Agricorp's Board of Directors is responsible for setting Agricorp's strategic objectives and ensuring good governance. Specifically, the board:

Sets the strategic direction for Agricorp
Provides fiduciary and operational oversight
Ensures policies and reporting are being implemented effectively
Hires the CEO and manages the CEO relationship
Liaises with the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs
Monitors and evaluates the board's performance in achieving Agricorp's vision and mission

To meet these responsibilities, the board has adopted an approach to governance that is characterized by a proactive, outward vision; a collective approach to decision making; strategic leadership that focuses on the big picture; and a clear division of Board and CEO roles and responsibilities. The board strives to encourage and be open to diverse points of view.

The board consists of farm leaders and agri-business professionals nominated by the Minister of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs, and appointed by the Lieutenant Governor.

Meet Agricorp's current directors:

Barbara J. Miller (Vice-Chair)

Barbara resides in Toronto, and is currently the President and CEO of Woodwylde Inc., a consulting firm working with clients whose business plans require the collaboration of the private and public sectors. In the past, she held positions as Deputy Minister, Ontario Ministry of Economic Development and Trade, Division President, Ault Foods/Parmalat, and Chief Administrative Officer/Director, Food Industry Competitiveness, Ontario Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs. Barbara's community involvement includes serving as Chair of the Innovation Institute of Ontario and member of the Institute of Agri-Food Policy Innovation Advisory Board. Barbara holds a Bachelor of Food Science from the University of Guelph and a Masters in Business Administration from Queen's University.

Gérald Beaudry

Gérald lives in Verner, a farming community of Nipissing District, where he has grown pedigree seed for the past 20 years. A former teacher of math and science at École Secondaire Franco-Cité Sturgeon Falls, Gérald has served as a school trustee and as a municipal councillor. Presently, Gérald is a provincial director of l'Union des cultivateurs franco-ontariens, provincial director of the Ontario Soil and Crop Improvement Association, and local president of West Nipissing Soil and Crop Improvement Association. Gérald is a long-time supporter of research at the Verner test site, managed by the New Liskeard Agricultural Research Station.

Chris Button

Chris has provided financial services to people in the agri-food business since 1985. As a partner in the firm of DenHarder McNames Button, Certified General Accountants, Chris advises clients on business finances and tax matters. Chris graduated from the University of Western Ontario in 1983 with a BA, and has since achieved his CFP, CGA, and Trust and Estate Practitioner designations. Since 1999 Chris has held several executive positions in the Aylmer and Area Chamber of Commerce and with the Business Retention and Expansion Project.

David Epp

David lives in Leamington and is a third-generation farmer and co-owner of Lycoland Farms Ltd. With his brother, he farms 650 acres of processing tomatoes, peas, sweet corn, cucumbers, green and wax beans, seed corn, and cash crops. David has been very active with the Ontario Processing Vegetable Growers. He is an elected District 1 representative since 1989, a provincial director since 1995, and was chair from 2001-2003. David holds a Bachelor of Theology from the Canadian Mennonite University.

George McCaw

George was raised on a cattle and grain farm in Middlesex County. After graduating from the University of Guelph with an M.Sc. in Agricultural Economics, George worked in Ottawa for the federal Department of Finance. George worked as a policy advisor in 1990 at the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture and Food (OMAF), then at Ridgetown College from 1990 to 1996. Moving to Guelph in 1996, George's focus was business risk management, contributing to the development of such programs as the Net Income Stabilization Account (NISA), the original Gross Revenue Insurance Plan (GRIP), which is now known as the Market Revenue Program, and the Canadian Agricultural Income Stabilization (CAIS) program. George then worked for two years as Director of OMAFRA's Financial Management Branch and was recently named Director of OMAFRA's Farm Finance Branch.

John Van Turnhout

John lives in Berwick, a small farming community southeast of Ottawa. John has been farming since the mid-1960s, in dairy, cash crop, and custom work. An active member of the community, John has served as Director of the St. Lawrence River Institute of Environmental Sciences and was a founding member of Stormont-Dundas-Glengarry Land Stewardship Program. John was also program leader for the Environmental Farm Plan for Stormont County.