Board of Directors

Deanna Paolucci

President

Deanna became our Acting President in February 2025 and was elected as our President in October 2025.  Deanna joined the SVA to meet other like minded people, support local initiatives and become involved in building community. She sets the agenda for and chairs our meetings, chairs our meetings, she helps to keep our association organized and is involved with nearly all of our events and initiatives in some way.   Deanna can be found promoting the SVA at our events, in local media and through community leaders.  She is passionate about helping others and ensuring the SVA continues to grow.

Erin Zuber

Vice-President

Erin became our Vice President in October 2025 after joining the SVA to initiate what has become our fourth major event, the Music and Movie in the Park event, held in August of each year.  Erin is heavily involved in the community, is passionate about the arts and loves meeting people in the community.  At present she is assisting to coordinate the mural on Main Street with promoting local artists. She is otherwise constantly looking for ways to improve our association as she contributes countless hours to our success.

Alison Lynch

Secretary

Alison joined the SVA in January 2025 as our Acting Secretary. She became our Secretary in October 2025.  Alison drafts the minutes at each of our meetings, ensures we are aware of and apply for community grants, keeps our records organized and accessible and is an invaluable contributor towards the staging of floats at our Parade of Lights.

Rudolf Galan

Treasurer

Rudolf Galan is a Managing Director at Crystal Books, a provider of bookkeeping and payroll services, based in Ottawa, Ontario. Rudolf has been fascinated with numbers from an early age. While still in high school, he has won first place in Ontario wide accounting competition. He then proceeded to obtain a bachelor of commerce and master of business degrees from Carleton University, while specializing his studies in finance and information technology. After finishing his studies, Rudolf started a firm specialized in computer assisted stock trading systems. He then went on to have his company provide financial and information technology consulting services to other clients throughout Canada. In a few years, his company became a leading provider of classroom training for bookkeeping software, offering training classes in all major North American cities. Thousands of small business owners throughout Canada and USA have benefited from his company’s bookkeeping training classes. As a Stittsville resident, Rudolf also desires to give back to his community by serving as treasurer of 3 different Stittsville community organizations. When Rudolf is not spending time with his wife and three sons, he may perhaps be seen biking in his neighborhood while listening to Mozart.

Damon Cox

Director

Chris Sherban

Director

Phil Sweetnam

Director

Phil Sweetnam is our longest standing Director.  He is a local celebrity who is involved with countless Stittsville Boards and we are grateful to have him on ours at the SVA.  Phil keeps the Association apprised of local developement issues and concerns, assists at every event and brings many years of experience with providing us his invaluable advice.  Phil can be found at nearly every community event.  The joke that it isn’t a community event if Phil isn’t has become less of a joke and more of a reality.