Mark M. Fell serves as the Chair of Prince’s Trust Canada and is a global Trustee and Director of His Majesty the King’s flagship charity – The Prince’s Trust Group – which is one of the largest youth focused charities operating in 19 countries.

Mark is also the Vice Chairman at RBC, responsible for delivering senior executive coverage to RBC’s Enterprise Strategic Clients. He works with complex families and their businesses providing guidance and solutions to them globally.

Mark holds a law degree from the University of Oxford (MA, Oxon), a BA (Hons) from Queen’s University and an ICD.D from the Institute of Corporate Directors at the University of Toronto Rotman School of Business. He enjoys skiing, canoe tripping in the Canadian wilderness and has a great personal interest in the visual arts. Mark has three children and lives in Toronto with his wife Dawn.

Laurel is currently CEO of Invest in Canada, Canada’s national investment attraction and promotion corporation. From 2015 to 2022, Laurel was the President and CEO of Nova Scotia Business Inc. From 2013-2015, Laurel was President and CEO of Broten Public Policy International Inc., providing strategic advice on complex public policy challenges, change management and government transformation, including conducting a comprehensive review of Nova Scotia’s taxes and regulations.

From 2003-2013, Laurel served in the Government of Ontario, including as Minister of Education, Minister of Children and Youth Services, Minister of the Environment, Minister of Intergovernmental Affairs, Minister Responsible for Women’s Issues, Vice-chair of Treasury Board/Management Board, and Parliamentary Assistant to the Premier, to the Minister of Health and Long-term Care, and to the Minister of Energy.

Laurel graduated with distinction with her Juris Doctor from the University of Western Ontario; clerked at the Supreme Court of Canada for Madam Justice L’Heureux-Dubé; and practiced as a commercial and civil litigation lawyer until her election to government in 2003.

Tania is the Global Lead for Private Equity and Asset Management for KPMG IMPACT, a global Centre for Excellence that brings together professionals and subject matter experts from across KPMG’s global organization to support the delivery of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

An experienced and recognized leader in impact investing and ESG, Tania advises clients on strategies that integrate social & environmental factors into decisions that create long-term value.Tania has contributed to key sector-building initiatives including serving as a member of Canada’s National Advisory Board to the G8 Social Impact Investment Taskforce, and the Government of Canada’s Steering Group that drafted a national social innovation & social finance strategy. She also leads KPMG’s relationship with FCLTGlobal.

Before assuming her international role, Tania created and led KPMG Canada’s social impact strategy as the firm’s first Chief Impact Officer and spent a decade leading engagements for corporate and financial services clients in the operations improvement, risk management & governance practices.

Active in her community, Tania is Chair of the TELUS Friendly Future Foundation, and a Director of The Prince’s Trust Canada, Business/Arts, and The Lieutenant Governor of Ontario’s Service Fund.

In recognition of her community service, Tania has been awarded The Sovereign’s Medal for Volunteers, and The Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Medal. For over a decade, Tania was a Member of the Royal Household at Buckingham Palace, serving as Lady in Waiting to HRH The Countess of Wessex, responsible for her Canadian patronages, communications, and annual multi-city visits. In The Queen’s 2019 New Year’s Honours List, Tania was appointed a Member of The Royal Victorian Order (MVO), Her Majesty’s personal Order of Knighthood for exceptional service to the Royal Family.

Tania is a Chartered Professional Accountant and completed her MBA at the Rotman School of Management, and her Bachelor of Science at Western University.

A resident of Montreal, Adriana is a seasoned professional in the acquisitions and investment space, with a wealth of experience across Western Europe, Canada, and the United States. Throughout her career, she has held key roles at Joddes Limited, Tristan Capital Partners and Aerium Finance Ltd, and has overseen diverse portfolios of investments across asset classes, including real estate, renewable energy, and infrastructure.

An advocate for health and education, Adriana was also a member of the Montreal Heart Institute Foundation’s Board and part of its Emerging Leaders Committee, which aims to mobilize the next generation of philanthropists. She also is currently serving her third term on the University of Concordia’s Board of Governors, where she sits on the finance and real estate committees.

Ameerally Kassim-Lakha was previously Chairman of the Multi-Generational Housing Board for Canada, focused on establishing independent, assisted living, long-term care, and affordable housing facilities for Canadian seniors and families.

He also served as Vice-Chair of Aga Khan Foundation Canada’s National Committee and Chair of its Audit Sub-Committee – partnering with organizations in Africa and Asia to build strong, healthy and inclusive communities in the region.

Kassim-Lakha was also Director of the Global Center for Pluralism’s Head Office rehabilitation in Ottawa, Chairman of the Aga Khan Education Board for Canada, and Chairman of the Ismaili Community’s Religious Education Board for Ontario.

Greg Frankson is the founder and CEO of Voice Share Inc., which provides training, coaching/mentorship, and consulting services focused on transformative organizational change through inclusive leadership and effective communication. Prior to creating Voice Share in 2018, Greg was a teacher, arts educator, event producer, corporate trainer, and anti-discrimination facilitator.

Throughout his career, Greg has used his voice to create social change as an advocate, award-winning literary artist, and media commentator. Artistically, he published three poetry collections, contributed to three anthologies, edited AfriCANthology: Perspectives of Black Canadian Poets (2022), and released four full-length audio recordings, among many other achievements. He was also an on-air poetic commentator on Here and Now Toronto on CBC Radio One. In community, his leadership resulted in the overdue commemoration of Robert Sutherland, Canada’s first known university graduate of colour and first Black lawyer, at Queen’s University and across Canada. His words have been published in periodicals and poetry journals on three continents.

