exeQutive | The Forum for Toronto's LGBT Leaders

Bruce Lawson

Bruce Lawson is the Executive Director of The Counselling Foundation of Canada. His background is in providing meeting planning and project management services to a variety of clients, as well as having served as Interim Executive Director of Casey House Foundation.

Bruce is the past Chair of the Board of Casey House, and co-chaired Casey House’s largest fundraising event, Art with Heart for 3 years. He is also a director of several other non-profit organizations.

Christopher Walker

Christopher began working in the financial sector more than 26 years ago at the Toronto Stock Exchange. During the past 25 years at Manulife Financial, some of the positions held have included Chief Operational Risk Officer (Investment Division), Vice President and CCO of John Hancock Distributors and President and CCO of Manulife Financial Securities LLC.

Christopher has chaired and presented at many conferences with respected to Canadian and US Securities and Insurance regulations. He is also published by the CLU.

Christopher is currently a Board Member and Finance Director of Casey House.

John Rider | Chief Innovator - Cognition LLP

John is a business, planning and innovation consultant working with clients to assist them in strategy, planning, process, product development and sales.He has a legal and business background of almost 25 years and has worked with a number of clients and employers to build their business, design and launch new products and to help them grow to the next level more profitably. He loves to help groups rethink and change for the better.

Peter Kinch, FCPA, FCA | Managing Director, SecondAct.Toronto

Peter is a senior partner of EY. He provides litigation support to the firm's general counsel office and accounting & audit-related services in the financial services sector. Peter is the Executive Sponsor of EY's LGBT bEYond network

Nadeem Mansour | Vice President, Enterprise Risk and Audit Services, George Weston Limited

Nadeem Mansour is a seasoned professional in Governance, Audit & Risk with 20 years of experience in professional services and industry. Currently, he holds the position of VP, Risk and Internal Audit at George Weston Limited.

Shawn Sheridan | Vice President, Information Technology, Numeris

Shawn is a senior executive with over 25 years experience in information technology. Now Vice President of Information Technology for Numeris, Canada's radio and television ratings experts, he has held VP and SVP positions at companies like AGF Management, Unisen, and Citigroup. Shawn specialises in helping businesses best use their technology, focusing on both business-aligned strategy and overall management of technology in roles such as CIO, and other 'Head of IT' roles.

Shawn is also chair of OutSport Toronto, a not-for-profit umbrella organisation serving and supporting LGBT sports organisations in the GTA.

Brad Berg

Brad was one of the founding members of exeQutive. He is very involved in the community, in addition to having a busy litigation practice at Blakes. Brad lives in Toronto with his spouse Brian Rolfes, partner and global director of recruiting for McKinsey & Company. Brad's full bio and more information can be found at www.blakes.com.

Daniel Holland | Vice President, Business Development

Daniel is an experienced business development and marketing professional with specialization in local/location-based traffic/lead generation for retailers and service-based businesses, CRM and large-scale loyalty programs, as well as professional services marketing (law, medical specialists).

Greg Johns | Senior Negotiations Executive, IBM North America

Greg is Senior Negotiations Executive for IBM Global Technology Services. In this role, he leads the structuring and negotiation of IBM’s largest and most complex technology outsourcing transactions including infrastructure, application and business process outsourcing. As IBM Canada's first out executive, Greg is a member of IBM's GLBT Executive Task Force. He has actively supported initiatives of Blue Q - IBM's network group for its lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender employees.

Greg is a graduate of the Ivey Business School at the University of Western Ontario and the Faculty of Law at Queen’s University. Greg is also a Trustee of the Bill 7 Award Trust, which provides scholarships to support LGBT youth in financial need who are pursuing a post-secondary education in Ontario, and was a founding member of exeQutive.

Michael Bach | Founder and CEO, Canadian Centre for Diversity and Inclusion

Michael Bach is the founder and CEO of the Canadian Institute of Diversity and Inclusion – a national not-for-profit organization focused on the broad spectrum of diversity within Canada’s workplaces. He is a diversity and inclusion thought leader, and prior to taking on his current role Michael was the National Director of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion for KPMG in Canada.

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