Director & President: Geoff Kettel ✉
Geoff Kettel is a community connector and advocate for “making places better”, active in land use planning, heritage preservation, active transportation, and community development.
He is currently Co-President of the Leaside Property Owners’ Association, Co-Chair of the Federation of North Toronto Residents’ Associations (FoNTRA), Member of the Toronto Preservation Board, board member of Don Valley Community Legal Services, and member of the Steering committees of Walk Toronto and Cycle Don Valley Midtown. He writes a monthly column on community planning issues in Leaside Life magazine. He is also the founder and co-chair of Neighbours’ Night Out in Thorncliffe Park. Geoff had a 33-year career in the Ontario public service serving in various ministries. Prior to that, he was a Land Use Planner in private practice.
Director, Membership: Al Kivi ✉
Al Kivi has an engineering degree from Queens University (B.Sc. Eng.) and an MBA from University of Toronto with a speciality in IT. Al was a licensed professional engineer (P. Eng.) in Ontario for over 35 years. Al’s business career included IT programming and management positions with Shell Canada, Gulf Canada, Canadian Pacific, Ontario Hospital Association, Nortel and various smaller telecommunications software vendors.
Al has been an active Board member of the South Eglinton Davisville Residents’ Association (SEDRA) for many years and has assisted residents across the city over this period of time. Al is also a Board member of FoNTRA and is a member of the FoNTRA steering committee.
Director & Treasurer: Don Stewart ✉
Born, raised and educated in Montreal, Don spent most of his career working in Information Technology in the private sector based in Toronto. In Toronto he spent 15 years on the Board of the Lytton Park Residents’ Organization (multiple terms as president) and many years on the North Toronto Memorial Community Centre Advisory Council (several terms as chair). Upon retirement, he moved to Ottawa where he serves as co-president of the Westboro Beach Community Association and the Federation of Citizens’ Associations of Ottawa representative on the FUN Board.
Director & Past President: Archie Campbell ✉
Archie Campbell, FUN president from 2009 to 2018 and current Past President on the FUN executive, is a former president of the Dalhousie Community Association, a central area residents association in Ottawa.
He also was the President of the Federation of Citizens Association of Ottawa-Carleton from 2006 to 2011 and has been active in the Federation of Urban Neighbourhoods since 2001.
Member-at-large: Robert Murray ✉
Robert is a long time resident of Lytton Park, and is currently serving as Vice-President of the Lytton Park Residents’ Organization. He has held senior Information Technology management positions within the communications, retail and petroleum industries, and is now retired.
Robert has been active with youth soccer and hockey programs in North Toronto. A key focus currently is heritage conservation.