Our Board

Board of Directors

Chair

Ray Bisson, Manitoba

Ray has been serving on the Alzheimer Society of Manitoba Board since 2017 and has held the position of Vice-Chair and Chair since 2019. Prior to serving on the Board, Ray volunteered for several years on the Gala Fundraising Committee, including serving as Chair in 2018 and 2019.

Ray spent his career in the construction industry focusing mostly on the agricultural and industrial sectors. He held several positions over the years as an executive for a large design-build construction company including doing general management, operations and for the most part business development until his retirement in late 2020.

Outside of the Alzheimer Society of Manitoba Board, Ray also chaired boards of directors for credit union and a provincial construction-industry organization. He has also sat as a Board Member at Large for other miscellaneous boards. Ray continues to volunteer with the Alzheimer Society of Manitoba Fundraising Team to meet with potential significant donors.

Vice-Chair

Robert Piasentin, British Columbia

Robert Piasentin has been serving on the Alzheimer Society of Canada Board since 2020.

Robert Piasentin is an influential and highly accomplished leader in the legal and business world. Robert is Partner, Technology in the Vancouver office of McMillan LLP and is national Chair of the firm's technology law practice and national Co-Chair of the firm’s start-ups and emerging companies practice. Prior to his current role, Robert spent over 15 years as an in-house lawyer in Canada and the U.K., serving as General Counsel at one of the largest Canadian IT consulting firms for almost 13 years. Robert has served seven years on the Board of the Alzheimer Society of B.C., with four of those years as Chair of the Board. He also volunteers and spends time on several other community boards, including the boards of the Frontier Collective, Baseball B.C., and the Canadian Technology Law Association (Can-Tech). Robert lives in Vancouver.

Robert is a member of the Alzheimer Society of Canada Board Governance Committee.

Treasurer

Darcy Yamada, Alberta & Northwest Territories

Darcy Yamada has been serving on the Alzheimer Society of Canada Board since 2021.

Darcy is a Senior Vice-President with Ernst & Young Orenda Corporate Finance Inc. in Edmonton. Darcy specializes in advising mid-market private companies on transaction strategy, mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, and raising capital from institutional and private funders.

Darcy has served on the Board of the Alzheimer Society of Alberta and Northwest Territories since 2016 and has previously served as Chair of the Audit & Finance Committee (2017-2019) and as President (2019-2021). Darcy’s passion for supporting those with dementia is based on his family’s history with Alzheimer’s disease, including his mother, aunt, and uncle. Having experienced the impact on his family, Darcy sees the importance of improving the quality of life of those with dementia and their support networks.

Shelley Shillington, New Brunswick

Shelley Shillington has been serving on the Alzheimer Society of Canada Board since 2020.

As Director of Program Operations of Loch Lomond Villa, Shelley plays a huge role in education planning for the organization. With a Master Training Certificate in the U-First! program from the Alzheimer Society of Ontario, she has had the opportunity to train throughout New Brunswick. As a past Board Member of the Saint John Alzheimer Society, she has had the pleasure of working with the community. In that role, she has also provided some of her experiences with caregivers on the uniqueness of working with this special group of individuals, and she has also provided insight on how to approach responsive behaviors of the person living with dementia with person-centred approaches.

Shelley and her husband Bruce are the proud parents of three young adults and they live in beautiful Baxter’s Corner. As a graduate of the University of New Brunswick’s Bachelor of Physical Education program, she has expressed, “It has been a privilege to see the exciting changes to elder care in the area of lifestyle, recreation and leisure choices for this population.”

Shelley has a passion for working with the dementia community. It gives her great satisfaction to share experiences and offer tools for care teams to feel more equipped to meet the challenges that can be encountered when working with these special people.

Shelley is also a member of the Alzheimer Society of Canada Board Governance Committee.

Mark Gillis, Nova Scotia 

Based in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Mark is a Partner with KBRS and Meridia Recruitment – a national Executive Search and Recruitment firm with East Coast roots. Mark spent seven years on the board of the Alzheimer’s Society of Nova Scotia before joining the ASC Board. During his tenure with ASNS, he spent three years in the Chair position and played a lead role in the recruitment and on-boarding of the CEO. Aside from his work with the Alzheimer’s Society of Canada, Mark is an active volunteer with Big Brothers Big Sisters, an organization he’s been working with for over eight years. In his spare time, Mark enjoys spending time with his wife, Hillary, and his two young children, Sonny and Holly.

Lynn Murray, Prince Edward Island

Lynn Murray has been serving on the Alzheimer Society of Canada Board since 2022.

