Peter is a seasoned senior health care executive with over 25 years of healthcare leadership experience in both the public and private sectors. He has broad expertise in business and clinical transformation, project leadership, process improvement, strategic planning, and senior stakeholder engagement.
Peter is known as an innovative, results-oriented, and collaborative leader and has led significant change initiatives in both the BC and Ontario health systems. Using an authentic leadership style, he has built high-performing teams and successfully mobilized organizations to achieve their strategic goals, increase capacity, and improve operational efficiency and effectiveness.
Peter recently served as the Vice President of Transformation at The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) in Toronto where he was responsible for leading the redevelopment of the entire SickKids campus – a multi-billion-dollar project involving the transformation of clinical care models, workplace strategies, and corporate systems/processes including the advancement of SickKids’ digital strategy and improved integration of teaching, care, administration, and research activities.
Peter was also a Vice-President at the Fraser Health Authority in British Columbia. In this role, Peter built and led a Corporate Services portfolio that was responsible for supporting the development and delivery of all health-care facility projects in the Lower Mainland of British Columbia and overseeing a variety of corporate services including facilities management, business development, real estate, and security in a shared services model for 4 major provincial health organizations.
Before joining Fraser Health, Peter was a Vice President at Mercer Global, a consulting firm providing a full range of services for the medical and dental professions in North America including business consulting, continuing education, and financial advisory services. He has also served on the Board of Directors of the BC Centre for Ability Association – a non-profit society providing therapy and other services for disabled children and adults, practiced corporate/commercial law at Lawson Lundell in Vancouver, and was an Instructor at the Ivey School of Business at Western University.
Peter has an Executive Certificate in Managing Healthcare Delivery from Harvard Business School, a law degree from Queen's University, and a bachelor's degree in Honours Business Administration from the Ivey School of Business at Western University.