Daria is an accomplished executive with 25-years experience in public and private sectors in a variety senior roles.
Ontario Energy Board
At the Ontario Energy Board Daria led audits of regulated entities resulting in the OEB’s increased regulatory oversights. He served the public interest through his leadership in the reviews of electricity rate applications and participated in the rate proceedings. He served as a member of the Consultative Group of the International Accounting Standards Board on rate-regulated activities. Daria has received a prestigious Certificate of Achievement from Canadian Association of Members of Public Utility Tribunals for his tireless work and leadership for benchmarking studies.
Professional Engineers Ontario
Daria has served as the Chief Financial Officer and Director of Administration at Professional Engineers Ontario. He provided leadership for accounting, budgeting, finance, internal audit, strategic and business planning, customer service, billing, project management office, document management, mail room, facilities, and procurement. He was instrumental in strengthening the association’s financial position.
Utility Experience
Daria has provided management consulting services which resulted in winning repeat businesses and gaining customer trust and confidence. At the DTE/Probyn Energy Solutions, he served as the VP for the transition consulting and co-authored “The People-side of Restructuring.” The company established its brand in the Canadian marketplace in less than one year.
At Scarborough PUC, Daria served as manager of business planning and budgeting where he helped develop and strategically focus the organization’s $80 million budget. Daria played a key role in assisting operational managers and their teams to achieve operational efficiency. Under Daria’s leadership, Scarborough PUC became the first utility in Canada to fully implement activity-based costing and use it in its rate setting process.
Throughout his careers, Daria developed, trained, and built teams leading to enhanced business processes, improved operations and customer service, and delivery of outstanding results.
