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Louisa Jewell, MAPP
President, Positive Matters
Louisa Jewell is president of Positive Matters, an organization dedicated to working with leaders and teams to build positive and productive workplaces in Canada and around the world. In 2007 she conducted research across Canada to determine what fully engaged employees at work and she uses this information to improve employee engagement with her organizational clients.
She is a graduate of the ground-breaking Master of Applied Positive Psychology program from the University of Pennsylvania and is the founder of the Canadian Positive Psychology Association. She is a co-host of CareerBuzz, a weekly radio show on CIUT.FM where she interviews interesting authors and thought-leaders on the topic of Energizing Organizations.
Nora Priestly - Project Manager, York’s Bridging Programs for Business, IT and Human Resources
Nora brings over 18 years of University administrative experience to the role of Project Manager with York’s Bridging Programs for Business, IT and Human Resources. Working with great faculty and staff at York University to launch and establish this pilot program allowed her to combine the experiences in admissions, registrarial services and student engagement roles.
“It is a pleasure to work with new Canadians to do what we can to make their transition into meaningful careers in Ontario as smooth as possible.”
Robert Tortian - Project Manager, IT Connections, ACCES Employment
Robert Tortian is the Project Manager of the IT Connections program at ACCES Employment, a leading community-based employment agency that has helped thousands of individuals in the GTA find employment over the past 25 years.
Robert is an internationally trained IT professional and also has extensive experience in the employment, training, project management and literacy fields in Canada. Working with the IT Connections program team, he has been able to combine his technical background with his passion for helping people.
Ian Langdon - IT Administrator, Trapeze Media Ltd
Ian is a graduate of the Business Information Systems program and a Linux Professional Institute Certification holder with over ten years in the IT industry. Through and after graduating Ian ran a successful computer consulting practice where he maintained clients from a broad range of businesses from law firms to manufacturing.
One of his clients was PCPI. This turned into a full time position for him. At PCPI Ian helped new-comers with IT based resumes, while maintaining PCPI’s information systems.
Currently Ian is working with Trapeze Media where he maintains their internal infrastructure and helps the web developer team maintain their clients' web servers.
Karen Bennet - VP of Technology, Trapeze Media Ltd
Karen's experience involves both research and product development. She began her career at IBM as a programmer and launched a wide range of products including e-business, Java, development tools and database products. Karen then adventured into Open Source when she moved to Red Hat as VP, Engineering.
Karen currently works at Trapeze Media with the goal of bringing "cool" technology solutions to the digital marketing world. Prior to that, she managed a multi-disciplinary worldwide team of engineers. Also, she worked on Yahoo Media properties (Finance, Sports, Lifestyle, HomePage and News).
Pam Price - Director, Human Resources Business Partner for MTS Allstream
Pam has over 10 years experience in Human Resources. She has held several positions in Human Resources in both the public and private sectors that include Cadillac Fairview and MTS Allstream. She obtained her Hons B.A. Majoring in Sociology from McMaster University and has her Human Resources Management Post Diploma from Sheridan College.
She is a Certified Human Resources Professional. In her current role she provides leadership, direction and expertise on all human resource matters to the Business including employee/labour relations, recruitment, performance management, compensation and management processes. She has provided her expertise to the Network and Information Services for the last four years.
Djoume Salvetti - Technical Team Lead, Freshbooks
Djoume grew up in the France, he studied Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the École Normale Supérieure de Cachan in Paris. A few years ago he moved to Toronto and is now working as a Technical Team Lead for FreshBooks, the leader in online invoicing.
Prior to FreshBooks Djoume built a firewall product at Wallix, taught Electrical Engineering at Université Pierre et Marie Curie and led the development team at Trapeze. Djoume is passionate about Open Source technologies and loves working with Python and Linux.
Maureen A. Ford - Program Manager, Information and Communications Technology Council (ICTC)
Maureen Ford is the Program Manager of the Information and Communications Technology Council’s Integrated Work Experience Strategy (IWES) Program. ICTC’s IWES Program, is a bridge-to-work initiative that assists Internationally Educated Professionals (IEPs) with an ICT background in finding employment.
Maureen Ford held a number of senior positions in Canadian companies. She has expertise in leadership, organizational development and talent management in both corporate and not-for-profit organizations.
Since graduating from Centennial College, Maureen’s career in ICT has spanned several corporations in the financial, logistics management, and application management services industries. Maureen’s diverse background and experience contribute to the insightful and visionary leadership she provides.
Andrea Richardson - Manager, Global Human Resources at Infusion Development
Andrea holds a Bachelor’s degree from the University of Western Ontario in Psychology, a Post Graduate Certificate in Human Resource Management from Humber and maintain her CHRP certification. As the Manager of Global Human Resources at Infusion Development, Andrea Richardson is responsible for Infusion’s employee engagement and recruitment strategy.
With 5 years of Human Resource and Recruiting experience at HRG and Rogers Media Publishing, Andrea began her career at Infusion Toronto in 2006 as the sole person in HR Department when the company had 60 employees and offices in Toronto and New York.
Ned Hashmi - V.P., Operations, Information
Industry Expert On Technology Adoption, GeoViz Inc.
Ned Hashmi completed his bachelors in Mining Engineering in 1997 with Highest Distinction followed by masters in Computer Science in 1999. He started his professional career as Inside Technical Sales climbing the corporate ladder reached senior positions like Business Manager, VP Software Products Development, CTO and Chief Technology Architect; serving both the technical and commercial sides.
He is proud to have successfully sold an idea to a Houston, Texas based company to invest in Canada and brought the business here and served as Business Manager selling IBM certified solution for over 3 years. He is currently employed at Geoware as VP Engineering Operations.
