A Peterborough resident with extensive international experience in the telecommunications industry and a local lawyer who?s serving as chairman of a poverty reduction initiative are among the seven new appointments to the Trent University board of governors.
The terms for the new appointees started July 1. Trent announced the appointments Thursday.
Local lawyer Stephen Kylie is serving a two-year term in an alumni seat on the board of governors.
Kylie studied math and economics at Trent University after graduating from St. Peter?s Secondary School in Peterborough. He went on to pursue is law degree at the University of Ottawa and was called to the bar in 1980.
Kylie is chairman of the Peterborough Poverty Reduction Network, acting chairman and vice president of the Peterborough Federal Liberal Riding Association and a member of the Rotary Club of Peterborough.
He has been recognized as the Rotary Foundation International Paul Harris Fellow and he is a recipient of the numerous awards, including the Queen?s Golden Jubilee Medal, the Ontario Volunteer Service Award and the City of Peterborough Civic Award.
Michael O?Connor, who was born and raised in Peterborough, is one of three appointees to external seats on the board, each for a three-year term.
O?Connor has 20 years of experience in economics, finance and mergers and acquisitions in telecommunications and transportation.
He was a director for the Center of Economic and Financial Analysis at Science Applications International Corporation, which is one of the largest defence contractors in the United States.
O?Connor joined the executive of Egypt-based Orascom Telecom in 1998.
During his time with the company, it grew from six employees and 250,000 subscribers in 1998 to 65,000 employees and more than 110 million subscribers, Trent University states in a release.
O?Connor was a co-founder of Wind Mobile, a new wireless service provider that entered the market in 2009 and now has more than 600,000 subscribers.
He currently advises Wind Mobile on government relations and corporate strategy and holds many corporate and philanthropic board and advisory positions, the university states.
Other appointees include Robin Dines, Robin Quantick, Colleen O?Manique, Kathy Fife and Sara Pieper.
Pieper is a second-year PhD student in the environmental and life sciences program at Trent. She graduated with a bachelor of science in biology in 2007. During her undergraduate studies, she was a member of the Champlain College Cabinet for four years. She?s currently one of four student representatives on the task force that?s working with various groups on the project to build a student centre on Symons Campus.
Fife has worked in a variety of support staff positions since she became a Trent employee in 1985.
She has worked in the Philosophy and Gender and Women?s Studies departments since 2009. She has been campaign co-chair for the United Way campaign at the university and she has worked with the university?s Social and Athletic Committee for nearly 20 years.
O?Manique is an associate professor in the Gender and Women?s Studies and International Development Studies departments.
Quantick is the founder of Excalibur Learning Resource Centre Canada. He graduated from the joint Trent University-Queen?s University concurrent education program, earning his bachelor of arts in 1981 and his bachelor of education in 1982. He initially joined the board in 2011.
Dines worked with Toronto Dominion Bank for 22 years, starting as a receptionist and working her way up to trading money market securities and foreign exchange, after graduating from Trent with a bachelor of science degree in 1979.
Dines started her own consulting company, Valenova Enterprises, in 2004. She owned Hillcrest Inn in Port Hope for a number of years. And her volunteer work includes a project in Tanzania, Africa with Habitat for Humanity.
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