Board of Directors
Alan Broadbent
Alan is the Chair of Tides Canada Foundation and has been involved with social justice issues and the funding community in Canada for many years. Alan is Chairman of the Maytree Foundation, the Caledon Institute of Social Policy, and the Tamarack Institute. He is also Chairman and CEO of Avana Capital Corporation. Alan is the author of Urban Nation: Why we Need to Give Power Back to the Cities to Make Canada Strong. In addition, 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.
James A. Morrisey, FCA
Jim is a Senior Partner of Ernst & Young and a leading expert in cross-border and charitable tax matters. He currently heads the Tax Knowledge Network for the Canadian tax practice of Ernst & Young, including it’s Electronic Publishing entity. He serves as Chair and Treasurer of Tides Canada Initiatives Society and Treasurer for Tides Canada Foundation. He also serves as Chair of the board of the Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario Research Institute and several other charitable boards. Jim has authored publications in the field of taxation, has lectured extensively across North America on the topics of taxation and finance, and serves on the boards of several prominent charities in Canada.
Joel Solomon
Joel is Vice-Chair of Tides Canada Foundation as well as President and CEO of Renewal Partners, Chairman for Renewal2 Investment Fund, and Executive Director of the Endswell Foundation. Their complementary missions use early-stage investing and strategic grant-making to promote a sustainable economy. Renewal has invested in over 75 companies that share its commitment to socially responsible growth. Joel is a founding member of Tides Canada, 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.
Drummond Pike
Drummond Pike is Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Tides (U.S.) Awarded as an Outstanding Foundation Professional, Drummond helped pioneer the advent of donor-advised funds in philanthropy. Through his leadership, Tides has helped increase the capacity and effectiveness of thousands of social change organizations. Drummond was a founder and Associate Director of the Youth Project in Washington, DC, and served as Executive Director of the Shalan Foundation from 1976 to 1981. He was among the original founders of Working Assets, a telecommunications company dedicated to progressive philanthropy and political activism. Drummond is Vice-Chair of Tides Canada Initiatives Society and founding chair of Tides Canada.
Susan Gibson
An environmental advocate for many years, Susan served as Chair of the Long Point Bird Observatory, a director of Ontario Outward Bound School, and a 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. For the past 15 years she has been a senior partner directing strategy for an anonymous Canadian charitable foundation devoted to increasing Canada’s wilderness areas. She recently chaired the Collections Committee of the Tom Thomson Memorial Gallery in Owen Sound, Ontario. She currently lives in Ottawa.
Andrew Heintzman
Andrew is the president and a co-founder of Investeco Capital. He has a background in 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.
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: the Neil Squire Foundation, the BC Civil Liberties Association, and Oncolytics Biotech, and until recently, Pivot Foundation and Coast Social Enterprise Foundation. Ed is also adjunct professor at the W. Maurice Young Centre for Applied Ethics at the University of British Columbia and is part of a research team studying Intellectual Property and Policy relating to genomics.
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
Jodi White
Jodi’s career spans the nexus of public policy, journalism, the private sector and the not-for-profit sector. She is currently a Distinguished Senior Fellow jointly at Carleton University’s Norman Patterson School of International Affairs and the Arthur Kroeger College of Public Affairs. She is the past president of the Public Policy Forum, one of Canada’s foremost public policy think tanks. In government, she served as Chief of Staff to the Foreign Minister and Chief of Staff to the Prime Minister. In the private sector, she was Vice president Corporate Affairs for Imasco Ltd, a major multinational conglomerate. As an entrepreneur, Jodi founded Sydney House consultants and co-founded The Neville Group. She started her career as a television news reporter and subsequently a senior radio producer at the CBC. Jodi serves on a number of not-for-profit boards including the National Theatre School of Canada (as chair of the board), the Canadian International Council and the Trans Canada Trail.
Margaret "Margie" Zeidler
Margie is the founder 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.
