Candace Allixendir is Vice President, Communications and Community Investment at Element Fleet, where she leads the development and execution of integrated communication strategies that engage employees, clients, partners, and the broader community – all in alignment with Element’s Purpose and long-term business objectives.

With two decades of experience in communications leadership, Candace plays a critical role in shaping Element’s strategic narrative in partnership with the Executive Committee. Before joining Element, Candace held increasingly senior communications roles at BMO Financial Group, where she successfully launched the bank’s Purpose and led internal communications during leadership transitions. Earlier in her career, she worked in the pharmaceutical industry with Wyeth, where she built a strong foundation in stakeholder alignment, cross-functional change, and employee engagement.

Candace is recognized as a transformative leader with expertise in navigating complex change through purpose-driven storytelling and culture-first strategies. She has led organization-wide transformation initiatives across industries, including CEO transitions, enterprise rebranding, acquisitions, and large-scale cultural shifts - ensuring stakeholders remain informed, inspired, and aligned throughout the journey. In addition to her communications leadership, Candace oversees Element’s global community investment strategy, embedding social impact and corporate responsibility into the organization’s culture.

Beyond her professional contributions, Candace is a passionate mentor, a trusted advisor to C-suite leaders, an active volunteer, and a sought-after speaker on topics including change communications, leadership alignment, employee engagement, and the evolving intersection of brand, culture, and impact.

Dorothy brings 20 years of experience in developing, growing and scaling human resource practices. As CPO, Dorothy is responsible for leading Q4’s global talent and organizational design strategy in support of the overall business objectives. Prior to joining the company, Dorothy was VP HR for Marketwired, a global social communications and press release company. She was instrumental in leading the company through its sale and transition to Nasdaq in 2016. Prior to Marketwired, Dorothy held various progressive leadership roles across several industries including alcohol beverage, retail, nutraceuticals and manufacturing. Dorothy received her Bachelor of Commerce in Human Resources from Ryerson University and is a Certified Human Resources Leader (CHRL).

Navaid Mansuri is Dialogue’s Chief Financial Officer. Since joining the company in 2019, he led its IPO on the TSX in 2020 and its subsequent acquisition by Sun Life in 2023. During his tenure, he has also played an integral role in bringing Dialogue to sustainable profitability. Prior to joining Dialogue, Navaid was Chief Financial Officer at Just for Laughs and has held roles in finance, marketing and business transformation at Rogers Media and Bell Canada. Mr. Mansuri is a Chartered Professional Accountant, starting his career at Deloitte after earning a Bachelor of Commerce from McGill University.

Stella Yeung is an award-winning senior technology executive with extensive experience in the financial services industry. As Senior Vice President & Chief Information Officer, she leads the engineering group responsible for technology management across several divisions at Scotiabank, including Global Banking and Markets, Global Compliance, Global Finance and Treasury, Global Human Resources, and Global Risk Management, as well as Anti-Money Laundering.

Before joining Scotiabank in 2013, Stella held progressively senior roles at BMO Financial Group, supporting the technology needs of Enterprise Risk and Portfolio Management, Investment and Corporate Banking, and Institutional Equities. She also held leadership positions at TSX Group and previously ran her own consulting practice in Boston and Frankfurt.

Born and raised in Hong Kong, Stella came to Canada to study and graduated with a degree in Computer Science and Mathematics from the University of Toronto.

Executive Vice-president and President, TELUS Consumer Solutions
In her role as Executive Vice-president and President, TELUS Consumer Solutions, Zainul leads a passionate team responsible for the end-to-end design and delivery of products and services across Mobility and Home Solutions. Every day, they drive innovation focused on improving the lives of Canadians and providing access to our award-winning networks, while elevating our industry-leading customer service. Her unparalleled experience and expertise in scaling new technology is foundational to how she champions her team to provide simple, personalized and reliable solutions.

Raised in Alberta by entrepreneurs with strong community values, operationalizing innovative ideas and motivating her team to break new ground is part of Zainul’s DNA. Her ability to detect market trends has resulted in exponential growth in TELUS’ ability to deliver superior products and services in the consumer space.

Over more than two decades at TELUS, she has held key leadership positions in corporate development, marketing, IT, capital management, strategy and technology operations. In each of these roles, Zainul has been passionate about deploying new technology to achieve economic prosperity, diversification and improved social outcomes.

Zainul calls the south side of Edmonton home, and is an active member of her community alongside her husband, Ashif, and their two sons. The Mawji family are strong advocates of TELUS’ commitment to give where we live, and they enjoy volunteering in their community during TELUS Days of Giving. Zainul also holds multiple community leadership roles, including Vice-chair of the TELUS Edmonton Community Board.

