Welcome, Mark Richardson

Mark Richardson is the Chief Technology Officer at Rich Analytics. RICH ANALYTICS is a vendor-independent Business Intelligence (BI) services company specializing in implementation of the SAP-Business Objects & SAP Analytics range of products. We bring “Real World” knowledge to your Business Intelligence projects – gained over almost two decades of consulting experience with the Crystal …

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Welcome, Laide Olorunleke

Laide Olorunleke is the Manager of Information Technology Services at Regina Police Service. Laide is an experienced Information Technology Services Manager, Business Applications Services Manager, Solutions Architect, Professional Scrum Master, and Lead Developer with extensive experience in various types of applications (web applications, services, system integration, desktop apps, mobile apps, telemetry, etc). Specialties: Software Systems …

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Welcome, Brent Perkins

Brent Perkins is the Director of Information Technology at Prodigy Education. IT business operations leader experienced in building high performing teams and overseeing IT processes and infrastructure for one of Canada’s fastest growing startups. Over 20 years of experience spanning software engineering, IT operations, data science, program management, and cybersecurity. Demonstrated strengths in organizational design, …

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Welcome, Dr. Chandana Unnithan

Chandana Unnithan is the Chief Security and Informatics Officer (CSIO)/CIO at Lifeguard Digital Health. Expert scientist in digital health (AI, IoT, Blockchain, Geo-spatial apps, Health informatics (Deep Learning/ML), tele-health/telemedicine); with a PhD (Digital Health & Informatics) from Australia. Experienced in pioneering novel digital solutions in public health and hospitals; using socio-technical approaches. Professor with >120 …

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Welcome, Scott Briggs

Scott Briggs is the Chief Information Officer at Humber College. Check out his LinkedIn.

Back to the office, Building back better

The Toronto Chapter of the CIO Association was pleased to collaborate with Ram Srinivasan, Managing Director at JLL Consulting for our most recent event: Round table – Back to office, Building back better. The session covered key data, research and antidotes on how to transition the workforce. It also covered what is the new norm …

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Welcome, Dwayne Faust

Dwayne Faust is the Director of IT at Kelowna Christian School. His career focuses around IT Strategy, Network Architecture and System Administration.

Welcome, Victoria Yanku

Victoria Yanku is the Sr. IT Program Manager at CIBC. With over 20 years of experience performing, delivering and managing IT projects, programs, portfolios and budgets, I have always had my finger on the pulse of all things related to IT Departments operations, IT PMOs and IT projects Portfolios. Victoria on LinkedIn

Welcome, Sharon Hine

Sharon Hine is the Director of Systems & IT at Invest Ottawa. Sharon is an experienced accounting and technology professional with a natural ability to understand and communicate both finance and tech. As a former software developer-turned-CPA, she drives innovation to enhance business intelligence and day-to-day operations, while maintaining internal control and operational efficiency. She …

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Welcome, David Bergeron

David Bergeron is the Director of Information Technology at Kriska Transportation Group. A leader with in-depth knowledge and experience with IT delivery and operations. Successful in setting IT Strategy, roadmap design and execution. A broad range of experience developed from roles in IT service desk, application support, architecture, data center, telecommunications and service management operations. …

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Virtual Executive Presence and Personal Branding

The CIO Association of Canada was pleased to collaborate with Debra Christmas Senior Executive Partner at Gartner to offer our most recent event. This session covered the value of creating a personal brand and how key leaders perceive them. It also covered how to manage your personal brand like the valuable asset it is. We would …

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Welcome, Sorin Egher

Sorin Egher is IT Manager at Dexterra. Innovative, results-oriented management professional with over 10 years of visible achievements providing leading edge technological solutions. Extensive qualifications in all aspects of systems administration, management and maintenance, network/server operations and hardware/software solutions. Exceptional skills in implementation of terms and systems to provide business solutions which increase operational efficiencies. …

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