Women Get On Board Summit 2023

Alexandra is a leading advisor on risk and insurance to companies and senior executives across Canada and is a nationally-recognized expert in the field of director and officer liability, risk and insurance.

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Mary is a Partner in MNP Consulting and leads the Firm’s National Organizational Renewal Practice. Having played global strategic leadership roles as a senior executive for leading international companies and as a partner in top-tier consulting firms, Mary has built a broad set of skills around strategy, sustainability and organizational culture.

Mary serves as a trusted advisor to CEOs and senior executives in the US, Canada and Europe on strategy, culture, governance, and leadership, and has led culture and organization transformation initiatives in multi-billion-dollar companies and crown corporations.
She has held senior executive positions with McDonald’s Corporation in the U.S. and Alcan in Canada. She started her career with the Boston Consulting Group in the U.S. and worked in Canada for McKinsey and Co., Oliver Wyman, and A.T. Kearney.
Her commitment to sustainability over two decades has led to a national leadership role in ESG (Environment, Social and Governance). She currently serves on the Advisory Board for Stanford University’s Clayman Institute for Gender Research and is the Chair of the Advisory Board of McGill University’s School of Continuing Studies.

She earned an AB from Princeton University and an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.

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Alyssa is a Principal and Co-Founder at irlabs. She has over 15-years of investor relations, capital markets and corporate communications experience. An activist by nature, she has raised over $1 billion of capital, led some of Canada’s most successful activism campaigns, managed M&A transactions and enhanced board governance frameworks. She was formerly Head of Strategy – Operations and Communications at Artis REIT, Vice-President of Capital Markets and Communications at Sandpiper Group and Manager, Investor Relations at Amica Mature Lifestyles Inc. She is known for her agility, creative prose and relentless pursuit of success for her clients.

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Cathy is a founding Managing Director of the Toronto office of Stanton Chase, a Top 10 global retained executive search firm with over 70 offices worldwide. With over 30 years of varied business experience, Cathy leverages her finance and governance expertise as Global Leader of the Stanton Chase CFO Practice, specializing in Financial Executives and Board appointments across North America.

A trusted partner to many long-standing clients, Cathy advises companies ranging from start-ups to publicly traded global corporations across all industry sectors, helping them attract top talent and build diverse and inclusive executive leadership teams and boards that will drive growth and transformational change.
As a passionate advocate for diversity, Cathy is an engaged mentor and sponsor of high-potential women leaders, supporting women professionals as they develop their careers and prepare for leadership roles and board service. She is a frequent speaker and panelist on the intersect of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI), human capital and governance.

Prior to her career in executive search, Cathy started her career with Ernst & Young, followed by finance roles within the real estate, retail, and healthcare sectors. She was awarded the CPA Fellow designation in 2017, and in 2021, was honored to be recognized as one of the Top 100 Most Powerful Women in Canada by the Women’s Executive Network (WXN) for her efforts in advancing women in leadership.

Cathy’s board roles include the Association of Executive Search and Leadership Consultants (AESC), as Treasurer as well as Chair of the Nominating & Governance Committee (Americas), and previously as Vice Chair, Finance for Stanton Chase.

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Tracy is one of the few women to become a CNSC licensed operator at Bruce Power and was the first to do so at Bruce A. She is the only woman to ever work her way up to Shift Manager from the shop floor where she started as a nuclear operator in training in 1990. She worked shift for most of her career and before retiring last year led multiple teams in operations and maintenance. She is a current member of the Women in Nuclear Canada Board, the United College Board of Governors and the Ontario Power Generation Board.

Raising her two boys with her husband Dave, Tracy has always been active in her community. She has years of volunteer and board experience both in the energy industry and in various other organizations.

She is a proud member of the Nipissing First Nation and strives to use the Seven Grandfather Teachings in her leadership.

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Erik is the Chief Revenue Officer at NEO, responsible for driving growth by working closely with capital-raising companies, asset managers, sell-side firms, buy-side firms and other industry stakeholders. With NEO since inception, Erik helped define and implement the foundational NEO stock exchange and fund distribution platforms and has held several senior roles including Head of Funds & Trading and Head of Product Management. Erik also chaired several industry advisory groups instrumental in guiding NEO’s approach to meeting the needs of an evolving industry and currently sits on the Canadian ETF Association (CETFA) Operations Committee.

Prior to joining NEO, Erik was with the Alpha Exchange where he led product management, after helping to oversee the delivery of the exchange’s core technology platform. Erik started his career at a global business and technology consultancy firm. Erik holds a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) in Economics from Queen’s University.

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Kim Stangeby has spent twenty years as an applied strategist in C-suite and advisory roles. Her area of specialization is strategic transformation and change, with a focus on board effectiveness and CEO-board strategic engagement. As Partner and Head of Strategy Consulting, she helps clients implement high-impact organization transformation solutions, including Board advisory, strategic development and planning, and talent strategy.

A decade at McKinsey equipped Kim with a set of robust strategy tools, which she has honed through application across diverse real-world contexts. Her most recent in-house role was as the Chief Strategy Officer and interim Chief Human Resources Officer at the Greater Toronto Airports Authority, and she currently serves as the Chair of Governance and Human Resources for several boards of a top Canadian private equity firm.

Kim holds a PhD in Biomechanical Engineering and an Honours Bachelors of Applied Science in Chemical Engineering, both from the University of Toronto. She speaks regularly at events and writes articles under the banner “Strategic Decluttering”, to improve the strategic dialogue between CEOs and boards.

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