Sheree MacDonald served as Deputy Minister of the Department of Government Services since January 2006. Her extensive experience with the Provincial Government includes as Assistant Secretary to Cabinet (Social Policy) in the Cabinet Secretariat of Executive Council; Assistant Deputy Minister, Women�s Policy Office, Executive Council; and, Director of Policy and Planning for Public Service Reform and the Public Service Commission. Ms. MacDonald was also co-ordinator for both the initial program review and regulatory reform processes. She also worked for a number of years with the former Department of Social Services in direct service delivery, training, planning and policy development, which included liaising with volunteer, community and private sector groups.

Ms. MacDonald holds a bachelor of social work degree from Memorial University and a masters certificate in project management from York University.

Darrin G. Pike has had extensive senior management and teaching experience in the education system in Newfoundland and Labrador since 1990. Since 2007, he was Chief Executive Officer/Director of Education with Eastern School District. For a two-year period before taking that position, he was Assistant Director of Education (Programs) with Eastern School District.

He has also worked as Director of the Centre for Distance Learning and Innovation, Department of Education; Principal, Ascension Collegiate, Bay Roberts; Program Implementation Specialist Avalon West School District, and various other teaching positions at both the high school and post-secondary levels.

Mr. Pike received a Prime Minister�s Award for Teaching Excellence in 1997 and one of four honourable mentions in the Reader's Digest Leadership in Education Award in 1996. During his tenure as an administrator at Ascension Collegiate, the school was selected as the only school in the province, and one of 12 in North America, to attend the 1995 National Institute for Excellence in Education and the Conference Board of Canada Partnership Nomination in 1996. Ascension Collegiate also received the Newfoundland and Labrador School Boards Association Award of Excellence in recognition of its outstanding record of achievement and leadership.

Mr. Pike has a masters degree in teaching and learning, a bachelor of science and bachelor of education from Memorial University.

Donna Brewer began her career with the Provincial Government in 1987. In May 2005 she was appointed Assistant Secretary to Treasury Board; as the result of restructuring a month later, she became Assistant Deputy Minister (Financial Planning and Benefits Administration), Department of Finance. Prior to joining that department, she served as Assistant Deputy Minister (Corporate Services), Department of Health and Community Services where she also served as acting Deputy Minister from June to September 2008. She also worked in a variety of other positions, including with the Treasury Board Secretariat, the Department of Education, and the Provincial Public Libraries Board.

Ms. Brewer serves on the boards of the Newfoundland and Labrador Municipal Financing Corporation, the Newfoundland and Labrador Consolidated Sinking Fund, Newvest Realty Corporation and the Newfoundland Government Fund Limited. She also chairs the Government Money Purchase Pension Plan Committee and the Group Insurance Committee, is vice-chair of government�s Pooled Pension Fund Investment Committee, and a member of the Business Attraction Fund Committee.

She holds a bachelor of commerce (co-operative) honours degree from Memorial University, and a chartered accountant professional designation.