About — Elentra

Greg Vanclief

President & CEO

Greg is President and CEO of Elentra, and serves as a member of our Board of Directors.

As a tech industry veteran with more than 2 decades of experience and a passion for building successful companies, Greg brings extensive leadership and entrepreneurship skills to the company.  Over his career he has led and supported dozens of technology companies as executive, board member, mentor and investor.

Jim Roche

Chair

Mr. Roche has extensive experience in managing companies, specifically related to technology and international business. He is an experienced entrepreneur and business executive with a strong track record of leading innovative companies. Mr. Roche’s principal occupation is President & CEO of Stratford Group, a company he founded in December 2008. Over his career, Mr. Roche has sat on numerous boards and committees. He is currently a corporate director on the boards of Ballard Power Systems as well as several private companies and community organizations.

John Sheridan

Corporate Director

John Sheridan is a retired CEO and Corporate Director, currently engaged in Board, Community, and Charity roles.

Over his career, he has had broad operating experience and extensive corporate governance experience. He led companies in 3 different sectors (energy technology, communications, and media), as President & CEO of Ballard Power Systems, President & COO of Bell Canada, and President & CEO of Encom plc. He has been a director on numerous corporate boards including Actimedia, Aliant, Ballard Power Systems, Bell Canada, Dantherm Power, MTS, NewPage, and SunMedia.

He has also served in public leadership roles, as Governor of Ryerson University, Chair of the Toronto United Way Campaign, Chair of the UK Cable Communications Association, and Chair of the Canadian Hydrogen & Fuel Cell Association.

Jane Philpott

Corporate Director

Dr. Jane Philpott is a Professor of Family Medicine, Dean of the Faculty of Health Sciences, and Director of the School of Medicine at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario. She is CEO of the Southeastern Ontario Academic Medical Organization and serves as the Ministers’ Special Advisor for the Ontario Health Data Platform. Dr. Philpott is an outspoken advocate and writer about issues of health equity and social justice in health systems. She received her Doctor of Medicine degree from the University of Western Ontario in 1984. She completed a Family Medicine residency at the University of Ottawa and a Tropical Medicine fellowship at the University of Toronto. She later earned her Master of Public Health from the Dalla Lana School of Public Health at the University of Toronto. Dr. Philpott spent the first decade of her medical career in Niger, West Africa. In 1998, she moved to Stouffville, Ontario, where she served as a family physician for 17 years and as Chief of Family Medicine at Markham Stouffville Hospital. In 2015, Dr. Philpott was elected as the Member of Parliament for Markham-Stouffville. She served in numerous federal cabinet positions from 2015 to 2019, including Minister of Health, Minister of Indigenous Services, President of the Treasury Board, and Minister of Digital Government.

Linda Mantia

Corporate Director

Linda is the past SEVP and Chief Operating Officer at Manulife Financial (operating as John Hancock in the US), responsible for leading Technology, Advanced Analytics, Marketing, Innovation, Corporate Strategy and Corporate Development, Human Resources, Regulatory and Public Affairs, Global Resourcing and Procurement, and the Transformation Program. Prior to Manulife, Linda was the Executive Vice President of Digital, Payments and Cards at Royal Bank of Canada (RBC), accountable for the credit card and loyalty business P&L, Mobile and Online Banking, Merchant Solutions (Chair of Moneris Board of Directors), and Innovation for the retail bank. At RBC, she held a number of increasingly senior positions since joining in 2003. Prior to RBC, Linda was a corporate securities lawyer and then worked globally as a McKinsey consultant. Today, Linda is a board member of public and private companies, including McKesson, Ceridian, Granular Insurance (a Verily company) and Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre (a leading teaching hospital in Toronto, Canada).

Donna Janiec

Observer

Donna Janiec was appointed Vice-Principal (Finance and Administration) on October 1, 2016.

Donna received her undergraduate degree from the University of Waterloo as an international student and went on to article with PricewaterhouseCoopers (then Coopers & Lybrand) in Barbados and then Toronto, obtaining her Chartered Accounting designation in 1987. After close to ten years in public accounting managing the audits of large public corporations and not-for-profit organizations, Donna joined Queen’s University in 1994. She held the position of Associate Vice-Principal (Finance) from 2009 – 2016.

In her present and past positions, Donna has been a member of, or provided support to, numerous Senate, Board and University Advisory Committees. She considers it a great privilege to hold an Honorary Life Membership with the Alma Mater Society, granted in 2019 to recognize her work and dedication to student life on campus.

Outside of Queen’s, Donna serves on the CAUBO Executive Committee and Board of Directors, is Vice-Chair of the Council of Senior Administrative Officers, a committee of the Council of Ontario Universities, and is a Director and Member of the Kingston General Health Board and a member of the Partnership Council of the Kingston Health Sciences Centre.

Donna is a CPA Ontario 2021 Fellow.