Festival Management Committee (producers of Toronto Caribbean Carnival) is a not-for-profit cultural organization with a mission to celebrate and showcase the richness, diversity and beauty of Caribbean culture.
OUR HISTORY
Established in 1967 as part of Canada’s Centennial celebrations, Toronto’s Caribbean Carnival has evolved into North America’s largest event of its kind with over 1 million participants annually and showcases the very best of Canadian Caribbean culture and arts.
OUR GOAL
To curate and produce activities, through Collaboration, Partnerships, and Youth engagement, a World-Class experience, featuring the Cultural Diversity of the Caribbean, while ensuring significance, quality, preservation, continuity, and Education, resulting in a positive economic impact.
EXECUTIVE & LEADERSHIP
Aneesa Oumarally
Chief Executive Officer
Christopher Alexander
Chief Operations Officer
Denise Herrera-Jackson
Government Relations
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
JOE HALSTEAD, CHAIR
Current Chair of FMC Board; Retired Commissioner, City of Toronto; Former Asst. Deputy Minister, Government of Ontario; Former Chair of the Board, Ontario Place; Corp., Former Board Chair, Cleanfield Energy Corp; Former Board member, Metrolinx Corp; Vice Chair of Toronto 2015 Pan Am Games.
Keith Forde
Retired Deputy Chief of Police, completed over 38 years of policing in Toronto Police Service, including 28 of those years in a leadership capacity. He was known as a creative and innovative police professional with extensive expertise in customer service with a strong commitment to employment equity and race relations. He presently sits on a number of not for profit boards.
Angela Pierre
A former Executive Assistant with over 35 years of expertise in human resources, information technology, organizational development, web design, event planning, and customer service. Angela is currently a board member of some not for profit organizations.
Earlene Huntley
Earlene is a graduate of the University of the West Indies where she earned her Bsc. Accounting (Hons) and is a Fellow of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants in the United Kingdom. In addition, she completed the CICA In-depth Tax Course (Parts I to III), CPA GST In-depth and the Canadian Risk Manager certification.
Michael G.A. Lashley
A Former Consul General of Trinidad and Tobago and former Dean of the Consular Corps of Ontario. Consultant in Business Development, Culture and Community Development.