Team Type: Board of Directors

Alika Lafontaine is an award-winning physician, speaker, alignment consultant, and the first Indigenous physician to be listed by The Medical Post as one of Canada’s 50 Most Powerful Doctors. He is recognized internationally as an expert on Indigenous health systems, institutional bias, racism and reflective practice. Dr. Lafontaine is currently the Canadian Medical Association’s President, […]

As the former President of Rogers Sports & Media, Jordan Banks was responsible for the $2 billion business and approximately 4,000 employees across Canada from a variety of sports and media properties, consisting of 23 conventional and specialty TV channels including Sportsnet, 29 local TV stations, 56 radio stations, 3 OTT services, 2 podcast networks, […]

Maryanne Wolf is Visiting Professor and Director of the Center for Dyslexia, Diverse Learners, and Social Justice at UCLA. She is the author of Proust and the Squid: The Story and Science of the Reading Brain (14 translations; HarperCollins, 2007); Tales of Literacy for the 21st Century (Oxford University Press, 2016); and Reader, Come Home: […]

Dr. Daniela O’Neill is Professor of Developmental Psychology and Director of the Children’s Communication Lab at the University of Waterloo. She is also Founder and Director of the University of Waterloo’s MASc Developmental and Communication Sciences graduate program. Dr. O’Neill earned her Ph.D from Stanford University in 1993. She was a Visiting Researcher at the […]

Peter Mansbridge is an award-winning journalist and author, a Distinguished Fellow at the Munk School of Global Affairs at the University of Toronto and a member of numerous boards and committees. He is best known for his five decades of work at the CBC where he was Chief Correspondent of CBC News and anchor of […]

Konata Lake is Partner of Torys LLP. Across M&A, venture capital and private equity investments, Mr. Lake brings strategic thinking and deep knowledge to help businesses scale and investors realize their investment strategies in emerging and high-growth companies. As a member of Torys’ M&A Practice and the head of Torys’ Emerging Companies and Venture Capital […]

Deepak Kaura is a pediatric radiologist and Chief Medical Officer of 1QBit, a Vancouver-based quantum computing software company. Dr. Kaura leads the development of ground-breaking advanced artificial intelligence solutions in health and life sciences. As a leader in the industry, he has built enterprise partnerships for data, developing and clinically validating several machine learning products […]

Ellis Jacob was appointed President and Chief Executive Officer of Canada’s largest motion picture exhibition company, Cineplex, in October 2005. His 31 years of leadership in the motion picture exhibition industry have transformed the movie-going experience for Canadians. Mr. Jacob is also an active philanthropist. He is a member of the Board of Directors at […]

Referred to as “the most famous astronaut since Neil Armstrong,” Colonel Chris Hadfield is a worldwide sensation whose video of David Bowie’s “Space Oddity” — seen by over 75 million people online — was called “possibly the most poignant version of the song ever created,” by Bowie himself. Acclaimed for making outer space accessible to […]

With over 50 years in the publishing industry, Louise Dennys is an internationally renowned editor and publisher. After graduating from Oxford University at the age of 19, Ms. Dennys began her career by managing a bookshop in London, England before moving to Toronto in 1972, where she worked as an editorial assistant at independent publishing […]