The establishment of an advisory board has helped the Closing the Gap Healthcare Group leverage its strengths and future opportunities. The Board assists with strategic planning, provides introductions to potential customers, shares expertise to help increase and diversify the revenue stream, offers an external perspective to our organization and advocates to the health care system the advantages of contracting high quality health care companies like us.
Current 2009 Advisory Board Members
Michael McCarthy, Grosso McCarthy Inc.
Adam Topp, Senior Associate Consultant, Hay Healthcare Consulting Group
Julie Foley, Executive Director, Osteoporosis Canada
Eric A. Morse, Ph.D., Associate Dean – Programs, Richard Ivey School of Business
Bernard Naumann, FCIA., FSA., Senior Vice President, Individual Reinsurance
Michael McCarthy, Grosso McCarthy Inc.
Mike holds a diploma in Nursing from Fanshawe College and a diploma in Journalism from Cambrian College.
Adam Topp, Senior Associate Consultant, Hay Healthcare Consulting Group
Adam holds an MBA and BA&Sc. from McMaster University. Within the Winnipeg Regional Health Authority, Adam is also responsible for the regional programs of Child Health, Diagnostic Imaging, Respiratory Therapy and Clinical Engineering. Prior to joining WRHA, Adam was a Senior Associate Consultant with Hay Group Health Care Consulting focusing on health care policy development, health services planning and working with the healthcare vendor community on issues related to private delivery and purchasing behaviour and influences. Prior to joining HayGroup, he was Vice President Clinical Operations at Sunnybrook & Women’s College Health Sciences Centre where he had previously held the position of Vice President Corporate Performance & Chief Financial Officer. He is currently a member of the Board of Salus Global Corporation and is a Past-Chair of the Board of Directors of the Healthcare Insurance Reciprocal of Canada (HIROC).
John King, Executive Vice President and Chief Administrative Officer, St. Michaels’s Hospital, Toronto
He is a Certified Health Executive and has a Masters of Health Administration (MHA) from the University of Ottawa and a B.A.
Julie Foley, Executive Director, Osteoporosis Canada
Julie has also served as the Executive Director of the Scarborough Community Care Access Centre, and the Director of the Family Service Association’s Placement Coordination Service in Toronto, the Executive Director of the Family Counselling Centre in Sarnia, and as Vice-President for North America in the International Federation of Social Workers.
Eric A. Morse, Ph.D., Associate Dean – Programs, Richard Ivey School of Business
Eric is the founder and Academic Director of the Ivey and KPMG Enterprise’s Quantum Shift Executive Program for Exceptional Entrepreneurs. Having worked with a diverse range of corporate clients, his research focuses on, entrepreneurial strategy and has been published in numerous business journals.
Bernard Naumann, FCIA, FSA, Senior Vice President, Individual Reinsurance
Bernard is qualified as a Fellow of the Society of Actuaries and as a Fellow of the Canadian Institute of Actuaries in 1997. Following graduation at the University of Waterloo in 1994, he started his career working for an actuarial consulting firm where his responsibilities included individual life valuation, system sales and migrations, and merger and acquisition support. After 5 years in the consulting arena, he then took a position with a Munich Reinsurance in Toronto. He is currently SVP Individual Reinsurance with Munich Re, responsible for Individual Life and Living Benefits Pricing, Marketing, Research, Underwriting and Claims.