch, and has been the Chief Executive of the Research Council of Norway.

He has held academic positions at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and the University of Oslo. He is a member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters and the US National Academy of Medicine.

John-Arne trained in medicine and science, receiving his MD and PhD from the University of Oslo. He also has an MSc from the University of Oxford and MPA from Harvard University. His research has spanned basic science, epidemiology, clinical trials, health services research and global health policy, governance and financing. He has led the steering groups for the Ebola vaccine trial in Guinea and the Covid-19 WHO Solidarity Trial, and the Lancet Series on access and sustainable effectiveness of antimicrobials.

He has held many national and international board and advisory board roles, including board member of Science Europe and chair of the Alliance for Health Policy and Systems Research, and is currently a board member of Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, PATH, Global Antibiotic Research and Development Partnership (GARDP) and Medicines Patent Pool (MPP).

He has served on expert and advisory bodies at the WHO and in global health, including more recently as chair of the ACT-Accelerator Financial and Resource Mobilization Working Group and the G20 High Level Independent Panel on Financing the Global Commons for Pandemic Preparedness and Response. He currently serves on the Standing Committee on Science of the Canadian Institutes of Health Research and on the Science and Research Committee of the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) and is co-chair of the Future of Global Health Initiatives.

Gerhard Nenning, Advisor

Gerhard Nenning is an experienced strategy advisor with extensive track record in the Technology, Lighting, Energy and Industrial Service Sector.

Gerhard is Senior Partner of Munich based strategy consulting boutique Stern Stewart & Co. focusing for 20 years on strategy development and M&A, typically followed by organizational transformation. His creative and rigorously independent thinking has impacted strategic decisions in growing as well as contracting businesses.

With a hands on entrepreneurial instinct and often going against the grain, Gerhard has advised international corporates and mid-sized companies in ambitious growth strategies outside of their initial comfort zone. Conversely, he has helped prevent multi-billion investments which in hindsight would have been crippling.

Gerhard has co-founded the international, Munich based think tank The Stern Stewart Institute and shapes the Institute’s yearly agenda of dialogue with leaders in business, politics, and science. He is also publisher of the bi-annually appearing Stern Stewart Institute Periodical.

After training to become a banker at Deutsche Bank, he studied economics, business and political science at the University of Cologne, Germany and McGill University in Montréal.

Dianne Faup, Advisor

Dianne Faup has almost 30 years of experience working in the health care industry as an attorney, management consultant and government executive. Her private, federal and state health care background includes working with White House, congressional and U.S. Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) executive leaders. In 25 years of management consulting, she advised U.S. and international government agencies, payers, technology companies, providers and nonprofits, helping to solve complex business problems.

Most recently, Dianne was a senior vice president at Optum, where she served in an internal consulting role, advising the CEOs of Optum-owned businesses. Prior to joining Optum, she was a principal at Booz Allen Hamilton, where she led a practice focused on the strategic implementation of public policy and oversaw much of the firm’s health reform work for the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). Dianne has advised C‑level clients on the strategic implementation of public policy, including the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), the Medicare Modernization Act (MMA) and the Affordable Care Act (ACA). She also held leadership positions in KPMG Europe and The Lewin Group.

Dianne has served in executive roles within the state and federal government. Under Mayor Adrian Fenty, she served as chief of staff for the District of Columbia Department of Health Care Finance, a $2 billion agency that serves more than one-third of District residents. She oversaw the organization’s operations, communications and public affairs and worked with the citywide team to implement Medicaid expansion. During her federal service, Dianne served as a senior advisor at HHS, first within CMS advising on the national roll out of HIPAA, and then in the Immediate Office of the Secretary, under Secretary Michael Leavitt. While in the Office of the Secretary, Dianne advised Deputy Secretary Azar on health policy issues, core HHS operations, regulatory changes, program integrity and a wide range of other health care issues.

