Leadership
Senior Management Team
Mitch Dumas, MBA, CPA, CGA
President and CEO
Mitch is a Chartered Professional Accountant (CPA) and received his Honours Bachelor of Commerce from Laurentian University in 2006 and his Masters of Business Administration (MBA) from Laurentian in 2013. Mitch has sharpened his leadership skills in several progressive positions at mining and contracting operations in and around the Timmins area. Dumas oversees the Finance department at the College, and also the Human Resources, Northern Training Division and Plant & Property departments.
Glenn MacDougall
Senior Vice President, Corporate Services, Acting
Dean Lessard, B.Ed., M.Ed., MBA
Senior Vice President, Academic
Dean Lessard is a proud ‘Northerner’, both as a life-long resident of northern Ontario and as a long-standing employee of Northern College. Dean joined the college in October of 2013 and has held a variety of academic leadership roles, including Dean, School of Business, Community Services & the Learning Excellence and Innovation Department. In January of 2024, Dean was hired as Northern College’s Senior Vice President, Academic. Raised in a family of educators committed to life-long learning and appreciative of the transformative power of education, Dean’s own learning journey has seen him earn an undergraduate degree in History, a Bachelor’s degree in Education (B.Ed.), a Master of Education degree (M.Ed.) in Curriculum Development/Leadership and a Master of Business Administration (MBA) degree. Prior to joining Northern College, Dean held a variety of leadership and classroom teaching roles in public education.
Susan Hunter, MA, BEd, BA, OCT
Chief Cultural Officer (CCO)
Susan Hunter joined Northern College as Director of Marketing, Communications, and External Relations in November of 2019 and became the organization’s Chief Cultural Officer in January of 2022. Guided by a strong sense of purpose for empowerment through education, Susan earned an honours undergraduate degree from Western University and the University of Nice, France, a Bachelor in Education from Althouse College at Western, and a Master of Arts in anti-racism, Indigenous empowerment, and critical pedagogy from the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE) of the University of Toronto. Susan is also an Ontario Certified Teacher.
Frédéric Nickner, MBA, CMA, CPA
Chief Information Officer and Director, Information Technology
Dean, Business, Alternate and Flexible Learning, Acting
Dean, Community Services and Learning Innovation, Acting
Frédéric Nickner joined Northern College as the Chief Information Officer and Director of Information Technology in October, 2021. Frédéric holds an Honours Baccalaureate in Commerce with options in Finance & Accounting (B.Com, cum laude, 2005) from the University of Ottawa. True to his Northern Ontario mantra of access to quality post secondary education, Frédéric has also completed his Masters of Business Administration (MBA) at Laurentian University in 2011. Outside of his post-secondary experience at four colleges, Frédéric has worked for the Parliament of Canada, the Office of the Auditor General of Canada, Canada Post Corporation and MacLean Engineering & Marketing Co. Ltd., within the mining sector.