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Chapter Leadership

ICD benefits from the commitment of experienced directors who form your Chapter Executive. The Chapter Executive are the local ambassadors and contribute to ICD’s capacity to have foresight and deliver innovation. Committees shape the local member experience by developing local content that shares best practices in corporate governance.

Co-Chairs

Dave McElhanney

ICD.D

Co - Chair

Dave McElhanney

ICD.D

Co - Chair

Scott Munn

Co - Chair

Scott Munn

Co - Chair

Dave McElhanney

ICD.D

Co - Chair

Dave McElhanney

ICD.D

Co - Chair

Scott Munn

Co - Chair

Scott Munn

Co - Chair

Chapter Executive

Don Chynoweth

ICD.D

Past Co-Chair

Don Chynoweth

ICD.D

Past Co-Chair

President & CEO of StratPlan Management and Associates Inc.

Don is currently the President/CEO of StratPlan Management and Associates Inc. providing corporate strategy, operational advisory and corporate governance support services to clients in Canada and internationally.

Don is a Senior Executive and Governance experience is diverse including domestic and international logistics, defence/ security support programs, commodity/ mining, electrical power transmission, healthcare insurance, aviation, military and government outsourcing , aboriginal business development and partnerships, energy and pipelines and operations and maintenance management sectors with corporations including SNC Lavalin, ATCO, Canadian Government, Saskatchewan Government and Enbridge.

Don has served on numerous for profit, not for profit, private and publically traded Boards of Directors including Alberta Blue Cross, Potash Corporation of Saskatchewan ( now Nutrien), AltaLink ( now Berkshire Hathaway Canada), Canadian Base Operators, Acden Base Operators ( First Nations JV) Hospice Calgary, Calgary Airport Business Advisory and Calgary Chamber of Commerce.

Over the past 30 years Don has also served on several internal Executive / Board committees and International Board roles with his previous employers in Germany, France, USA and the Middle East where he was responsible for many of the Defence and Logistics support projects to the United Nations and North Atlantic Treaty Organization ( NATO) countries.

Don is a graduate (B. Comm) of the University of Saskatchewan and completed the Executive Management Program at Western University (Ivey School Of Business).

Trudy Curran

ICD.D

Past Co-Chair

Trudy Curran

ICD.D

Past Co-Chair

Director and Chair of Nominating and Governance Committee, Baytex Energy Corp.

Member, Alberta Securities Commission

Ms. Curran is a retired businesswoman with extensive experience in executive compensation, mergers and acquisitions, financing and governance. Currently, Ms. Curran is on the board and HRC committee of Baytex Energy and chairs its Nominating and Governance Committee. Trudy is a member of the Alberta Securities Commission. She most recently served on the board and as interim Managing Director and CEO of an Australian mining company.

From 2002 to 2016, she served as an officer of Canadian Oil Sands Limited. As Senior Vice President, General Counsel & Corporate Secretary of Canadian Oil Sands Limited, she was responsible for legal, human resources and administration and a member of the executive team focused on strategy and risk management. From 2003 to 2016, she was a director of Syncrude Canada Ltd., where she served as chair of the Human Resources and Compensation Committee and as a member of the Pension Committee.

Since leaving Canadian Oil Sands Limited, Ms. Curran focused a career as a board member, having served on the boards of Dominion Diamonds and Riversdale Resources in key chair roles of both companies that were sold to private equity investors at a premium to the market price.

Ms. Curran holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in English and a Bachelor of Laws degree (both with distinction) from the University of Saskatchewan and the ICD.D designation from the Institute of Corporate Directors.