Board of Directors

Sean O'Connor

BCOMM, CPA, CA

Sean O’Connor is a businessman with interests in several small and medium-sized businesses in Atlantic Canada. An accountant by training, he has held senior positions in both the private and public sectors. Sean sits on the boards of a number of private and non-profit organizations and is currently the Chair of the Atlantic Lottery Corporation and Vice Chair of Credit Union Atlantic.

Carol MacCulloch

BCOMM, MA

Carol MacCulloch has vast experience as a non-profit executive and director. She is currently serving as Board Chair of the Nova Scotia Apprenticeship Agency. Her expertise has helped several start-up organizations, and her leadership has energized a series of quasi-governmental organizations, advisory committees, and non-profit boards. In 2009, Carol received an honourary diploma from the Nova Scotia Community College.

Dan O'Halloran

M.Sc., P. Eng.

With close to 50 years of professional engineering, management and business experience, Dan O’Halloran has been involved in a wide range of projects in Atlantic Canada and further afield. He is a founder of O’Halloran Campbell Consultants, and a former Fellow of the Canadian Society for Civil Engineering, the American Society of Civil Engineers and the Institution of Civil Engineers. He has experience with several boards and advisory groups. Dan is an enthusiastic advocate of energy and GHG saving and has strong environmental interests.

Hector Jacques

O.C., M. Eng. D. Comm. (Hon.), P.Eng. FEIC, D. Law (Hon.)

Hector Jacques is a well-known name in Canadian engineering and a founding partner of Jacques Whitford and Associates Ltd. Set up in 1972 to offer earth sciences expertise to the Atlantic region, the company grew under his direction as CEO into an international operation with 45 offices employing 1,700 professionals worldwide. It was sold to Stantec in 2009 when he retired. Hector has received high-profile awards and recognition for his contribution to the engineering and business communities, including being inducted into the Nova Scotia Business Hall of Fame and being made an Officer of the Order of Canada in 2007. He sits as a director on several boards.