Adrienne Clements, President

Adrienne has over 18 years of experience in international development at the middle to senior executive levels. Much of her career has been focused on working towards the improvement of children’s lives both in Canada and overseas. Leading the strategic direction of an organization and developing new visions for its program direction, creating strong and dynamic teams as well a mobilizing resources and funding are areas where Adrienne has a great deal of experience and success.

As a volunteer and Board member to numerous organisations, Adrienne has gained sound experience in policy formulation, negotiations, strategic planning and organizational development. In addition, she has participated as a delegate and author to a number of international forums, including various United Nationals Conferences and the International Save the Children Alliance.

Adrienne has been fortunate to have had the opportunity to work at both the national and international policy and program levels to try and ensure that issues affecting children, girls and their families are both recognized and addressed. Through various experiences with the Save the Children International Alliance, the United Nations and Canadian non-governmental agencies she has worked to address issues such as the girl child, working children, children and HIV/AIDS, and children rights.

Dr. Gabriel Etele, PhD

Mr. Etele has an extensive background in a number of key business sectors that include television, production, management of business associations in Canada, national fund development in the health charity sector and running a business consulting practice.

In the last decade in the area of business management for various clients, Mr. Etele contributed his talents to successfully developing and establishing Business Improvement Areas in Canada.  Resulting from a personal experience with a friend who lives today because of a liver transplant, Mr. Etele has since moved into the national health charity sector.  He is responsible for successfully raising millions of dollars for two national health charities that have provided funds for medical research.

Prior to the current activities, in the television production sector, Mr. Etele participated successfully at senior management levels in both Canada and the United States for some of the most well know and prestigious television shows broadcast in Canada, United States and Internationally.  It is his commitment and philosophy to a team environment that successfully brings together the wide diversity of skills and talents required in achieving goals and deadline driven projects.

Mr. Etele is a volunteer Board member with Pediatric Aids Canada, a Canadian Charity that is involved in helping children who suffer with AIDS overseas and he is pleased to contribute his time and talents to assist in this cause.

Currently Mr. Etele has a consulting practice and is on contract to a national health charity as President and CEO.

Fr. Harold Bradley, SJ

A veteran of World War II, Father Bradley, like so many others, was influenced by that experience.  A Kansas City boy, he served in a tank company of the Texas National Guard in Italy and was deeply affected by what he lived through during those years.  Yet, for Father Bradley that was "essential in the formation of my personality."

He has been a member of the Jesuit order for fifty years.

In a theme that has dominated his life in the church, a veteran’s rage at loss has become a priest’s passion to help others break out of poverty and illness, to give them the opportunity to flourish and grow old.  Father Bradley has served in Honduras, Colombia, and Ecuador working with underprivileged people and sharing God’s love.  He has been a professor in Georgetown University where he started a program to bring disadvantaged boys and girls from Central America to trade schools in the United States, returning them with skills to pave their way into middle-class lives in their own countries.

Today, Father Bradley works at Marquette University, with an AIDS project in Africa, led by Marquette professor Karen Ivantic-Doucette. The program   brought 12 nurses from Kenya to the United States for intensive training in AIDS treatment.  Those twelve have in their turn trained three thousand other nurses in Kenya for AIDS care.

Father Bradley is active in his work as part of the PAC board of directors and also serves as the Vice President of the board of directors of the American Foundation for Children with AIDS.

Esther Hagerman

Esther Hagerman started visiting developing countries at a young age, and was profoundly influenced by the level of poverty and inequality that she saw. She briefly lived in Kenya as a teenager, and her interest and commitment to humanitarian work was cemented.

She graduated with an Honours B. A. from Queen's University, Kingston, in Development Studies and History, with a regional focus on Africa and a thematic focus on gender and economics.

Esther has worked on projects in Nepal, developing sustainable tourism in the environmentally sensitive Everest area, and in Mauritius, fostering trade relations between African women entrepreneurs and Canadian organizations.

She is an Account Manager at Sun Life Financial and lives in Calgary, Alberta with her husband Peter.

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