Lynn Langrock is the Global Vice President, People at Bimbo QSR, a division of Grupo Bimbo.  In her current role, which she assumed in 2021, she has overall leadership of pension and benefits, compensation, labour relations, safety & wellness, leadership & development, internal communications and corporate affairs. 

Prior to Bimbo QSR, Lynn led the Human Relations and Corporate Affairs function for Bimbo Canada, where she drove the company’s COVID-19 response, leading her to be named among Canada’s 50 Best Executives in the Globe & Mail’s Report on Business Best Executive Awards.

Lynn has held a number of progressive positions in General Management and Human Relations functions in a variety of public and private industries and companies including Bimbo Canada, The Economical Insurance Group and the Government of the Northwest Territories.

Lynn has functional expertise in employee and labour relations, strategic workforce planning, leadership and organization development, talent management, training and development and mergers and acquisitions.  She is a highly-effective and high-energy change agent who leverages strategic and tactical management skills to excel in demanding and dynamic environments while remaining focused on pragmatic sustainable HR solutions.  Her current role is that of a HR business partner who understands global

Chuck We is the Executive Vice President of Pacific Northwest and Western Canada at Hudson Pacific Properties. He is responsible for office portfolio operations in Vancouver and Seattle which includes the 1.45 million square foot Bentall Centre in Vancouver and 2.7 million square feet of Class A office space in Greater Seattle. Prior to joining Hudson Pacific in 2019, Chuck served 20 years and was the city head and Vice President for Oxford Properties Group in Vancouver. He currently sits on the boards of Destination Vancouver and the Downtown Vancouver Business Improvement Association (DTVan), is a Past President of the Vancouver Chapter of NAIOP and served on the board of the ULI British Columbia District Council. Chuck holds a Master of Business Administration degree and a Bachelor of Business Administration degree in Finance, Marketing, and International Business from Simon Fraser University.

Eric Myles is the Chief Sport Officer at the Canadian Olympic Committee. In this role, he is responsible for the Games, Sport System relations in Canada and International Relations for Sport. He actively engages and collaborates with active and alumni Olympians.

Eric brings a wealth of invaluable experience in the sport, education and health industry. This includes 12 years as Co-Founder and Executive Director of Québec en Forme, an organization that mobilizes people from across Québec to engage in active living and healthy eating, an essential component of the development of the province’s youth.

In addition to his work with Québec en Forme, Eric spent 18 years in various roles with l’Académie les Estacades, including Director of the programme Sport-études. He also helped found the Complexe sportif Alphonse-Desjardins in Trois-Rivières, Quebec.

Eric has an extensive background in canoe/kayak sprint, having competed and coached internationally.

Eric holds a McGill-HEC Montreal Executive MBA, as well as diplomas in physical activity and school administration from the Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières. He remains involved in several different Boards of Directors.

Robyn Doolittle is an award-winning journalist and author. She is The Globe and Mail's corporate law reporter, and a former long-time member of the newspaper's investigative team. Since coming to The Globe in 2014, she has investigated political and business corruption, the Hockey Canada scandal and Canada’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Her “Unfounded” series, which exposed the ways that Canadian police services mishandle sexual assault cases, prompted a national overhaul of policy, training and practices around sexual violence.

Doolittle’s other notable projects include the “Power Gap”, an investigation of gender inequities in the workforce, and “Secret Canada,” which examines Canada’s broken freedom of information system.

She is the author of two books, “Had It Coming – What’s Fair In The Age of #MeToo?,” which was shortlisted for the RBC Taylor Prize for non-fiction, and “Crazy Town: The Rob Ford Story,” both of which were national bestsellers.

Jill Schnarr leads corporate communications, media relations, public affairs, brand marketing, brand office, social media, sponsorships, community investment, TELUS Studios, TELUS Friendly Future Foundation, ESG and sustainability, social impact investing, public policy and corporate events. With over 30 years of telecom and tech industry experience, Jill is a dynamic and engaging leader with a natural ability to build strategy and enable collaboration. She has significantly influenced TELUS’ reputation as a global leader in social capitalism, enabling TELUS to be the most respected, valuable, admired and trusted telco brand in Canada.

