Shanil Ebrahim, Chair
Daniel Waldman, Vice-Chair, Director of Governance
Joanne Lindsay, Secretary/Treasurer
Keith Hambly
Lou Odette
Catherine Rutto
Cheryl Folkes


Shanil Ebrahim, Chair

Shanil Ebrahim is a Partner and the National Life Sciences and Healthcare Consulting Leader at Deloitte Canada. Shanil has worked internationally with public and private health sector organizations in delivering large-scale transformations including enterprise population health and patient-centric platforms, and outcomes-oriented models for several government, not-for-profit, hospital, retail pharmacy and pharmaceutical organizations. Shanil is a Clinical Epidemiologist by background, holds a joint appointment as an Assistant Professor at McMaster University, a former Researcher at Stanford University, and serves on a number of not-for-profit boards. He completed his PhD in Clinical Epidemiology; MSc in Medical Science and Bioethics; and a BSc in Psychology.


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Daniel Waldman,
Vice-Chair, Director of Governance

Daniel Waldman is a Toronto-based lawyer. His practice is focused on commercial litigation and he specializes in complex real property disputes, construction law and debt collection. He appears regularly before all levels of court in Ontario, including Small Claims Court, the Ontario Court of Justice, the Superior Court of Justice, Federal Court and the Ontario Court of Appeal. He also appears before a number of administrative tribunals, including the Ontario Securities Commission, the Landlord and Tenant Board, and the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario. Daniel previously spent over five years as a commercial litigator at a mid-sized Toronto firm and at one of Canada’s largest full-service law firms. Before going to law school, Daniel was a journalist for different media outlets, including the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation in London, England, and the Associated Press in Jerusalem, Israel.


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Joanne Lindsay, Secretary/Treasurer

As a women’s equality advocate experienced in community development, community-based training, education and research, Joanne Lindsay has managed learning programs in Toronto, while working to incorporate a gender lens into national labour market research and policy development. She also completed a research study tour of worker co-operatives in eastern and southern Africa. Since 2008, she has been focused on HIV research, recently completing Board terms with the Ontario AIDS Network (OAN) and the Board of the Ontario HIV Treatment Network (OHTN). Joanne has a Master’s degree in Community Development/Action Research (Environmental Studies, York University), an Honours BA in Geography (University of Alberta) and works as a Community Investigator with CANOC (Canadian HIV Observational Cohort Collaboration), researching the link between HIV, HPV and cancer risks for HIV+ women. 


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Keith Hambly

Keith Hambly was Executive Director of Fife House for more than a decade. During his tenure, he helped expand housing options to include homeless HIV+ individuals with mental health and active substance use issues, and those aging with complex needs. In 2016, he guest lectured at the International AIDS Conference in Durban, South Africa, as Fife received the Robert Carr Research Award for its work in housing and HIV research. Keith has also been awarded the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee medal, recognizing his efforts in the non-profit housing sector. Currently, Keith sits on the boards of the Ontario HIV Treatment Network and Toronto Central LHIN Mid East Health Link. He has served on various local, provincial and national housing and HIV committees, and is past President of the Ontario Non-Profit Housing Association. Now back with the NFPO Fred Victor, Keith is Vice President of Programs and Services — addressing issues such as Housing and Housing Access, Health, Case Management and Community Supports, and Employment Training.


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Lou Odette

Lou Odette is the President of the P&L Odette Foundation, a private foundation incorporated in 1975 and headquartered in Toronto. The Foundation has funded charities helping people experiencing homelessness, charities reducing food insecurity, and charities building affordable housing. Lou and his wife Ellen Gaffney conduct additional philanthropy through The Louis L. Odette & M. Ellen Gaffney Charitable Fund. The fund benefits special education services for children, people with disabilities living in developing nations through gifts of wheelchairs at no cost, and mathematical education. Lou is also consultant to Deloitte’s Strategic Analytics and Modeling practice in Toronto. Prior to Deloitte, Lou was Vice President Quantitative Modeling & Research at AIG in Boston, and before joining AIG he founded five companies and two charitable organizations. He holds a PhD in Electrical Engineering from MIT and an MSc in Mathematics from Oxford University, and was an ASP Fellow in Mathematics at MIT through 2014.


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Catherine Rutto

Catherine Rutto came to Canada from Kenya in September 2014, went through the immigration process and got accepted to become a Canadian Permanent resident in March 2016. She holds a bachelor's degree in Business Management (Human Resources Option) and is currently studying for a Master of Arts in Interdisciplinary studies (MAIS) program at Athabasca University. Prior to relocating to Canada, Catherine worked in the National Housing Corporation in Nairobi for 19 years in HR and Administrative roles. She has been working at the Toronto People with AIDS Foundation as a Circle of Care peer coordinator since May 2016. She works directly with women by engaging and connecting them to other communities and resources. This strategy allows them to make sense of issues affecting their lives, setting goals for improvement, and at the same time address their problems and needs through empowerment.


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Cheryl Folkes

Cheryl Folkes has over 30 years’ experience in various aspects of real estate management, including property and portfolio management and property administration. She also worked for three years on a 250-unit residential condo board as well as a related shared facilities committee that served 780 residences. The mandate of both positions involved working in concert to assess and balance the short and long term interests of the unit holders, including creating and implementing operating and capital budgets and directing the operations within the related government regulations. Having been a Toronto resident for 33 years, Cheryl is concerned by the increasing homelessness in this city. She appreciates that circumstances around homelessness can be complex and welcomes this opportunity to work within this organization that, in a caring way, provides a home and community for people who otherwise would continue to struggle to have either.