Oakville Hydro Corporation - Corporate Profile

Gary Burkett | Ray Green | John Bobyk
Melvin (Mel) Erlindson | Mayor Rob Burton | Gary D. Kain

In the year 2000, Oakville Town Council approved the appointment of a seven-member Board of Directors to oversee operations of the Oakville Hydro Corporation. The Board is responsible for all strategic operational decisions and business management of Oakville's restructured electricity supply and service company.

In addition to the mayor, who has been appointed not as a specific individual, but as the head of Council to represent the shareholder on the board, the board is comprised of:

	Gary Burkett is a senior Human Resources executive with over thirty eight years experience with three blue chip corporations: Molson Breweries, Bell Canada and Federal Express Canada. Gary’s HR subject matter expertise is anchored in business acumen with having been President Molson Saskatchewan Breweries together with having served on six commercial Boards and four volunteer Boards. Gary is presently Managing Director Human Resources with Federal Express Canada and serves on the Oakville Hydro Board and the George Brown College School of Business Advisory Board. Gary has lived and worked in western, central and eastern Canada and moved to Oakville in 1986. He and his wife have four children.
	Ray Green is the Chief Administrative Officer of the Town of Oakville. A 30-year veteran with the Town, Mr. Green has held a number of senior positions prior to his role as CAO, including Commissioner of Infrastructure and Transportation Services, Commissioner of Community Services, Director of Public Works and Assistant Director, Operations. Mr.Green is a Professional Engineer with a B.A.Sc., (Civil Engineering), from the University of Toronto.
	John Bobyk is the retired President of Thermadyne Welding Products Canada Limited, then known as the Victor Equipment Company of Canada Ltd., which he started in 1976. The company experienced 23 years of solid growth and is now a major supplier of welding products. Prior to this, Mr. Bobyk was a Director of Industry Relations for the Welding Institute of Canada and among other board positions, is a Past Vice-Chairman of Ryerson University's Board of Governors.
	Melvin (Mel) Erlindson is a financial executive with extensive experience in treasury, international taxation, consulting and controllership. For the past four years he has represented TransAlta on the board of a major power producer in Argentina. Previously, he was on the Financing Advisory Committee of Ontario Hydro. Mr. Erlindson has held senior financial positions with several prominent corporations - Molson, Varity, Polysar and Ford. He is a Chartered Accountant and has an MBA from the Harvard Business School. Mr. Erlindson is Chairman of the Audit Committee for Oakville Hydro.
	Mayor Rob Burton represents the shareholder, the Town of Oakville. Mayor Burton brings a wealth of business experience and a perspective as a long time Oakville resident to the Board. He has an M.S. degree from Columbia University.
	Gary D. Kain Mr. Kain obtained a B.A. and a M.B.A. from McMaster University in 1969 and 1973, respectively. In 1975 he obtained a C.A. designation from The Institute of Chartered Accountants of Ontario. In 1986 he obtained a C.B.V. designation from The Canadian Institute of Chartered Business Valuators. From 1975 until 1983, Mr. Kain was employed by various Toronto-based investment banking and accounting firms in the business valuation, merger and acquisition and corporate finance fields. From 1984 until 1988, he was employed by Canadian Satellite Communications Inc. (Cancom), a T.S.E. listed satellite communications and broadcasting company. He started with Cancom as V.P. Finance and was subsequently promoted to C.F.O. and then C.O.O. In 1988 he conceived of and founded Regional Cablesystems Inc., a cable television, high speed internet and telecom company with operations throughout Canada and the Bahamas. At Regional, Mr. Kain was C.E.O. and Chairman of the Board of Directors. The company (which was later renamed Persona Inc.) was listed on the T.S.E. and was included in the T.S.E. 300 index. When sold in 2004 for gross proceeds of $406 million, the company employed 550 individuals, had $175 million in revenue, $75 million in cash flow and provided service to over 1,100 communities in Canada and 15 islands in The Commonwealth of the Bahamas. In addition to Regional Cablesystems Inc., Mr. Kain is (or has been) a member of the board of directors of the following organizations: Cable Bahamas Ltd., a publicly traded telecommunications company with operations throughout the Bahamas; The Community Foundation of Oakville, a charitable foundation serving the community of Oakville; Norsat International Inc., a T.S.E. listed manufacturer of satellite communications equipment; Sheridan College, a college of technology and advanced learning, with approximately 15,000 full time students; Oakville Hydro Ltd., a local hydro electric power distribution company; Organic Resource Management Inc., a TSX listed provider of vacuum truck services for the collection, treatment and disposal of non-hazardous liquid waste and the production of energy therefrom; and, McMaster University, a research intensive institution of approximately 25,000 graduate and undergraduate students which is ranked as one of the top 100 universities in the world. He was a member of the Canadian government appointed Local Network Convergence Committee; the author of a number of articles on business valuations; and, a lecturer for the Law Society of Upper Canada and the Ontario Institute of Chartered Accountants. In 2007 he was inducted into the McMaster University Alumni Gallery. He is married with two children and resides in Oakville, Ontario. Articles detailing Mr. Kain’s career may be found in The Globe and Mail (March 9, 1991) and Canadian Business (September 4, 2000).