Cathy Landolt (co-Chair)
Cathy Landolt is the founder and CEO of Blue Elephant Productions, a digital marketing agency serving non-profits and SMBs since 2016. She previously held senior roles at The Royal Conservatory of Music as Director of Client Services and at the Canadian Marketing Association as Vice-President of Events. Cathy works on a wide range of B2B and B2C projects, helping clients bring their ideas to life online and IRL through digital marketing, content creation, traditional media, and website development. She works on digital ads and ghost writes articles for clients. She focuses on brand integration, building a unified, branded, digital presence for her clients and streamlining communications. She has mentored student projects at Centennial College and also offers training for junior marketers looking to build their skills. She holds a degree in Music and History from York University, loves watching the Blue Jays, and fervently hopes she isn’t asked to prove any skills ON the field.
Scott Smith (co-Chair)
Scott is a Managing Director at BMO Capital Markets in the Equity Capital Markets group that is responsible for all equity underwritings. He has been in the financial industry for over 25 years. Born in Montreal and graduated from Concordia University with a Bachelor of Commerce degree. Married and has a son and a daughter. He is a lifelong Montreal Expos fan that converted to a Blue Jays fan in 2004 and attends baseball spring training every year.
Chris Stamper (co-Chair)
Chris Stamper is a senior marketing and digital strategy executive with over 35 years of experience across Canada’s leading financial institutions and retailers. Currently, Chris leads Digital Marketing and Public Sites Strategy at Royal Bank of Canada, overseeing the bank’s digital storefront and integrated media strategy.
During his 30-year career at TD Bank, Chris progressed through increasingly senior roles, including Chief Marketing Officer and Senior Vice President, Corporate Marketing. He also held the position of Senior Vice President, Marketing, Loyalty and Credit at Hudson’s Bay. Chris holds an undergraduate degree from Western University, an MBA from Rotman School of Management, and completed the Advanced Management Programme at INSEAD. Chris resides in Oakville, Ontario, with his wife Karen and remains actively involved with his two adult children.
Lyle Abbott
Lyle is a Chartered Accountant in Canada and a Certified Public Accountant in the US who brings diverse industry and sector experience in accounting, finance, strategic planning, and new business development to the Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum. In addition to his work in public accounting, Lyle brings a solid background in sport management from his work in professional baseball, event management (most notably with the Vancouver2010 Winter Olympic Games), and his extensive work in the not-for-profit sector. An avid baseball fan, Lyle grew up cheering on the Blue Jays at Exhibition Stadium while always rooting – and forever keeping the faith – for the San Diego Padres.
Judd Attridge (Treasurer)
Judd is a Chartered Accountant and has been a Partner at Famme & Co. Professional Corporation since 2018. He has been in public accounting for over 20 years servicing a variety of clients including individuals, professionals, not-for profit organizations, charities, and owner-managed businesses carrying on a variety of activities.
Born in St Marys, Judd currently resides in Stratford with his wife Meaghan and two boys Oscar and Felix. His great grandfather, Oscar Judd, was inducted into the Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame in 1986 after an 8-year career with the Boston Red Sox and Philadelphia Phillies.
Gregor Chisholm
Gregor is the Major League Baseball columnist for The Toronto Star. Prior to that he was a reporter for MLB.com where he started covering the Toronto Blue Jays in 2007. A proud Maritimer, Gregor grew up in Saint John, New Brunswick and is a graduate of St. Francis Xavier University. He moved to Toronto in 2005 to pursue a career in sports journalism and his non-baseball work includes reporting on The Toronto Raptors, the 2010 Vancouver Olympics and the World Junior Hockey Championship. Gregor currently resides in the east end of Toronto with his partner Heidi and their five-year-old son Bryer, who is starting to love baseball as much as his father.
Rob Edney (ex officio)
Rob is serving his second term on St. Marys council, and holds the Deputy Mayor position for 2021. Rob is a multi-instrumentalist/vocalist and has been a popular performer in Toronto and throughout Ontario for 4 decades. Outside of music and municipal politics, Rob enjoys baseball, hockey, attending concerts, travel, and art galleries. He has a passion for social justice, and believes that art, culture and sport are a strong means to that end. Since moving to St. Marys in 2000, Rob has been a big supporter of the Hall, lending his musical talents to many ceremonies, including singing the anthem at the 2019 induction ceremony.
Holly LaPierre
Holly retired from Bell Canada after 33 years in 2021. She has been the president of Hammonds Plains Minor Baseball, a suburb of Halifax, since 2006. Holly also held the position of treasurer for Baseball Canada and Baseball Nova Scotia. In 2018 she received the first ever female builder award from Baseball Canada for her dedication to the growth and promotion of female baseball. Being from the East Coast, she naturally was a Boston Red Sox fan, but the rise of the Blue Jays thru the mid 80’s swung her loyalty to Canada’s team.
Honsing Leung
Honsing has had a passion for the game of baseball growing up in Scarborough and playing at a young age. After graduating from Laurentian with a B.COMM SPAD (Sports Administration), attended Florida State University and received his Masters is Sports Management while gaining valuable experience with in a Division 1 athletics setting. Currently Sr. Manager, Partnership Marketing at the Toronto Blue Jays, he works with their Tier 1 partners & brands to create and execute lasting & impactful programs in the marketplace. While not at Rogers Centre, he is also a coach with the Toronto Mets program and has been a small part of helping develop Amateur baseball players for almost 20 years, including 5 Big Leaguers!
