Board of Directors

The Workers Compensation Board (WCB) Board of Directors: (top from left) Margaret Stewart, Harvey Larkin, Angus Houston, Sandy MacKay, Tammy Chaisson, Stuart Affleck (bottom) Charlene McInnis, Nancy Guptill, Mike Annear

Chair

Nancy Guptill
Ms. Guptill has been Chair of the Workers Compensation Board since 2007. She has made many contributions to Prince Edward Island as a former MLA and Cabinet Minister. Ms. Guptill was responsible for the Workers Compensation Act as the minister of Labour and the Status of Women. She also served as the minister of Tourism, was responsible for human rights in the province, and was the speaker of the legislative assembly.

Worker Representatives

Tammy Chaisson
Ms. Chaisson has been a Worker Representative on the Board of Directors since 2008. She currently is employed as a Medical Laboratory Technologist at both Western & Community Hospital and is President of the International Union of Operating Engineers for the past nine years. She has served on the Occupational Health and Safety Advisory Council, was an executive member of the P.E.I. Federation of Labour as well as a board member of the PEI Health Sector Council.

Sandy MacKay
Mr. MacKay has been a Worker Representative on the Board of Directors since 2004. He is a past President of both the PEI Union of Public Sector Employees and the Federation of Labour. Mr. MacKay was a member of the task force that developed the first Occupational Health and Safety Act for P.E.I. and has served on two Ministerial advisory committees that recommended changes to the Workers Compensation Act.

Charlene McInnis
Ms. McInnis has been a Worker Representative on the Board of Directors since 2004. Injured on the job in 1999, she started working with Injured Workers groups and became the Injured Workers Organizational Committee Spokesperson in 2002. She is currently employed as the PEI Military Family Services Coordinator and now works with advocacy groups for Canadian Forces members injured in the line of duty.

Margaret Stewart
Ms. Stewart has been a Worker Representative on the Board of Directors since 2004. A high school English teacher for over twenty years, and a teacher-librarian for nine, she has served as the President of the P.E.I. Teachers' Federation as well as a Director of the Canadian Teachers' Federation.

Employer Representatives

Stuart Affleck
Mr. Affleck has been an Employer Representative on the Board of Directors since 2008. He was a farm owner and operator for thirty eight years and has held many positions through organizations such as the PEI Potato Board, East Prince Regional Health Board, PEI Unit 2 Regional School Board and the PEI Provincial Family Farm Appeals Board.

Mike Annear
Mr. Annear has been an Employer Representative and Vice-Chair of the Board of Directors since 2008. He was a member of the Legislative Review Committee for the Workers Compensation Act in 2007 and served on the Board of Directors for the P.E.I. Road Building and Heavy Equipment Association. Mr. Annear also coordinated safety training and programming for Kings County Construction Ltd. for fifteen years.

Angus Houston
Mr. Houston has been an Employer Representative of the Board of Directors since 2008. He has over thirty years experience as an employer on P.E.I. working in a number of capacities in both the health and hospitality industries. Mr. Houston has also owned and co-owned restaurants in both Montague and Charlottetown.

Harvey Larkin
Mr. Larkin has been an Employer Representative of the Board of Directors since 2006. He is an employer in the hospitality industry with annual employment of 20-25 and is a farm co-owner and operator in the turkey growing business. Mr. Larkin has also served as a board member on various community organizations.