Walter Knott is a retired C.A. who spent many yearswith the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation in various corporatefinancial services roles in Toronto and in Winnipeg in television andradio. He served six years as an RCAF pilot and instructed NATOaircrews. He has worked as a volunteer in many area organizations,including tourism and area recreation and has been with VIK for fiveyears in various positions.

Logan Branch is manager of RBC Royal Bank's financialplanning business, Kingston/Quinte. Branch. He is a Carleton Universitygraduate, with nearly twenty years in sales and management with RBC inthe Ottawa and Greater Toronto areas. He holds numerous financialservices designations, including a Personal Financial Planning diplomaand the Canadian Securities Course.

Jeff Hanley is a manager with the Kingston auditpractices of KPMG, a global accounting and tax firm. He providesadvisory and accounting services to a broad range of private and publicclients in Eastern Ontario. Hanley, a MacMaster University graduate, isan Amherstview native.

Pierre Cliche is a retail consultant who spent 32 yearswith Kmart Canada, most recently as its vice president, member of itsboard and its executive committee. Currently, he runs his own retailconsulting and business-coaching company, Retail $uccess, which helpsclients develop their own abilities and inner strengths. Sincerelocating to Napanee he has continued his community involvment throughboard work on various agencies and organizations.

Deborah Defoe has been chief librarian/chief executiveofficer of the Kingston Frontenac Public Library since 1998. A graduateof Trent University and the University of Western Ontario, she is theauthor of InfoHealth: Community Health Service at the Kingston PublicLibrary and the Compiler of Kingston, A Selected Bibliography. As theformer coordinator of information and reference services at KPL, shehas more than 20 years of experience in information management.Reference work remains her secret passion.

Jim Elyot is a broadcaster and communicationsconsultant with various businesses and organizations and has more than30 years of community involvement in the Kingston area. He is a strongsupporter of Kingston's athletic and sports communities and iscurrently on the board of directors for Beat Beethoven, the Kingston1/2 Marathon and the Kingston Road Runners Association.

Jeff Garrah is CEO of Kingston Economic DevelopmentCorporation and is a native Kingstonian and Queen's Universitygraduate. His career with the federal government included serving asconstituency assistant, then special assistant and senior politicaladvisor to the Honourable Peter Milliken, Speaker of the House ofCommons and Member of Parliament for Kingston and the Islands. He is agovernor of the Kingston General Hospital and is chair of the KingstonPenitentiary Museum's board of directors.

Tracy Holland is executive director of the BigBrothers/Big Sisters Association of Kingston and District, where shehas been since 1999. Prior to her volunteer sector involvement, sheworked with young offenders in a residential program. She volunteerswith the Central Frontenac Soccer Association and the North FrontenacMinor Hockey Association.

Sinclair MacInnis is a retired human resourcesspecialist who spent 29 years with the RCAF and the Canadian Forcesbefore retiring as a personnel administration major in l996. A nativeof Prince Edward Island, he has lived and worked in every Canadianprovince and served with the United Nations in Ismailia, Egypt. In2001, he served as the Kingston coordinator for the International Yearof the Volunteer.