Conference Speakers

LOUISE AERTS
Chief Officer, Strategy, Governance and reconciliation, BC College of Nurses and Midwives

RICHARD BARBER
Board Director – Governance Professionals of Canada and Canadian Professional Sales Association

BEVERLY BEHAN
President, Board Advisor, LLC

CHELSEY BERRECLOTH
Associate Vice-President, Regulatory Policy and Prevention, Credit Union Deposit Guarantee Corporation

LESLIE CASTELLANI
Chief Governance & Corporate Affairs Officer, First West Credit Union

ROLANDA CHARTRAND
Knowledge Keeper, Mountain View School Division

CHRISTOPHER CHEN
Managing Director, Compensation Governance Matters

MANIJEH COLABELLA
Sr. Governance Consultant, Watson Advisors Inc.

MILLA CRAIG,
President and CEO, Millani Inc.

HON'BLE JUSTICE THOMAS CROMWELL
Senior Counsel, Borden Ladner Gervais LLP, Former Justice, Supreme Court of Canada, Borden Ladner Gervais LLP

WENDY CUKIER,
Professor, Entrepreneurship and Strategy, Ted Rogers School of Management, Director,, DI Institute

CANDACE DEMERIA,
Traditional Drum Keeper, Mountain View School Division

REANNA DORSCHER,
Partner, Hugessen

JADE ERLENDSON,
Clinical Social Worker, Mountain View School Division

Professor LISA FAIRFAX,
Presidential Professor at the University of Pennsylvania Law School

KAREN FLANNAGAN,
Senior Change Manager, Public Safety Canada

BEN FIELDING,
Market Leader, UK

MIRANDA V. FLURY,
President, Hawkeye Strategies

AARON FRIEDENTHAL,
VP, Legal Services & Asst. Corporate Secretary, Sustainability Relationships & Impact, ATB Financial.

PAUL GRYGLEWICZ,
Senior Partner, Global Governance Advisors

SARA GELGOR, LLB, LLM, MBA, ICD.D, G. Dipl. SRS
Director, Human Rights and Sustainability, Sustainability and Enterprise ESG, RBC Royal Bank

PATTY GOODWINE,
Classroom Teacher, Mountain View School Division

WADE HOULE,
Indigenous Education Coach, Mountain View School Division

GLENN KEELING,
Executive Chairman, Alliance Advisors

AGIRO KOTSALIS,
Chief Governance Officer and Vice President, Legal & Supply Management; Office of the CEO, Vancouver Airport Authority

TIANA KHAN,
Managing Partner & Founder, Privacy HQ

SARAH KEYES,
CEO, ESG Global Advisors

Dr. JODIE LABONA,
Governance of AI Scholar; Board Member, International Internal Audit Standards Board; Chair of Advisory Board, McMaster Artificial Intelligence Society

ANNIE LAURENSON,
Director, Governance and Corporate Secretary, Chair, DIARD Committee (Corporate), Lundin Mining

IVY LUMIA,
CEO & Founder, Best in Governance Inc.

DEXTER JOHN,
Chief Executive Officer, Canada, Morrow Sodali

STEPHEN MALLORY,
Principal, Directors Global Risk Consulting Inc

MICHAEL LICHTI,
Country Leader, Canada, TMF Group

DIANA NICHOLLS MUTTER,
Lawyer, Skylaw Professional Corporation

IAN MCARTHUR,
Chief People & Governance Officer, Innovation Credit Union

MANTE MOLEPO,
CEO & Founder, Mante Mopelo Consulting

PROF. CHRIS NICHOLLS,
Director of Business Law at Western Law, Co-Director of Western University's Interdisciplinary Centre for Financial Innovation and Risk Management (CFIRM), Western Law

PAUL OSBALDESTON,
Director, Legal Affairs, Alberta Innovates

EMMANUELLE PALIKUCA,
Managing Director, Head of Sustainability Advisory, Alliance Advisors

STEPHEN PIKE,
Partner, GowlingWLG LLP

DOUGLAS PORTER,
Chief Economist & Managing Director, Economics, BMO Financial Group

MOLLY REYNOLDS,
Partner, Privacy, Cybersecurity and Data Governance, Torys

DOTTIE SCHINDLINGER,
Executive Director of the Diligent Institute, Diligent

PAUL SCHNEIDER,
Director, Corporate Governance, Ontario Teachers' pension Plan

RUSS SIEMENS,
Board Chair, Innovation Federal Credit Union

CAROLE SHANAKARUK,
Indigenous Education Facilitator/, Mountain View School Division

ROBIN SOOKLAL,
Senior Director, Data Security, Loblaw

TONY SPIZZIRRI,
Principal, GGA

SHELDON STENER,
General Counsel & Corporate Secretary, Legal Compliance and Governance, Federated Co‑operatives Limited

BARBARA STYMEIST,
Corporate Director

JENN TAKAHASHI,
Senior Legal Entities Manager, Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc.

MARC TASSE,
Professor, University of Ottawa

CIARA WAKITA,
Principal, Hugessen Consulting

LISA WILCOX,
Market Leader, North America, TMF

JENENE WOOLDRIDGE,
Executive Director, L’nuey & First Person Contributor, CBC

PETER WRIGHT,
Association strategist, Association Hub, President, The Planning Group