Board of Directors
The St. Michael’s College School Board of Directors is comprised of a blend of religious and lay members.
Representing multiple stakeholder groups with varying bodies of professional expertise and life experience, the SMCS Board of Directors is tasked with supporting the setting of school policies and procedures, strategic direction and financial matters.
Mr. John Dalla Costa, Director
Mr. John Dalla Costa is the founding director of the Centre for Ethical Orientation. He has provided ethics and governance consulting internationally to organizations in the public, private, and not-for-profit sectors.
An original faculty member of the Directors College, for ten years he also taught business ethics and social responsibility at the Schulich School of Business.
He has authored five books including most recently, ‘Magnificence at Work: Living Faith in Business’, and bestselling, ‘Working Wisdom: The Ultimate Value in the New Economy’.
A newly appointed Fellow of the Caux Round Table, Mr. Dalla Costa is working with an international network of business leaders and the Vatican to foster the moral principles for ‘Inclusive Capitalism’. He is also part of an interdisciplinary task-force at the Pontifical University of Thomas Aquinas that is developing a framework for the integral economy based on the Apostolic Exhortations and Encyclicals of Pope Francis.
Mr. Dalla Costa holds a BA in literature from Dominican University, as well as a BA in Sacred Theology and a Master of Divinity from Regis College.
Mr. Ciro DeCiantis, Director
Ciro DeCiantis is a Chartered Professional Accountant who retired in 2023 from Deloitte after 37 years with the firm, 25 of which were as a partner. Ciro was charged with bringing the best of the global firm to some of Deloitte’s largest clients in various industries. His focus was mainly on the real estate industry, which included serving as the firm’s National Real Estate Leader in Canada.
He has significant experience resolving complex accounting issues and has led engagements for various organizations accessing the Canadian and U.S. public capital markets. As a member of the Toronto audit leadership team, Ciro was also responsible for leading his partners in creating an environment for the firm’s high-performing talent to excel.
Ciro is married with two sons, Michael ’09 and Alexander ’11, and a daughter. He is a graduate of the University of St. Michael’s College, is actively involved in his local parish, and serves as a volunteer board member of multiple community organizations.
Mr. Patrick Fradley-Davis ’77, Director
Patrick graduated from St. Michael’s College School in 1977.
He is a retired human resources professional with 32 years of experience at Ontario Hydro/Ontario Power Generation. His work experience within human resources has covered many facets including, health and safety, wellness, compensation and benefits, disability management, operational audit, and training.
In his post-retirement, Patrick has taught human resources and occupational health and safety at George Brown College and Sheridan College.
Patrick is currently a certified workplace investigator for a small law firm. He investigates harassment and discrimination claims under the Occupational Health and Safety act.
He has maintained close ties to his community by volunteering on local committees and community projects. Patrick’s board experience includes being the current board Chair for the Canadian Mental Health Association in Peel/Dufferin. An organization that offers grassroots mental health support to the communities in Peel Region and Dufferin county.
Patrick is also the Co-chair of the Working Committee for the Hills of Headwaters Ontario Health Team. A local, regional team assembled to provide integrated health services to Orangeville, Caledon, and surrounding communities.
Fr. Glenn McDonald, CSB, Director
Fr. Glenn McDonald is from Airdrie, AB, and studied mechanical engineering at the University of Alberta. He met the Basilian Fathers at St. Joseph’s College, the Catholic College at the U of A. In 2001, he entered the Basilian novitiate in Tehuacán, Mexico.
After professing temporary vows, he studied theology at the University of St. Michael’s College, Toronto. During his final year of theological studies, he taught Grade 10 math at St. Michael’s College School.
Fr. Glenn’s life with the Basilian Fathers has taken him to several places: Christ the King Parish in Rochester, N.Y.; St. Joseph’s College, Edmonton; and St. Basil’s Parish, Toronto.