Michael Lunder
Michael has a love for baseball and a talent for turning data into action. He’s been with the Toronto Blue Jays since 2015, and in his current role as Director of Business Planning, he helps shape long-term strategy and supports key decisions with practical, insight-driven analysis. Based in Toronto, he brings years of experience in finance and business planning. Michael is a U of T Rotman Commerce grad and a proud supporter of growing the game in Canada.
Candy McEwan
Candy is an elementary school teacher with the Avon Maitland District School Board. She has worked for over 20 years in her own classroom as well as a support for other teachers. She is currently president of St. Marys Minor Ball, having been involved with the association for over 15 years as a parent, coach and executive member. Other than attending the University of Waterloo and the University of Windsor, Candy has been a lifelong resident and ball player in St. Marys. Candy has enjoyed her various roles being involved with her children’s baseball, ringette and hockey teams.
Roger Ramsay (Secretary)
Roger is a high school vice-principal with the Avon Maitland District School Board. His leadership career spans two decades, with a focus on student success, e-Learning and community engagement. He is skilled in the area of partnership development and creative problem-solving, and enjoys connecting with baseball fans in ballparks across North America. Roger has coached various high school sports, including baseball, over the years, as well as serving as a community baseball coach. He grew up volunteering at local museums in his hometown of Hamilton where he learned the value of living history and interactive exhibits. He enjoys attending Toronto Blue Jays games in Toronto on the weekends, and spends his March Breaks in Dunedin, Florida with his wife, Kerry, where they cheer on the Jays during Spring Training Camp.
Dev Srinivasan
Dev is the Executive Vice President, Customer Engagement and Data. In this role, he oversees data strategy and insights, customer personalization and digital marketing for RBC Personal Banking and RBC Commercial Banking. Dev is also responsible for the operations of RBC’s Caribbean Bank and RBC Bank in the U.S.
Dev joined RBC in 2021 as Senior Vice President, Enterprise Strategy & Transformation, working closely with Group Executive and their teams on cross-enterprise strategic topics, enterprise strategy governance and key transformation initiatives.
Prior to joining RBC, Dev held progressively senior operational and strategy roles at another Canadian Bank, including Chief Operating Officer Canadian Business Banking, RVP Ontario Region for the Corporate Finance Division and Head Enterprise Transformation.
Dev also spent six years at McKinsey and Company, leaving as an Associate Principal and worked in Capital Markets at Citicorp and HSBC. Over his career, Dev has developed a distinct reputation as a pragmatic business operator and executor, a data-driven thought partner, and horizontal change agent.
Dev holds an MBA with distinction from the Ivey School of Business at the University of Western Ontario and is also a CFA charter holder. He lives in Toronto with his wife Jessica and their three boys Jake, Victor, and Nicholas. Outside of work, Dev enjoys golfing and spending time with his family and friends at the cottage.
Al Strathdee (ex officio)
Al is currently serving his second term as Mayor of the Town of St. Marys. He is a local small business owner, and holds an Honours BA in History and Political Science from Wilfrid Laurier University and a B. Ed. from the University of Ottawa. Al and his wife Gloria have three children and enjoy travel and supporting local community causes in their spare time.
Brian Ward
Brian is a lawyer and the co-owner of W&W Dispute Resolution Services Inc. Through his firm, he has provided independent third party services to over 20 national sport organizations and has provided dispute resolution services including mediation and adjudication services to numerous sport organizations at the club and provincial levels. He was one part of the OSIC Working Group and he is a tribunal member with the International Equestrian Federation. Previously Brian provided athlete representation services and practiced law in Ontario in insurance/civil litigation. Brian was called to the Bar of Ontario in 1988, holds a B.C.L and LL.B from McGill University (1986), an Executive Certificate in Conflict Management (2015) from the University of Windsor and an Advanced Certificate in Adjudication from York University (Osgoode Law School) (2018)
Scott Crawford (Director of Operations)
Born and raised in Georgetown, Ontario and has been the Director of Operations at the Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum since January 2000. Prior to that he completed his Sports Administration degree at Durham College in Oshawa and obtained his BA in Anthropology/Archaeology at Lakehead University in Thunder Bay. Completed the Ontario Museum Association Museum Certificate. In 2024 was awarded with the Ontario Baseball Association’s President’s award. Currently ranked 91st in Bob Elliott’s top 140 list of most influential Canadians in baseball.
Lindsay Earle (Care of Collections and Public Engagement Supervisor)
Lindsay joined the staff of the Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum in January 2024. She has an undergraduate degree in English and Classical History from Brock University, and a post-graduate degree from Fleming College in Cultural Heritage Conservation and Management. Lindsay’s museum career began as a costumed interpretive guide, first at Fort George NHS in the summer of 2014, and later at Sainte-Marie among the Hurons from 2015-2020. From 2020-2023 Lindsay worked as the History Programming Coordinator at the Orillia Museum of Art & History. Lindsay was raised with a love of baseball, and has been playing softball every summer since she was eleven years old. Being able to combine her love of both history and baseball is a dream come true!
Amanda Weber – (Financial and Fundraising Administration Coordinator)
Amanda has been part of the CBHFM team since 2021 in various capacities. Her passion for both museums and baseball makes this position a great fit and a joy to come back to each day. Amanda balances her time between the Hall of Fame, guiding visitors at another museum and running after her very busy toddler.