A formal investigation was started in June 2025 by Dr. Brown, President into the “leak” about the CEO’s salary. This was done without board discussion or approval.
The salary and it’s increase was agreed to by the 2024-2025 Board of Directors in an UNdocumented and UNpublished board meeting chaired by then-President Maneesh Jain.
Sarah Crossley, a lawyer at Fillion has been the investigator. After ten months there is no report, no findings. Costs are estimated to be in the tens of thousands of dollars but the current Office of the Chair (Brown, Jain, Leith, Mayer) will not disclose how much.
Member dentists were harassed by the lawyer, even threatened of being kicked out of the ODA.
The ODA’s own Human Resources consultant is on record that it is best practice to have members know the CEO’s salary!!! No kidding!
Yet here we are, protecting secrecy.
No transparency. Using our own members money to harass our members and investigate something that does not need investigating.
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Why shouldn’t members know what their own association CEO makes? Most all “not for profits” disclose their salaries as members’ dues pay for them. More importantly, how could this board approve a contract or salary increase without actually seeing the contract they are approving. And please don’t say this is “confidential.” Just look at the provincial sunshine list. So much for financial transparency.