SI Canada is a remote-first team working at a national level in partnership with innovative organizations across Canada.
Photo by Ian Schneider
Our Team
Amber Krogel
Brittany Goldhawke
Director, Earth Tech and Investor Relations | Vancouver, BC
Brittany Goldhawke is a climate innovation leader supporting high-impact climate technology ventures across Canada. Her work focuses on commercialization, investor readiness, and ecosystem collaboration across climate mitigation, adaptation, and nature-based solutions. She works closely with founders, investors, Indigenous partners, and industry to help scale technologies that deliver meaningful environmental and community impact.
Devon Bond
Operations Manager | Stratford, ON
Devon combines an enthusiastic, people-centered approach with strong operational expertise. With experience in administration, HR, finance, IT and governance, she keeps our remote-first team running smoothly and builds the systems that underpin our national-scale impact.
Gwen Joy
Interim CEO | 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.
Jamil Bhimji
Program Analyst | Vancouver, BC
Jamil is a current Master of Public Policy and Global Affairs student at the University of British Columbia. He brings experience both in Canada and Scotland working with nonprofits, charities, and sustainable social enterprises and has a keen interest in using policy and advocacy to advance the social impact sector.
Safina Allidina
Innovation Practice Lead | Toronto, ON
Safina brings her experience in designing programs and solving complex problems across consulting, public sector, non-profit, and startups. Her career across innovation, social impact, and health has brought her to lead the innovation practice and address systemic issues with SI Canada.
Shikhank Sharma
Canadian Alliance for Transit-Connected Housing (CATCH)
Anusha Subramannian
Research and Operations Associate | Vancouver, BC
Anusha brings over seven years of experience in financial planning, business analysis, and operations. She combines research, stakeholder engagement, and analytical thinking to develop practical strategies, improve processes, and drive meaningful impact.
Dina Graser
National Director, Canadian Alliance for Transit-Connected Housing (CATCH) | Toronto, ON
Dina has 30+ years of experience in the public, private and nonprofit sectors in a career spanning the arts, housing, transportation and engagement. She enjoys connecting people and communities to build consensus and make progress on complex problems.
Hamza Ansari
Head of Lending, Canadian Alliance for Transit-Connected Housing (CATCH) | Mississauga, ON
Hamza is an institutional real estate investment professional with nearly a decade of experience across acquisitions, asset management, and capital markets. His work spans financial underwriting, debt structuring, and JV partnerships across multifamily, seniors housing, and mixed-use platforms.
John Dynes
Chief Investment Officer, Canadian Alliance for Transit-Connected Housing (CATCH) | Toronto, ON
John brings nearly 20 years of experience bridging finance discipline with social impact. His background spans portfolio management, management consulting, and capital markets, as well as various governance roles in the social housing sector.
Board Members
Amanuel Melles
Director, Network for the Advancement of Black Communities (York University) and Principal of Aman Consulting
Ben Weinlick (Chair of the Board)
Executive Director, Skills Society and founder of Think Jar Collective and Action Lab
Jonathan Yu (Treasurer)
Chief Financial Officer for Fionic Canada Ltd.
Marilyn Struthers
Facilitator, Coach and Organizational Development Consultant
Michael Seberich
Managing Director, Wider Sense
Tim Draimin
Senior Fellow, Community Foundations of Canada