Experience

The Bright App

• United Kingdom
• Online Audio and Video Media
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Chief Operating Officer

  • Feb 2021 - Present



Bluefield Health Group

• Chief Operating Officer and EVP Public Health

  • Apr 2020 - Feb 2021



University of Saskatchewan

• Canada
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Associate Provost, Health

  • Sep 2018 - Apr 2020

  Senior Administrator in USask Health Sciences, 7 Colleges, 1362 Faculty and Staff and 4587 Students with a combined budget of over $260M. Reporting to the Provost and is responsible for the performance of the health science colleges towards meeting the demands of the University Plan 2025 and specifically our long-standing commitments to inclusive scholarship, interdisciplinary teaching in the health science strong programs in interprofessional education and practice, and transdisciplinary health science research.

• Executive Director, School of Public Health

  • Sep 2017 - Sep 2019

  Chief Executive officer and Chief Academic Officer for the School of Public Health accountable to the University Board responsible for the management of all school resources, in collaboration with the Executive Directors of the School of Environment and Sustainability and the School of Public Policy working to develop an entirely new program in Planetary Health Program Director for the Masters of Public Health (2017-2019) managing the day-to-day operations for the flagship graduate programAchieved accreditation from the Agency for Public Health Education Accreditation (APHEA) for the MPH Curriculum.



Cognoveritas Consulting Inc.

• Defense & Space

• CEO

  • Oct 2010 - Aug 2017



McKinsey & Company

• Business Consulting and Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• Senior Advisor

  • Mar 2014 - Oct 2016

  UK Department for International Development (DfID)/McKinsey Sierra Leone Health Delivery Team Lead, Presidential Delivery TeamSecured US$408M for 2-year health system recovery program.Built and led the very diverse multiagency, multinational delivery team working with the Ministry of Health and Sanitation (MOHS), Sierra Leone in a highly complex and dynamic environment with no direct management authority for any of the team members.Day-to-day coordination of delivery, maintenance of KPI data and project management. Provided mentoring and role modelling to senior managers and political appointees. 2014 McKinsey Saudi Arabia Lab response team leader, Ministry of Health Kingdom of Saudi ArabiaAdviser to His Excellency the Minister of Health on public health laboratory diagnostic issues. Managed the competitive tendering process and construction of a new laboratory in MedinaWorked extensively outside of his primary portfolio to work with national stakeholders and consultants to deliver capacity improvements in emergency response and health care capacityTeam leader for Laboratory Response at the Command and Control Centre Managed the day to day activities for the provincial laboratories for the duration of the response



Public Health Agency of Canada | Agence de la santé publique du Canada

• Government Administration
• 700 & Above Employee

• Acting Director Bioterrorism and Public Health Emergency Response

  • Dec 2008 - Oct 2010

  Scientific advisor to the Assistant Deputy Minister committee on Chemical Biological Radiological Nuclear and Explosive (CBRNE) terrorism policyManaged external relations for laboratory response to emerging infectious diseases and bio-terrorism working with US-CDC, RCMP Canadian Forces, FBI, Public Health England and WHOWork collaboratively with federal science institutes and laboratories, provincial public health laboratories, and the Canadian public health laboratory network and the US-CDC to establish the Canadian Laboratory Response Network.Led the diagnostic teams during the Vancouver Olympic and Paralympic Games, this team performed over 40,000 PCR and RT-PCR tests in only 8 weeks working in mobile truck-based laboratories. Led the entire development cycle - design, validation, application, training, troubleshooting of molecular diagnostics-based assays for rapid investigation, diagnosis and surveillance of emerging/re-emerging in total more the 30 multiplexed assays were developed.Planned and facilitated two international scientific Workshops for the Global Health Security Action Group on haemorrhagic fever diagnostics and Field laboratory support to outbreaks.Managed the design development construction and introduction of a $2 Million mobile laboratory capability to support Olympic operations.Orchestrated the development and installation of a novel $1Million environmental microbiological air sampling capability at both the 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Games and G8/20 SummitsEstablished the Canadian Laboratory Response Network with Provincial partners

• Head of Emerging Bacterial Diseases

  • Mar 2005 - Oct 2010

  Used results-focused approach and introduced novel technologies to reduce diagnostic turn-around times from > 3 months to 24 hours for preliminary result and confirmed laboratory analysis within 5 working days.Improved turn-around times increased service utilization by Provincial public health labs increased 400%.Introduced ISO 17025 accredited diagnostic procedures without impacting performance without an increase in staffing or funding.Pioneered the deployment of the laboratory into remote locations to provide laboratory support in emergencies.Developed the only microbial molecular epidemiology and forensics facility in Canada whilst maintaining ISO17025 accredited testing.• Senior Scientist for the National CBRNE Response Team and commanded the bio-terrorism response as well as providing advice and guidance to the commanding officers of the Army and RCMP teams.• Exercise director for the Bi-Ex-West emergency response exercise program. Executed a very complex series of tabletop and functional exercises involving zoonotic disease outbreaks in the lower mainland of BC. This is still the largest exercise of its kind ever to have happened in Canada.

• Head of Immunopathology, Special Pathogens Program

  • Oct 2001 - Oct 2010

  Developed highly innovative vaccines for Ebola now licensed for human use, Marburg and Lassa virus using live recombinant virus vectors. •Adjunct Professor in the Department of Medical Microbiology and Department of ImmunologyLead a collaborative therapeutic antibody project involving two Federal Government Laboratories, the University of Alberta and an Industrial partner. • Led a multidisciplinary team conducting the study on the use of nonhuman primates as animal models for testing vaccines for SARS coronavirus • Planned and led the team conducting experiments investigating the basis for pathogenesis of the 1918 Spanish Influenza Outbreak and a study of the effectiveness of Oseltamivir in preventing 1918 H1N1 in Nonhuman Primates.Field Laboratory Director for WHO/GOARNExtensive exposure as spokesman for SARS, emerging diseases, vaccine development, 1918 Influenza studies etc., appeared on Local, National News, NPR, The Hour and The Daily Planet.