Board of Directors
Executive
President: Vicki Burns
Vicki Burns is currently coordinating a project on the Lake Winnipeg Watershed for Community Foundations of Canada. Prior to that Vicki was the executive director of the Winnipeg Humane Society for over 14 years and helped them through a capital campaign to open a new shelter in 2007. During Vicki’s time at the Winnipeg Humane Society, farm animal welfare became a major focus for the society as the number of pigs raised in Manitoba grew to over eight million. Throughout her tenure at the WHS and continuing on in her current environmental work, Vicki has become very passionate about the promotion of sustainable animal agriculture, which is synonymous with the phasing out of intensive confinement systems. Vicki’s formal education was in the field of social work and she graduated with a BSW from the University of Manitoba in 1972.
First Vice-President: Stephanie Walsh (Edmonton Humane Society)
Stephanie is the operations manager for the Edmonton Humane Society. Prior to this, she served as the first executive director of the Fredericton SPCA from 2007 to 2010, leading the 97-year-old organization to become a model animal welfare organization in Atlantic Canada. Stephanie has worked in the non-profit sector for a dozen years and previously worked as a newspaper journalist in Ontario.
Secretary: Craig Daniell (British Columbia SPCA)
Treasurer: Linda Hurdle
Directors
James Bandow (Canadian Association for Humane Trapping)
Patricia Cameron (Calgary Humane Society)
Tiffiny Koback (Saskatoon SPCA)
Tiffiny Koback is shelter director for the Saskatoon SPCA, where she has worked since 1992. From kennel attendant to office attendant to health wing staff to animal protection officer, Tiffiny has worked in many capacities within the shelter and has witnessed first-hand the atrocities that are done to animals on a daily basis. Tiffiny has worked diligently with the Board of Directors, staff and volunteers to move the Saskatoon SPCA from a financial deficit to full recovery and stability within two years. Her journey and success within the Saskatoon SPCA serves as an example for everyone working with her. Tiffiny is married to Glenn and they share a home with two dogs (Jersey and Jasmine) and two cats (Phoenix and Indy) adopted from the Saskatoon SPCA, as well as a Blue Fronted Amazon parrot, Popeye, who keeps everyone in line.
Adrienne McBride
Adrienne McBride graduated in 2010 from the University of Ottawa with a Bachelor of Laws and is currently a licensing candidate with the Law Society of Upper Canada. During law school, she did a four-month internship at the CFHS to learn about animal welfare law and an internship with the Ontario Racing Commission to learn about equine welfare issues. Adrienne holds a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) in media Studies and a diploma in journalism from the University of Guelph-Humber. She lives in Toronto with her partner, Patrick, their two border collie mixes, Kirby and Penny, and their two rescue cats, Athena and Surrey.
Rob McCulloch (Ottawa Humane Society)
Rita Middleton
Rita Middleton is a Chartered Accountant with over seventeen years of communications/entertainment industry strategic and operational senior management experience in a variety of environments and roles (including operational start-up; dynamic operating segment growth; industry regulatory and public company compliance; business restructuring; process and systems re-engineering; and corporate capital structure initiatives), plus six years in public accounting practice serving a variety of clients. Rita most recently held the position of Senior Vice President, Finance & ITS with Alliance Atlantis Communications Inc. Prior to joining Alliance Atlantis in 1994 she spent four years in the Corporate Finance group of CUC Broadcasting and six years with Deloitte & Touche Chartered Accountants, where she qualified as a Chartered Accountant in 1989. Rita is also a past president of the Hamilton chapter Board of Directors of Financial Executives International and is currently a national board and committee member of the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society of Canada. Rita is a resident of Grimsby, Ontario where she lives in the country with her husband and their nine four-legged kids (dogs and cats).
Kelly Mullaly (Prince Edward Island Humane Society)
Kelly been the executive director of the PEI Humane Society since April 2009, having started her career in animal welfare four years earlier as development coordinator. The society is unique as it operates the only shelter for lost, abandoned and homeless animals on PEI as well as providing emergency services for injured animals across the island 24 hours per day. It is the only shelter in Atlantic Canada with its own staff veterinarian and it benefits greatly from ongoing relationships with the Sir James Dunn Animal Welfare Fund and the Atlantic Veterinary College in Charlottetown. Prior to relocating to PEI in 1999, Kelly spent almost 15 years in the television and radio industry in Toronto in various positions as producer, writer/researcher and host/actor. She may be familiar to residents of eastern PEI as the former co-owner and operator of “Happy Red’s Train Station”, a 100-year-old railroad station reborn as a craft shop and dairy bar in 2000. Kelly shares her home with a well-used vacuum cleaner as well as four cats and a dog, all of which were adopted from animal shelters or rescued.
Denys Pelletier (SPA de Québec)
Randy Valpy
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