Our Board of Directors & Member Representatives
The SCA Board is dedicated to serving the common needs of co-operatives and credit unions in the key areas of youth education and involvement; government relations and public policy; co-operative development; leadership and co-operative education; and member services and communications.
Each co-operative that is a member of SCA appoints one or two representatives to SCA; a voting representative and a non-voting representative. Voting representatives can vote at membership meetings and can be nominated for election to one of seven SCA Board of Director positions. Non-voting representatives participate in membership meetings, but do not vote. Member organizations generally appoint senior level management or elected representatives to SCA.
Beryl Bauer (Chair)
Vice President, Federated Co-operatives Limited
Beryl is a dedicated and enthusiastic member, leader and promoter of co-operatives. Beryl has served on numerous co-operative Boards and continues to serve on co-operative boards and committees. He is the current vice-chair of Federated Co-operatives, President of SCA, a Vice President of Canadian Co-operative Association, Director for Co-operative Development Foundation, President of the Lake Lenore Grocery Co-op which he helped found, and a director on several other local community co-ops. He is a member of over 20 retail co-operatives and credit unions. He also represent the co-op sector on Enterprise Saskatchewan. He has been recognized for his contributions to co-operatives and community with a Saskatchewan Co-operative Merit Award in 1999 and a Saskatchewan Centennial Medal for community involvement.
Beryl retired from teaching in 1997 after a 27 year career as an educator. He and his wife Phyllis have one son and two daughters and just recently celebrated the arrival of their second grandson!
Jim Deane (Vice-Chair)
President and CEO, Access Communications Co-operative Limited
Jim Deane is the President and Chief Executive Officer of Access Communications Co-operative Limited which serves over 200 communities across Saskatchewan. Jim first served on the SCA board when it was incorporated in 2003. A firm believer in the effectiveness and community-focus of the co-operative business model, Jim is also Chair of the Co-operative Sector Team for Enterprise Saskatchewan.
Jim was born, raised and educated in Saskatchewan. Provincially, he is a director and past-president of the Better Business Bureau of Saskatchewan and President of the Duke of Edinburgh’s Award. Nationally, Jim is currently the Chair of the Canadian Cable Systems Alliance, Vice Chair of the Canadian Council of Better Business Bureaus; and a director with the Cable Public Affairs Channel.
Mary Beckett (Director)
Executive Vice-President, Chief Governance Officer, Concentra Financial Services Association
Mary has been with Concentra Financial Services Association (formerly Co-operative Trust) for over 25 years. She began her career in Personal Trust Administration and has had administrative and management experience in the areas of Personal and Corporate Trust and Trusteed Registered Plans.
Currently, as Chief Governance Officer, she serves as Corporate Secretary and Compliance/Privacy Officer for the organization. She has Executive responsibilities for Concentra Trust, a wholly owned subsidiary of Concentra Financial. Additionally she has oversight and accountability for corporate communications.
Mary is a graduate of the University of Saskatchewan and holds a Bachelor of Education (BA) and a Law Degree (LLB). Mary is involved in many community initiatives including Leadership Saskatoon, The Rotary Club of Saskatoon and the Sutherland-Forest Grove Community Association. Mary is married and has an adult son.
James Gilliard (Director)
Saskatchewan Regional Director, Co-operative Housing Federation of Canada
In the co-op sector, James has been mainly involved in bring housing to the forefront nationally and provincially. He is the President of the Co-operative Housing Association of Saskatchewan (CHAS). With the help of CHF Canada, CHAS is in the process of revitalizing itself to assist all housing co-ops in the province.
James became involved in the co-op housing sector to ensure that a Saskatchewan voice was heard at the national level. He brings this national board experience back for the benefit of all housing co-ops in the province. His interest with CHAS now is to address the core housing need in the province.
He married Sherry in 2003 and they live in a housing co-op with her two children Kiefer and Rebecca. James has many hobbies, but his biggest passion to date is affordable housing for all walks of life.
Judy Grant (Director)
Regional Manager, Group Sales and Business Development, The Co-operators
Lou Hammond Ketilson (Director)
Director, Centre for the Study of Co-operatives
(The Centre is a teaching and research unit located on the University of Saskatchewan campus)
Lou is an associate professor of Management and Marketing in the Edwards School of Business, University of Saskatchewan. She is also the director of the Northern Ontario, Manitoba, and Saskatchewan Social Economy Research Node. She recently served five years as associate dean in the business school. Lou’s research and publications focus on the management of co-operatives and other democratic organizations, women in co-operatives, Aboriginal co-op development, and diversity on boards and governance bodies. Currently, she is chair of the International Co-operative Alliance Committee on Co-operative Research.
Lou has many years of experience in designing and leading workshops for managers and elected officials in the co-operative sector in Canada, and has consulted extensively with credit unions, grain marketing organizations, and retail co-operatives.
