Board of Directors

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Roseann O'Reilly Runte

Chair

Roseann O’Reilly Runte is President and CEO of the Canada Foundation for Innovation since August 2017.

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Shelley Ambrose

Vice Chair and Chair, LAC Scholar Awards Committee

Shelley Ambrose is the former Executive Director of The Walrus, a position she held from 2006 to June 2020.


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Michael G. Adams

Treasurer

Michael G. Adams is Senior Strategic Advisor at Cistel Technologies, an information technology company based in Ottawa. 


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Jacques J.M. Shore

Director & Past Chair

Jacques J.M. Shore is a partner at Gowling WLG and past chair of the firm’s Government Affairs Practice.

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Blake C. Goldring

Director and Chair, Awareness and Relationship Building Committee

Blake C. Goldring is the Executive Chairman of AGF Management Limited. He first joined AGF in 1987 and held a series of senior positions before being appointed to his current role in 2018.

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Kevin Hanson

Director

Kevin Hanson is the President and Publisher of Simon & Schuster Canada. He joined the company as President in 2005 and in 2013 was also named the company’s first Canadian publisher.


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Robert Ghiz

Director

Robert Ghiz is President and CEO of the Canadian Wireless Telecommunications Association (CWTA) and Chair of the Mobile Giving Foundation Canada.

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Ronald Cohen

Director

Ronald Cohen, CM, MBE, is a confessed bibliophile; he has assembled bibliographically significant collections of the works of Lucy Maud Montgomery and Sir Winston Churchill.


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Rory Capern

Director

Rory Capern has spent more than 20 years at the intersection of Canada’s Technology, Media and Communications industries, working with some of the fastest companies in the world.

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Marlene Jennings

Director

Marlene Jennings PC is a former Canadian parliamentarian. She was a member of the Liberal Party of Canada in the House of Commons of Canada, and represented the riding of Notre-Dame-de-Grâce—Lachine from 1997 to 2011.


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Dr. Jon S. Dellandrea

Director

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Deborah Yedlin

Director

Community leader and Calgary journalist Deborah Yedlin was elected the 14th chancellor of the University of Calgary, effective July 1st, 2018.

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Mike DeGagné

Mike DeGagné

Director

Mike DeGagné helps indigenous students find, and achieve, their life purpose in his role as President and CEO of Indspire, Canada’s largest indigenous charity.

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