Mike Hendren - Executive Director
M.PL, B.B.A
Mike Hendren is the Executive Director of Kawartha Heritage Conservancy. Mike has worked in the appraisal and consulting field and with the Ecological Gifts program, having volunteer experience in land securement and stewardship. Mike comes to the Conservancy with a strong personal heritage in the region and is a member of the Appraisal Institute of Canada and the Ontario Professional Planners Institute. An outdoor enthusiast and musician, Mike’s formal background includes a Masters degree in environmental planning from Queen's and a business administration degree from Trent.
Phone: 705-743-5599
Fax: 705-745-7294
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Suresh V. Kandaswamy - Program Manager
PMP, MEDes, M.A (Geog), B.Comm
Suresh is the Program Manager at Kawartha Heritage Conservancy. He brings a breadth of work and volunteer experience that includes project management, environmental consulting, GIS, natural and cultural heritage conservation, environmental education, non-profit administration, and business. He enjoys travelling, photography, spending time outdoors, and fixing computers (he is therefore the acting in-house IT guru as well). Suresh is a certified Project Management Professional with formal education in environmental management, geography, and commerce.
Mike Kyffin - GIS Programme Coordinator
GMT, GIS-AS
Mike Kyffin is the GIS Programme Coordinator at the Kawartha Heritage Conservancy. His life-long interest in maps and the outdoors led to a formal education in Geographic Information Systems, which fused together his varied passions for travel, camping, history and computing. When not engaged in the Conservancy’s cartographic and information management endeavours, he can be found exploring the region’s natural areas. Mike is a former music teacher, sales professional and a certified beer judge.
Consultants
Lawrie Keillor-Faulkner, Information Management Consultant
Hons. B.Sc (GIS emphasis), GIS-AS, Cart. Tech. (Photogrammetric)
Lawrie Keillor-Faulkner completed a sabbatical with the Kawartha Heritage Conservancy in June 2010. She has been teaching at Fleming College since 1996 and is a GIS Specialist and Geomatics Technician Coordinator. A graduate of Trent University and Fleming College, Lawrie has also worked at the Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources, the Ministry of Health and as a Mapping Technician and a Photogrammetric Technician at various companies.
Ian Attridge - Past Executive Director
Hons. B.Sc. (Agr.), M.E.S., LL.B., of the Ontario Bar
Ian Attridge is past Executive Director and Counsel of the Kawartha Heritage Conservancy, from which he is currently on sabbatical.
He is a lawyer with ecological and agricultural training and expertise in stewardship, trails and conservation techniques.
His experience with the Conservancy and other organizations across the country includes creative methods
of land securement and management, conservation agreements, organizational structures, charitable status,
land use planning and the availability of federal and provincial tax incentives. He is a founding Governor
and former Vice-Chair of the Ontario Land Trust Alliance, and is chair of OLTA's Government Relations Committee.
Ian is a regular conference speaker, teaches several courses for Trent University's Environmental and Resource Studies Department,
and has researched and written extensively. Ian previously provided legal and policy advice to the Ontario Ministries of
Natural Resources and the Environment. He has conducted ecological research in wetlands across southern Ontario and been
a naturalist interpreter with the Canadian Wildlife Service and the Friends of Wye Marsh.
Ian lives in Peterborough and stewards a property in Haultain. He particularly enjoys canoeing, skiing,
music and making the connections between nature and culture.
Our mission is to conserve the natural and cultural heritage and distinctive landscapes of the Kawartha bioregion.