She is a member of Affinity and Advantage Credit Unions, the Saskatoon and Naicam Co-operative Associations, the Saskatoon Community Clinic, and a former member of Saskatchewan Wheat Pool. Lou served as a board member on the Saskatoon Community Clinic from 1995–1998.
She and her husband operate a grain farm in northeast Saskatchewan.
Ken Sherwin (Director)
Director, SaskCentral
Ken enjoys working in the Co-operative Democratic Structure and the grassroots work that has been and still remains to be accomplished. He has been a Director on his local credit union (Yorkton, now Cornerstone) board since 1985 and has been President of the board for the last 10 years.
He was selected as a Delegate to SaskCentral in 2003, and elected to the board in 2008. Currently he serves on the Public Policy and the Delegate Engagement committees.
He retired in1998, after 31 years with the Yorkton School Division, spending the last 10 years as Principal and the previous 12 years as Vice-Principal of the Yorkton Regional High School.
He is a member of Cornerstone Credit Union and the Yorkton Co-op, since 1973. He has both past and current involvement in a number of school, sports, and community organizations.
Ken has been married to Merle for 42 years, and they have three children and four grandchildren. They enjoy traveling, sports and the arts.
Marla Carlson (voting representative)
Farmer Direct Co-operative Limited
Terry Morash (voting representative)
Publisher, Prairie Dog Magazine
Collette Robertson (voting representative)
Vice-President, Community Health Co-operative Federation Limited
Collette has been the member representative of the Federation to the SCA since 2008. Currently the Vice-President of the Regina Community Clinic, she has been part of the Board of Directors at the Clinic for several years.
She retired from the Ministry of Advanced Education, Labour and Employment at the Provincial government in August 2008. She served as the Aboriginal Liaison in the Universities and Adult Learning Branch, working closely with the First Nations and Metis post-secondary education institutions. She also worked in the Department of Economic Development promoting Aboriginal business and with the Department of First Nations and Metis Relations in training and employment for Aboriginal people.
Her past Board experiences include serving on the Board for Women Entrepreneurs of Saskatchewan and the Social Development Grants Board for the City of Regina.
Collette has three married children, six grandchildren and her interests include golfing and traveling.
Jason Freeman (member representative)
Farmer Direct Co-operative Limited
Roger Herman (member representative)
Research Officer - Education, Outreach and Engagement, Centre for the Study of Co-operatives, University of Saskatchewan
Roger joined the Centre in 1998 after working as Region Manager and before that as Program Officer for the Saskatchewan Region of the Canadian Co-operative Association (pre-cursor to SCA). He has been an active member of a variety of co-operatives and credit unions his entire life. Roger is a member of the board of directors, and formerly President, of the Association of Co-operative Educators (ACE). He has participated in co-operative development and education projects across Canada, but also internationally in Columbia, Indonesia, Mongolia, and China.
Roger was born and raised in Manitoba, but has made Saskatoon his home for over 20 years.
Patrick Lapointe (member representative)
Secretary, Community Health Co-operative Federation
Patrick has been active in health system development in Saskatchewan for over thirty years: he has been a leader in the development of Home Care, Long term Care and health care co-ordination in Saskatchewan; a long term advocate for the needs of the vulnerable in our society, such as the elderly, those with disabilities, the poor and First Nations peoples, and a leader in Saskatchewan’s health reform initiatives.
Patrick has been the Administrator of the Saskatoon Community Clinic since 1994. The Saskatoon Community Clinic, started in 1963, is one of Canada's most highly evolved primary health care centres. This co-operative health centre employs 150 people to provide community based interdisciplinary primary health care to 28,000 people in the Saskatoon area.
He is a Past President of Canadian Alliance of Community Health Centre Associations. This Association represents nationally the 200 community health centres functioning in provinces across Canada. He is also a past Member of the Canadian Co-operative Association's Saskatchewan Region Council.
Marilyn McKee (member representative)
Director, Federated Co-operatives Limited
Andre Perras (member representative)
Director, Co-operators Insurance
Andre has been involved with co-operatives all his life; his parents were very strong co-operators and continually advocated on behalf of the co-operative sector. His involvement with co-operatives in Saskatchewan is rooted in the benefits of co-op membership and the important role they play in the development of the communities they serve. He first became involved in co-operatives when he joined a local Saskatchewan Wheat Pool Committee in 1972. He went on to serve as a delegate and was later elected to their board of directors. Andre sits on the board of Plainsview Credit Union, Regina Community Clinic and Co-operators Insurance.
Andre has a farm with his son and together they run a mixed farm operation. In his spare time he enjoys umpiring and coaching minor ball and once in a while you can catch him trying to bring a fish home for dinner.
Hugh Sampson (member representative)
SaskCentral
