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Alan Broadbent - Chair

Alan has been involved with social justice issues and the funding community in Canada for many years. He is the Chairman and CEO of Avana Capital Corporation, and also Chairman of The Maytree Foundation, the Caledon Institute of Social Policy, and the Tamarack Institute. Alan is Chairman and CEO of Jamscor Inc.; Chairman of Diaspora Dialogues; advisor to the Literary Review of Canada; Co-chair of Happy Planet Foods; Member of the Governors’ Council of the Toronto Public Library Foundation; Senior Fellow of Massey College and Member of the Order of Canada.

Joel Solomon - Vice-Chair

Joel is President and CEO of Renewal, Chairman for Renewal2, and Executive Director of the Endswell Foundation. Their complementary missions utilize early stage investing and strategic grant making to promote a sustainable economy. Renewal has since invested in over 75 companies that share its commitment to socially responsible growth.

Joel is a founding member of Tides Canada, Sage Centre, Social Venture Network (SVN), Business for Social Responsibility (BSR), Canadian Business for Social Responsibility (CBSR), and Renewal Land Company. He is Chair of the Board of Tides Foundation (U.S.) and Hollyhock Foundation and sits on numerous other boards throughout North America.

James Morrisey, FCA - Treasurer

Jim is Senior Partner at Ernst & Young and a national expert on cross-border and charitable tax matters. The CFO of Renewal Land, Treasurer of Endswell Foundation, he also serves on the board of the Ottawa Hospital Research Institute and the Ottawa Hospital Eye Institute Advisory Committee. Jim has written and lectured extensively on taxation and financial planning and been a media spokesperson on the subject.

Drummond Pike

Drummond is founder and CEO of Tides (U.S.) which includes: Tides Foundation, Tides Center, and Tides Shared Spaces. Drummond founded Tides Foundation (US) in 1976 and pioneered the use of donor-advised funds to support grassroots and public interest organizations in the U.S. Tides Center is the largest fiscal sponsorship organization in North America. He is also President of Highwater Inc., a real estate development venture in Presidio National Park of San Francisco responsible for the rehabilitation of 12 historic buildings to house dozens of non-profits working on issues of social and economic sustainability.

Susan Gibson

An environmental advocate for many years, Susan served as Chair of the Long Point Bird Observatory, Director, Ontario Outward Bound School, and Director of Sierra Club of Ontario.

Susan is a founding director of the Canadian Public Affairs Association of Canada. She has worked in senior policy positions in the private and public sectors including: Executive Director, Ontario Status of Women Council, Government of Ontario; Director of Public Affairs, Ontario Trucking Association; and Small Business Advocate, Ministry of Trade, Government of Ontario.

Andrew Heintzman

Andrew is the president and a co-founder of Investeco Capital. He has a background of private equity and venture capital investing in environmental companies. He sits on a number of corporate boards, including Lotek Wireless, Triton Logging and Horizon Distributors. Andrew is chairman of the Sustainability Network and on the steering committee of Sustainable Prosperity. Andrew was a co-editor of two books, Fueling the Future: How the Battle Over Energy is Changing Everything, and Feeding the Future: From Fat to Famine.

Valerie Hussey

Valerie was CEO and publisher of Kids Can Press, one of Canada’s leading publishers of children’s books. She has been active in cultural policy development at the federal and provincial levels, and is on the board of the Ontario Media Development Corporation. She is currently on the Council of Advisors of Canadian Women’s Foundation which works across Canada to stop violence against women and help them build economic self-sufficiency.

Ed Levy, PhD

Ed led strategic planning and managed strategic alliances at QLT Inc., which he helped build into a global leader in biopharmaceuticals. He is VP and Treasurer of the Illahie Foundation which supports innovative social and environmental initiatives including program-related investments. He serves on the boards of the following organizations: Pivot Foundation, Coast Social Enterprise Foundation, the Neil Squire Foundation, and the BC Civil Liberties Association. Ed is also adjunct professor at the W. Maurice Young Centre for Applied Ethics at UBC.

Ross McGregor

Ross is Chairman Emeritus of Ketchum Canada Inc., Canada’s leading fund development consultancy, which he co-founded in 1984. Ketchum has helped hundreds of non-profits raise more than $2.4 billion for a variety of worthy causes. One of the founders of Public Affairs Management Inc., Ross is on the board of various professional and non-profit organizations across Canada, and a frequent speaker on fundraising, communications, and public policy in Canada and internationally.

Susan Pigott

Susan is Vice President, Communications and Community Engagement at The Centre for Addiction and Mental Health.

Susan has worked in the non-profit human services field in Toronto for over 25 years. For nine years, Susan was the Chief Executive Officer of St. Christopher House, a community-based multi-service agency in Toronto. Prior to this, she was at United Way of Greater Toronto, first as Allocations Director and then as Vice President of Fundraising.

She also co-chaired the Task Force on Modernizing Income Security for Working Age Adults with the Toronto City Summit Alliance.

Jodi White

Jodi is President of the Public Policy Forum whose mandate is to promote better public policy and better public management through dialogue among leaders from various sectors. Her career combines experience in journalism, politics and government, the private sector and international affairs. She was a TV news reporter and a network radio producer at the CBC. Jodi was Chief of Staff to the Minister of External Affairs (1984 - 1988) and Chief of Staff to the Prime Minister (1993). She was also Vice-President, Corporate Affairs, at Imasco Ltd. in Montreal and President of Sydney House, a public affairs consulting firm.

Margaret "Margie" Zeidler

Margie is the founder and CEO of Urbanspace Property Group – a mission-driven developer whose first project: 401 Richmond contains a vibrant and diverse urban community of artists and entrepreneurs located in the old garment district of downtown Toronto. Another project, the Robertson Building, houses the city’s largest community of social entrepreneurs and innovators – including Tides Canada’s Toronto office. She was co-founder of the Centre for Social Innovation and the Centre for City Ecology – both located at the Robertson Building. Margie was awarded the 2003 Jane Jacobs Prize established to honour Toronto’s “unsung heroes”, as well as Toronto’s “Best Friend of the Arts” Award in 2004 and the Order of Ontario in 2005.

Associate

Tim Draimin - Senior Fellow

Tim was the Founding Executive Director of Tides and Sage Centre. He led the organizations from inception in December 2000 until deciding to take on an advisory role as Senior Fellow in June 2008.

He has over 35 years experience in the charitable and non-profit sector in Canada and abroad, including: Canadian Council for International Co-operation, CUSO, and the Jesuit Centre for Social Faith and Justice.

Tim has consulted on topics such as non-profit management, resource diversification, and non-profit—private sector partnerships for domestic and international clients including the Canadian Public Health Association, Ford Foundation, Synergos Institute, International Development Research Centre, and Steelworkers Humanity Fund.

He is currently the Executive Director of Social Innovation Generation and continues to provide advice to Tides on key initiatives. Tim speaks frequently on philanthropy, social investing, and social finance at conferences across Canada.