Robert (Doug) Easterbrook

Skills & Competencies:

✔️ Digital & Technology Experience
✔️ Risk Management

Doug is a professional engineer with 50 years experience building enterprise business software with accounting underpinnings. He founded 'Arts Management Systems' in 1988 to develop a CRM for Arts, Entertainment and Sports organizations across North America. As the Theatre Manager, he handled ticket sales, web sales, donations, gift certificates, financial management, project planning, and volunteer management. Unlike other ticketing companies, Doug believed each venue should control their own destiny at all times, a notable exception in an industry that operates on ticket fees.

Doug has volunteered for most of his life. He chairs the North Shuswap Disaster Recovery Society, with a mission to bring people back home. NSDRS distributed $800,000 from Shuswap Community Foundation to families left homeless by the Bush Creek fire of 2023. Financial assistance was tailored to those without insurance, which included power poles, septic, water, building materials, temporary RV homes, winterization, and rental assistance.

As a member of the North Shuswap Pathway committee, he was responsible for a marketing needs analysis. This resulted in a $500,000 BC Active Transportation Grant with the first pathway segment scheduled for construction in spring 2025.

He volunteered for Storybook Theatre in Calgary for over 30 years in various committees, in addition to serving as a Board Member for 12 years and President for nine years. In this role he helped set artistic direction, develop budgets, organize fundraisers (raising nearly $500,000) and wrote three strategic plans, successfully implementing two before retiring from the Board. Doug was also instrumental in designing and building the Calgary Community Arts Center as home to multiple arts organizations in the city.

His proudest moments have been with his wife and family who help keep his world grounded.

Constance Ladell

Skills & Competencies:

✔️ Legal, Regulatory & Compliance
✔️ Digital & Technology Experience

Constance Ladell is a present member of SASCU's Board, currently sitting as Vice Chair. She has served on all board committees and chaired the Governance, Conduct Review, and Audit Committees. Constance maintains her Credit Union Director Achievement (CUDA) designation, having completed all ongoing professional development requirements. She is a 30-year BC Credit Union member, including 11 years as a SASCU member.

Constance is a retired corporate lawyer who oversaw the legal department of a large Crown corporation and fulfilled the positions of Director of Policy and Privacy. Notable areas of her legal expertise include regulatory compliance, risk management, anti-money laundering obligations, privacy, online commerce, major IT contracting, procurement, and corporate governance. By ministerial appointment, Constance served on the corporate board of the Interprovincial Lottery Corporation, which operates Canada's National Lottery Games. She subsequently led the organization through a significant change in senior management as the Board’s Chair.

Constance has over 35 years of experience volunteering with community organizations, including serving on the boards of two sexual assault centers, a regional symphony orchestra, YM-YWCA, a community association, a seniors housing society, and the SPCA. She has also volunteered with victims’ assistance, local emergency programs, as well as technology oversight committees and trained as a disaster responder. Currently, she is a board member of the Shuswap Community Foundation and sorts donations at the Sicamous United Church Thrift Store.

Constance is grateful for the opportunity to use her experience and background as a member of SASCU's Board to support cooperative values, locally centered decision-making, and focus on our members.

Curtis Slingerland

Skills & Competencies:

✔️ Legal, Regulatory & Compliance
✔️ Risk Management

Curtis Slingerland is a highly accomplished professional with a diverse background in local government, non-profit, and community service. Curtis holds a Bachelor's Degree in Political Science from Simon Fraser University and has earned multiple certificates in local government administration, management, and emergency management from institutions such as the BC Board of Examiners, Coast Mountain College, and the University of Victoria. Curtis is currently working toward a certificate in Human Resource Management at Simon Fraser University.

Currently serving as the Chief Administrative Officer for the Central Coast Regional District, Curtis is responsible for the effective and efficient delivery of services within the district, maintaining relations with external stakeholders and First Nations, and acting as the primary policy advisor to the Board of Directors. Prior to this role, Curtis was the Director of Corporate Administration for the City of Revelstoke and the Manager of Regulatory Services at the Regional District of Kitimat-Stikine.

Curtis also has experience in the non-profit sector, having managed property services and operations for the Canadian Mental Health Association here in Salmon Arm in between his time in local government.

In addition to professional roles, Curtis is an active community member, serving on the Board of Directors for SASCU since 2022, and contributing to various committees, including the Community Relationships & Sponsorship Committee, and the Governance & Conduct Committee.

Curtis has lived in Salmon Arm since 2020 and enjoys spending time with his family, supporting local coffee shops, breweries, and walking his two dogs, Tundra and Darla.

June Stewart

Skills & Competencies:

✔️ Leadership
✔️ Financial Literacy

June Stewart is a long-time Salmon Arm resident with extensive experience on both sides of the board table. Prior to retirement, June held the position of Executive Director for Shuswap Children’s Association, providing support to families of children with developmental needs. Prior to that, June spent 20 years as a business analyst for Community Futures, attaining her accreditation as a Small Business Lender. Currently, she is using her extensive experience to provide consulting work to local non-profits to strengthen their governance practices.

On the volunteer side of the board table, June has been a director with several non-profits, including Salmon Arm Minor Baseball and Literacy Alliance of the Shuswap. She has also been involved locally by being appointed to various City of Salmon Arm Advisory Committees, including Parks, Social Impact, and the Official Community Plan Review.

June was a director of SASCU for 30 years prior to taking a two-term break and returning in 2022 for another 3 years. Her experience and long tenure with SASCU provide depth of corporate history that is very helpful in debate and decision-making on behalf of the credit union members in the Shuswap.