The NMC Secretariat
The Secretariat leads NMC efforts to promote the needs and interest of federal managers to Public Service decision-makers. The NMC secretariat act as a vehicle for 2-way communication and knowledge broker to engage, increase dialogue, exchange information and share best practices to address the needs of managers.
The NMC Secretariat
The NMC Secretariat (NMCS) is comprised of the Executive Director, Manager of Finance and Human Resources, Financial Coordinator, Communications Advisor and six Regional Leads for each Region, including the NCR.
The NMCS is the main point of contact for central initiatives, agencies and communities that impact Managers. They work together with the NMC Advisory Boards to promote a strong, united management community. They also coordinate the Strategic Planning process and create the NMC Strategic Plan.
List of Secretariat Staff
Executive Director
Camille Beausoleil
camille.beausoleil@csps-efpc.gc.ca
Manager, Finance and Human Resources
Pauline Picotte
Mobile: (613) 668-9902
pauline.picotte@csps-efpc.gc.ca
Finance Coordinator
Vacant
Communications and Outreach Senior Advisor
Genevieve Quevillon
genevieve.quevillon@csps-efpc.gc.ca
Outreach Project Officer
Vacant
Regional Leads
The Regional Leads collaborate, liaise and provide support and advice to Steering Committee Chairs/Co-Chairs and members in their respective Regions. They represent NMC at events, including Regional Federal Council meetings and other horizontal senior level communities, advocating on issues of importance to managers.
Atlantic Region
Marc Hamilton
New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, Newfoundland & Labrador
Contact : marc.hamilton@csps-efpc.gc.ca
Quebec & Nunavut Region
National Capital Region
Julie Wills
National Capital Region
Julie.wills@csps-efpc.gc.ca
Ontario Region
Meredith Richmond
Ontario excluding the National Capital Region
Meredith.richmond@csps-efpc.gc.ca
Prairies and North West Territories Region
Kristine Johnston
Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba and Northwest Territories
Kristine.johnston@csps-efpc.gc.ca
British Columbia and Yukon Region
Jon Hoogerdyk
British Columbia and Yukon
jon.hoogerdyk@csps-efpc.gc.ca
Deputy Minister Champion
The NMC Deputy Minister (DM) Champion is appointed by the Clerk of the Privy Council. The role of the DM Champion is to ensure that at the highest executive levels, the voice of managers is heard and profiled, while also providing the NMC with strategic advice and guidance. The DM Champion chairs the ADM Advisory Board.
Deputy Minister (DM) Champion
Arun Thangaraj, Deputy Minister Champion, National Managers’ Community
Deputy Minister, Transport Canada.
Arun Thangaraj was newly appointed Deputy Minister at Transport Canada in February 2023. He brings over 20 years of experience in information technology, corporate planning, finance and management. Previously, he was appointed Associate Deputy Minister of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada and from 2020 to 2022, Arun was the Associate Deputy Minister at Transport Canada. He also served as Assistant Deputy Minister and Chief Financial Officer at Global Affairs Canada, where he was responsible for information management and information technology. In 2011, he was appointed Deputy Chief Financial Officer at the former Canadian International Development Agency.
Arun received the Queen Diamond Jubilee Medal in 2013 for his contribution to the federal public service and to his community. He has served on various governance boards, including the Global Fund’s Finance and Operations Committee, and is a member of the Public Sector Pension Advisory Committee. He is also a sessional lecturer at Carleton University’s School of Public Administration, where he has taught courses in the management stream for many years. Arun is a chartered professional accountant and holds a Master of Arts in Public Administration from Carleton University, a Master of Business Administration from the University of Ottawa, and an Honours Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from the University of Toronto.
Assistant Deputy Minister (ADM) Advisory Board & Executive Board
The NMC ADM Advisory Board and the Executive Board are the Deputy Minister Champions’ Advisory Committees. They consist of executives from all departments and agencies that act as the Champion and advocates for managers’ network in their respective communities and regions.
