Board of Governors

Mr. Geoff Reiner ’03 has always had a passion for entrepreneurship. After spending time in the corporate world, Geoff founded a consulting business, Persistus Strategies. At Persistus, Geoff and his team work with business owners to help develop and implement business strategy.  Additionally, they work directly with sales teams to reframe objections, enhance sales skills and close business.

Through Geoff’s consulting, an opportunity was created to work a local energy company called OOM Energy. OOM Energy is an alternative to the traditional grid and provide their clients, both commercial and residential, with more efficient, reliable and affordable power.

As company President and COO, Geoff is responsible for managing the engineering, finance and sales divisions of the OOM Group of companies. Geoff works to align the sales opportunities with the current capital requirements of the organization and ensures the engineering division has the necessary resources to deliver.

Geoff is a McMaster University graduate of the MBA program at the DeGroote School of Business. He was highly engaged in co-curricular activities and was elected as class President.  During his presidency, he facilitated a number of legacy initiatives that continue today.  Geoff maintains strong connections to the program as an active alumnus and consultant.  Prior to attending the DeGroote School of Business, he obtained an Honours Bachelor of Science degree from Wilfrid Laurier University.

In his spare time, Geoff enjoys athletics both as a player and volunteer coach.  He believes that travel is the greatest form of education and takes every opportunity he can to see the world.

Geoff serves on the Executive and Nominating Committees.

Ms. Meagan Hill is a senior associate at McKinsey & Company and a member of their recovery and transformation service line. In this capacity, she advises clients to deliver operational turnarounds in various industries.

Meagan started her career at Morgan Stanley in New York City where, as a member of the securitized products team, she evaluated lending opportunities for commercial mortgage securitization. Meagan has previously worked at The Related Companies, a privately owned real estate firm; BASE Equity Partners, a lower middle market private equity firm; and the Canadian Federal Government under the Trudeau administration, supporting the development of the Canadian Infrastructure Bank.

In collaboration with Harvard Business School (HBS), Meagan designed the first HBS Executive Education program for First Nations and Native American investment professionals and government leaders. The program operates annually, and over the past three years, the program has graduated approximately 200 professionals from across Canada and the United States.

Meagan holds a BA from Harvard College where she was President of Harvard Student Agencies, the largest student-run corporation in the world. She is also a graduate of HBS where she completed her MBA.

Meagan serves as special advisor to the Head of College on fundraising.

Dr. Randi McCabe is a professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioural Neurosciences at McMaster University, and a clinical psychologist with 20 years of experience in the field as a clinician, researcher, educator, and healthcare leader. At St. Joseph’s Healthcare Hamilton, Randi is a Clinical Director in the Mental Health and Addictions Program. She balances her clinical and administrative roles with her academic pursuits. Her research has focused on anxiety disorders and the development of novel cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) interventions for a range of disorders. She is a published author of more than 100 research papers and has published several books.

At McMaster University, Randi served as Chair of the Clinical Behavioural Sciences Program in the Faculty of Health Sciences (2003–08), a post professional psychotherapy training program for health professionals. She helped found the Mentorship Program in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioural Neurosciences in 2015, and currently serves as co-lead. She also teaches and supervises graduate students in the McMaster Research Clinical Training Stream of the Department of Psychology, Neuroscience.

Randi lives in Hamilton with her husband and her two sons who both started in the Montessori Program at HSC at age three. Liam Harper-McCabe is now in Grade 9 and Brendan Harper-McCabe is in Grade 5.

Randi serves on the Board Development Committee.

Christine is a partner with SB Partners Chartered Accountants where she provides entrepreneurs with advice on corporate reporting, business structure, family succession and tax planning. Christine is also very involved in assisting not-for-profit organizations with their financial reporting obligations. She is currently involved with the audit committee for the Bay Area Health Trust. 

Before taking on her role at SB Partners, Christine spent more than 10 years with a national accounting firm where she worked with large multi-national public corporations.

Christine’s connection to HSC began during her time here as a student (class of ’94). She and her husband Warren (class of ’94) have two children who are currently in HSC’s Middle School. She and her family enjoy participating in local sports leagues and travelling as a family in the off-season. 

Christine serves on the Finance Committee.

