John is also a retired Naval Officer having elected early retirement after 21 years of service in the Canadian Navy. He has a BA in International Studies from the Royal Military College of Canada, has attended the Banff School of Management and The Aresty Institute of Executive Education - Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania.

Matt Fullbrook has been Manager of the Clarkson Centre for Business Ethics and Board Effectiveness (CCBE) at the Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto since 2003. The CCBE is best known for its annual corporate governance ratings, and contributions to the Globe and Mail’s annual Board Games report. In the last quarter of 2007, the Centre began investigations into corporate governance in small- and medium-sized Canadian firms, as well as family-run businesses.

Matt received his B.A. in English and Philosophy from the University of Toronto.

Yury Gerasimchuk is a Director and co-founder of M-Vector Canada Inc., a market research and consulting firm that primarily focuses on market and social research, business consulting and public opinion polling in the Central Asia (Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan). Yury has 15 years of managerial experience, including 12 years of experience in market research and management consulting. He was personally involved in different capacity in more than 80 marketing and social research and consulting projects for different organizations, such as The World Bank, Coca-Cola, The Global Fund, Schwarzkopf & Henkel, Philip Morris, EBRD, UNICEF and others.

Yury has BA from the Kyrgyz State University, and MBA from the Academy of Management, the Kyrgyz Republic. He is a member of ESOMAR (European Society of Market Research). Yury speaks English and Russian.

Alex Gill is the principal of Mendicant Group. Alex has more than ten years of experience as a nonprofit administrator and executive. Prior to founding his consultancy, Alex was Vice-President of Communications and Marketing at the Canadian Centre for Philanthropy / Imagine Canada. He also helped set up the Ontario Society of Professional Engineers, serving as its first Director of Public Affairs and later as its interim CEO. He began his career in the nonprofit sector as the Director of Communications for ACTRA Toronto Performers.

Alex has a Masters degree in Communications and holds postgraduate certificates from the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management (change management) and York University’s Schulich School of Business (marketing management). He also teaches nonprofit management, government relations and corporate citizenship at Toronto’s Ryerson University.

Jim Love is the CEO of Chelsea Consulting (www.chelseaconsulting.ca), a strategic IT and Business consulting company headquartered in Toronto, Canada. Equally at home in both strategic business and technology, Jim has served clients ranging from large international firms to exciting entrepreneurial startups.

Jim is passionate about bringing together People, Process and Technology. On People front, he is an expert in Organizational Change with a focus on building teams – increasing virtual teams using collaborative and social media technology. On the process side, he is the author of a collaborative methodology in Lean process transformation which rapidly accelerates an organization’s speed of adoption as well as ensuring lasting, measureable results. Last, he is a technologist, with a strong understanding of web based technologies. He built a successful Software as a Service (SaaS) company and is CEO of the Outsourcing and Managed Services firm Chelsea Consulting. He is regarded as an expert in IT governance, especially in the field of Portfolio Management.

Jim’s work has been published in a number of journals and periodicals. He writes a blog for Tech Web and is a regular contributor to the Cutter Journal of IT. He is a sought-after speaker and hosts two online radio shows GameChanging (www.BlogTalkRadio.com/GameChanging) and the Customer Experience Show (www.BlogTalkRadio.com/CustomerExperienceShow). Both are syndicated as weekly podcasts. He is part-time professor at the University of Waterloo in the Master’s program at the Centre for Business Entrepreneurship and Technology (CBET).

He is the head of the largest chapter of CMC Canada, the association representing professional management consultants in Canada and the organization that grants the legal designation CMC which is recognized in over 43 countries. In recognition of his contribution to management consulting, he was awarded a Fellowship in the association (FCMC).

George has managed his management consultancy for over 16 years. His practice focuses on healthcare, broadcasting and the non-profit sector in functional areas that include operations, project management, business planning and organization development. A partial client list includes the Canadian Association of Food Banks, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, Stanford University Medical Centre, the Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care and the Ontario Veterinary College. Prior to founding his consultancy, George held progressively senior positions at CBC Radio, Pitney-Bowes and IBM Canada. George serves on non-profit boards, is an active volunteer and is in the midst of transitioning into a non-profit Executive Director role.

