Michael Burns
CEO, Invictus Games Toronto 2017
Michael Burns is CEO of 2017 Invictus Games, the largest international competition in the world featuring ill and injured soldiers from 17 nations that will be coming to Toronto in September, 2017.
Michael brings to Invictus more than 20-years of an extensive experience in marketing, financial services, technology and entrepreneurial start-up.
Michael is co-founder of the True Patriot Love Foundation, which supports Canada’s military, veterans and their families. In June 2016, Canada’s Governor-General, on behalf of the Queen, awarded Burns The Meritorious Service Cross for this work with military families. In 2012, he was awarded the Canadian Forces Medallion for Distinguished Service, the military’s highest honour for a civilian.
He is Chair of the Michael Garron Hospital Foundation Board (formerly the Toronto East General Hospital Board Foundation). Last year, he successfully led the team that secured the Garrons’ $50-million donation, the largest gift ever made to a Canadian community-teaching hospital and it matches the largest gift ever to any hospital in Canada.
He is also a member of the Board of Directors of two world-class venues in Toronto: Roy Thomson Hall and Massey Hall. Finally, in 2010, he was named one of Canada’s Top 40 Under 40.
Susan J McArthur
Managing Partner, Greensoil Investments
Susan J. McArthur is a Managing Partner at GreenSoil Investments, a growth equity firm focused on investing in Real Estate, Agro Food Technology and Building Innovation Technology. In her previous role as an investment banker, Ms. McArthur advised corporate clients on a broad range of transactions including acquisitions and divestitures, public and private equity and debt financing, capital restructuring and other strategic initiatives. Currently, Ms. McArthur sits on the Board of Directors of Great West Lifeco (GWL), First Capital Realty (FCR), Investor's Group (IGM) and is a trustee of Chemtrade Logistics Income Fund (CHE.UN). She also sits on the Member Council of Sustainability Development Technology Canada. She has previously served as a Director on a number of boards, including Chair of the Canada Revenue Agency Board of Management and Director of Globalive Wireless Management (Wind Mobile), UBS Bank Canada, The Canadian Club of Toronto, Les Jardins de Metis Inc., Luminato and The Toronto International Film Festival. Ms. McArthur is a graduate of the University of Western Ontario and speaks French fluently.
Gillian Riley
Executive Vice President, Scotiabank
In the role of Executive Vice President, Canadian Commercial Banking, Gillian is responsible for the overall strategic positioning, growth and direct management of several key integrated business areas that provide financial offerings including corporate finance solutions to businesses throughout Canada. She was appointed to this position in December 2015.
She began her career with Scotiabank in 1994 in Commercial Banking, and has held progressively senior positions in the Canadian Bank with Retail Mortgages, Retail Deposits & Payments, Dundee Bank and most recently, Commercial Banking.
Gillian is a member of the Risk Policy and Senior Credit Committees at the Bank. She is also Chair of Roynat Capital’s Board of Directors and sits on the Board of the Canadian Club of Toronto.
Gillian holds a Master of Business Administration from the University of Hartford Business School and a Bachelor of Arts in Economics from the University of Western Ontario (Western University).
In 2016, Gillian was recognized as a WXN Canada’s Most Powerful Women: Top 100 Award Winner, an honour celebrating female leaders whose efforts to succeed continue to inspire others.
She and her husband, Chris, have three children.
Jaime Wilson
Chief Development Officer, True Patriot Love
Jaime is a result driven fundraising professional. She began her career at SickKids Foundation and supported the growth of the peer-to-peer fundraising program, SickKids Leaders. Following that, she spent some time as a senior development staff person at Villa Charities Foundation, an Italian Canadian organization that supports culturally specific programming across the GTA. Here she was responsible for all individual and corporate fundraising through all their signature events, including The Venetian Ball.
Jaime then joined Right To Play, where she founded the Right To Play Champions Program, a group of like-minded individuals, senior level executives, philanthropists, across many sectors, which raise awareness and funds. In just four years, the group has expanded to the greater New York area with its official launch in January 2014. She is currently the Chief Development Officer at True Patriot Love Foundation.
Jaime received and undergraduate degree in English Literature from York University, is also a certified Ashtanga Yoga Instructor and enjoys spending time with her 2 year old son, Henry.
Vanessa Judelman
President, Mosaic People Development
Whether she is facilitating, training or delivering a keynote address, Vanessa’s spunk and tenacity inspire her clients to feel passionate about their work and lives. Vanessa has an impressive record of achievement as a certified coach working with executives and leaders at all levels.
Over the past 18 years, as a talent management and performance consultant, Vanessa has worked with organizations such as Motorola, Torstar Digital, Blakes, GlaxoSmithKline, Research in Motion, Campbell’s Soup, and CIBC. Most recently she built, led and managed the organizational development and learning department at Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan Board. Vanessa also worked as a consultant at MICA Consulting Partners. She has a background in theatre arts, a master’s degree in human resource management and training from Leicester University and a bachelor of arts and education degree from McGill University.
She is noted as an expert in her industry and has been published and quoted in The Globe and Mail and the National Post. She has also been featured on CKNW Radio and has been a guest lecturer in the MBA program at Ted Rogers School of Management.
