Daya Pillay of Halifax                                   Leads MISA/ASIM Canada                          Board of Directors 2008-09                                   

June 2, 2008 -- Leadership of MISA/ASIM Canada, the not-for-profit corporation representing five regional municipal IT associations across the country, has moved to Atlantic Canada from the Prairies.

Daya Pillay, manager of e-Commerce and Web services for Halifax Regional Municipality, is the new president of MISA/ASIM Canada. He succeeds Kevin Peacock, branch manager of corporate information services for the City of Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, who retired at the end of his two-year term as founding president but remains on the Board of Directors.

Pillay was chosen to succeed him by the 10-member board at their Annual General Meeting in Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario, on May 31, the day preceding the start of the Lac Carling Congress.

Pillay was previously vice president and was also a member of the interim executive that founded MISA/ASIM Canada in June 2006.

The national association links the four MISA chapters in Atlantic Canada, British Columbia, Ontario and the Prairies, as well as the Réseau de l’Informatique Municipale du Québec (RIMQ). Each association appoints two members to the national board.

A new board member from RIMQ was chosen at the AGM to be vice president for 2008-09: Joseph Hélal, directeur adjoint, planification stratégique, Direction des systèmes d'information, Ville de Montréal.

Hélal joined the board earlier this year to succeed the retiring Daniel Malo, CIO of Montreal. Malo was also a former vice president of MISA/ASIM Canada and one of its founders.

Two other officers of the board will continue in their current positions:  Secretary Gerry Matte, IT manager for the Municipality of Saanich, BC, and Treasurer Garry Bezruki, director of information systems for the City of Waterloo, Ontario.

The process for appointing officers was supervised by Louis Shallal of the Region of York, Ontario.

Other board members are: Kathryn Bulko of the City of Toronto; Maurice Gallant of the City of Fredericton; David Hennigan of the Capital Region District, BC; Gaston Huot of the Villes de Boucherville, Brossard, Saint-Bruno et Saint-Lambert, Quebec; AnnMarie McDonald of the Regional Municipality of Wood Buffalo, Alberta.