Lynn Murray is Senior Partner with Key Murray Law, based out of its Charlottetown office. Her primary practice areas include civil litigation with an emphasis on personal injury, insurance defence, employment and labour law, professional regulation and administrative law. She is listed in Best Lawyers in Canada® in the practice areas of Administrative and Public Law, Bet-the-Company Litigation, Corporate and Commercial Litigation, Family Law, Insurance Law and Labour and Employment Law for 2022. Lynn was also named Best Lawyers’ 2021 Corporate and Commercial Litigation “Lawyer of the Year.”

Lynn is also recognized as a leading practitioner in the 2022 Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory for litigation, director/officers liability, and personal injury.

Lynn Murray has built a reputation for her legal work and community outreach. Since 1984, she has shared her insight of the law, often serving as a speaker at conferences and seminars in Prince Edward Island and outside of the province. Lynn has shared her knowledge on a variety of topics including ethics, insurance, employment and labour, Aboriginal law, litigation, and mediation. She has appeared before all levels of the court and at many administrative tribunals in Prince Edward Island.

Active both in her community and her profession, Lynn has served on the Board of Directors of Meritas (a worldwide network of law firms), on the Board of Governors of the University of Prince Edward Island, and as President of the Law Society of Prince Edward Island. Lynn currently serves as Past President on the Board of the Alzheimer Society of PEI, is a member of the Board of Directors of the Alzheimer Society of Canada, and is a member of the Board of Directors of PEI Crime Stoppers.

Luc Pinard, Quebec

Luc Pinard has been serving on the Alzheimer Society of Canada Board since 2018.

Luc retired in January 2020 after a 41-year career with CGI Inc. He was actively involved in all of CGI’s stages of development, as it grew from a very small company with a turnover of less than $1 million to become a publicly traded company eight years later. CGI has grown in the international arena as the result of several acquisitions and is today a major global player present in over 40 countries, with a turnover of almost $11 billion.

Luc has extensive and diverse professional experience. In the course of his career, he formed and led teams overseeing the implementation of enterprise resource planning, research and development, project risk management, quality management, IT functional management, information security management, innovation management, intellectual property management, and investment and internal auditing management. He further gained international experience working in Europe for several years, in both France and the U.K., and he led teams comprising people from the U.S., Europe and Asia. He also took part in several due diligence reviews in the process of major acquisitions in both the U.S. and Europe, and he participated in integration measures for those acquisitions.

Luc has successfully completed the training for and obtained the Administrateur de sociétés certifiés (ASC) designation. He has been on the Board of Directors of a regional Alzheimer Society in Quebec for 12 years and chaired that same Board for 11 years. He has been a Director on the Board of the Fédération québécoise des Sociétés Alzheimer since 2017 and has chaired that Board since 2018. He was nominated to the Board of Alzheimer Society of Canada in 2018 and has been Treasurer there since 2019.

Luc is also Chair of the Alzheimer Society of Canada Board Finance and Audit Committee.

Dan Kohl, Saskatchewan

Dan is an experienced senior management professional with more than 30 years of healthcare management expertise in long term care and seniors care. He is now retired from his previous position as Executive Director, Long Term Care Services, in the Saskatchewan Health Authority, and now works as an independent business consultant. He holds a Bachelor of Administration Degree from the University of Regina and a professional accounting designation, and was recognized nationally with a Fellowship by the Society of Management Accountants of Canada.

Dan served on the Board of the Alzheimer's Association of Saskatchewan in various capacities from 2018 to 2024, including a two-year term as President. His interest in the Alzheimer Society stems from seeing, first hand, the growth of Alzheimer’s disease for long term care residents and its impact on those served in care homes and in the community. He recognizes that this growth is challenging for families, service providers, and policy makers and wants to try and make a difference for all who are touched by the disease.

In addition to his healthcare leadership, Dan has extensive board, volunteer, and community experience, including chairperson for local community groups, University of Regina Senate representative, Hill School of Business Alumni Association, Partner Advisory Committee for AGE-WELL (Canada’s Aging and Technology Network), and volunteer for numerous sports organizations and sporting events.

Dan joined the Alzheimer Society of Canada Board of Directors in September 2024 as the Saskatchewan representative, and is currently on the ASC Finance and Audit Committee and the ASC representative on the Governance Working Group for the Federation

Doug Milne, Director at Large

Doug Milne is Executive Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer for the IGM Financial family of companies, which includes IG Wealth Management and Mackenzie Investments. He joined IGM in 2017 and is responsible for leading a comprehensive marketing, digital, community, event and corporate communications strategy for IGM Financial and its portfolio brands.

A Toronto native, Doug has more than 25 years of marketing experience in several industries, including retail, consumer products and financial services, and has worked in Canada, the United States and Latin America. He is a globally awarded marketer with considerable experience in channel strategy, integration, activation, digital marketing and innovation management. Previously, Doug held an executive marketing role at a major Canadian financial institution where he led the transformation of its brand.

