Our People

Staff

Executive Director
Senior Events Manager
Communications Coordinator
Admin and Special Projects Coordinator

Board of Directors

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President
President & CEO, VersaFi (formerly WCM)
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President-Elect
Strategic Advisor, Portfolio of High Growth Organizations
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Immediate Past President
Partner, Banking & Capital Markets Leader, EY Canada

Executive Members

Paula Allen
Global Leader and VP, Research and Client Insights, Telus Health
Scott Belton
Senior Vice President, Strategy Enablement, TD
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Partner, Business Consulting, EY Canada
Jennifer Dewar Thomas
Partner, Egon Zehnder
Andrea Hunt
Marketing Executive
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Partner, Deals, PwC Canada
Dan Moulton

Partner, Crestview Strategy

Directors

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Passage CEO & Founder
Cherie Brant
Partner and National Leader, Indigenous Law, Borden Ladner Gervais LLP
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Executive, Hakluyt & Company
Dave Forestell
Canada External Relations, Vice President, TC Energy
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Vice President, Industry Affairs & Government Relations, Canada Life
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Executive Advisor, Future of Work, Deloitte
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Advisor & Investor
Michael Liebrock
Managing Director, The Stronach Group
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Vice President, Indigenous Relations and Reconciliation, Sussex Strategy Group
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Managing Director and Partner, BCG
Karen Restoule
Vice President, Crestview Strategy
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Partner, Torys LLP
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Vice President, Government Relations and Partnerships, Mitacs
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Senior Vice President, Head of Roynat Capital, Scotiabank​
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Chief Inclusion Officer, McCarthy Tétrault
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Senior Vice President Communications & Government Affairs, Canada Goose
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Khadija Waseem
Senior Strategy Consultant, Monitor Deloitte
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Managing Partner, Amplify Capital

Fellows

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Country Director, Canada at United Kingdom Department for Business and Trade
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Director of Media Relations, Loblaw Companies Limited
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Director of Leadership Development, The Dais at Toronto Metropolitan University
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Principal, Fengate Private Equity
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Director, PwC Canada
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President, Thorpe Benefits

Honorary Directors

The Late Rt. Hon. John N. Turner, P.C., C.C., Q.C.
Canada's 17th Prime Minister
Isabel Bassett, CM, OOnt, LL.D
Libby Burnham, C.M., Q.C., DCL
Chancellor, Acadia University
Noella Milne, C.M., O.Ont., LLB
Chancellor, George Brown College