Mr. Temerty is Chairman of the Board of Trustees of Northland Power Income Fund. Previously, Mr. Temerty owned and operated the world’s largest privately held chain of ComputerLand stores. Prior to that, he held numerous positions with IBM in Canada and the US and assisted in the founding of Softchoice Corporation and served as its Chair for 15 years.

Mr. Temerty has been an active community leader and has played instrumental roles in philanthropy. He was chairman of the Ukrainian Centennial Fundraising Campaign, a member of the Sunnybrook Hospital Foundation Governing Council, Co-Chair of the Havergal College Capital Campaign, a director of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra and the Canadian Psychiatric Research Foundation.

Internationally, he was instrumental in launching the Kyiv Mohyla Business School of which he serves as Chairman of the Advisory Council. He chaired the Ukrainian Election Observers Campaign, facilitating 500 private sector election observers to the 2004 Orange Revolution presidential election. He is a donor and Trustee of the Children’s Hospital of the Future in Kyiv, Ukraine.

From 2002 to 2009, Mr. Temerty served as Chairman of the Royal Ontario Museum Board of Governors. Mr. Temerty is a recipient of many honours including Member of the Order of Canada and recipient of UCC’s Shevchenko Medal. He has been married 42 years to Louise Arcand Temerty, and has two daughters Melissa and Leah.

Erast Huculak
Advisory Council Member

Mr. Huculak was born in Ukraine and immigrated with his parents to Canada in 1948. He founded the first Medical Pharmacy in Oshawa, ON and just retired from the position of president and chairman of the board of Medical Pharmacies Group, which is a chain of 37 pharmacies and over 650 employees in Ontario. Medical Pharmacies Group is the largest provider of pharmaceuticals to Long Term Care facilities in Canada.

Mr. Huculak has been a very active member of many organizations. He organized an interdenominational school that was accredited by the Board of Education in Oshawa, 1962. He was Member of the Library Board, Oshawa 1963-65, President of Business and Professional Club in Oshawa, Leader (stanychnyj) of Plast in Toronto 1983-1987, President for four years of Canadian Friends of Rukh for Canada, and is one of the founders and director of the “Children of Chornobyl Canadian Fund”. Mr. Huculak is also active in many professional, business and medical associations.

Mr. Huculak’s has many philanthropic activities, both in Canada and Ukraine. He established the “Huculak Chair of Culture and Ethnography” at the University of Alberta, purchased and donated a building in Ottawa for the first Ukrainian Embassy in Canada, donated 550 acres of land in the Durham Region for creation of a park, donated substantial sum of money to UCC for Holodomor-Genocide information, donated large sums of money to the Ostroh University in Ukraine and provided funds to Plast -Toronto to purchase a building in Toronto for their scouting activities and for community use. Through the years constant contributor to many charitable organizations and schools in Canada and Ukraine.

For all of his achievements Mr. Huculak has been awarded with the Taras Shevchenko medal by the UCC in 1995, the Ukraine President’s Medal of Merit 3rd degree in 1996,
and the Ukraine President’s Medal of Merit 2nd degree in 2001. He was bestowed a Honorary Doctor of Laws Degree by U of Alberta 2001, appointed as Honorary Consul of Ukraine in Canada 2003, and appointed to the Order of Canada in 2006. Most recently Mr. Huculak has received the Medal by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine 2009, Prince Ostroh gold Medal, by the Ostroh Academy 2011 and the Plast Orden of “Eternal Fire” in gold 2011.