Leadership
Board of Directors
Elected from across Simcoe and Muskoka, the Board of Directors is the governance body that oversees the operations of the agency. If you are interested in applying to be on the SMFC Board of Directors please contact us by e-mail or phone 705-726.6587
Your application will be reviewed by the Governance Board Committee.
Executive Members
Sharon Pendergast
Board President
Gisele Forrest
Vice President
Gisele worked in social services for over 30 years within the Simcoe County and Toronto regions. She attended the University of Waterloo and completed a BA in Social Development Studies; She also completed her Masters of Education through Nipissing University.
She worked at Catulpa Community Support Services as a children’s case coordinator and manager of children services for 15 years. During her time there she had an opportunity to network and partner with Simcoe County agencies to create programs and services for children, youth and families. Presently, she is the Director of Complex Special Needs Programs at Lumenus Community Services in Toronto.
She has been a Board member of Simcoe Muskoka Family Connexions for 2.5 years and currently serve as Vice Chair.
Debbie Opoku-Mulder
Secretary & OACAS Provincial Liaison
Mary-Anne Denny-Lusk
Treasurer
Elected Members
Steve Clement
Robert Gerbrandt
Donna Goodwin
Alison Gregory
Hans Muntz
Hans appreciates the service that SMFC brings to the wellbeing and success of our shared community here in Simcoe Muskoka. It is the goodness of services like these that shape strong and healthy communities. He desires to see all children prosper and find meaning in their souls, families and communities.
As a husband, father, grandfather and engineer, he brings wisdom, experience, and skills to the SMFC Board.
Hans has served dozens of Ontario municipalities and several developing countries with leadership, performance management, organizational and operational capacity building. He was corporate administrator of a multinational federation of community development organizations focused on education health and welfare.
Gwen Lindsay
Gwen Lindsay is known as a woman who loves children. Her life’s experiences have included teaching music in a private school, privately teaching piano to all ages, being a Specialized Treatment Foster Parent in 3 OPR’s for 40 years. Her husband and her have been Pastors for several years caring for people of all ages with a special heart for the wounded. It was in the year 2000 that she learned that she was Metis, even though she lived the life in Northern Quebec.
Today, she is Senator of the Georgian Bay Metis Council, and for the last few years was Senator in the Project Advisory Group, for the Metis Nation of Ontario as we move forward in our own MNO Alternative Care program. She is pleased to represent the Metis community, and to be a member of the Board of Directors for Simcoe Muskoka Family Connexions.
Tamara Obee
Senior Staff
Geraldine Dooley-Phillips
Executive Director
Anna Drexler
Director of Organizational Excellence & Accountability
Tracy Johnson
Director of Services
Gordon Hill
Director of Finance and Property
Michael Bowe
Senior Equity Lead
Maureen Harrison
Human Resources Director