Ian Telfer was elected Chairman of the World Gold Council in September 2010. He is also Chairman of Goldcorp and has been a senior executive in the gold mining industry for the past 25 years. During this time Ian financed, developed and operated mines in 12 countries throughout the Americas, Asia and Australia. He has served as a director and officer of several Canadian and International mining...

Ian E. Bennett, a distinguished federal public servant, has held several positions within the Department of Finance including Deputy Minister from November 2004 to June 2006. Previously, he served as Executive Director of the International Monetary Fund representing Canada, Ireland and the Caribbean countries from September 2001 to October 2004. Mr. Bennett has also held other senior positions ...

Ilse Treurnicht is the CEO of MaRS Discovery District, a leading innovation centre located in Toronto. She oversees both the development and operations of the MaRS Centre and its broad suite of entrepreneurship and innovation programs. Ilse has worked closely with the leadership of Toronto’s academic institutions and teaching hospitals to create MaRS Innovation, an integrated commercialization ...

Ian Baillie is the Executive Director of the Alliance of Beverage Licensees representing British Columbia’s multi-billion dollar Liquor industry, including pubs and Liquor Retail Stores. An accomplished leader in Communications and Government Affairs, Mr. Baillie has held senior positions in both the private and public sectors and has acted as a senior strategist to numerous public officials, m...

Ian Anderson has served as President of Kinder Morgan Canada since December 2005. In this role, he provides executive leadership to Kinder Morgan’s Canadian operations, growth pursuits and social responsibility initiatives. For Mr. Anderson, this means “articulating a clear vision for the company” and all projects, “diving fully into the details” and “building and growing the personal relations...

Ian Black is the General Manager of Uber (Ontario), a technology company that is reinventing urban transportation and the way people and things move. By seamlessly connecting riders to drivers through an elegant smartphone app, Uber is making cities more accessible, innovating new possibilities for riders and creating new business for drivers in over 270 metros across the world. Before joining ...

Iain has overall responsibility for operations of the organization that includes: regional, provincial and national mandates, innovation programs for companies at every stage (from startup to global) and a national focus on digital media and mobile computing with leadership of the Canadian Digital Media Network.

Ian M. MacDonald MSc, MD CM is a Professor in the Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, University of Alberta and recently stepped down after four terms as its Chair. From 2007-2008, he served as Branch Chief of Ophthalmic Genetics at the National Eye Institute of the NIH in Bethesda, MD. A McGill graduate in Medicine, Dr. MacDonald completed Ophthalmology residency training at the U...

Indira Naidoo-Harris was first elected to the Ontario legislature in 2014 as the MPP for Halton. Naidoo-Harris currently serves as Minister of the Status of Women and Minister Responsible for Early Years and Child Care. She was previously Associate Minister of Education, focusing on Early Years and Child Care. Before that, she was Associate Minister of Finance, focusing on the Ontario Retire...