Alan Broadbent - Chair
Alan has been involved with social justice issues and the funding community in Canada for many years. He is the Chairman and CEO of Avana Capital Corporation, and also Chairman of The Maytree Foundation, the Caledon Institute of Social Policy, and the Tamarack Institute.  Alan is Chairman and CEO of Jamscor Inc.; Chairman of Diaspora Dialogues; Advisor to the Literary Review of Canada; Co-chair of Happy Planet Foods; Member of the Governors’ Council of the Toronto Public Library Foundation; Senior Fellow of Massey College and Member of the Order of Canada. 

Joel Solomon - Vice-Chair
Joel is President and CEO of Renewal, Chairman for Renewal2, and Executive Director of the Endswell Foundation whose complementary missions utilize early stage investing and strategic grant making to promote a sustainable economy.  Joel joined Tides Canada’s founding donor Carol Newell in 1993 for the development of Renewal Partners and  Endswell. 

Renewal has since invested in over 75 companies that share its commitment to socially responsible growth, including some of the best-known social purpose companies in Canada: Happy Planet Foods, Small Potatoes Urban Delivery (SPUD), and Michael Jantzi Research Associates. 

As well as serving on the board of Tides Canada,  Joel is a founding member of Social Venture Network (SVN), Business for Social Responsibility (BSR), Canadian Business for Social Responsibility (CBSR), Renewal Land Company, Tides Canada Foundation and the Sage Centre. He is Chair of the Board of Tides Foundation (US) and sits on numerous other boards throughout North America.

James Morrisey, FCA - Treasurer
Jim is a Senior Partner and the National Leader of Tax Knowledge with Ernst & Young and a leading expert in cross-border and charitable tax matters. Jim currently heads the national tax services for the Canadian tax practice of Ernst & Young, including the areas of Tax Solutions, Tax eBusiness, communications and quality control. He is the financial advisor of Renewal Partners Company, Treasurer of Endswell Foundation and Board Chair of Sage Centre. Jim is active on many committees and associations, including serving as Treasurer, VON Canada Foundation; Treasurer, Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario Research Institute; Board Member, Heart and Stroke Foundation for Brain Recovery; Board Member, Ottawa Health Research Institute;and Board Member, University of Ottawa Institute of Mental Health Research.

Drummond Pike - Founding Chair
Drummond is founder and CEO of  Tides (U.S.) which includes: Tides Foundation, Tides Centre, and Tides Shared Spaces. Throughout his career, he has supported grassroots and public interest organizations through environmental and social change philanthropy. Drummond founded Tides Foundation (US) in 1976 and pioneered the use of donor-advised funds to support grassroots and public interest organizations on a national scale. Drummond's entrepreneurial approach to promoting healthy societies also led to the creation of Tides Center, the largest fiscal sponsorship organization in North America. He is also President of Highwater Inc., an innovative real estate development venture in Presidio National Park of San Francisco which is responsible for the rehabilitation of 12 historic buildings to house dozens of non-profits working on issues of social and economic sustainability. 

Susan Gibson
Susan is a founding director of the Canadian Public Affairs Association of Canada. She has worked in senior policy positions in the private and public sectors including as: Executive Director, Ontario Status of Women Council, Government of Ontario; Director of Public Affairs, Ontario Trucking Association; Small Business Advocate, Ministry of Trade, Government of Ontario, and Research Officer, Cabinet Office, Government of Ontario. An environmental advocate for many years, Susan served as Chair of the Long Point Bird Observatory, Director, Ontario Outward Bound School, and Director of Sierra Club of Ontario.

Andrew Heintzman
Andrew is the president and a co-founder of Investeco Capital. He has a background of private equity and venture capital investing in environmental companies. He sits on a number of corporate boards, including Lotek Wireless, Triton Logging and Horizon Distributors. Andrew is chairman of the Sustainability Network and on the steering committee of Sustainable Prosperity. Andrew was a co-editor of two books, Fueling the Future: How the Battle Over Energy is Changing Everything, and Feeding the Future: From Fat to Famine, both published by the House of Anansi Press. Prior to Investeco, he was the founding publisher of Shift Magazine. He has a BA and MA from McGill University.

