Sheri Morgan

PepsiCo Foundation

Senior Director, Global Communications and Engagement

Christine Faulhaber

Faulhaber Communications

Founder & CEO

Christine has been a force in marketing and public relations for over two decades. The refined FAULHABER brand and impressive client roster demonstrates deep expertise in fashion, beauty, health, hospitality, travel & tourism, food & wine, real estate, design and baby care. FAULHABER has grown to include the FSHOPPE product showroom, a strong national, bilingual team that’s always growing, and robust social channels.

Always in pursuit of excellence, Christine knows her hands on approach drives success. She was one of PROFIT/Chatelaine W100 Canada's Top Female Entrepreneurs 2015, named Canada’s Top Business Woman by Women’s Post, a LOULOU magazine 'It Girl,' and cited as a communications force to be reckoned with by FLARE, HELLO!, FASHION Magazine, Globe and Mail, ELLE Quebec, Toronto Life and PR Couture. She most recently showcased her expertise on Slice Network’s Hockey Wives.

Christine is a CPRS and Soho House Every House member. Her charitable initiatives include TFI and Dermalogica’s JoinFITE, and she proudly supports Rethink Breast Cancer. Christine unwinds through international “workcations” and being an at-home saucier.

Brian Rosevear

Edelman

Senior Vice President, Brand Practice

Brian joined Edelman Canada’s Consumer Marketing Practice in 2014 to help clients win consumers’ hearts and minds. Since then, he has worked with brands such as Starbucks, Kraft Dinner, MiO, SodaStream, and AXE to create culturally and socially relevant marketing campaigns that have earned more than their share of attention.

With more than 20 years of agency experience in Canada, Brian’s early career centered around lifestyle brands that define categories and defy conventions. His most notable work includes creating a week-long Toronto arts festival to celebrate the culture of Cuba for Havana Club’s; working with artists and influencers to create an underground pop-up art installation to bring Absolute Vodka closer to the arts community in Canada; a 4-day, 19 act, music festival on a streetcar in Toronto for MiO at NXNE to reengage the brand with lapsed customers; and an award winning campaign with Michael Bublé for SodaStream.

Most recently Brian has been working with Edelman Canada’s larger clients to help them manage complex, multi-stakeholder communication, often within regulated industries. Recent client experience includes overseeing work in the logistics, telecom (healthcare, infrastructure development, B2B, consumer and regulatory) and beverage alcohol sector. He has also been a critical part of Edelman Canada’s own business transformation processes successfully supporting role definition and technology implementation projects.

Jennifer Stein

APEX Public Relations

Senior Vice President

I have a true passion for the PR profession and have worked across the board on consumer, corporate, and technology accounts − which has given me an opportunity to be very versatile. I strive to really “know” my clients’ businesses and to stay on top of key industry trends. My determination to get the right results for my clients, as well as my ambition when setting goals, makes me loved (and sometimes hated : ) ). I love a good challenge − give me a story that you think you can’t place, and I will do my damnedest to find a place for it!

Andy Fuller

University of Notre Dame

Executive Director of Brand Content

Andy Fuller has served Notre Dame for 12 years and currently oversees the University's central storytelling team comprised of web, photo, video, social, and marketing strategy. Prior to arriving at Notre Dame, Andy's career included stints in broadcast journalism, politics, and at a public relations agency. 

Reyhana Patel

Islamic Relief Canada

Head of Communications and Government Relations

Reyhana Patel is a proven communications leader with over ten years of experience. Her expertise includes strategic communications, public relations, government relations, media relations, crisis communications, reputation management, and supporting executives by providing strategic communications counsel at the highest levels of the public and non-profit sectors

Reyhana was named one of Apolitical’s Top 100 Influencers in Gender Policy in 2021

Colleen Young

Online Community Director, Mayo Clinic Connect

Principal, CY Connect

Lisa Covens

Senior Vice President, Public Affairs and Communications, Central Canada, Leger

National Board Director, CPRS National

Shaila Manyam

Burson

Executive Vice President, Managing Director — Global Corporate and Public Affairs

Roanne Argyle

Argyle

Senior Vice President

Ashley Korte

Equifax

Senior Director, Global Crisis Management

Sheryl So

Stripe

Product Communications Lead

Maliha Aqeel PMP, SCMP, MC

The Ideas Collective

Founder & CEO

Rohini Mukherji

Co-creator/Co-host ABCDEI podcast

Vice President, Narrative

Lisa Pasquin

Craft Public Relations

President

Sarah Brown

Former Director, Corporate Media Relations, Marriott International

Founder and Principle, Brighton Media

Sozan Mirawdaly

NATIONAL Public Relations

Director, Corporate and Financial Communications

Renee Weekes Duncan

Golin Canada

Senior Vice President

Solenne Marchal Lafeytaud

L'Oreal Canada

Chief Corporate Affairs Officer

Farrell Hall, CHRL

9 Story Media Group

Chief Inclusion Officer

Alicia Pereira

Ontario Centre of Innovation

Director of Communications

Sandra Chiovitti

SickKids Foundation

Director of Public Relations

Mubashira Nusrat Farooqi

PRovoke Media's Inaugural Young Changemakers Award Recipient

Colour Me PR Podcast Host | Integrated Communications Consultant at CAA Club Group

