Board of Directors

From L-R: Nabil Harfoush, Joel Solomon, Jennifer Lynn, Alan Broadbent, Jodi White, Ross McGregor, Ed Levy, and Andrew Heintzman

Alan Broadbent

Alan 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; member of the Governors’ Council of the Toronto Public Library Foundation; Senior Fellow of Massey College, and Member of the Order of Canada.

Nabil Harfoush, PhD

Nabil is currently a Senior Fellow at the Strategic Innovations Lab and Assistant Professor at OCAD University’s Strategic Foresight & Innovation graduate program. Prior to that he served as Chief Information Officer for HelpCaster Technologies, MedcomSoft, and Nightingale Informatix. Nabil has over 39 years of professional experience as an engineer, technology executive, and entrepreneur. He has consulted for enterprises, national governments, and international organizations including the World Bank, WHO, UNESCO, and IDRC. Nabil serves on the board of the CIO Association of Canada (Toronto Chapter) and on the TRIEC Council. He is co-founder of the Canadian Dawn Foundation and volunteers for several organizations including the International Development & Relief Fund (IDRF), the Canadian Center for Diversity (CCD), and the One Million Acts of Innovation initiative. He is a regular volunteer mentor for men and women seeking to start new enterprises.

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.

Sandy Houston

Sandy Houston is the President of the Metcalf Foundation. Over the last ten years, Sandy has led the development of Metcalf into an innovative and leading Toronto-based private foundation engaged in helping Canadians imagine and build a just, healthy and creative society. Sandy is also currently engaged in a variety of issues across the non-for-profit sector, and has been instrumental in the establishment of a number of Canadian not-for-profits. Currently he is the founding chair of the Friends of the Greenbelt Foundation, an arms-length, public foundation created by the government of Ontario to support the environmental and agricultural integrity of province’s new Greenbelt. He also serves as an advisor to a number of charitable organizations, including Mowat Centre for Policy Innovation, PFC (Philanthropic Foundations Canada), Imagine Canada, The Ontario Not-for-Profit Network, The Literary Review of Canada and The Walrus.

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.

Jennifer Lynn

Jennifer Lynn is founder and President of LCI Associates Inc., a marketing communications and diversity-inclusive business solutions firm. A dynamic entrepreneur, prominent communications strategist, educator, and pre-eminent voice in the area of diversity and inclusion, Jennifer’s distinguished career in business, education, broadcasting and the media spans several countries and continents. Jennifer’s extensive volunteer leadership has focused on community building and social justice. She has provided leadership in the areas of governance, program policy, communications, community engagement and grant allocations for agencies, non-profit organizations and foundations including United Way, Mount Sinai Hospital, Ontario Trillium Foundation, Harmony Movement, Toronto Region Immigrant Employment Council, and the Royal Conservatory of Music. Jennifer has been honoured with the Queen Elizabeth II Golden Jubilee Medal for significant contribution to Canada, to the community and to fellow Canadians.

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.

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.

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.

Jodi White, Chair

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.