ADM Advisory Board & Executive Board members
Department | Member |
Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC) | Shannon Nix |
Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency (ACOA) | Dave Boland |
Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) | Aaron McCrorie |
Canada Economic Development for Quebec Regions (CED) | Jean-Frédéric Lafaille François Payeur |
Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) | Maria Mavroyannis |
Canada School of Public Service (CSPS) | Vanessa Vermette |
Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) | Dr. David Nanang Gabrielle Fitzgerald |
Canadian Grain Commission (CGC) | Jocelyn Beaudette |
Canadian Heritage (PCH) | Julie Fairweather Jaime Burke, Champion, Ontario Region exc. NCR |
Canadian Northern Economic Development Agency (CanNor) | Torrine Johnson |
Communications Security Establishment Canada (CSEC) | Hughes St-Pierre |
Correctional Service Canada (CSC) | Sylvain Mongrain |
Courts Administration Services (CAS) | |
Crown-Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs Canada (CIRNAC) | |
Employment and Social Development Canada (ESDC) | Rina Lorello |
Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC) | Hilary Geller Donald Walker |
Federal Economic Development Agency of Southern Ontario (FedDev Ontario) | Paulette Prentice |
Finance Canada (FIN) | Michelle Kovacevic |
Financial Transactions and Reports Analysis Centre of Canada (FINTRAC) | Donna Achimov Philippe Blanchette |
Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO) | |
Global Affairs Canada (GAC) | |
Health Canada (HC) and Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) | Jocelyne Voisin Catherine Allison Laurie Hunter |
Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada (IRB) | Roger Ermuth |
Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) | Jennifer MacIntyre |
Indigenous Services Canada (ISC) | Julien Castonguay |
Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada (ISED) | Nipun Vats |
Justice Canada (JUS) | Bill Kroll |
Library and Archives Canada (LAC) | |
National Defence (DND) | Isabelle Desmartis |
Natural Resources Canada (NRCan) | Francis Brisson Mathieu Bergeron, Champion, Québec Region |
Office of the Chief Human Resources Officer (OCHRO) (Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat (TBS)) | Mireille Laroche |
Office of the Commissioner of Official Languages (OCOL) | Isabelle Tessier |
Office of Public Service Accessibility (OPSA) (Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat (TBS)) | Alfred MacLeod |
Pacific Economic Development Canada (PacifiCan) | |
Prairies Economic Development Canada (PrairiesCan) | |
Parole Board of Canada (PBC) | Harold Massey |
Parks Canada (PC) | Kerry Buckley |
Privy Council Office (PCO) | Tim Pettipas |
Public Safety Canada (PS) | Sebastien Aubertin-Giguère |
Public Service Commission of Canada (PSC) | Vinh Du Nguyen |
Public Service and Procurement Canada (PSPC) | Jean-Francois Lymburner Stephanie Kirkland Cheryl Baraniecki, Champion, Prairies and NWT Region |
Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) | Nadine Huggins |
Service Canada (ServCan) | Jana Keillor, Champion, BC and Yukon Region |
Shared Services Canada (SSC) | Rima Hurley Marie-Josée Cayer |
Statistics Canada (StatCan) | Kathleen Mitchell |
Transport Canada (TC) | Ryan Pilgrim |
Veterans Affairs Canada (VAC) | Lindy McQuillan |
The ADM and EX Advisory Board represents the ADM cadre, advises the Deputy Minister on the NMC’s plans and strategies, relays information and advocates for the NMC within their own departments/agencies and regions.
Executive Board
Department | Name |
Canada Economic Development for Quebec Regions (CED) | Jean-Frédéric Lafaille François Payeur |
Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) | Marc Lemieux |
Canadian Heritage (PCH) | Julie Fairweather |
Financial Transactions and Reports Analysis Centre of Canada (FINTRAC) | Philippe Blanchette |
Indigenous Services Canada (ISC) | Julien Castonguay |
Justice Canada (JUS) | Bill Kroll |
Public Service and Procurement Canada (PSPC) – Prairies and NWT Region | Cheryl Baraniecki |
Transport Canada (TC) | Ryan Pilgrim |
Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat (TBS) | Alfred MacLeod |
Managers’ Advisory Board (MAB)
The NMC Managers’ Advisory Board (MAB) consists of managers who lead their respective departmental/agency communities and managers’ networks.
MAB members
The role of the MAB is to share information on departmental/agency activities, recruit volunteers from within their departments/agencies to help with NMC initiatives and enable these managers to better brief their ADM Champions on current and proposed joint ventures and NMC activities. The NMC Executive Director chairs the MAB.
