Board Members

Steph is a Certified Health & Life Coach, host of the podcast Stepping to the Edge, Wellness Advocate, and retail leader with over 25 years of leadership experience.  Steph is a champion for individuals who are ready to say yes to more health, happiness and joy in their life.

As a Coach with a passion for essential oils and natural solutions, Steph works with her clients sharing impactful strategies to create healthy and sustainable habits that support living a life they love.  Steph lives into and teaches the 5 pillars of Joy: Gratitude, Generosity, Connection, Health, and Faith.  Values in action have been a guiding principle for Steph throughout her life.  Raised by parents who were actively engaged in giving back to their community, Steph was exposed to acts of generosity and service early in life, and she continues to live into their legacy.

Steph lives in Dundas with her husband and two sons.  They love to hike the trails of the Conservation Area near their home, and spend much of their time at the baseball diamond cheering on their son and his team.

Nick Davies is a recent graduate from McMaster University’s DeGroote school of Business. He has an MBA with a Process Management focus and Bachelor of Commerce (summa cum laude) with a minor in Economics.

Dedicated to raising awareness about the issues of poverty and food security in Hamilton, Nick conceptualized and brought to fruition his first Stuff the Bus food drive in support of Neighbour 2 Neighbour’s Emergency Food program more than nine years ago, while he was a student at Westmount Secondary School. Since then Stuff the Bus has become a monthly event for Nick and his volunteer team, collecting more than half a million dollars worth of food donations to date.

Nick is excited about his first year on the N2N Board and looks forward to bringing a fresh, young perspective to the leadership of Neighbour 2 Neighbour.

Joti Vallabh is an Award Winning Entrepreneur, International Speaker and Leading Expert in Paperless Bookkeeping, Accounting and Tax. Joti is the founder of Positive Accounting. She calls herself an “Accountant WITH a Personality”, so that business owners see her as a person too, since her strength lies in building and fostering these relationships.

Joti brings with her 20 plus years of international business experience. 11 of those years she was with the biggest of the big 4 accounting firms, PriceWaterhouseCoopers. At PwC she completed her articles and received her Certified Public Accountants License, South Africa. She also holds the Certified Professional Bookkeeper (CPB) designation from IPBC and is an affirmed member of the Association of Tax & Accounting Professionals (ATAP).

Joti feels privileged to be a part of the N2N board. She values the incredible work being done at N2N which fuels her spirit with a deeper connection to the community by giving back.

Dan is an entrepreneur with over 25 years of business experience, and currently owns Kaizen Performance Improvement Corp. Dan and his team help business owners scale up and improve the value of their businesses.

Despite being an electronics technologist by training, Dan’s passion is for serving people. He is a long-time fund raiser and rider in the Enbridge Ride to Conquer Cancer, and has served on the Neighbour 2 Neighbour Centre board since 2015.

Dan lives in Beamsville with his wife and two children. He is also an aviation geek and pilot. Dan is super excited for the opportunity to serve on the Neighbour 2 Neighbour board, and help lead the Hamilton Mountain community to an improved quality of life!

After being born and raised in Northwestern Ontario, Andrew is a resident of Flamborough where he lives with his spouse and three children.  Andrew and his spouse, Karen, operate a legal services business in Waterdown that focusses on helping folks use the law and other social tools to be kind to themselves, their family and community.

Andrew brings lived experience as an entrepreneur and a practicing lawyer to the Board. Mostly though, he is curious about all lives in our shared communities and is eager to contribute to improving the experience of all living creatures. 

Andrew enjoys wilderness canoeing, silence, card games with the kids and buddies, cooking and golf. 

Lorraine retired in January 2020, after a varied career in research at McMaster University and clinical practice at Hamilton Health Sciences. She spent her first 26 years in the Faculty of Health Sciences collaborating on both local and international research projects in Neonatology, Pediatrics, Child Psychiatry (Autism), Family Medicine (Palliative Care), Obstetrics, and Policy and Health Economics (Health Related Quality of Life).

In June 2006, she joined the Clinical Staff at Hamilton Health Sciences as a Clinical Psychometrist in McMaster Children’s Hospital Autism Program supporting families and children as a member of the psychology team.

Currently, she remains part of the McMaster Autism Research Team where her interests are Clinical Practice, Epidemiology and Statistical Modeling, Knowledge Translation & Exchange, and Social Science Research. She continues to volunteer in the children’s programs at Wellwood Resource Centre of Hamilton. She coordinates The Kyle Hoult Memorial Food Drive each year to benefit Neighbour to Neighbour.

Lorraine looks forward to supporting the incredible work being done at Neighbour 2 Neighbour as a Board Member.

Joan retired in 2018 with over forty years of experience in health and human service provision and as a consultant to not-for-profit organizations. Joan is familiar with and experienced in not-for-profit governance, policies and procedures, fund development, and program and service management.

Joan graduated from McMaster University with a Master’s degree in Social Welfare Policy that supported her passion for not-for-profit service provision. Joan lives in the Hamilton area with her husband and has two adult children.

Joan is looking forward to contributing her skills to Neighbour 2 Neighbour Centre as a Board Member to improve quality of life through preventative measures and strategies to alleviate the consequences of living with poverty in Hamilton. 

Chris White has spent his career as a manufacturer and employer in the Hamilton area for most of his life. Chris has been in the equipment manufacturing industry for many years and currently owns and operates Fruitland Manufacturing in Stoney Creek. He continues to be an advocate for the development of technical trades at his company and is working with various groups to create opportunities for employment through educational programs in the Hamilton area.

Chris has served on boards for The Hamilton All Star Jazz Band, Hillfield Strathallan College, as well as advisor and fundraiser for The Good Shepherd Centre and Neighbour 2 Neighbour Centre. He is also an aviator and musician and can be found performing at various venues in the area.

Chris hopes to bring his business acumen and analytical skills to assist in the development of key goals and objectives for Neighbour 2 Neighbour.