Mr. Erik Schaefer is a partner at McKinsey & Company in Toronto and a leader in their Recovery and Transformation service line. In this capacity he advises clients, and where necessary, assumes interim senior management roles to drive operational turnarounds on large-scale industrial assets. He focuses primarily on the metals and mining industry, but has also led numerous transformations in other sectors including pulp and paper, oil and gas, pharmaceuticals, and across functions spanning operations, sales, marketing, organization and purchasing. He recently spent two years in Asia Pacific as the Chief Transformation Officer and Deputy General Manager leading the distressed turnaround of one of the world’s largest precious metals mines.

Erik previously worked as a process design and project engineer at Sulzer Chemtech in Switzerland, Canada and Germany. There, he designed and commissioned large-scale fractional crystallization systems to ultra-purify chemicals and petrochemicals.

Erik is fluent in English, German and French and possesses basic, though rusty, conversational ability in Spanish. He holds an Honours Bachelor’s degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Waterloo and an MBA with High Distinction (George F. Baker Scholar) from Harvard Business School. He and his wife Amy (’93, nee Lazier) are both alumni of the College, and their daughters Martha and Audrey currently attend the Senior and Middle Schools.

Erik serves as HSC Board Ambassador for Alumni.

Charlie is a corporate/commercial lawyer, practising at the Hamilton office of Gowling WLG (Canada) LLP. His practice focuses on mergers and acquisitions, secured lending, debt and equity financings, and commercial contracts. He regularly acts for privately held domestic and multinational corporations in a range of sectors, and several of the region's most prominent institutions. He currently sits on the Hamilton Law Association’s Corporate Commercial Subcommittee, and has been a speaker at both Ontario Bar Association and Hamilton Law Association seminars.

Charlie graduated with a B.A. (Honours) in Political Science from Dalhousie University and a Juris Doctor degree from Osgoode Hall Law School. He is a member of the Law Society of Ontario.

Charlie is a third-generation HSC alumni (Class of 2003). He is a member of the HSC Alumni Association Executive Committee and is currently its Past President, having served as President from 2017 to 2019.

Charlie is a proud resident of the City of Hamilton, where he lives with his wife Alexandra Weaver (Class of 2002).

Charlie serves on the Board Development Committee.

Sonia Shi has spent more than 10 years in the Financial Services industry after changing her career direction from Engineering. Her focus in recent years has been on regulatory rules implementation and execution within Capital Markets or at enterprise level, and is currently a Senior Project Manager at RBC Global Risk Management. Previously she held senior business management positions at BMO Capital Markets, and worked within TD Securities and Scotia Global Banking and Markets areas.

Sonia is certified with PMP, ACP and SMC, and holds a Bachelor of Engineering from Science and Technology University, Beijing, and an MBA from McMaster University DeGroote School of Business. Beyond work life, Sonia is an active member of the community she lives in, volunteering her time and talent.

Sonia's family resides in Ancaster. Her two sons are recent HSC graduates as lifers who both began in the Montessori program at HSC! Sonia’s personal interests are mentoring and coaching young professionals; she believes in the power of knowledge sharing.

Sonia serves as Chair of the Audit Committee.

Shirley is a Vice President at Sienna Senior Living and has more than 30 years of expertise in senior care and housing. She was previously the CEO of Thomas Health Care, has 12 years of provincial and local Board experience and was a member of Burlington’s Joseph Brant Hospital’s campaign cabinet for six years, helping to raise $60M. She is currently an independent director on the Board at Hamilton Health Sciences.

 

A strategic and collaborative thinker, Shirley provides leadership and governance to a wide range of lines of business and operations. She is currently in her sixth year on the Board of Governors at HSC, is an alumna herself, and is also the parent of alumni. She has been the President of, as well as a member of the HSC Alumni Executive, an active member of the Parents’ Guild, and received the HSC Alumni Award of Excellent in 2014. Both she and her husband Rob continue to volunteer within the HSC Community.

 

Her most recent adventures include hiking the Bruce Trail 100 kilometres at a time each summer, raising funds with Women Walking to Grow and MEDA in support of empowering and equipping millions of families worldwide with resources they need to move themselves out of poverty, finding sustainable economic solutions.

 

Shirley holds a Bachelor of Science in Biology from the University of Western Ontario, a Bachelor of Arts in Gerontology from McMaster University, and is a Certified Long Term Care Home Administrator.

Shirley serves on the Finance and Nominating Committees.