Board Members

President : Jean-François Robert

Jean-François Robert Senior 
Director General
Science and Parliamentary Infrastructure Branch
Public Services and Procurement Canada
140 O’Connor Tower East 
Ottawa, ON K1A 0S5
Tel: 613.852.4165

Jean-François Robert is a Director General within Public Services and Procurement Canada’s (PSPC) Science and Parliamentary Infrastructure Branch. He currently leads multi-skilled teams in the management and delivery of real property and accommodation projects on and around Parliament Hill. He also oversees the delivery of projects in support of the Laboratories Canada Initiative by advancing the first phase of delivery of the 25-year Long Term Vision and Plan. Jean-François holds both a bachelor’s and master’s degree in civil engineering. He has more than 20 years of project management experience, beginning his career as a professional engineer in the private sector, and later with the City of Gatineau. In 2009, Jean-François joined the Federal Public Service in PSPC’s Real Property Branch, moving to the Parliamentary Precinct Branch in 2013. He has a proven track record of providing sound strategic advice based on his strong project management principles, practices and techniques, as well as his in-depth knowledge and experience.  

Past President: Sonia Powell 

First Vice-President, Community Outreach and Partnership Portfolio: Elizabeth Tough

Second Vice-President, Professional Development Portfolio: Clayton Truax 

Clayton Truax
Senior Director, Environment
Health and Safety Technical Services
Real Property Services
Public Services and Procurement Canada

Treasurer: Ashley Maloney

Ashley Maloney
Real Property Information System Manager, Acquired
Services and Assets Sector
Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat
90 Elgin Street
Ottawa, ON K1A 0R5
Tel: 343.548.4644

Working out of the Acquired Services and Assets Sector at Treasury Board of Canada’s Secretariat (TBS), Ashley Maloney is responsible for the long-term vision and management of TBS’s Real Property Information System which includes the Directory of Federal Real Property (DFRP) and the Federal Contaminated Sites Inventory (FCSI). There, he works with the federal real property community to ensure that the Government of Canada is informed about the scale of the major components of its real property inventory. Prior to joining TBS, he held several real property positions within Correctional Service Canada (CSC) where he worked on large-scale projects such as the National C-25 (Truth in Sentencing Act) Construction Program and the Strategic Disposal of Kingston Penitentiary. 

Director: Catherine Dallaire 

Catherine Dallaire
Senior Advisor, Infrastructure & Asset Management - Centre of Expertise for Real Property
Acquired Services and Assets Sector, Office of the Comptroller General
Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat

Catherine Dallaire is an asset management specialist with over 13 years of public and private sector experience. She has advised clients’ senior management on a variety of complex asset management initiatives helping them improve the defensibility of infrastructure plans and management strategies. These initiatives include comprehensive service reviews, policy and strategy development, lifecycle assessments, internal audits, investment optimization, and program evaluation. Catherine has also implemented real property management capacity development initiatives for provincial and national associations. She currently applies her real property management experience at Public Services and Procurement Canada in advising federal government project teams in the evaluation of alternative procurement models, such as public private partnerships, and in teaching infrastructure management within the Infrastructure Protection and International Security Masters program at Carleton University.  

Director: Jérémie Emond 

Director: Nancy Fahey 

Director: Earl Hoeg 

Earl Hoeg
Executive Director
National Real Property Management
Chief Financial Officer Branch
Employment and Social Development Canada
Tel: 902.536.4517

Earl Hoeg is the Executive Director of National Real Property Management (NRPM) with Employment and Social Development Canada (ESDC) (or as Earl prefers to be called, ESDC’s Chief Real Property Evangelist). Earl is responsible for all aspects of the management and delivery of the National Real Property Portfolio for all Service Canada Centres, Passport Offices and ESDC’s office space across Canada. In this position, Earl is responsible for leading ESDC’s workplace modernization efforts for ESDC’s 37000 employees spread across more than 425 sites and 600000 m2 of space across Canada. ESDC is working aggressively to implement Activity Based Working and the Government of Canada’s GCWorkplace vision to provide the best space possible to respond to the future of work and support for a hybrid workplace to help ESDC attract and retain the talent they need to better serve Canadians.