Doug graduated from the University of Toronto with a Bachelor of Applied Science and Engineering (Industrial) and has a Professional Engineering (P. Eng.) Designation from Professional Engineers Ontario. He also serves as Vice Chairman of the Board of the Association of Canadian Advertisers and is past co-chair of corporate United Way and Junior Achievement programs.

Farhad Sethna, Director at Large

Farhad is currently Chief Corporate Services Officer at the Retirement Homes Regulatory Authority. He is responsible for finance, human resources, information technology, and project management. Farhad has held senior roles in the health-care industry over the last 25 years, both at a hospital and at organizations serving seniors and disabled individuals.

Farhad’s previous board roles include being Chair of the Alzheimer Society of Ontario Board and Chair of the Achēv (formerly Centre for Education & Training) Board.

Dr. Roger Wong, Director at Large

Dr. Roger Y.M. Wong has been serving on the Alzheimer Society of Canada Board since 2021.

Dr. Roger Y.M. Wong is Clinical Professor in the Division of Geriatric Medicine in the University of British Columbia (UBC) Department of Medicine and is Consultant Physician of the Geriatric Consultation Program at the Vancouver General Hospital. He is Vice-Dean (Education) in the UBC Faculty of Medicine. Dr. Wong was appointed to the Order of Canada in 2020, the first year that geriatricians were appointed to the country's highest civilian honour; the order came in recognition of his contributions to the field of geriatric medicine, including the advancement of policies, education, and specialized, culturally sensitive health care.

Dr. Wong received his MD degree with Honours in Research from the University of Alberta and completed his postgraduate and fellowship training there. He was elected to the Fellowship of the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences, one of the highest honours in the health-sciences field in Canada. Nationally, he is a member of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada Geriatric Medicine and Internal Medicine Examination boards, and internationally, he was elected to the Fellowship of the American College of Physicians.

Dr. Wong has received a number of prestigious awards in recognition of his exceptional national leadership in the field of seniors’ health care, including the 2019 Ronald Cape Distinguished Service Award, which recognizes an individual who has made an outstanding contribution to the health care of older adults in Canada and is the highest honour given by the Canadian Geriatrics Society. He was also awarded the Lions Club International Medal of Merit, the highest honour that the Lions present. He has received a number of awards of appreciation from the Alzheimer Society of B.C. to recognize his advocacy work in the community. He has also received numerous medical-education awards, including the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada’s Duncan Graham Award for Outstanding Contribution to Medical Education for his impact on medical education across Canada, the Donald Richards Wilson Award for his excellence in integrating the CanMEDS roles, the UBC Killam Teaching Prize, the UBC Faculty of Medicine Clinical Faculty Award for Career Excellence in Clinical Teaching, and the UBC Department of Medicine Master Teacher Award.

Dr. Wong works tirelessly to advance academic and clinical health sciences related to geriatrics, and his work has made significant impact on the care for older people in Canada and the world. He was the 13th President of the Canadian Geriatrics Society, and he founded the state-of-the-art Acute Care for Elders (ACE) Unit in Vancouver, which has been implemented nationally and internationally. His clinical research focuses on hospital medicine in vulnerable older adults, including quality improvement in acute care geriatrics. Dr. Wong has made significant contributions in showcasing Canadian geriatrics around the world, culminating in his selection as the Trevor Howell Guest Lecturer in London, a prestigious honour bestowed by the British Geriatrics Society for an eminent physician or scientist with an international reputation. Dr. Wong has also received the International Visiting Professor Medal from the Australia and New Zealand Society of Geriatric Medicine, making him the first Canadian to receive this highest honour awarded by that society to an international scientist in geriatrics.

Dr. Wong has published and lectured extensively on geriatric medicine and medical education. He is also a TEDx Speaker, and his TEDx Talk has been viewed by international audiences around the world.

Dr. Wong is also Chair of the Alzheimer Society of Canada Board Research and KTE Committee.

Chief Executive Officer (CEO)

Christina Scicluna

Christina Scicluna joined the Alzheimer Society of Canada as Chief Executive Officer in January 2025, bringing nearly 20 years of progressive leadership experience in purpose-driven organizations.

Before joining the ASC, Christina served as Interim CEO of Ronald McDonald House Charities Toronto. A certified Chief of Staff by the Chief of Staff Association and a Master Facilitator, Christina is skilled in collaborative, dialogue-based consultation practices informed by behavioral science. Her expertise in fostering inclusive engagement, earning trust, and driving collective action make her a highly effective leader in complex and rapidly evolving environments.

Christina’s leadership is a deeply personal and mission-driven one. Inspired by her grandmother Cesira’s journey with dementia and her own mother’s role as the primary caregiver, she brings empathy, humanity, and a strong commitment to improving the lives of those impacted by Alzheimer’s disease.