Chris Davis, CD, CPP

President | Principal | Security, Emergency Management and Exercises Lead

Chris is a security and emergency management professional with over thirty (30) years experience in the police, security, and emergency management fields. Throughout his professional career, including 21 years as a Military Police Officer with the Canadian Forces (where he served as the Deputy Commander of the Disaster Assistance Response Team and the Departmental Security Officer), he has worked with a wide range of first responders, emergency management and security partners and clients with a focus on security, emergency management, and communications interoperability assessments, plan and program development, training, and after action reviews.

Lorne Schmidt

Senior Consultant

Lorne joined Lansdowne Technologies in 1989 as an Engineer and Project Management Consultant after serving in the Canadian Forces as an Air Navigator for nine years. He received his P.Eng. licence in 1991 and has worked on numerous consulting assignments gaining knowledge and experience as a specialist in project management, procurement and proposal management and risk management. One of Lorne’s key strengths is his extensive experience in providing support to public sector procurements coupled with experience assisting companies bidding on major government projects. He fully comprehends the procurement process from both perspectives. Lorne holds a Canadian Risk Management certification from the Global Risk Management Institute and a Project Management Professional certification from the Project Management Institute, and has taught risk, procurement and project management at Carleton University and the Université du Québec.

Stéphane Thivierge

Consultant, Security and Emergency Management

Mr. Stéphane Thivierge is a security and intelligence professional with over twenty-four (24) years of experience in the Canadian Armed Forces. Throughout his professional career, he worked with public sector clients including several international partners on various major events and security matters. He is currently focusing on projects relating to security and emergency management to evaluate threats and risk to large scale public projects during plan development, assessments, and facilitation with the goal of achieving a more comprehensive and secure completion of projects.

Shaun Brabazon, M.Ed., CPP

Senior Consultant | Security, Emergency Management and Exercises

Shaun is a security and emergency management professional with over thirty (30) years’ experience in the police and emergency management fields. Throughout his professional career, (including 30 years as an Ottawa Police Officer attaining the rank of Staff Sergeant) he has collaborated with municipal, provincial, federal and international partners, on multiple major events, investigations, security matters and committees/associations. Shaun is a Certified Protection Professional with the American Society of Industrial Security (ASIS), and brings a diversity of experience to his role with the Lansdowne team, including a Master of Education Degree from the University of Ottawa.

Ghislain Leroux, CD, CPP, PCIP

Consultant, Security and Emergency Management

Ghislain is a seasoned security and critical infrastructure protection professional with over twenty-five (25) years of experience in the policing, security, emergency management and force protection fields. He has amassed extensive experience in operational security, addressing complex security challenges and implementing successful security solutions. With multiple domestic and international deployments as part of the Canadian Armed Forces as well as experience as a private sector consultant, Ghislain brings operational focus to organizational security and emergency management objectives.

Murray Knowles

Consutant

Murray is a former police leader with over 35 years of combined law enforcement experience. Murray has experience in all areas of policing as well as concentrated experience in tactical operations, transit security, threat and vulnerability assessments, operational planning, incident command, emergency management, business continuity and project management. A trained and experienced investigator, Murray is adept at security intelligence collection and assessment, as well as conducting police threat and vulnerability assessments. Murray has extensive experience in planning large complex policing and security operations as well as Incident Command for several major international police events and incidents. Murray is a seasoned presenter; former member of the National Incident Command working group; and former course facilitator for the nationally recognized critical incident command course.

Lise Clément, MBA, BA, CMP

Principal, Strategic Planning, Stakeholder Engagement, Change Management and Facilitation Lead

Lise is an entrepreneurial and dynamic management consultant with 16 years of experience bringing together key stakeholders from all levels of government, private sector and non-government organizations nationally and internationally to resolve complex issues, build consensus, engage leadership and build governance. Through a highly collaborative process, Lise has facilitated the development of sound and practical strategic plans, transforming vision to concrete action, building productive teams, and measuring success. As a people-person with a curiosity and desire to enable people to do their best work and organizations to realize their potential, she strives to transfer her knowledge and skills to others to build individual and organizational capability for her clients. Lise is an MBA graduate and has an undergraduate degree in communications and management and public policy with certifications in various facilitation methods.

Phil Culhane

Principal | Strategic Change Advisor

Phil works with stakeholder groups to create strategic alignment around visions and outcomes through complexity-based collaborative engagements. He’s dedicated to helping organisations and systems operate more effectively and efficiently. He designs and facilitates executive single and multi-day retreats, conferences, and events that enable people to reach consensus and develop (achievable and actionable) action plans to move forward on large change initiatives. This work is usually coupled with long-term change management projects to enable whole-system transformation. In an ideal world, the 'end result' is the establishment of a collective governance model that guides the organization forward. Basically, he works in complexity to help people who are solving the world's wicked problems.

Fiona Wright, MSLS, BSc(Env), CPF, CMP

Consultant, Sustainable Development, Solutions Labs, Stakeholder Engagement, and Facilitation

Fiona is a dynamic group facilitator and systems analyst for strategic sustainable development. She uses the strength of innovative and focussed facilitation methods and tools combined with high-level planning frameworks to support people in navigating complex issues and understanding current states and future success. She is trained in various participatory and systemic facilitation techniques for workshops, strategic planning initiatives, stakeholder engagement and consultations. She also offers experience in change management and technical writing.

Krista Jamieson, MLIS, MA

Consultant, Innovative Problem Solving, Right Access & Data Governance, Project Design, Programme Development

Krista is an information professional who wants people to get access to the information they need. With 10+ years of experience in the public sector, Krista has a deep understanding of the tension between Open Access and legitimate restrictions to access to information (Copyright, ATIP, Indigenous Data Sovereignty, etc). Using innovative problem solving and user-centred design, Krista helps organizations find the pathway between the rock and the hard place-- and then turns it into a sustainable program for the organization.

Frank Carpentier, MPM, PMP, CMSP

Principal | Project Management & Business Capture and Proposal Management

Frank is a dynamic seasoned defence sector professional with over twenty years of experience in all aspects of business delivery from business development and sales, to functional management and from strategic planning to financial reporting. Fluently bilingual he holds a Master’s degree in Project Management as well as several related professional designations. Results oriented and diligent Mr. Carpentier leverages his leadership skills to manage multiple portfolios from conception through to successful completion.

J-P Thompson

Consultant, Business Capture and Proposal Management

JP is a business analyst with experience in the not-for-profit sector. He supports business capture and proposal management.

Jamshed Nawaz

Alain Brisebois, BEng, MPA, MSc Defence Studies

Proposal Management and Training

Alain is a natural leader who throughout his career has been involved with leading multidisciplinary and multi-cultural teams and managing engineering, operations and maintenance, major geopolitical studies, continuing training and security related projects all over the world. He started to write proposals in 2012 and joined Shipley Canada in 2019 managing proposals on behalf of major Canadian and Trans-National corporations. He also provides training on how to write and manage winning proposals most effectively.

Lisa Sanchez

Office Administrator

Lisa provides key administrative support to allow for the smooth day to day running of Lansdowne.

Tanya Ducharme

Controller

Devin Campbell

Bookkeeper