Board of Directors
Chairwoman of the Board
- Chief Darlene Bernard



Strategic Council
- Alan Baker

Director & President
- Corinne Dyment

Director & Secretary
- Tabatha Bernard

Directors
- Wendell Labobe
- Jack MacAndrew
- Elder Matilda KnockWood Snache
- Stan McPherson
- Colin MacDonald
- Gerald Amirault


 
Executive Council
Legal
- Gary Scales
- McInnis Cooper


Finance
- Trevor Kennedy
- Grant Thornton


Natural Resources
- Randy Angus
Mi'kmaq Confederacy of PEI


Media
- Dennis King
Mi'kmaq Confederacy of PEI



Leslie Michalewski, Plant Manager

Leslie was born and brought up in Toronto.She trained as a Pharmaceutical Technician, and began working in the seafood industry after coming to Prince Edward Island. She worked with Polar Foods as Production Supervisor in the Souris plant and was hired in the same capacity by Ocean Choice International when that company purchased the Polar Foods assets. At Minigoo Fisheries she is filling the same function, and is responsible for logistics and maintaining a continuous production flow on the production lines.

Phone : 902-831-3474 - Extension: 103
E-Mail: leslie@minigoofisheries.com


Wendi Kim, Comptroller/Office Manager

Wendi was born and brought up far from the sound of the ocean, in Chicago but she had Prince Edward Island connections - her mother hailed from here. That meant many trips in summer months to visit her grandmother in the old family home. Meanwhile, Wendi received a Bachelor of Science degree with an Accounting Major from famed DePaul University, and began a 20 year career in financial administration. She has won several awards for professional competency, and has taken many accountancy specialty courses to hone her proficiency.

Phone : 902-831-3474 - Extension: 106
E-Mail: wendi@minigoofisheries.com


Don Bernard, Facility Manager

Don comes from the Acadian French district of Prince Edward Island known as Evangeline. He came out of Vocational High School with a diploma in welding, but entered the family trucking business soon after. For many years he drove long haul trucks across Canada and the eastern United States, but in 1990 married a Lennox Island woman and became a resident. For several years he was General Manager of a peat moss operation operated by the Lennox island First Nation, until the supply of natural peat moss ran out and the company was sold. As Facilities Manager for Minigoo Fisheries, his job is to keep the plant in top shape and running smoothly.

Phone : 902-831-3474 - Extension: 111
E-Mail: don@minigoofisheries.com


Carla Annand, Quality Assurance

Carla is a native Prince Edward Islander who has worked in the seafood industry for more than 20 years. She began her career as a production line worker, and then took courses and seminars to learn the Quality Control aspects of seafood processing. She is responsible for ensuring that Minigoo Fisheries adheres to Quality Management Programs to keep the facility in compliance with Canadian government regulations, as well as those set forth by Sillikers and BRC.

Phone : 902-831-3474 - Extension: 108
E-Mail: carla@minigoofisheries.com


Freeman Bungay, Plant Supervisor

Freeman comes to Minigoo Fisheries from the province of Newfoundland/Labrador, where he began a career in the fish business in 1975. Through the years he has managed processing facilities, and has spent time aboard trawlers and freezer factory vessels. His career even took him to a year's stint managing a sardine factory in Morocco. "You name it, I've done it", he says. He came to Prince Edward Island in July of 2006, with Ocean Choice International to improve productivity in that company's operation. Within two months he nearly doubled production output on the processing lines.

Phone : 902-831-3474 - Extension: 109
E-Mail: freeman@minigoofisheries.com


John Harris, High Risk Area Supervisor

John spent most of his life in Toronto, where he was born, until he moved to Prince Edward Island where his wife had family connections. It was here that he was introduced to the seafood business with Future Seafoods. But his experience in industry and an industrial environment goes back many years employment with companies in Toronto. John is now responsible for production, quality and systems in the High Risk area of the new Minigoo Fisheries facility.

Phone : 902-831-3474 - Extension: 110
E-Mail: john@minigoofisheries.com