The Management Team
Peter
Swire is a honours graduate of the prestigious
Peter
has been involved with private equity markets for many years, with
much of his work focussing on bringing advanced European
technologies to the North American market. He has decades of
experience in business development in the areas of metal
fabrication, rail and travel, and also owns the patent on an
innovative design product for the construction industry.
Cathy Ellis holds accreditation in Ontario Management Development and has over 30 years experience in 3PL Logistics, Inventory Control, Customer Service and Human Resources.
She spent 13 years specializing in Custom Brokerage and Integrated Logistic Services with Livingston International, a leading North American Logistics provider. Cathy then moved to Hamilton Terminals, where her 19 years also included Warehouse Logistics in a 360,000 sq ft facility. She is adept in Accellos, Oracle and SAP systems, and brought her considerable negotiating skills to bear in handling Human Resources, A/R and Customer Service. Her responsibilities were expanded to include oversight and administration of monthly budgets, physical plant maintenance and sales reports.
Cathy's Continuing Education curriculum has included earning credits in Supervision Administration, Leadership, Production, Communications and HR.
Cathy demonstrates a high degree of professionalism in her ability to focus cross-functionally, working collaboratively with employees, shippers and clients. Her goal is to achieve continuing improvement to service levels and customer satisfaction.
Jocelyn is a
professional mechanical engineer registered in
Jocelyn spent thirteen years with
paperboard producers Smurfit-Stone, after which he became a
consultant for pressure vessel design, offered R&D services to
educational clients as a design engineer, and was involved in all
aspects of Atelier PMC, major supplier of custom fabricated metal
products to the mining and fishing industries.
Clifford has 20 years of experience in a
variety of economic development portfolios, including the government
of
Clifford retired from the provincial
government in May 2004 and started his own company under the name of
Business Development Sales and Marketing Canada Inc. In addition to providing business development
expertise to manufacturing clients, including cluster development
under EMC (Excellence in Manufacturing Consortium), Clifford was
also a contract supplier as Industrial Commissioner for the Town of Caraquet from July 2004 to December 2007. His primary duties
were focused on investment attraction from the North American,
European and Asian marketplaces. Since January 2008, Clifford
is providing consulting advice to the Town of