
SI Canada is a remote-first team working at a national level in partnership with innovative organizations across Canada.
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Core Team

Barnabe Geis
Senior Director of Cleantech | Toronto, ON
With over a decade in the impact venture space, Barnabe is the Senior Director of Cleantech at SI Canada, and the Senior Director of Market Transformation at Foresight Canada. His work is focused on accelerating the development and adoption of Canadian cleantech.

Gwen Joy
Managing Director | Toronto, ON
Gwen brings insights from a 20+ year career spanning the non-profit, public, and private sectors, where she's worked alongside community and elected leaders, policymakers, academics, youth, non-profit and corporate leaders to develop organizational capacity to drive social impact and innovation.

Jo Reynolds
Senior Director of Partnerships & Development | Kingston, ON
Jo collaborates with people in communities and regions across Canada and the globe to address the ways we live and work in order to achieve equity across our social, economic and ecological systems. They provide support with project development, strategy, social finance, impact measurement, social enterprise and building relationships that unlock potential.

Paluck Kohli
Communications, Client Engagement & Impact Coordinator | Toronto, ON
Paluck’s superpowers are building meaningful collaborations and creating synergies through impact tracking. Her work is focused on helping organizations align with United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals and measure their impact. She comes from a diverse background ranging from business consulting to Food and Beverage industries but found her purpose in social innovation.

Randall Terada
Senior Manager, Adopting Common Measures | Toronto, ON
Randall seeks to overturn convention and move the needle on innovative projects, starting with supporting social purpose organizations to align their work with the UN Sustainable Development Goals and track the impact they’re making.

Shea Sinnott
Director of Programs, Accelerate from Anywhere | Vancouver, BC
Shea is an experienced facilitator and program designer with over a decade of experience in social innovation and environmental advocacy. In her role as Director of Programs, Accelerate from Anywhere, Shea works closely with our partners at Foresight Canada, delivering educational programs and integrating social innovation approaches into cleantech solutions.
Partners

Garth Yule
Strategy and Operations Lead, Common Approach to Impact Measurement

Valerie Adriaanse
Communications Lead, Common Approach to Impact Measurement
Weavers & Stewards

Claire Okatch
Knowledge and Engagement Lead
My passion has always revolved around facilitating more space making for those who hold marginalized identities.

Denise Soueidan-O’Leary
Director of Community Wealth Strategy, and Special Projects | Toronto, ON
Since 2016, Denise has embedded herself in the Regent Park Community, with a strong focus on building Community Wealth infrastructure at the neighbourhood level.

Jerome Morgan
Senior Innovation Manager for Clinical and Social Innovation | Calgary, AB
Jerome Morgan specializes in strategy, human-centred design, organizational development and facilitation. He helps leaders get to better solutions using design thinking and community innovation that is centered on empathy.

Jocelyn Li
Strategic Initiatives & Partnerships Lead, Inspiring Communities

Leah Sanford
Associate Director, Education & Training, RADIUS | Vancouver, BC

Patrick Dube
Executive Director, La Maison de l’innovation sociale | Montréal, QC
With his entrepreneur and complex systems mindset, Patrick likes to disrupt status quo and provoke fierce conversations around the role of social innovation in achieving systemic changes by building civil society and people’s capacity.
Board Members

Amanuel Melles
Director, Network for the Advancement of Black Communities (York University) and Principal of Aman Consulting

Ben Weinlick
Executive Director, Skills Society and founder of Think Jar Collective and Action Lab

Darcy Riddell, PhD (Chair)
Consultant: Nature Conservation and Indigenous-led Economies

Jonathan Yu (Treasurer)
Chief Financial Officer for Fionic Canada Ltd.

Marilyn Struthers
Facilitator, Coach and Organizational Development Consultant

Michael Alberg-Seberich
Managing Director, Wider Sense

Noura Kamel

Tim Draimin
Senior Fellow, Community Foundations of Canada