Bio

Experienced leader with a 15+ year track record of delivering complex projects across diverse sectors, including: supporting Gatik's meteoric growth through multiple Fortune 50 client attraction and financing events; co-founding the Innovation Factory's Centre for Integrated Transportation and Mobility, a $10.5M, 5-year initiative to accelerate the development of CAV technologies; portfolio management at the Ontario Centres of Excellence totalling $215M in innovation funding; leading and supporting the design and start-up of MaRS' Studio Y, a leadership and innovation academy focused on design thinking, system thinking, agile project management and systems change; serving student and community clients by creating co-curricular, experiential learning opportunities at the University of Toronto’s Hart House; social action and community-based health promotion research through the Dalla Lana School of Public Health; planning & implementation of presidential, parliamentary & constituent assembly elections for the United Nations Electoral Assistance Division in East-Timor, Nepal and Afghanistan.