Best Buddies Canada > Board of Directors


Daniel J. Greenglass (Co-chair and acting treasurer)	Daniel J. Greenglass is a managing partner of Brennan Custom Homes Inc. Toronto's leading developer, designer and builder of luxury homes and condominiums. Over the last 24 years working with Brennan, Greenglass has helped establish a successful design/build residential business in Palm Beach, Florida and has worked with the company extensively in Nassau, Bahamas. Greenglass co-founded Best Buddies Canada in 1994 which he co-chairs and is currently a Board Member of Honest Reporting. For his work with Best Buddies, Greenglass was awarded the Medal of Good Citizenship of Ontario in 2008.
Penny Shore (Co-chair)
Barry Avrich	Barry Avrich is a veteran marketing professional and acclaimed filmmaker based in Toronto. Avrich has been the President and CEO of two marketing and communications agencies, has written three marketing books and has produced and directed 18 documentary films and television specials for networks in Canada, USA and the UK. In 2009, Avrich was awarded the prestigious Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award. In 2010, his production of Caesar and Cleopatra starring Christopher Plummer was nominated for a Gemini Award for Best Production. Avrich is a director of the Canadian Opera Company, the Toronto International Film Festival and on the board of governors of the Stratford Shakespeare Festival. In 2008, Avrich with partners Daniel Greenglass and Joe Brennan created and established The Hollywood Theatre at Sick Kids, the world’s first “in hospital” movie theatre.
Andrew Cumming
Paul Devereaux
Heli Donaldson	Ms. Donaldson attended Toronto French School and Saint Joe’s Catholic school prior to receiving a University Degree at Suffolk University in Boston, Massachusetts. Heli remained in Boston for several years after graduation and worked for Scudder, Stevens and Clark. Upon returning to Toronto she worked in advertising for Vickers and Benson and has been the Owner/Operator of Spirits Bar and Grill since 1987. Heli was a long time board member of the BIA Bloor Yorkville Association and played an active role in the revitalization of the Bloor/Yorkville area. She is currently a board member of the Ontario Restaurant Hotel Motel Association (ORHMA). Heli is actively involved in many Toronto charities and has been a board member of Best Buddies Canada since 1988 and co-chaired the Gala in its 8th and 9th years. She has a strong interest in the arts and is a member of Toronto based Partners In Art.
Rosey Edeh	Rosey Edeh is a veteran television personality who has worked across North America. She has an arts degree from Rice University in Houston, Texas; and a M.A. in art history from Montreal's Concordia University. She made an impressive mark in the sporting world as a three-time Olympian (1988, 1992 and 1996) and holds the Canadian record for the 400m hurdles. Her athletic accomplishments have taken her around the world and as a guest commentator at the 2008 Beijing Olympics for CBC. Rosey began her broadcast career as a columnist and sports reporter for CBC Radio in Montreal. She later joined Global Television as a weather and entertainment reporter on Global Morning before moving to the U.S. In 2002, Rosey returned to Canada as a freelance reporter and segment producer at CFCF-TV in Montreal. Then in the Fall of 2005 she joined the ET Canada team and hasn't looked back!
John Elwood
Brian Medjuck
Tammy Oram	Tammy Oram joined DATA Group of Companies after earning her Bachelor’s Degree from the University of New Brunswick in Fredericton, New Brunswick. Tammy is a hands-on Account Executive with a key assignment for on-boarding and ongoing management of DATA’s largest accounts offering print, electronic and distribution solutions to Fortune 500 companies across Canada. Tammy has been a member of the Best Buddies Canada board since 2006. Originally introduced to Best Buddies by a co-worker who is actively involved with the Halton Down Syndrome Society, the Down Syndrome Association of Ontario (DSAO) and the Canadian Down Syndrome Society (CDSS), she reasons her involvement to a simple desire to help others in our community. Being part of an organization that's aimed at giving people with intellectual disabilities the chance to have experiences which most of us take for granted is a wonderful experience and every effort to continue the success of programs like Best Buddies in Canada has inspired her to stay involved.
Deborah Robinson	Deborah Robinson is the Founder and President of Bay Street HR. Robinson completed her Bachelor of Science in Business Administration at the University of Denver in 1984, and the Institute of Corporate Director, ICD.D program at the Rotman School of Business in 2011. Since 2004, Robinson has been an Officer of the Board of Directors and the Chair of the HR Committee for Best Buddies Canada. Robinson says: “The organization touches your heart strings; to make such a difference in peoples’ lives is why charity exists and why I got involved.”
John Symons	John Symons is a former high-school teacher/vice principal; Canadian citizen resident since 1954; married with four children; joined Best Buddies in 2004; interest in BB stems from daughter - a best buddy for some fourteen years - , the program and development of the organization. John has an honours degree in modern languages from Trinity College, University of Dublin (1953).