He currently serves as pastor of the parishes of St. Alphonsus and St. Clare, Edmonton, and is a Division Chaplain with Edmonton Catholic School Division. He is also a board member of L’Arche Edmonton.
Fr. John Huber, CSB, PhD, Director
Fr. John Huber, CSB is Vicar General of the Congregation of St. Basil and also serves as the director of the Basilian Network for Education and the New Evangelization. He currently resides in Toronto. He was born in Rochester, New York and attended Aquinas Institute when it was run by the Basilian Fathers. He holds a Bachelor of Arts from St. John Fisher University, a Master of Theology from the University of St. Michael’s College, a Master of Arts from Middlebury College, and a Doctorate in Catholic Educational Leadership from the University of San Francisco.
He has served in several Basilian high schools, including the Aquinas Institute of Rochester; l’Intercollège Saint-Denis in Annonay, France, Bishop O’Dowd High School in Oakland, California; St. Thomas High School in Houston where he served as principal; and Detroit Catholic Central where he served as principal and then president. He sits on the boards of three high schools as well as the Board of Directors of the University of St. Thomas in Houston.
Ms. Rosanne Rocchi, Director
Rosanne Rocchi is an Associate Counsel for Miller Thomson LLP and has practiced law in Toronto for over 40 years. Her expertise is in the areas of tax and trust law with an emphasis on fiduciary issues in both the commercial context and the charitable sector.
She has served on the boards of a number of financial institutions, educational institutions, and professional sports leagues.
Rosanne is a graduate of the University of St. Michael’s College at the University of Toronto and Osgoode Hall Law School.
Fr. Warren Schmidt, CSB, PhD, Director
Fr. Warren Schmidt, CSB, is from Edmonton, AB. In 2004, he graduated from the University of Alberta’s Faculté Saint-Jean with a BSc, majoring in biological sciences. Fr. Warren met the Basilians while working as a technologist in an environmental microbiology lab in Edmonton, studying philosophy and being actively involved in Catholic student groups at St. Joseph’s College at the University of Alberta. In 2009, he professed first vows as a Basilian and was ordained a priest in 2014.
Fr. Warren taught high school French and English as a Basilian at Instituto Nuestra Señora de la Asunción (INSA) in Cali, Colombia. His Basilian life has brought him to Cali and Santa Marta, Colombia; Windsor, Ontario, as a novice; Toronto for theological studies at the University of St. Michael’s College; St. Kateri Tekakwitha Parish in Rochester, NY; Paris, France, where he earned his PhD in sacramental theology from the l’Institut Catholique de Paris; and now full-circle back to Edmonton, where he currently teaches theology at St. Joseph’s College.
Mr. Peter E. Sweeney ’82, Chair of the Board
Peter recently founded Green Emerald Real Estate Group, a Canadian real estate investment group that is focused on Canadian based income producing assets that include retail shopping centres, industrial and warehouse facilities and commercial office buildings, which provide constituent investors with stable, safe, and secure returns over the long term.
Prior to establishing Green Emerald, Peter was the Chief Financial Officer of SmartCentres Real Estate Investment Trust (REIT), one of Canada’s largest fully integrated REITs specializing in retail and mixed-use real estate.
Prior to joining SmartCentres REIT in 2014, Peter served as the Vice President and Chief Financial Officer at Allied Properties from 2010-2014. From 1996-2010, he held the position of Chief Financial Officer at DTZ Barnicke, a leading real estate brokerage and advisory firm. Peter has been a Chartered Accountant since 1988 and he is a graduate of Ryerson University in 1986 and St. Michael’s College School (SMCS) in 1982.
His five sons all graduated from SMCS: Robert ’06, Peter Jr. ’07, Patrick ’08, Niall ’11, and Declan ’13.
Peter served an instrumental fundraising role for both the SMCS Centre for the Arts and the Basilian Fathers’ Presentation Manor retirement residence project. In addition, Peter has spent the last 20 years as a member of the Southdown Board of Directors, a charitable organization that provides preventative and restorative care to clergy and vowed religious.