Valerie Hussey
Valerie spent 35 years in book publishing.  As CEO and Publisher of Kids Can Press until October 2006, she led one of Canada's leading publishers of books for children for 27 years.  She has been active in cultural policy development and review at the Federal and Provincial levels, and is on the board of the OMDC (Ontario Media Development Corporation). She is a frequent guest speaker at publishing programs, including four years as faculty at the Banff Centre for the Arts in the Publishing program. Valerie served on the board of the Canadian Women's Foundation from 1995 to 2002, and as co-president from 1999 to 2002. She is currently on the Council of Advisors of CWF which makes grants to grass roots women’s organizations across Canada to help stop violence against women and build economic self-sufficiency for women and their children. 

Ed Levy, PhD
Ed taught philosophy of science at the University of British Columbia (UBC) for almost two decades before joining QLT Inc., which he helped build into a global leader in biopharmaceuticals.  At QLT, Ed led strategic planning and managed intellectual property, and established and managed QLT’s strategic alliances including the alliance with CIBA Vision Ophthalmics (now Novartis Ophthalmics), which enabled QLT to develop Visudyne-PDT, the first therapeutic treatment approved worldwide for certain forms of wet age-related macular degeneration, the leading cause of blindness in people over 55.  He is VP and Treasurer of the Illahie Foundation which supports innovative social and environmental initiatives and is involved programme related social investments.  He serves on the boards of Oncolytics Biotech Inc. and of not-for-profits: Pivot Foundation, Coast Social Enterprise Foundation, the Neil Squire Foundation, and the BC Civil Liberties Association.  Ed is also adjunct professor at the W. Maurice Young Centre for Applied Ethics at UBC, where he is one of the leads of a research team funded by Genome Canada. 

Ross McGregor
Ross is Chairman Emeritus of Ketchum Canada Inc., Canada's leading fund development consultancy, which he co-founded in 1984.   Since then, Ketchum has helped hundreds of not-for-profits raise more than $2.4 billion for a variety of worthy causes. Ross practiced as a lawyer for ten years in Ottawa and Toronto. One of the founders of Public Affairs Management Inc., he has been active in the political and public policy arena.  Ross is an active board member of various professional and not-for-profit organizations across Canada and a frequent guest speaker on fund raising, communications, public policy and related issues in Canada and internationally.

Susan Pigott
Susan Pigott is the Vice President, Communications and Community Engagement at The Centre for Addiction and Mental Health.

Trained as a nurse and a social worker, Susan has worked in the non-profit human services field in Toronto for over 25 years. For nine years CAMH, Susan was the Chief Executive Officer of St. Christopher House, a community-based multi-service agency that operates in the west end of Toronto. Prior to that she spent seven years at United Way of Greater Toronto, first as Allocations Director and then as Vice President of Fundraising. In 2006/7 took a leave of absence from St. Christopher House to serve as the Executive Lead for Citizen Engagement, supporting the Ontario Citizens' Assembly on Electoral Reform.

Susan is an active volunteer, currently serving as a Board member of the Toronto City Summit Alliance, Soulpepper Theatre, Social Enterprise and Development Innovation and Tides Canada. She also co-chaired the Task Force on Modernizing Income Security for Working Age Adults with the Toronto City Summit Alliance.

Jodi White
Jodi is President of the Public Policy Forum whose mandate is to promote better public policy and better public management through dialogue among leaders from the public, private, labour and voluntary sectors. Her career combines experience in journalism, politics and government, the private sector and international affairs. She was a TV news reporter and a network radio producer at the CBC.  Jodi was Chief of Staff to the Minister of External Affairs (1984 - 1988) and Chief of Staff to the Prime Minister (1993).  From 1994 - 2000 Jodi was Vice-President, Corporate Affairs, at Imasco Ltd. in Montreal and President of Sydney House, a public affairs consulting firm.

Margaret Zeidler
Margie is a graduate of the University of Toronto's School of Architecture and former Executive Director of AMREF Canada (African & Medical Research Foundation). Her company, Urbanspace Property Group, specializes in the adaptive re-use of old buildings into spaces for artists and social entrepreneurs in downtown Toronto. Margie created 401 Richmond Limited, a vibrant urban community of diverse artists and entrepreneurs, located in the old garment district in the Spadina and Richmond area of downtown Toronto.  Margie is also one of the lead developers of Toronto's 215 Centre for Social Innovation in the Robertson Building at 215 Spadina where Tides Canada's Toronto office is located.  Margie was awarded the 2003 Jane Jacobs Prize created to honour Toronto residents who are actively contributing to Toronto's vibrance, as well as Toronto’s “Best Friend of the Arts” Award in 2004 and the Order of Ontario in 2005.