Helen Huang is a service oriented and enabling professional with extensive experiences in strategic planning, finance planning and management, human resource management, space and capital management, operation and risk management in both public and private sectors. Currently, she is the Chief Administrative Officer at Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE) at University of Toronto. Prior to that, she worked at York University, CitiBank, and other intentional marketing, corporate finance and management consulting companies.

Email: helenhuang@bloorviewschool.ca

President & CEO Easter Seals Ontario

Kevin has a long-standing history working with children with disabilities and Easter
Seals Ontario. He was born with Cerebral Palsy and uses a scooter and walker for
mobility. The Easter Seals Provincial ambassador “Timmy” in 1976, Kevin had the
opportunity to attend the Blue Mountain Easter Seals camp in Collingwood for eight
summers as a kid.

Kevin originally joined The Easter Seal Society in 1991, where he worked as a Manager
of Corporate and Special Events. He had the opportunity to work on many exciting
events including the Conn Smythe Sports Celebrities Dinner, Timmy Tyke Hockey
Tournament and the Volvo Easter Seal Regatta.

Kevin is a graduate of Georgian College where he majored in Tourism Management &
Marketing. Upon graduation, he was employed with a major hotel chain for eight years.

Kevin joined Friends of We Care in 1999 as their Executive Director maintaining his
involvement with Easter Seals, by raising funds at special events through the
foodservice & hospitality industry, with all proceeds going to Easter Seals.

In 2012, Kevin was appointed to the Board of Trustees of the Bloorview School
Authority. He is a Member of the leadership council for Empowered Kids Ontario, newly
appointed member of the Board of Governors for Georgian College and is a Manager of
Social Responsibility for the Barrie Colts OHL Hockey Club.

Kevin is the recipient of the Queen’s Golden Jubilee and the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee
medals for his efforts through Friends of We Care. In 2019, Kevin was awarded the
Premier’s Award for Community Services through Georgian College.

Email: kevincollins@bloorviewschool.ca

Barry Pervin is the former Assistant Deputy Minister of the Leadership and Learning Environment Division of the Ontario Ministry of Education where he championed a number of initiatives to support successful learning outcomes for students in Ontario schools. His area of responsibility included teacher professional learning, leadership development for school and school board leaders, school board governance, safe, healthy and accepting schools and promoting equity and inclusive education. He held positions within five different ministries in the Ontario Public Serivce over his 35-year career. Barry is a two-time Amethyst Award winner for outstanding achievement by an Ontario public servant.  Barry currently works at Ryerson University on a project examining the employment prospects of post-secondary education graduates with disabilities. He is also an active volunteer in his community: a former Vice-President and currently Chair of the Governance Committee of the First Narayever Congregation; hockey coach for 10 years in the girls’ house league at Bill Bolton Arena; and a volunteer in the first Interfaith Out of the Cold breakfast program. Barry has an M. A. in Public Administration from Carleton University in Ottawa and an honours B. A. in Sociology from Concordia University in Montreal.

Email: barrypervin@bloorviewschool.ca

Nicole Thomson is a health care leader with considerable experience in clinical leadership, research, education, and policy. She is currently the Senior Director of Quality, Innovation, Patient Safety & Experience at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health.

Dr. Thomson received her PhD in Rehabilitation Science from the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Toronto after practising as a clinical occupational therapist primarily with children and youth with physical disabilities. She is a Certified Health Executive (CHE) with the Canadian College of Health Leaders and one of only 15 Canadian healthcare professionals to achieve the Certified Professional in Patient Safety (CPPS) designation.

She has experience in global healthcare consulting as an advisor on several projects including a review and redesign of interprofessional models of care and clinical governance. She has Board experience as a Director on Council at the College of Occupational Therapists of Ontario where she served on several statutory committees including Chair of the Fitness to Practise and Discipline Committees.

Nicole has been a co-investigator on several funded research projects with a focus on children and youth with disabilities including a CIHR-SSHRC partnership grant, an Integrated Knowledge Translation Grant funded by CIHR on hospital-to-school transition interventions for children and youth with acquired brain injuries, as well as a study investigating strategies for including children with autism spectrum disorders in classrooms



Email: nicolethomson@bloorviewschool.ca

Arnie Hochman is a senior business lawyer with 35 years of experience in the financial services industry.  He is currently Vice-President, Policy and General Counsel at the Investment Funds Institute of Canada (IFIC).  Prior to his current role, he was Vice-President, Wealth Legal at TD Bank Group, where he led the global wealth legal team for 14 years.  Arnie was previously the General Counsel and Executive Director, Finance for Global Strategy FinancialDeputy Director, Corporate Finance Branch at the Ontario Securities Commission, and an investment banker at Prudential-Bache Securities Canada and Richardson Greenshields of Canada.

Arnie has been a director of IFIC, and a member of the Executive Steering Committee of ICI Global and the Investment Industry Regulatory Authority of Canada (IIROC) Hearing Committee.

Arnie holds B.A. and LL.B. degrees from the University of Manitoba and an M.B.A. degree from Western University.

Jamie is President of CanDeal Markets which is an institutional electronic trading marketplace for
Canadian fixed income securities and interest rate derivatives. Jamie is responsible for the strategic
oversight and operational management of the regulated market business.

Prior to CanDeal, Jamie spent 11 years as Global Head of Fixed Income and Enterprise Market Data for
Refinitiv (previously Thomson Reuters), where he was responsible for driving the strategy to advance
Refinitiv’s organizational model and its future development path to achieve growth.

Jamie serves as a committee member for the Canadian Investment Regulatory Organization’s Fixed
Income Advisory Committee and has been active as Co-Chair of Bloorview School’s Parent Council to
help parents connect and feel engaged at Bloorview.