Dianne holds a Bachelor of Arts in management from Manhattanville College and a Juris Doctor from the University of New Hampshire’s Franklin Pierce School of Law. She has spoken nationally on topics ranging from securing health information to effectively tying compliance to business strategy. Dianne is a member of the board of directors of the Alliance for Health Policy. In addition, she is a frequent guest lecturer at George Washington University and member of Women Business Leaders.

Dr. Monique Chireau Wubbenhorst, MD, MPH, FACOG, FAHA, Advisor

Dr Monique Wubbenhorst, MD, MPH, FACOG, FAHA, most recently served as a Deputy Assistant Administrator in the Bureau for Global Health at the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID). Dr. Wubbenhorst has over 20 years’ experience as a practicing obstetrician-gynecologist with experience in international health, and policy and research in women’s health. Dr Wubbenhorst graduated from Mount Holyoke College, and received her MD from Brown University and her MPH from Harvard University. She completed her residency in Obstetrics and Gynecology at Yale-New Haven Hospital and subsequently did her postdoctoral fellowship in health services research at the Sheps Center for Health Services Research at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, before joining the faculty at Duke University School of Medicine in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology in 2003. She was a fellow of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, and of the American Heart Association, and a Senior Public Policy Fellow at the Notre Dame Center for Ethics and Culture.

Dr Wubbenhorst’s clinical career has focused on providing obstetric and gynecological care for underserved and disadvantaged populations. She has been involved in teaching, research, health policy and patient care in multiple domestic and international health systems, including inner city Boston, rural North Carolina, and Native American reservations in the United States; and in India, the Philippines, Kazakhstan, Ghana, South Sudan, Nepal, Cameroon, and South Sudan. She has chaired the Women and Special Populations Committee at the American Heart Association and worked as a senior consultant to the United States Veterans Administration. She has authored multiple peer-reviewed publications, and her research interests include the epidemiology and molecular biology of adverse pregnancy outcomes and reproductive health, health services research, and ethics in reproductive health.

Hugh Thornhill, Advisor

Hugh Thornhill joined OhioHealth in June 2010 as president of the OhioHealth Physician Group (OPG). In this role, Mr. Thornhill led the strategic direction of the OPG and oversees its development and ongoing growth.

The OPG employs nearly 900 physicians and more than 800 advanced practice providers (APPs) in nearly 45 specialties, creating an infrastructure and seamless partnership with physicians who enable the delivery of the highest quality, most effective healthcare available.

With vast experience in practice operations and acquisition, Mr. Thornhill has developed and led several successful physician relationship strategies. Prior to joining OhioHealth, Mr. Thornhill served as president and chief executive officer for more than 15 years at Carilion Medical Group in Roanoke, Virginia – a wholly owned subsidiary of Carilion Clinic that operated more than 70 physician practice locations. In 2008, Mr. Thornhill took on an additional role with Carilion Clinic, which employed approximately 550 physicians, serving as vice president of Practice Integration.

Mr. Thornhill also has held leadership positions with a national healthcare business services provider, providing expertise in the management of physician groups. In total, Mr. Thornhill’s career in physician services and practice management and operations spans more than 30 years.

Mr. Thornhill holds a bachelor’s degree in Business Administration from Bucknell University and is certified by the American College of Medical Practice Executives.

Rob Richards, Advisor

Rob is a high-tech operations veteran with over 25 years of senior management experience in IT, telecom, aerospace, and enterprise software-as-a-service (SaaS). As Chief Operating Officer of one of the first SaaS companies, Rob helped pioneer the software subscription model and managed the company through its NASDAQ IPO. Since then, he has acted as an early advisor and interim CEO for several start-ups, managing private placements and growth activity.

Rob is co-founder and General Partner at Plaza Ventures, an early-growth stage VC with a portfolio spanning proptech, intelligent transportation, IoT, marketplaces, ad tech, and enterprise SaaS. Rob sits on the boards of several companies and is passionate about the impact of technology on economic and social advancement.

While operating Plaza Ventures within Plazacorp, Rob developed the vision for Key: applying digital innovation to the condo ownership journey in order to get millions of millennials stuck renting for much of their adult lives onto the property ladder sooner, building wealth while being able to live in the city.

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