Culinary Tourism Alliance
2023-2024 Board of Directors
The CTA seeks to maintain a Board with a diversity of experience and perspectives, including race, gender, geography, and areas of expertise to support organization in achieving its mission and vision.
The CTA Board strives to meet the 50/30 challenge and will be holding space for candidates that enable us to advance gender parity and increased diversity on the Board.
Nominations for passionate folks to join our 2025-2026 board will open in late summer, 2025.
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Richard Willett
(he/him)
Chair
Principal, Willett Hospitality
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Sarah Jarvis
(she/her)
Vice Chair
Director of Community Engagement, Destination Toronto
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Emily Haynes
(she/her)
Treasurer
Executive Director, Taste of Nova Scotia
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Kelly O'Brien
(she/her)
Secretary
Associate Dean, Faculty of Hospitality & Horticultural Science at Durham College
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Andria Barrett
(she/her)
Member at Large
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Carl-Éric Guertin
(he/him)
Executive director, The ÉCONOMUSÉE® Network Society
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Ellen Walker-Matthews
(she/her)
CEO, Thompson Okanagan Tourism Association
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France Dionne
(she/her)
Executive Director General, ITHQ
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James Leppan
(he/him)
Senior Manager, Destination Development
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Lorie Watson
(she/her)
Economic Development Specialist, Town of Okotoks
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Nancy Small
(she/her)
CEO, Tourism Richmond