MCGILL BUCKLEY - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- ASSOCIATE
- Senior Associate
Job Titles:
- ASSOCIATE
- Senior Associate
- Supports Professionals
- Vice - Chair of the Board of Directors for the Dave Smith Youth Treatment Centre
Derek has a Bachelor of Applied Arts (BAA) in Radio and Television from TMU (formerly Ryerson University). An active volunteer, he serves as Vice-Chair of the Board of Directors for the Dave Smith Youth Treatment Centre and is a Past President of the Canadian Club of Ottawa.
Married with three adult children and four grandchildren, Derek is an active triathlete who revels in family singalongs around the campfire.
Derek is a long-time associate and brings extensive experience in journalism, strategic communications, facilitation/hosting and executive coaching.
Lisa Brazeau brings years of strategic communications and project management experience and an uncanny ability to work from almost anywhere.
Job Titles:
- Associate
- Director
- Senior Associate, Fundraising
Melanie brings over two decades of senior-level fundraising, planning, and leadership experience. She embraces adventures and is honoured to have fished with the infamous Salmon Sisters!
Melanie is a director on the Carleton Place Hospital Foundation board and a former Ottawa Art Gallery Board director. She is also an executive mentor and coach within the charitable sector and a peer support coach with the Melanoma Network of Canada. She is a proud mom of five, a delighted grandmother of three, an avid boater, a happy wife and a friend to many.
Job Titles:
- PARTNER
- Director of Creative Services & Art Director
- Lead Designer
Nadine Buckley started her first business, a design studio in Ottawa, Ontario, with her sister Kim while still in her teens and months after graduating with a Diploma in Commercial Art from Ottawa's Algonquin College. In those days, Algonquin was a bilingual college, and Nadine graduated from the French program - Art Commerciale.
Her parents, entrepreneurs both may have well inspired her early foray into business, but there is little doubt that her drive, ambition and legendary determination played a significant role.
Eventually, Nadine moved on to work in the family business, expanding her design portfolio to include exhibits, trade show spaces and branded environments. Ask her about her adventures co-designing and project managing the 30,000-square-foot Canada House exhibit in Montreal sometime.
Nadine Buckley has also been the lead designer on many branding programs, including Deerhurst Resort, Canadian Public Health Association, Wheelchair Basketball Canada, Binks Commercial Insurance, St. John Ambulance Canada, Carebridge Community Support and the Canadian Centre on Substance Abuse.
Nadine has designed fundraising campaigns for the Dave Smith Youth Treatment Centre, Perley and Rideau Veterans Health Centre Foundation, Canadian Guide Dogs for the Blind, Support Our Troops, Bruyère Foundation and many more.
Job Titles:
- PARTNER
- Business and Creative Partner