Company Founder/Owner/President

Gaye E. Moffett RN, B.Sc.N., M.Ed. is the founder/owner/president of GEM Health Care Services Inc.

She is a registered nurse and has a Bachelor of Nursing Sciences Degree and a Masters Degree in Education (Administration) from the University of Ottawa.

Ms. Moffett’s personal, professional and business success in the health care have been duly acknowledge.

In 2001, her health care agency received the Greater Ottawa Chamber of Commerce Small Business of the Year Award.

In 2002, she was a finalist for the Business Woman of the Year Award by the Business Woman’s Network of Ottawa.

In 2004, she was nominated for the Canadian Woman Entrepreneur of the Year Awards, Innovation Category. The awards were sponsored by the Joseph L. Rotman School Management, University of Toronto and the Bank of Montreal.

In 2005, her name was put forward for the Canadian Advance Technology Alliance’s Sara Kirke Award for Canada’s Leading Woman High Tech Entrepreneur. She created GEM Software Scheduling Solutions Inc., a start-up high-tech company which researched and developed GEM Health Care System®, a Web-based information management program specifically created for health care institutions. She was also nominated for the Ottawa YMCA-YWCA Women of Distinction Award, Community Entrepreneurial Spirit.

Ms. Moffett is a member-at-large board member of the Greater Ottawa Chamber of Commerce, the Ottawa Centre for Research and Innovation and the Ottawa Life Sciences Council. She is a founding member of the Sigma Theta Tau International University of Ottawa Honour Society of Nursing.

Ms. Moffett taught nursing at St. Lawrence College in Brockville, was a nurse-educator-coordinator at the Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario (Ottawa), the health care quality assurance specialist at The Perley Hospital (Ottawa), the evening administrator/supervisor at the Royal Ottawa Hospital and the branch manager of a multi-national, home-care agency (CAPS Nursing Services, [now Bayshore HealthCare], Ottawa.