Prior to this role, Earl held various positions in real property with ESDC and Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA). Earl has been a public servant for 32 years and held other leadership positions with the Canada School of Public Service and Industry Canada

Earl has a Master of Business Administration (MBA), from Queen's University, a Certificate in Business Administration from the University of Ottawa, and an Electronic Engineering Technology Diploma, from the Nova Scotia Institute of Technology. Earl is a trained media spokesperson and has been a speaker at international wireless conferences, leadership events and real property forums. 

Director: Lezlie Locke

Lezlie Locke
National Manager, Real Property Policy
Real Property & Project Management Policy
Royal Canadian Mounted Police
73 Leikin Drive Bldg. M1, 4th Floor, Room 901J
Ottawa, ON K1A 0R2
Tel: 613.843.5880

As part of the RCMP’s Real Property Management Branch, Lezlie Locke is responsible for the provision of real property policy advice, and for maintaining and updating the Property Management Manual (PMM), which is the RCMP’s substantive repository of policies, guidelines and technical bulletins that govern how the RCMP manages its real property assets and projects. Lezlie has 25 years of experience within the federal real property domain working with the RCMP and the Department of National Defence. She holds a Bachelor of Science (Biology) from Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia. 

Director: Greg MacMillan

Greg MacMillan
Director General, Real Property and Security Directorate
Public Services and Procurement Canada  
140 O'Connor St.
Ottawa, ON K1A 0S5
Tel: 613.952.6190

Greg MacMillan is the Director General, Enterprise Planning and Operations in Public Services and Procurement Canada’s (PSPC) Science and Parliamentary Infrastructure Branch. In his current role, he leads strategy and plan development and management of real property, IMIT, scientific equipment and security programs in support of the Laboratories Canada strategy and federal science community.

Greg’s career began in the public sector as a junior economist, investment analyst and real property officer. He then spent more than a decade in various business development and executive positions in the financial and technology sectors in Canada, the U.S. and Australia, served as a Director of a publicly traded company, and worked as a management consultant. In 2010, Greg re-joined the federal public service and has since assumed various leadership roles in real property, security and IMIT management at Natural Resources Canada, Health Canada and PSPC.

Greg holds a Master of Arts degree in Public Administration, Project Management Professional (PMP) certification and is a former Certified Financial Planner.

Director: Elizabeth Mah

Elizabeth Mah
Regional Director, National Capital Region
Defence Construction Canada
Minto Place, 14th Floor
180 Kent Street
Ottawa ON K1P 0B6
Tel: 613.949.7718 

Elizabeth Mah is the Regional Director, National Capital Region (NCR) for Defence Construction Canada (DCC). DCC is a Crown corporation that provides infrastructure and environmental services and full lifecycle support for Canada’s defence requirements. In her senior management role, Elizabeth is accountable for the overall leadership and management of the region. This responsibility includes overseeing all aspects of services delivery, human resources management, financial performance, leadership, and corporate governance and stakeholder relationships for the region. Regional service delivery is comprised of real property support in portfolio management, development planning and information systems support, as well as operational support services including GIS, computer-assisted design and building information modeling (BIM), facility maintenance services, preventative maintenance inspections, site asset management plans, and real property acquisition and disposal services.

Elizabeth Mah joined DCC in 1998 following her graduation from University of Manitoba with a Bachelor of Science Civil Engineering degree. After spending five years working at the DCC Edmonton site, she transferred to Esquimalt, B.C. where she took on a number of roles including Assistant Manager, Site Operations and Program Support Team Leader. In 2011, Ms. Mah moved to the NCR where she assumed the role of Regional Operations Manager and was promoted to Regional Director for NCR in 2015. She holds the following designations: Professional Engineer, Project Management Professional, and the Canadian Construction Association Gold Seal Certification.

Director: Sandra Rezansoff

Sandra Rezansoff
A/Director General, Strategic Portfolio Initiatives
Infrastructure and Environment
Department of National Defence
Tel: 613.282.0614

Sandra Rezansoff has over twenty-five years of experience in managing all aspects of real property within the Government of Canada, in both national and international settings. Over the course of her career, she has worked with numerous departments and agencies including Public Services and Procurement Canada, Natural Resources Canada, Fisheries and Oceans Canada, the Department of National Defence and Global Affairs Canada. In her nine years with Global Affairs Canada, Sandra served as a Management and Consular Affairs officer in Canada’s Missions in Chandigarh, India and Rome, Italy.

