OUR GOVERNANCE ADVISORY TEAM
Hon Sergio Marchi
- Board Member, Canadian International Council (Ottawa)
- Former Minister of Citizenship and Immigration of Canada
- Former Minister of International Trade of Canada
- Former Migration Commissioner, United Nations
- Former Ambassador of Canada to the World Trade Organization
Kirstine Stewart
- CEO, Media Mughals
- Former Head of Programming, Alliance Atlantis
- Former Head of TV, Radio and Digital Programming, CBC
- Founding Head, Twitter Canada
- Former VP, North American Media, Twitter
- Head of Shaping the Future of Media, World Economic Forum
Chris Daw
- Founder and CEO, Daw Immigration Solutions
- Past Chair, Immigration Consultants of Canada Regulatory Council
- Director, Canadian Association of Professional Immigration Consultants
- Adjunct Professor, Queen’s University
Sophie Lalonde
- Founder and President, 3D Financial
- Chartered Strategic Wealth Professional
- Co-Founder and VP, SITN Foundation, Montreal
- President, Canada-Florida Chamber of Commerce
- Cross-Border Wealth Management Specialist
Jeffrey Orridge
- CEO, TV Ontario
- Former Commissioner, Canadian Football League
- Executive Director, Sports & GM, Olympics, CBC
- COO & Head of Global BD, Right To Play
- Former VP, Mattel, Inc.
Alfred Apps
- CEO, Braxted Group Inc.
- Former Partner, Miller Thomson LLP and Fasken Martineau LLP
- Former CEO, DREAM Inc. and REALM Business Solutions
- Founder, CREIT and RESREIT
Hon. Rona Ambrose
- Deputy Chairwoman, TD Securities
- Former Leader of the Official Opposition (Canada)
- Former Cabinet Minister (Environment, Health, Public Works, etc.)
- Global Fellow, Woodrow Wilson Canada Institute
Jean-Paul Gladu
- Anishinaabe, Thunder Bay
- Past-President, Canadian Council for Aboriginal Business
- Chair, Canada Forest Trust
- Chancellor, St. Paul’s College, University of Waterloo
John Scott
- Former CEO, 2Keys and Microbonds
- Founder, RESREIT and ARGUS Software
- Managing Partner, Platinum Growth Partners
Michael Wernick
- Former Clerk, Privy Council of Canada
- Senior Strategic Advisor, MNP Digital
- Jarislowsky Chair, Public Sector Management, uOttawa
Bob Brack
- Former Visa Officer for Canada in multiple countries
- Past President, ICCRC
- Government Relations Advisor, ICCRC
OUR PLATFORM LEADERSHIP TEAM
Sean Ramsay
- Chief Operating Officer
- Founder and former CTO - Diplloid
- Founder, former CEO and Chief Innovation Officer - Bubl Technology Inc.
- Former Director, Digital Strategy – Marshall Fenn Communications
- Co-Founder and Principal, SociMedia Inc.
- Seed-Series A VC – LvlUp Ventures
Jovan Alleyne
- Co-Founder, VP Technology and Head of Engineering
- Former VP and Head of Engineering – Flashfood Inc
- Technical Lead – WestJet Airlines
- Former Director of Technology – Bensimon Byrne
- Software development Consulting – Blackrock, Scotiabank, Nickelodeon, TD Bank, Levi’s, Astro Yoghurt
Temur Bekurishvili
- Head, Cloud Enablement
- Former Head of Technology and Marketing - ConstructAIPromo
- Former AVP of Cloud Engineering - antuit.ai
- Former VP of Cloud Engineering / DevOps - ForzaLabs Inc
- Former Cloud Technology Ops Manager - Oracle
Saleh Al-Bualy
- Head of Information Security and Privacy
- Former Head of Information Security, IT and Privacy – Flashfood
- Former Cloud Cyber Security Manager - Boxy Charm
- Senior Manager - Strategic Initiatives and Business Marketing – Rogers Communications
Ahmad Hashemi
- Head of AI and Data Management
- Director of AI and Data Science, Publivate
- Senior Data Scientist - NLP Engineer, OPTT Health
- Data Scientist (NLP & Search), Mond’Art
- PhD – Oxford University
OUR TECHNOLOGY ADVISORY TEAM
Dr. Kris
- BA, MA - Production and Radio and Television Arts
- PhD, Concordia University
- Professor in Media Production, Toronto Metropolitan University
- Focus on video game design as tool to secure audience engagement within the educational and training context
Mike Krygier
- Founder and CEO, DeepCove Cybersecurity
- Former Public Sector CTO (Canada) and Head of Digital Transformation, Google
- Head of Digital Transformation for the City and State of New York
- Deputy Chief Information Security Officer, New York
Craig Darlington
- Chief CanaDREAM Recruiter
- Vice-President, Strategy and Business Development, RMS
- Former Vice President, Mandrake
- Focus on C-level technology teams and AI, robotics, language processing and virtual training and engagement
Jennifer Boville
- Digital marketing expert
- Former Vice President Digital Marketing and Sales Acceleration, Accenture
- Former Marketing Lead, Bell Mobility
- Former Senior Manager, Strategic Initiatives and Business Marketing, Rogers Communications
Imran Ahmad
- Leading Canadian corporate lawyer, data protection, privacy and cybersecurity
- Head of Technology Practice, Norton Rose Fulbright
- Adjunct Professor at the University of Toronto Faculty of Law
Kavian Darvish
- Co-founder and Product Owner
- All-star entrepreneurial visionary
- Immigrant to Canada
- CanaDREAM product owner
- Student, Technology Business Management, Toronto Metropolitan University
- Conceived the CanaDREAM business concept
