Alison is the Head of Talent at Golden Ventures. She supports the portfolio in building effective and scalable talent programs in today’s competitive market.

Most recently, Ali led Talent at food-tech startup Lunchbox, where she grew the team from 50 to 250 North American team members. Before this, she was the first Talent Acquisition hire at Ritual.co, and led the charge as Head of Talent while they built the systems to scale and expanded across North America, Europe, Hong Kong and Australia. Her previous experience is varied and includes recruitment in a boutique agency, management consulting, and marketing.

Ali studied Management, International Business and Marketing at New York University’s Stern School of Business. In her spare time, she loves to travel the globe and is the go-to person for restaurant recommendations both here and abroad!

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Shawna Stewart is a transformative People & Operations leader with over 10 years of experience. She champions a people-first culture, developing employee-focused programs that boost productivity. Key player in the acquisition of MarTech startup PostBeyond, Shawna’s contributions to HR and operational effectiveness have earned her accolades from industry-leading organizations, such as Great Place to Work Canada, The HR Awards, The Employee Engagement Awards and more.

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Building a career that is focused on people, Andrea believes that businesses should understand their employee journey as well as they know the client journey and product roadmap. Andrea brings Human Resources experience in both public and private organizations, in industries including wholesale distribution, financial services, hospitality, biopharmaceutical R&D, and technology. Working alongside Founding and Executive team members, Andrea has extensive experience in People & Talent, specializing in the areas of talent management & recruiting strategy, people operations, total rewards, organizational design & scaling, retention & talent development, and leadership training & coaching. She is currently the Vice President, People & Organization Development at Lillio (formerly HiMama), where she leads a team of People & Talent professionals, excited about bringing high-quality tools to the early childhood space.  

In her spare time, she provides fractional HR support to small businesses, is an Expert in Residence (EiR) with the DMZ (Digital Media Zone) Innisfill office, and the Rogers Cybersecurity Catalyst program. Andrea holds a Bachelor of Commerce in Human Resources, a Masters of Business Administration (MBA) from the Toronto Metropolitan University, and is a Certified Human Resources Leader (CHRL) through the Human Resources Professional Association of Ontario (HRPA).

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A British born adventure seeker who moved to Canada on a whim without any friends, family or even a home. I've grown my career from HR Assistant to Head of HR and I love Dogs, any and all dogs. Don't mind cats either.

I empower first time and middle managers through the transition into manager with confidence and skills to drive results quickly. After 10+ years in HR, it grinds my gears that there is still not enough support for managers. I have seen a tone of sh*t in my career and coached over 60 people leaders in 6 different industries, across 3 countries, from 1st time Managers to Executive level. I have always been passionate about human development, not only career focused, but building both self and emotional awareness.

Laura Lillie Coaching was built to develop People Managers in business because management is is not as simple as giving orders and getting results. As a collective, People Managers have the largest responsibility and generally manage over 50% of a company's people, their outputs and outcomes. In order to do this, Managers need to understand their role, responsibilities, their management style, how they work and their weak spots in order to truly be of service to themselves, their team and the company.  Management is not a small job, but it can often get the least attention and I plan to change that with my 3 month coach-learning program that levels-up managers with the fundamentals skills needed to go from Oh sh!t to I got this and can show results.

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Abby brings a decade of expertise to the hiring industry as the Lead Recruiter at the Linkus Group. Throughout her professional journey, she has been unwaveringly committed to facilitating the growth of hundreds of small companies and Canadian startups by building robust teams from pre-seed/ bootstrapped until they are ready to exit.

Commencing her career by specializing in recruiting for technical positions, Abby has seamlessly expanded her scope to encompass the hiring for all roles within an organization from skilled Software Developers, Product Managers, C-suite Finance and Technical Leaders, and even Sales and Marketing professionals. Furthermore, she has taken on the role of a mentor, leading and guiding her own team.

Abby takes pride in her ability to forge strong relationships while possessing the knack for understanding what propels individuals to success. Having lived and worked in various countries, she considers herself a cultural ambassador, embracing and valuing diversity in all its forms.

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Ben Wise is a 15 year advertising industry veteran who has held successive sales and leadership roles at Google, where he is currently the Head of Programmatic Media working with the largest agencies and brands in Canada. Ben is active in his community where he serves on the Board of the Daily Bread Food Bank and recently completed a two year term as the board chair. Ben advises multiple startups on sales and go to market strategy and volunteers in various mentorship programs helping students and young professionals.

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Chengeer Lee is a Transformation Coach who is helping leaders and founders in the tech industry to build Unshakeable Confidence and fulfill their Life Purpose. By day he builds teams that build world-class software. By night he builds people who want to change the world. 

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Yiorgos is a Toronto-based people and talent leader with 15 years of experience building teams in various industries.

Currently, Yiorgos leads people and talent at Tiny Mile, a start-up that deploys remotely piloted electric sidewalk robots that provide a safe, contactless delivery option. With Tiny Mile, Yiorgos facilitates a human-centred process that helps people do their best work.

Overall, Yiorgos feels very lucky that he gets to listen to people’s stories and help set them up for success every day.

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