Our Staff
CSI is led by a multidisciplinary team of entrepreneurs, innovators, community builders, systems thinkers, designers and all around badass changemakers.
Leadership
Kyle Shantz
Tonya Surman
Member Animation & Services
Tash Adu
Gonzalo Duarte
Marvin Farouse
Thomas Finlayson
Deenie Flannery
Glen Guerin
Sami Saeed M. Hassan
Stefan Hostetter
Marcus Huynh
Shamim Nabulya
Elvira Omarbagaeva
Tara Marina Pearson
Amanda Singh
Events & Meetings
Amy Castator
Dimitra Chronopoulos
Alyshia Collins
Crystina Dang
Geoff Doner
Leanne Leung
Rachel Rainbow
Jahnari Phillip-Rosale
Ethan Surman
Finance
Kirtan Shrestha
Andrea Tsang
Marketing & Communications
Colleen Mahaffie
Maria Nestorovska
Digital
Nareg Karamardian
Will Mattfeld-Sarbaugh
Wasan Island
Peter Vanderploeg
TechSoup Canada
Adele
Andrea
Chiara
Chris
Jane Zhang
Morgan
Yaël
Board
Valerie Fox
Pino Di Mascio
Nick Parker
Colin Yee
George Dark
Seana Irvine
Karen Sihra
Phillip Haid
Chris Rickett
Jeffrey Ma
Emeritus
Mary Rowe | Founding Board Member 2004 – 2015
Eric Meerkamper | Board Chair 2004 – 2014
Margaret Zeidler | Co-Founder and Founding Board Member 2004 – 2010
Jini Stolk | Board Member 2005 – 2014
Sandy Crawley | Founding Board Member 2004 – 2008
Jacline Nyman | Board Member 2005 – 2008
Andre Sorensen | Board Member 2007 – 2016
Alice Klein | Board Member 2008 – 2017
Brian Iler | Board Member 2009 – 2023
Jeb Brugmann | Board Member 2010 – 2017
Bernie Li | Board Member 2011 – 2018
Marie Moliner | Board Member 2011 – 2019; Board Chair 2014 – 2019
Tim Draimin | Board Member 2015 – 2019
Rizwan Tufail | Board Member 2016 – 2019
Eric McGoey | Board Member 2016 – 2017
Rahul Raj | Board Member 2016 – 2021
Rebecca Shields | Board Member 2018 – 2023; Board Chair 2021 – 2023
Helen Yung | Board Member 2018 – 2021
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