In her present role, as the Acting Director General of Strategic Portfolio Initiatives in the Infrastructure and Environment Branch with National Defence, Sandra is responsible for leading the Implementation of the Defence Real Property Portfolio Strategy to ensure an affordable and sustainable portfolio in support of the Defence Team. 

Prior to joining the federal government Sandra received a Master of Public Administration degree from Queen’s University and a Bachelor of Arts in Political Studies and Economics from the University of Saskatchewan.

Director: Chris Vandyk

Chris Vandyk is the Director, Real Estate - Acquisitions for Canada Lands Company (CLC), and has been with CLC since June 2018. Prior to joining CLC, he worked in the Real Property Policy Division of the Treasury Board of Canada’s Secretariat (TBS), and has also held several real property positions within the Correctional Service Canada (CSC).

Within Canada Lands Company, Chris, working closely with the CLC’s regional offices, is responsible for the organization's acquisition of surplus strategic properties from the federal government with the objective of optimizing the financial and community value of these surplus assets. With over 10 years experience in the federal real property field, he has worked on a number of major federal realty projects focussing mainly on the disposal of strategic properties.

He has a Master’s degree in Urban & Regional Planning from Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario

Director: Bill Varvaris

Bill Varvaris 
Director General
Real Property and Environmental Management
Department of Fisheries and Oceans

Director: Debbie Baxter

Director: Mike Ketcheson

Mike Ketcheson   
Vice President, Colliers Project Leaders
150 Isabella, Suite 700
Ottawa, ON K1S 1V7
Tél : 613.218.4330

As the Vice President, Federal Government Business Unit, Mike Ketcheson is an expert in providing strategic advice to Federal Government department clients for projects and programs of work involving real property infrastructure. This includes advice of governance, project delivery, indigenous engagement/participation and procurement methodologies. 

Throughout the course of his career, Mike has led large teams supporting Federal clients with project management support services on iconic projects, such as the redevelopment of the parliamentary precinct, the restoration of heritage assets, large accommodation programs and key Federal real property initiatives. Mike currently serves as a board member with the Real Property Institute of Canada and manages the joint venture relationship with Tiree Facility Solutions.

Director: Wayne Liko 

Wayne Liko
Managing Partner
Horizant Solutions 
135 Michael Cowpland Drive Suite 400
Ottawa, ON K2M 2E9
Tel: 613.296.2846

With over 30 years in the Real Property and Facilities Management industry, Wayne Liko oversees Horizant’s business operations. Throughout his career, Wayne has been involved in providing technology solutions for small, medium and large clients across all industry sectors. Wayne’s strengths include his focus on building lasting partnerships with clients and other key service providers alike, along with his depth of industry and technology knowledge.

Director: Robert van Wyngaarden

Robert van Wyngaarden, DERS, GISP
Senior Manager, Canadian Real Property Solutions
AECOM
302 - 1150 Morrison Drive
Ottawa, ON K2H 8S9
Tel: 613.820.8282 ext 249 

Robert van Wyngaarden is the Senior Manager of Canadian Real Property Solutions for AECOM Canada and is based in Ottawa, Ontario. In this capacity, Robert works with AECOM across Canada and the United States to help in developing and expanding AECOM’s real property business with defence and civilian departments and agencies. 

Robert has more than 25 years leading business development for a number of firms in the engineering and environmental consulting industries. Robert’s diverse career has included extensive experience in solutions selling and working with multi-disciplinary teams to deliver consulting solutions in domestic and international settings. In addition, he has over 20 years’ experience in the geomatics industry, active in GIS and remote sensing tools and GIScience as applied to many industries including the public sector, oil and gas, mining, telecommunications and health care. Robert started his career with the former Lands Directorate of Environment Canada. 

He has a B.Sc. from McGill University, in Physical Geography, as well as having completed a Graduate Diploma of Environmental Remote Sensing also from McGill University, in Montreal, Quebec.

Robert has been involved with the Real Property Institute of Canada in various capacities for the past 5 years. 