George is currently enrolled in the Non-Profit Management program at Ryerson University. He holds an MBA (Queen’s), a BA (Brock) and has completed programs in leadership, innovation and change management amongst others.

Sharon Sehdev is a Sales Director for Cognition LLP working in the Toronto office. She is responsible for developing relationships with public, private and not for profit companies, ensuring they receive quality services and leading industry expertise. Prior to this, Sharon was a Client Service Director for PricewaterhouseCoopers in the Toronto downtown office, responsible for developing relationships with local top tier clients in the technology sector.

Sharon brings over ten years of marketing, business development and consulting experience. She also spent five years in various business development and consulting positions in the human resources consulting industry, providing services to Fortune 500 companies in Canada and the US.

Sharon has a BA (Honours) from the University of Western Ontario.

Ming-Young Tam has worked with non-profit sector and community-based organizations for over 10 years. She has extensive experience in program development, program evaluation, stakeholder coordination, policy research and project management. As she is a generalist at heart, Ming-Young has worked with a variety of social issues, including newcomer settlement, child and youth development, violence against women, community health, grant-making, and non-profit management.

Her professional experience includes a variety of social administration and policy positions with the United Way Toronto, City of Toronto, Laidlaw Foundation, and the Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care. Ming-Young is also an associate with Nayar Consulting, a Toronto-based firm that specializes in supporting community and social service agencies. Recent volunteer experience includes: Facilitator for an immigrant settlement program, Board Member with a research organization, Scholarship Application Assessor for a national awards program, and Executive team member with a youth policy engagement network.

Ming-Young is a graduate of Queen’s University at Kingston, and has a Master of Social Work degree from the University of Toronto.

Jane Zhang has been involved in the nonprofit technology sector for over ten years. She is currently Program Director of TechSoup Canada and Director of Corporate Social Responsibility of the Information Technology Association of Canada (ITAC). Prior to this, she was Program Coordinator for Partnership Platform, an initiative of ITAC that has been instrumental in establishing cross-sector partnerships for nonprofits on technology projects. In addition, Jane has been an active participant in the Toronto technology community, helping to organize technology events such as DrupalCamp, Women in IT, and Software Freedom Day.

Jane is currently on the board of The Regeneration House, where she is helping to oversee the development of its IT strategy and fundraising initiatives. She is also one of the founders of the Vancouver Chapter of DigitalEve, an international nonprofit organization aimed at helping women in the technology sector. During her time at DigitalEve Vancouver, Jane helped to grow their membership from five to over 3000 in its first year. Jane served for two years as the director of Community Online Development program at DigitalEve Toronto, a program staffed entirely by volunteers designing web sites for the nonprofit sector at no cost.

Tom Zizys has worked as a consultant in the community sector for over 18 years. He has extensive experience as a policy researcher and project consultant in the community sector, focusing on labour market analysis and designing employment programs. Other fields of work have included community economic development and addressing homelessness. He specializes in research studies, evaluations, project development and funding proposals.

Tom previously held a number of senior positions in the Government of Ontario, including Director of Policy, Premier’s Office (1985-86), Executive Coordinator, Cabinet Committee on Justice Policy (1987), and Chairman, Housing Advocacy Task Force (1988-89). He has taught several courses at the university level at York University and Ryerson University, including program evaluation, public policy and public law. He has also been involved in numerous international development projects, funded by the World Bank, the United Nations Development Programme, the Canadian International Development Agency, the British Department for International Development and the United States Agency for International Development. As a result, he has significant international expertise in project design (including the design of evaluation frameworks and identification of indicators), project implementation and project evaluation.

Tom holds degrees in political science (BA – McGill), law (LLB – York University) and public administration (MPA – Harvard).