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CO-CHAIR Wende Cartwright is President of Savira & Associates and was Director of the Cultural Olympiad for the Vancouver 2010 Olympics. Prior to the Olympics, she was Executive Director at the Royal Conservatory of Music and project director for the new Telus Centre for Performance & Learning, Executive Director/Producer at Roy Thomson Hall, Massey Hall, The Elgin & Winter Garden Theatres and CBC Television. She is co-chair of the board for ROM Institute of Contemporary Culture (ICC) and a member of the Institute of Corporate Directors, Toronto Board of Trade, Association of Performing Arts, PuSh Festival Leadership Council and Pan Am Games 2015 Cultural Advisory Committee. |
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CO-CHAIR Susan Crocker is Past Chairman of the Board of the Canadian Stage Theatre Company and served two terms as a ROM Trustee. She currently serves as a Governor of St. Francis Xavier University and is also a recent Past Chair and Board member of the Board of Management of St. Lawrence Centre for the Arts. Previously, she was CEO of Hospitals of Ontario Pension Plan, and held senior executive positions at The Toronto Stock Exchange, Ernst and Young Management Consulting and CIBC. |
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Geoffrey Dawe is a magazine publishing and marketing executive. Currently the Principal of GDC, he is Publication Director of International Architecture & Design magazine. Recently, he was President and Founding Partner of Kontent Inc. He was also SVP at the National Post and EVP, Publishing at Saturday Night and Financial Post Magazines, as well as past Director at Women's College Hospital Foundation and Magazines Canada, and Governor of Sunnybrook Hospital Foundation. |
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Siamak Hariri is a founding partner of Hariri Pontarini Architects. His work has received numerous awards for innovation, design excellence and improving the urban landscape, including the Cadillac Fairview Corporation's Salute to the City Award, and several City of Toronto Architecture and Urban Design Awards. He is an Adjunct Professor of Architecture at the University of Toronto and a member of the Toronto Community Foundation’s Council of 100. |
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Brendan O'Brien is a freelance graphic designer and owner of Process Design, a boutique design firm. Brendan's work centers around making graceful and positive contributions to visual culture. His clients include The Canada Pavilion Venice Biennale, North by Northeast Music Festival, Ovarian Cancer Canada, and The JUNO Awards. |
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Sabaa Quao is a creative director, business strategist, and career entrepreneur. Sabaa wears multiple hats as Managing Director of Cloud AdAgents; VP Strategy, Emerging Platforms at The Hive Strategic Marketing; and Co-Founder of Filminute, the international one-minute film festival. He has built a reputation for excellence in marketing communication and design across a wide range of business categories. Sabaa holds a Bachelor of Commerce in Marketing, received his Associateship in Communication and Design from the Ontario College of Art and Design, and completed his MBA at University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management. |
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Alfredo Romano is a principal of the Castlepoint Group, a major stakeholder in the Eastern Toronto Waterfront and the redevelopment of Hummingbird Centre for the Performing Arts. He is a member of the Children's Circle of Care, and a founding director of Save Kids Now. A patron of the arts, he contributes to the Toronto International Film Festival Talent Lab, the Galleria Italia at the Art Gallery of Ontario, and the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts. |
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Sarah Scott is an award-winning Toronto journalist who has contributed to most of Canada’s national magazines, including Maclean’s, Report on Business Magazine, Azure, Chatelaine and Canadian Geographic. She has worked with prominent thinkers to write two books, on the impact of digital technology and on the worldwide effort to improve global health. Sarah grew up with contemporary art at home in Montreal, Toronto and Vancouver, and she’s currently working on a feature story about the conceptual artist Iain Baxter for Canadian Art. |