SUDA is comprised of a voluntary Board of Directors. Our Board members have come together in recognition of the particular importance of sustainable city-building to achieving a sustainable, healthy and vibrant natural environment.
Our current Board members are:
John Banka is President of the Board of Directors of SUDA. He is an Industrial Engineer. He worked for CNR for 8 years as a GO Transit facilities planner. In the late 1980s, he developed a technology for generating electricity from low water heads and was instrumental in constructing a demonstration unit in Northern Ontario which operates to this day. More recently, he has been a consultant to the electric motor industry and a small business advocate, as well as working on the commercialization of his power generation technology.
Al Cormier is a Director of SUDA. He is former President and CEO of the Canadian Urban Transit Association (CUTA), and former President and CEO of the Centre for Sustainable Transportation, an educational, research and advisory organization that fosters environmentally-responsible transportation. Currently, he is Executive Director of Electric Mobility Canada, a non-profit corporationdedicated exclusively to the promotion of electric mobility as a readily available and important solution to Canada’s emerging energy and environmental issues. He serves on several advisory committees, including the Federal Energy Efficiency Committee.
Sanjay J. Coelho is a Director of SUDA. He is a Policy Analyst in the Ontario Ministry of the Environment, where he works on a wide range of land use and environmental projects, and has previous consulting experience. Through a range of national and international work experiences, Sanjay has completed in-depth assignments in the area of water conservation, transportation planning, housing, and waste management, among other areas, and has been involved in several public consultation projects. He holds a Master of Arts degree in Planning.
Trang (Anne) Tran Fazzalari is a Director of SUDA. She holds a Bachelor of Science (Psychology and Biology) degree, and a Masters in Environmental Studies. Her current career focus has been in the area of health information, and she has worked in the health field since 1995. Her work experience has required "soft" skills such as communication, organizational and strategic planning, along with technical proficiency in project management, IT and research/analysis.
Richard Gilbert is a Director of SUDA. He is an urban issues consultant who focuses on transport and energy issues and on urban governance. He has taught courses in urban planning and governance at York University in Toronto and Simon Fraser University in Vancouver. He was a Toronto councillor from 1976 to 1991, and served as President of the Federation of Canadian Municipalities in 1986-87. On retiring, he became the first President and CEO of the Canadian Urban Institute. He has been an independent consultant since 1993 with clients in the public and private sectors in Asia, Europe, and North America. He has produced 14 books. The latest, written with Anthony Perl, is Transport Revolutions: Moving People and Freight Without Oil, whose second edition is to be published in April 2010.
Chris Caldwell is a Director of SUDA. He holds a Masters Degree in Environmental Studies, Planning, a Graduate Diploma in Business and Sustainability, and a Certificate in Information Systems Management. He has worked for 10+ years in the information systems management, developing processes for communications and business reporting for large and small organizations and various clients in both public and private sector.
James K. Carver is a homeowner in Newmarket who has been involved in many activities in pursuit of the vision of a vibrant and healthy community. As a Director with the York Region Environmental Alliance, James has contributed to the group’s record of working cooperatively to influence public policy, community attitudes and behavioural changes for better environmental practices. With close to 20 years of experience within the pharmaceutical industry, and currently a National Business Manager with a major company, James has proven himself to be a strategic sales and marketing professional who achieves success through a commitment to leadership, focus and collaboration.
Gloria Marsh serves as Executive Director of the York Region Environmental Alliance, a non-profit charity that raises awareness of environmental issues in the GTA. She has been an advocate for the protection of the Oak Ridges Moraine since the 1990s and was a founding director of the Oak Ridges Moraine Land Trust, serving on their board from 1999 to 2003. She has served on the boards of STORM and the Richmond Hill Naturalists. Gloria comes from an art and design background, trained as a landscape designer and horticulturalist at the University of Guelph and has owned and operated Marsh-Mode Landscape Design since 1986. She works and lives in a passive solar home on Lake Wilcox in Richmond Hill which she helped construct in 1981. This has nurtured an abiding interested in sustainable development ever since.
Executive Director
John Stillich is SUDA's Executive Director. He is a former senior financial analyst at the corporate level of the Ontario Government (Ministries of Health, and Community and Social Services). He has been an advocate for sustainable transportation and land use since 1989, focusing on the Greater Toronto Area, and was a founding Director of SUDA in 2005..
