Terry Hayden, Chair
Assistant Deputy Minister, Yukon Economic Development
Since joining Yukon Government in 1991, Terry Hayden has been involved in several Yukon technology and communications milestones. He helped bring Internet to the territory in 1994 and to rural communities in 1996, and he was a key player in developing a ‘made in Yukon’ partnership broadband project to expand and improve rural Yukon telecommunications infrastructure in 2000. Mr. Hayden’s initiatives include forming the Yukon Technology Innovation Centre in 1998, co-developing a Yukon multimedia training facility and facilitating Yukon’s connection to the national ‘CA net’ research network. He has participated in many telecommunications regulatory and review proceedings on the North. Mr. Hayden previously worked for AGT and Telus in Edmonton, Alberta.
Terry Weninger
President, Yukon College
Terry Weninger began his education career as a school teacher, principal, superintendent and deputy minister in the Yukon. He served a fourteen-year term as president of the College of New Caledonia in B.C. before returning to the Yukon to assume the presidency of Yukon College. Dr. Weninger has a B.Ed and a B.Sc. from University of Saskatchewan, a M.Ed. at University of Alberta and an Ed.D. from Arizona State University. Yukon College houses a wealth of knowledge in the area of permafrost, climate, soils and environmental change. In addition to hosting YCCIC, Yukon College serves as the base for the Northern Climate Exchange, Northern Research Institute, Innovators in the Schools, Social Economy Research Network of Northern Canada and the Canadian Climate Impacts and Adaptation Research Network.
Roger Cheng
University of Alberta
Roger Cheng is a professor and the C.W. Carry Chair in Steel Structures at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Alberta in Edmonton. He has a Ph.D. and M.S. in civil engineering and a B.Sc. in hydraulic engineering. His research interests are steel structures, cold-formed steel structures, structural stability, fracture and fatigue of steel structures, rehabilitation of structures using fibre reinforced polymers, design and assessment of energy pipelines, structural health monitoring and engineered wood structures. Dr. Cheng has numerous professional affiliations including the Association of Professional Engineers, Geologists and Geophysicists of Alberta, the Canadian Society of Civil Engineering, the American Society of Civil Engineers, the Structural Stability Research Council and Advanced Composite Materials in Bridges and Structures.
David Morrison
Former Chair, Yukon Chamber of Commerce
President and CEO, Yukon Energy Corporation
David Morrison serves as Yukon Chamber of Commerce’s representative on the YCCIC board and he is also a director of the Canadian Electricity Association. Mr. Morrison has a Masters of Public Administration degree from Carleton University and a Chartered Directors designation from the Directors College. Prior to joining Yukon Energy, Mr. Morrison was a vice-president of operations for Tirecraft Auto Centres Ltd., a western-based tire and automotive chain with 190 retail stores across Canada. Mr. Morrison has also operated a successful management consulting practice with a primary focus on energy, resource and infrastructure development projects.
Stanley Noel
CEO, Yukon Indian Development Corporation
As Chief Executive Officer of YIDC, a consortium of First Nation economic development corporations, Stanley Noel manages business interests that involve and benefit from applied research in the North. He is currently a director on several corporation boards that oversee investments in real estate, hotels and industrial service businesses including Northern Vision Development Corporation and NASCO – ATCO-Frontec. Mr. Noel’s academic background includes graduate degrees in business administration and social work, and he served on the board of governors of the University of Northern British Columbia. Mr. Noel previously worked in health, human resources and executive positions for several Yukon First Nations.
Curtis Prosko
ACP Applied Products, a division of Canadian Road Builders Inc.
A civil engineering technologist with an MBA, Mr. Prosko has worked in the northern construction industry for nearly three decades. He operated Skookum Construction in Whitehorse from 1983 until 2006. Established as an asphalt paving business, Skookum developed into a multi-disciplinary construction company. Projects ranged from highway paving to bridge demolition to water and sewer installation to placing pipes under the Yukon River. Skookum Construction has also operated in Alaska since 1993. Mr. Prosko served as president of the Yukon Contractors Association from 1994 to 2002. He currently manages ACP Applied Products and Lafrentz Road Marking in Edmonton, Alberta.