Department | Members |
Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada (AAFC) | Carl Dubeau |
Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency (ACOA) | Martine Cantin |
Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) | Sean Scott Amanda Selvadurai |
Canada Economic Development for Quebec Regions (CED) | Christian David |
Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) | Muhammad Ajmal (AJ) Mohamudbuccus |
Canada School of Public Service (CSPS) | Jean-Simon Marquis Gilles Thériault |
Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) | Natalie Tremblay Daniel Gray |
Canadian Heritage (PCH) | Jeannette Monk |
Canadian Human Rights Commission (CHRC) | Sue Butchart |
Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) | Lynn Frappier |
Communications Security Establishment (CSE) | Cynthia Papadopoulo Yannick Sirois |
Correctional Service Canada (CSC) | Alain Fortier |
Crown-Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs Canada (CIRNAC) | Lyson Rivest Rishav Ghosh |
Employment and Social Development Canada (ESDC) | Hugo Desgens-Barbe Isabelle Garand |
Environment and Climate Change Canada (ECCC) | Dawn McDonald |
Federal Economic Development Agency of Southern Ontario (FedDev Ontario) | David Schwindt |
Financial Transactions and Reports Analysis Centre of Canada (FINTRAC) | Jelena Gingras Louise Lefebvre |
Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO) | Yannick Dallaire |
Global Affairs Canada (GAC) | Oksana McVicar |
Health Canada (HC) and the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) | Vanessa Pearson Diane Kaiser-Trottier |
Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada (IRB) | Alicia Seifert Randa Mekhael |
Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) | Sophia Abraham |
Indigenous Services Canada (ISC) | Naman Sharma |
Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada (ISED) | Julie Bernier Guy Gravelle Melissa Dorion |
Justice Canada (JUS) | Denis Gratton Lydia Laurin Frederic Champagne |
Library and Archives Canada (LAC) | Ihtesham Rashid |
National Defence (DND) | Alexandra Dobson Kimberly Sorfleet |
Natural Resources Canada (NRCan) | Natasha Lestage Cynthia Vandevenne |
Office of the Chief Human Resources Officer (OCHRO) (Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat (TBS)) | Derek Jones |
Office of the Commissioner of Official Languages (OCOL) | Jean Duval Monick Corriveau |
Office of Public Service Accessibility (OPSA) (Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat (TBS)) | Myriam Lamontagne |
Parks Canada (PC) | Yanika Gauthier |
Privy Council Office (PCO) | Lisa O’Neil |
Public Prosecution Service of Canada (PPSC) | Martin Yelle Valérie Chénard Tracey Stack |
Public Safety Canada (PS) | Michael Charron Chantal Girard |
Public Service Commission of Canada (PSC) | Daniel Spracklin |
Public Service and Procurement Canada (PSPC) | Susan Drysdale |
Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) | |
Shared Services Canada (SSC) | Stéphanie Houle Robert Lenarcic |
Transport Canada (TC) | David Lao Daniel Lachance |
Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat (TBS) | Michelle Bastien |
Veterans Affairs Canada (VAC) | Jaclyn Metcalfe |
Regional Advisory Board (RAB)
The NMC Regional Advisory Board (RAB) members acts as the voice of managers from across the country and provides strategic advice and direction to the ADM Advisory Board via the NMC Executive Director and Regional Leads.
RAB members
Members of the RAB are the Chairs/Co-Chairs from the Steering Committees from each region/province and territory. The RAB is Co-Chaired by the Executive Director and on a rotational basis, a provincial Co-Chair elected/nominated by the Board.
Region | Members |
Chair | Camille Beausoleil, NMC Executive Director |
Co-chair | Michel Robichaud, Public Services and Procurement Canada |
Alberta | Anita Sharma, Canada Revenue Agency Ada Yu, Public Services and Procurement Canada |
British Columbia | Aaron Billesberger, Public Service Alliance of Canada |
Manitoba | Christine Lodge, Transport Canada |
New Brunswick | Brock Belliveau, Public Services and Procurement Canada Michel Robichaud, Public Services and Procurement Canada |
Newfoundland and Labrador | Christopher Hendry, Fisheries and Oceans Canada Lesley Cowan, Canada Revenue Agency |
Northwest Territories | |
Nova Scotia | Mavis Suh-Che Mbende, National Research Council Canada Charlene Mathieu, Department of Fisheries and Oceans |
Nunavut | Pierre Brouillette, Shared Services Canada |
Ontario | Susan Badame, Justice Canada |
Prince Edward Island | Catherine MacInnis, Veterans Affairs Canada Lauranne Mason, Veterans Affairs Canada |
Quebec | Stéphanie Ricard, Canada Revenue Agency |
Saskatchewan | Anne Ballantyne, Prairies Economic Development Canada |
Yukon | Jean-Sebastien Blais, Crown-Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs Canada |
Regional Connections
The regional connections is represented by NMC Regional Leads, Regional Champions, and Steering Committee co-chairs who represent their department/agencies in their regions. The Committees hold monthly/quarterly steering committee meetings. They provide a source of intelligence and feedback of information from the departments/agencies about manager issues and innovations.