Director: Joseph Wabegijig, Phoenix Smart Infrastructure

Lezlie Locke
National Manager, Real Property Policy
Real Property & Project Management Policy
Royal Canadian Mounted Police
73 Leikin Drive Bldg. M1, 4th Floor, Room 901J
Ottawa, ON K1A 0R2
Tel: 613.843.5880

As part of the RCMP’s Real Property Management Branch, Lezlie Locke is responsible for the provision of real property policy advice, and for maintaining and updating the Property Management Manual (PMM), which is the RCMP’s substantive repository of policies, guidelines and technical bulletins that govern how the RCMP manages its real property assets and projects. Lezlie has 25 years of experience within the federal real property domain working with the RCMP and the Department of National Defence. She holds a Bachelor of Science (Biology) from Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia. 

Jérémie Emond
Director General, Real Property and Workplace Services 
Natural Resources Canada
Tel: 613.286.7644

Jérémie Emond is the Director General, Real Property and Workplace Services at Natural Resources Canada (NRCan). NRCan develops policies and programs that enhance the contribution of the natural resources sector to the economy, improve the quality of life for all Canadians and conduct innovative science in facilities across Canada to generate ideas and transfer technologies.

After 23 years in the Canadian Armed Forces as a military engineer, Jérémie joined the Public Service in 2016 with National Defence as the Director of portfolio planning. In 2019, he moved to Correctional Service of Canada as the Senior Director, Facilities. In 2021, he joined NRCan in his current position.

Jérémie is a graduate from Laval University with a Bachelor in Civil Engineering. He holds a Masters in Defence studies from the Royal Military College of Canada and a Masters of Public Administration from École Nationale d’Administration Publique.  

Earl Hoeg
Executive Director
National Real Property Management
Chief Financial Officer Branch
Employment and Social Development Canada
Tel: 902.536.4517

Earl Hoeg is the Executive Director of National Real Property Management (NRPM) with Employment and Social Development Canada (ESDC) (or as Earl prefers to be called, ESDC’s Chief Real Property Evangelist). Earl is responsible for all aspects of the management and delivery of the National Real Property Portfolio for all Service Canada Centres, Passport Offices and ESDC’s office space across Canada. In this position, Earl is responsible for leading ESDC’s workplace modernization efforts for ESDC’s 37000 employees spread across more than 425 sites and 600000 m2 of space across Canada. ESDC is working aggressively to implement Activity Based Working and the Government of Canada’s GCWorkplace vision to provide the best space possible to respond to the future of work and support for a hybrid workplace to help ESDC attract and retain the talent they need to better serve Canadians.

Prior to this role, Earl held various positions in real property with ESDC and Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA). Earl has been a public servant for 32 years and held other leadership positions with the Canada School of Public Service and Industry Canada

Earl has a Master of Business Administration (MBA), from Queen's University, a Certificate in Business Administration from the University of Ottawa, and an Electronic Engineering Technology Diploma, from the Nova Scotia Institute of Technology. Earl is a trained media spokesperson and has been a speaker at international wireless conferences, leadership events and real property forums.   

Debbie Baxter

Steven Brasier
Executive Director
Real Property Institute of Canada

Steven Brasier joined the Real Property Institute of Canada as Executive Director in June 2017.   

He has spent most of his career in senior management roles, working primarily with national non-profit organizations. He brings to RPIC a progressive leadership style, a pioneering spirit, and wide-ranging experience governance, operations, communications, policy, project management, partnership building and financial management.

Prior to joining RPIC, he worked as Executive Director of the Canadian Institute of Planners where he was responsible for operational management and personnel, financial administration, governance support, partnerships, project management, and overseeing the work of numerous volunteer committees. He also oversaw CIP’s role in upholding national certification standards and recognizing university planning programs, working in collaboration with seven provincial and regional planning institutes.

Before that, he served as Director of Communications for the Canadian Association of Medical Radiation Technologists, and as Manager of Publications for the Standards Council of Canada.

Rosa Paliotti
Executive Advisor
Real Property Institute of Canada

Rosa Paliotti has been a longstanding contributor to RPIC, having served as President and in other Board of Director roles. She recently retired from the Treasury Board Secretariat in 2021 and is currently serving as RPIC's Executive Advisor.

Robin Baldwin
Executive Secretary
Real Property Institute of Canada
and
Senior Client Manager
The Willow Group