Greg is a former Canadian national poetry slam champion, an inaugural inductee to the VERSe Ottawa Hall of Honour, and poet laureate of the International Initiative for Mental Health Leadership. He served on the boards of Ottawa Community Immigrant Services Organization (OCISO) and Tropicana Community Services (Toronto), and currently chairs the Inclusion, Diversity, Equity and Accessibility (IDEA) Advisory Council at the Abilities Centre (Whitby, Ontario). Greg has left a lasting impact at his alma mater, Queen’s University, as its first Black student government president, former student senator and ex-officio trustee, and as a long-serving current member of the University Council. He graduated from Queen’s in 1999 with Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Education degrees, earned concurrently, and is a full member of the League of Canadian Poets and the Ontario College of Teachers. Greg lives in Whitby and has three daughters.

Chethan Lakshman is Principal at Rishi Nolan Strategies, a boutique consultancy specializing in providing strategic advice to C-suite executives, boards of directors, not-for-profit organizations, and governments (rishinolan.com).

Initially a business journalist with CBC, The Globe and Mail, and The Financial Post, Chethan is a senior communications and reputation management specialist who has worked for more than 30 years with leaders in highly regulated industries, VC-backed companies, and private firms, advising C-suite executives, and leading financial, change management, and M&A communications in several large organizations, including RBC, Manulife Financial, and Shaw Communications.

Chethan has served and continues to serve on several boards and advisory committees in the media, arts, and not for profit sectors. In addition to serving as a member of the board of directors of Shaw Rocket Fund, Chethan serves on a variety of not-for-profit boards and civic committees, including The King’s Trust Canada, the Canadian Journalism Foundation, Vancouver-based Arts Umbrella, Toronto-based The Company Theatre (Board Chair), and Tourism Calgary Sports and Major Events Committee. Chethan recently stepped down from the board of The Walrus Foundation after 11 years and is also former Chair of Calgary-based Hull Services and the Toronto Business Development Centre.

Originally from Montreal, Cindy has a BA Hons. from Trinity College, University of Toronto, and a Master of Arts from the Institute of Commonwealth Studies at the University of London, England. Her professional life has focused on the retail financial services industry and she has held positions at both Toronto Dominion Asset Management and Trimark Mutual Funds. Currently, she is President of her own consulting practice, CynTactics Communications Inc., and she serves as a Vice President and Director of a privately-held family corporation.

Cindy’s volunteer work and philanthropic board appointments have centred largely on education, the arts, and the environment. In addition to many grassroots volunteer initiatives, she was Chair of the London Goodenough Association of Canada (an alumni association that grants scholarships for Canadian graduate students to live at Goodenough College, London); she served on the boards of Trinity College (Toronto), Canada’s National Ballet School, and the Association Council of Upper Canada College; and she completed a four-year term as a civic appointee to the Toronto and Region Conservation Authority. As President of her local residents’ association and in other capacities, she has supported and actively led advocacy on such environmental initiatives as Toronto’s pesticide ban, preservation of Toronto’s urban forest, and land-use of local green space. She obtained her ICD.D at the Institute of Corporate Directors in 2015.

Janine is a Saskatchewan-based filmmaker and Interdisciplinary artist and storyteller. She is the Associate Director of Indigenous Arts at the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity and was previously the Curator of Community Engagement at the MacKenzie Art Gallery in Regina, Saskatchewan. Janine’s filmography includes roles as producer, director, narrator, writer and/or editor. She directed ‘Stories Are In Our Bones’; ‘Lifegivers: Honoring Our Elders and Children’; ‘The Land of Rock and Gold’; and ‘Ayapiyâhk ôma niyanân (Only us, we are here at home)’.

She produced From Up North and provided production support and was a storyteller for The Beacon Project: Stories of Qu’Appelle Valley. Janine was a co-producer for RIIS Media Project Inc and co-directed RIIS from Amnesia: Recovering the Lost Legacies that explores the history of the Regina Indian Industrial School (RIIS). This led to the formation of RIIS Commemorative Association, Inc. and as president, Janine helped the organization achieve municipal and provincial heritage designation. Janine has volunteered for Saskatchewan Filmpool Cooperative, mispon: A Celebration of Indigenous Filmmaking, Common Weal, and Reconciliation Regina.

She is currently providing production support to the Buffalo Mountain Video Project that is part of homeschooling for her two teenage sons.

The Honourable Elizabeth Dowdeswell is the longest-serving Lieutenant Governor of Ontario (2014-2023). She carried out thousands of constitutional and ceremonial duties and encouraged Ontarians to think deeply about their role as residents of a province and as global citizens. Building a resilient and sustainable society through inclusive economic prosperity, environmental stewardship, social cohesion and reconciliation was the focus of her mandate. She became known as Ontario’s “Storyteller-in-Chief”. Safeguarding democracy was her passion.

Ms. Dowdeswell has served the public interest at all orders of government and in the private sector. She contributed globally as Under Secretary-General of the United Nations and Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Programme. In Canada her diverse portfolios ranged from education and culture to environment and the management of complex public enquiries. She was the founding president and CEO of the Nuclear Waste Management Organization, and later the President and CEO of the Council of Canadian Academies. She has served on the boards of Canadian and international corporate and non-profit organizations.

Ms. Dowdeswell has a BSc in home economics and a teaching certificate from the University of Saskatchewan and an MSc in behavioural sciences from Utah State University. She is an Officer of the Order of Canada, a member of the Order of Ontario and is the recipient of numerous distinctions and fellowships. She holds 11 honourary doctorates.