Charity Intelligence’s most important asset is its people. The Ci Team is a passionate cadre of volunteer professionals, some retired, some still working crazy hours. Most of the Ci team have over 10,000 hours experience in the “for-profit” sector in different professions – investing, management consulting, and public relations. We all volunteer extensively with charities, and we are donors ourselves.
In 2006, one off-hand comment “just doing what I can” triggered us to think differently. We hadn’t seen our investing skills as applicable to Canadian charities. Yet doctors give their medical expertise; lawyers work pro-bono on worthy causes. At the same time, we were also digging into our personal giving trying to be better donors. Would our perspective, our independent work, be helpful to others?
Apparently so. The spontaneous responses from hundreds of donors from across Canada have guided our work.
For those donors that have questions, we hope our research and reports provide answers. We hope our work gives you new insights and helps you give intelligently.
And, please, keep emailing and calling in your questions. Since our beginning, your questions have driven our work forward.
Board of Directors
Kate Bahen, CFA, Managing Director
Retired equity analyst
Graeme Hepburn, Chairman
Dufferin Gate Capital
Peter Mackenzie, MBA/CA, Director, Audit Committee
Partner, Stodgell Investment Management
Peter Cowley, Independent Director
Sr. Vice President Operations &Director of School Performance Studies, Fraser Institute
Donor Advisory
Bri Trypuc, Donor Advisory
Charity Intelligence Canada
Research
Greg Thomson, MBA, Director of Research
Charity Intelligence Canada
Kate Ruff, MSc, Lead Researcher
PhD Student, Accounting, Schulich School of Business, York University
Amy Steciuk, Charity Research Analyst
Charity Intelligence Canada
Roland Bertin, Chair, Ci Top Picks Committee
Retired Director, Burns Fry Research
Ben Gardent, MBA, Animal Welfare Analyst
Bronwyn Smith, MBA, Charity Analyst
Chris Murphy, CFA, Food Banks Analyst
Investment Advisor, CIBC Wood Gundy
Greg Stevenson, At-Risk Youth Analyst
Hanny Elsayed, CFA, Food Banks Analyst
Sales Director, Morningstar Research
Indi Gopinathan, MBA, Food Banks Analyst
Investor Relations, Rainy River Resources
John Grandy, CFA, Environment Analyst
Retired Equity Analyst
Karen Greve Young, MBA, Cancer Analyst
Director, Strategic Initiatives at MaRS Discovery District
Michael Phillips, CFA, Education Analyst
Nancy Carss, CFA, At-Risk Youth Analyst
Nancy Self, CFA, Women's Charity Analyst
Yiran Zheng, Research Analyst
Zoe Young, Social Results Analyst
Public Relations & Communications
Ken Evans, Public Relations
Partner, APEX Public Relations
Patrick Gossage, Public Relations
Chairman, Media Profile
Martha Grant, Public Relations & Communications
Joni Avram, Marketing & Communications (Alberta)
Principal, Cause &Effect Marketing
Design & Production
Stephen Thursby, Design
Principal, Thursby &Associates
Myrna Forsythe, Editor
Rachel Greiner, Production & Design
2013 Summer Analysts
Daniel Binette, Summer Research Analyst
Honours Political Science candidate 2014, McGill University
Harsha Gadiyaram, Summer Research Analyst
MBA candidate 2014, Rotman School of Management
Annika Wang, Summer Research Analyst
HBA 2013, Richard Ivey School of Business
Auditors
BDO Canada