Atlantic
Atlantic
New Brunswick, Newfoundland and Labrador, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island
Regional Champion
Daphnée Michaud, CPA
Director General, Public Service Pay Centre
daphnee.michaud@pwgsc–tpsgc.gc.ca
NMC Atlantic Regional Lead
Marc Hamilton
Marc.hamilton@csps-efpc.gc.ca
New Brunswick
Co-Chair, Steering Committee
Brock Belliveau
Public Services and Procurement Canada
Brock.Belliveau@pwgsc-tpsgc.gc.ca
Co-Chair, Steering Committee
Michel Robichaud
Public Services and Procurement Canada
michel.robichaud@pwgsc-tpsgc.gc.ca
Newfoundland and Labrador
Co-Chair, Steering Committee
Christopher Hendry
Fisheries and Oceans Canada
Christopher.Hendry@dfo-mpo.gc.ca
Co-Chair, Steering Committee
Lesley Cowan
Agriculture Canada
Lesley.cowan2@agr.gc.ca
Nova Scotia
Co-Chair, Steering Committee
Mavis Suh-Che Mbende, MA
National Research Council Canada
mavis.suh@nrc-cnrc.gc.ca
Co-Chair, Steering Committee
Charlene Mathieu
Fisheries and Oceans Canada
charlene.mathieu@dfo-mpo.gc.ca
Prince Edward Island
Co-Chair, Steering Committee
Catherine MacInnis
Veterans Affairs Canada
catherine.macinnis@vac-acc.gc.ca
Co-Chair, Steering Committee
Lauranne Mason
Veterans Affairs Canada
lauranne.mason@vac-acc.gc.ca
Quebec and Nunavut
Quebec and Nunavut
Regional Champion
Mathieu Bergeron
Natural Resources Canada
Mathieu.bergeron@NRCan-RNCan.gc.ca
NMC Regional Lead, Quebec and Nunavut
Martine Daoust
martine.daoust@csps-efpc.gc.ca
National Capital
NCR
Ottawa and Gatineau
Deputy Minister Champion, National Managers’ Community
Arun Thangaraj
arun.thangaraj@tc.gc.ca
NMC Regional Lead, National Capital Region
Julie Wills
Julie.wills@csps-efpc.gc.ca
Ontario
Ontario – excluding National Capital Region
Regional Champion
Jaime Burke
Canadian Heritage
jaime.burke@pch.gc.ca
NMC Regional Lead, Ontario Region
Meredith Richmond
meredith.richmond@csps-efpc.gc.ca
Co-Chair, Steering Committee
Susan Badame
Justice Canada
susan.badame@justice.gc.ca
Co-Chair, Steering Committee
Vacant
British Columbia and Yukon
British Columbia and Yukon
Regional Champion
Jana Keillor
Service Canada
jana.keillor@servicecanada.gc.ca
NMC Regional Lead
Jon Hoogerdyk
jon.hoogerdyk@csps-efpc.gc.ca
Co-Chair, Steering Committee, British Columbia
Aaron Billesberger
Joint Learning Program
billesa@psac-afpc.com
Representative, Yukon
Jean-Sebastien Blais
Crown-Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs Canada
jean-sebastien.blais@rcaanc-cirnac.gc.ca
Prairies and Northern Territories
Prairies and Northwest Territories
Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba and Northwest Territories
Regional Champion
Cheryl Baraniecki
Public Services and Procurement Canada
cheryl.baraniecki@pwgsc-tpsgc.gc.ca
NMC Regional Lead
Marie-Kristine Johnston
kristine.johnston@csps-efpc.gc.ca
Alberta
Co-Chair, Steering Committee, Edmonton
Ada Yu
Public Services and Procurement Canada
ada.yu@pwgsc-tpsgc.gc.ca
Co-Chair, Steering Committee, Calgary
Anita Sharma
Canada Revenue Agency
Anita.Sharma@cra-arc.gc.ca
Saskatchewan
Co-Chair, Steering Committee
Anne Ballantyne
Prairies Economic Development Canada
anne.ballantyne@prairiescan.gc.ca
Manitoba
Co-Chair, Steering Committee
Christine Lodge
Transport Canada
Christine.Lodge@tc.gc.ca
Northwest Territories
Northwest Territories representative
Vacant
Contact us to learn more about the NMC
and how we can help support managers
Atlantic | BC-Yukon | Quebec-Nunavut
National Capital
Ontario | Prairies-NWT
Email: nmc-cng@csps-efpc.gc.ca