Ali Hoss is the Chief Sustainability Officer at Triovest responsible for advancing sustainability performance, strategic growth, and technology innovation for a portfolio of $12B of commercial real estate in Canada. As a distinguished winner of the Globe and Mail Best Executive Award in Sustainability & DEI in 2024 and Canada Energy Innovator Award by the Association of Energy Engineers (AEE) in 2020, Ali works in close partnership with some of the largest Pension Plans in Canada crafting and implementing strategies that balance financial goals with environmental sustainability, fostering value creation and asset resilience while mitigating potential risks. Before his tenure at Triovest, Ali's leadership was instrumental in shaping the Canada Infrastructure Bank’s (CIB) $1B public building retrofit financing program. He was also the architect behind the City of Toronto's ambitious policy strategy aimed at achieving net-zero emissions in existing buildings by the year 2050. In 2016, Ali led the launch of North America's first performance-based energy conservation incentive program, the IESO’s Energy Performance Program, supported by a $25 million of investment to promote province-wide energy consumption and GHG emissions reductions. Ali is a professional engineer and holds a PhD in Mechanical Engineering. He is an author of book chapters and articles in peer-reviewed scientific journals, a sought-after public speaker, and a guest lecturer at universities.

Andrew became AbCellera’s CFO in 2019 after spending nearly 4 years on the company’s Board of Directors from 2016. Prior to joining AbCellera, Andrew spent 10 years at STEMCELL Technologies where he held roles as the CFO and the Chief Commercial Offi cer. Before STEMCELL, Andrew spent 7 years at General Electric, ending by leading M&A/Business Development for GE Healthcare’s Europe, Middle East, and Africa business and GE Healthcare’s global Life Sciences business based in London. Andrew is an advisor to Aspect Biosystems and 5AM Venture Capital and sits on the Board of Directors of Karius. He was formerly the Chairman of Precision Nanosystems and a Director at the National Board of Canadian Manufacturers and Exporters, the BC Tech Association, Life Sciences BC and Light Integra Inc. Andrew holds an MBA from INSEAD and a BASc in Engineering Physics from the University of British Columbia.

Colleen Moorehead is an accomplished business leader – she was a two-time public company Canadian CEO, and two-time public board chair (DND-T, and lead director SUM-T) of technology businesses. Formerly the Chief Client Officer at Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP, Colleen retired in January 2024. Over her career, she has held a variety of corporate leadership positions and has a deep understanding of business development strategy in the services sector. She is an active participant in the early-stage ecosystem as Chair of The51 (VC), Board of Advisors for iNovia Capital (VC) and VERTU Capital (PE), and a mentor for the CDL Scale Up program at Haskayne Business school in Calgary.

She has extensive experience in founder-led companies, with a background in financial technology, capital markets and legal, having chaired both Governance and Compensation committees. In her role as Chair, she has built significant experience in shareholder engagement.

Over the course of her career, Colleen has been recognized and honoured with several awards including CVCA Ted Anderson Community Leadership Award in 2024, the Women of Distinction Award for 2020 and 2021 by YWCA Toronto, the 2021 Trailblazer Award by the Women’s College Hospital Foundation, 2015 Catalyst Canada Honours Champion – Business Leader, and the Business Builder 2010 Award by the Canadian Marketing Hall of Legends.

Ilda Dinis is Chief Communications & Marketing officer for Element Fleet Management, a global leader in fleet management. With over 20 years of experience, she is a passionate customer experience advocate and champion of building culture, brands and reputation through integrated, creative and engaging marketing and communications strategies. Prior to joining the insurance and fleet management industries, she worked in the non-profit sector and credits this experience for her resourcefulness, perseverance, and “make it happen” mindset.  

She holds an Honours Bachelor of Arts from the University of Toronto and a joint Master of Communication Management from Syracuse and McMaster Universities. 

David Parkinson is Deputy Head of Newsroom Development for The Globe and Mail. He covered business and financial markets from 1990 until early 2024, when he started his current position, and has been with The Globe and Mail since 2000. In his years with The Globe, he has been an energy reporter, an editorial writer, a financial-markets columnist, and spent two years as Investment Editor. He was an economics columnist/reporter from 2014 to 2024. A Calgary native, he holds an undergraduate degree in Psychology and Sociology from the University of Calgary, and Masters in Journalism from the University of Western Ontario. He received a Southam Fellowship from the University of Toronto in 1999-2000, studying international political economics.

Rachelle Younglai is the housing and commercial real estate reporter for The Globe and Mail in Toronto. She covers the rising cost of housing and its impact on society, as well as lending, land development and the return to the office. 

 The Head of Newsroom Development is a masthead position ensuring the skills, talent and culture of the newsroom keep The Globe thriving. I work across editorial, HR, revenue and finance to ensure that decisions around hiring, budget, and how our newsroom operates are aligned with our strategy and goals