Dave Hope
Chair

• Chair
• Assistant Deputy Minister, Regulated Marketing Divison, Ontario Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs
  

Deborah Whale
Vice-Chair

• Vice-Chair
  
• Owner/operator of Clovermead Farms, a dairy, veal and beef operation located in Wellington County
• Past director with the Wellington Federation of Agriculture
  
• Served on the Minister's Advisory Committee for the Canadian Food Inspection Agency, the Agriculture Research Institute of Ontario and the Midwestern Ontario Co-operative Board
  
• A past Chair of the Vaccines and Infectious Diseases Organization
  
• Board member of the Ontario Institute of Agrologists
  
• Board member of the Poultry Research Council
  
• Board member of the Ontario Livestock and Poultry Council
  
  

• Partner in a 30 acre tender fruit farm in Niagara-on-the-Lake specializing in sweet and sour cherries
  
• Part-owner of Niagara Harvest, a cherry processing facility
  
• Past President of the Niagara Peninsula Fruit and Vegetable Growers' Association
  
• Served on the Produce Arbitration Board and the Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs Appeal Tribunal
  
  

Bob Aumell

• Retired from Farm Credit Canada (FCC) in 1997 after 33 years of providing specialized financial services to Canadian producers

• Currently raises alpacas and angora goats
  
• Ontario Minister of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs from 1990 to 1995
  
• Retired Teacher/Vice-Principal in elementary and secondary schools in Hastings County
  
  

Jim Clark

• Executive Director of the Ontario Cattle Feeders' Association from 1999 to 2003 and from 2005 to present
  
• Senior Policy Advisor/Stakeholder Relations for Office of the Minister of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs from 2003 to 2005
  
  

• Partner in Ewe Dell Family Farms in Essex County, a 500-head breeding flock of sheep, a provincially-inspected abattoir and a cash crop operation
  
• Executive member of Ontario Agri-Food Education Inc
  
• Past director with the Ontario Federation of Agriculture.
  
• Involved in leadership and organizational development for many years
  

• Currently runs a consulting firm, Global Agribusiness Solutions
  
• President of ConAgra Grocery Product Companies of Canada from 1998 to 2000
  
• President of Hunt-Wesson Canada from 1973 to 1998
  
• Former Chair of the Canadian Food Processors Association
  
• Past board member for the Food and Consumer Products Manufacturers of Canada
  
  

• Retired from Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada in 2004 from the position of Acting Assistant Deputy Minister for Policy. Portfolio included policy development for safety nets and farm income along with many other aspects of agriculture
  
• Worked for the Treasury Board Secretariat from 1978 to 1987

Commission Staff

• General Manager, Ontario Farm Products Marketing Commission, Ontario Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs
  

• Secretary, Ontario Farm Products Marketing Commission, Ontario Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs