Our Board
Star of the North Board of Directors are a dedicated group of volunteers who work with the Executive Director to bring life and action to the Star’s vision and mission.
Chair: Wayne Dosman was born, raised and spent his working career in the Edmonton area except for his last year from high school where he graduated from the Oblate run St Thomas College in North Battleford, Saskatchewan. He holds a Bachelor of Science (BSc) degree, a Graduate Diploma in Management (GDM) and a Master of Business Administration (MBA) degree. Wayne has over 40 years of experience in providing financial services and business consulting with various regional, national and international financial institutions. Wayne has been actively involved at the Board of Management level in numerous local business, sports and not for profit organizations including the Red Cross, Better Business Bureau of Edmonton and Northern and Central Alberta, Alberta Soccer Association, the Local Organizing Committees for the 2002 FIFA U19 Women’s World Cup and the 2007 FIFA U20 Men’s World Cup, and has been a member of the Star of the North’s Retreat Center since 2013.
Vice Chair: Brad Brodeur received his Bachelor of Commerce from the University of Alberta in 1992 and went on to study in the M.Div. program at Newman Theological College while working as Director of Our Lady of Victory Camp. He provided sacramental/catechetical programming and a more comprehensive youth ministry approach during his years there. He was Chair of the OLVC Board of Directors from 2000 - 2011. He went on to work as Youth Ministry Coordinator at Good Shepherd/Annunciation parish, and later at Bishop Grandin High School as High School Chaplain. Along with this work he maintained work as an investment advisor with Raymond James for many years. He currently works as CEO for Canamera Energy Metals.
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Ron Martineau is a member of the Frog Lake First Nations band and currently serves on the Frog Lake First Nations Economic Development Board. He has considerable experience in business management and is the owner and president of RLM Consultants, an advisory company in industrial oilfield construction, management, mergers, and acquisitions. He has previously worked as the president and COO of Insulation Holdings, and as the president of Churchill Services Group. He was a key leader in the rebuilding of Sacred Heart Church of the First Peoples and has served in volunteer management and volunteer finance roles as well.
Catherine Twinn is a Treaty 8 First Nation member since 1980 and an Alberta Lawyer. She has 34+ years experience in fiduciary principles as a Trustee fo First Nation Trusts, Codes of Conduct and best practices for good governance, structures and conditions. Her Board experience includes understanding Social Responsibility, Diversity, Inclusion and Equity, Capacity Building, Strategic Planning, Succession Planning, Tax Planning and more. Catherine is the first indigenous woman to graduate from the University of Alberta, Faculty of Law and she obtained her Masters’ in Law from the University of London, London School of Economics and Political Science. She received the 2012 Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal for Community and Country Service. More recently she received the Alberta Centennial Medal for Outstanding Service to the People and Province of Alberta.
Linda Winski joined the Board in 2013 and participates on two of its committees. Her career paths have embraced teaching, counseling, working for 19 years with the Social Justice Commission of the Archdiocese of Edmonton as an adult educator, workshop facilitator and activist and serving 10 years as Pastoral Associate with Inner City Pastoral Ministry. Now semi-retired, she still considers herself a work in progress committed to justice-seeking and justice-building.
Fr. Mark Blom, OMI is a catholic priest and member of the Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate. He is currently associate pastor at Sacred Heart Church of the First Peoples in Edmonton and has worked with Indigenous and Metis peoples over many years. He served as vocation director for the Oblates for six years. Fr. Mark has a great interest in transformative spirituality, Scripture, and Christian art. He was appointed by OMI Lacombe Canada to The Star of the North Board of Directors on May 31, 2021.
Archbishop Emeritus Sylvain Lavoie is a missionary Oblate who has spent over 30 years ministering among the aboriginal peoples of north and central Saskatchewan, including three years as director of a team that offered sessions on faith renewal, leadership and community development. As archbishop emeritus of the archdiocese of Keewatin-The Pas, he now serves as chaplain and spiritual director at Star of the North Retreat Center in St. Albert, Alberta.