Prasanna Ranganathan

Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging Advisor and Consultant

Leanne James

Weber Shandwick

HR Lead Canada

Mary Lowe

Restaurant Brands International

Vice President, Public Affairs

Maxine McDonald

Co-Founder & Chair, Code Black Communicator Network

Vice President, Media Profile

Gail Strachan, MCM, APR

Co-Founder Antiracism in PR & The Ubora Network

Gail Strachan, MCM, APR Equitable Workforce Strategy Design | Culture Disruptor | Thought Leader

Vincent Power, APR, FCPRS

CPRS

Incoming National Board President

Amanda Alvaro

President

Pomp and Circumstance

Amanda Alvaro is the President of award-winning creative agency, Pomp and Circumstance. A veteran communicator, Amanda has led global campaigns across virtually all categories from finance to fashion, tech to telco, auto to the arts. Under her leadership in 2020, P&C was named one of Canada’s Fastest Growing Companies, Strategy’s Agency of Year and the only Canadian PR agency on Adweek's Fastest Growing Agencies in the World list. She was also named PR Person of the Year 2020.

Amanda has led P&C through sustained year-over-year growth since its inception in 2015 and outperforms the competition by using a powerful combination of creative media, digital/social, integrated and experiential.

Amanda is frequently sought after by CEOs, politicians, thought leaders for executive profile building, crisis communication, media and performance training. When she's not at P&C, you can find her bantering politics as a weekly political commentator on CBC TV's hit political show, Power and Politics. 

She has operated as a senior political advisor on successive election campaigns at the provincial and federal level and was a key member of Trudeau’s leadership bid. Amanda is the founder of Artbound Charity, Chair of Rethink Breast Cancer and co-chair of Canadian Art. Amanda can also be found on the speakers circuit, with topics ranging from PR, politics, entrepreneurship, women in business.

Stephanie McRae

Publicis Groupe Canada.

Head of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

In her over 18 years in Human Resources,  Stephanie has demonstrated a gift for shaping and building welcoming and inclusive environments. Stephanie joined Publicis Groupe Canada in early 2020 as the VP of HR for two strong brands a part of Publicis Groupe Canada - Leo Burnett and Saatchi & Saatchi. She took on the role of Head of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion for Publicis Groupe Canada in the summer of 2020 to lead efforts to ensure Publicis Groupe Canada is an inclusive workplace and becomes as diverse as the communities we work in. She set an ambitious mandate to improve our internal community, but also includes mandates to help improve DE&I efforts outside our walls as well. To that end, she is driving numerous programs covering talent management,  partnerships with organizations to help open doors for future talent in our industry, and pro-bono services to organizations working in the Diversity & Inclusion space.

Jay Webster

Cision

Chief Product & Technology Officer

As Chief Product & Technology Officer, Jay leads the execution of an innovative product roadmap to ensure that Cision delivers for its customers with confidence and at scale.
Jay Webster brings over 25 years of experience as a leader in adtech, martech and performance marketing. Prior to Cision, Webster was ESVP of Product & Engineering for Valassis Communications, where he led the successful transformation of a traditional media company into the digital age. Additional leadership experiences include: Co-founder and President at Choose Energy; Chief Product Officer for Sharethrough; Division Vice President at Neustar; Chief Product Officer at Quova; GM of Lead Generation at Yahoo!; GM of Performance Marketing & CTO at BlueLithium, VP of Engineering at Adteractive, Inc.; and President and CTO at Fathom Online.

Jay spends his free time as a musician and advocate for music education, serving on the board of Little Kids Rock for over a decade, and he is a competitive mountain bike racer.

Ashalee Mohamed

Cision

Vice President, Sales and Commercial Head of Canada and LatAm

Ashalee is a proven senior leader with more than 20 years of leadership experience in various verticals including Tech and PR communications vertical at Cision.   

Ashalee has leveraged her experience at Cision to scale the Canadian organization where client solutions, employee engagement and thought leadership are at the core of Cision’s success.  Under Ashalee’s leadership, Cision Canada has continued to grow within the Canadian market and has partnered with the top tier and prestigious PR agencies in addition to public and private organizations in Canada. 

Todd Grossman

Former Chair, AMEC North America

Adjunct Professor, University of Connecticut

Todd Grossman is currently an adjunct professor at the University of Connecticut Digital Media and Design Department where he teaches creative leadership courses.  Piror to UCONN, he held roles as Chief Global Adoption Officer and CEO Americas at Talkwalker, a leading consumer intelligence company.  He is a senior executive with proven expertise in analytics, measurement, analytics, public relations, communications, sales and marketing from his past experiences at Precise, a Kantar Media company, and PR Newswire’s broadcast and multimedia division, Multivu. Todd completed his B.A. in Political Science from the University of Connecticut and executive education programs at Cranfield University’s School of Management in the United Kingdom.  Todd was also co-chair for AMEC in 2013 and 2014.  He is also the founder of Kilimanjaro Education Foundation and serves on the audit committee for Dancing Classrooms.   He resides in New York City with his wife and three children.

Michael Blackburn

IABC Toronto

President

Jessica Savage

(MSL/North) Publicis Groupe

CEO

Throughout her 20 year career, Jessica Savage has earned a reputation for being an inspiring leader and delivering creative strategic programs in an ever-changing consumer market while serving as a trusted advisor to some of the most respected brands in Canada, including Samsung Electronics, Salesforce, Microsoft and Cadillac Fairview. From inspiring corporate citizenship and sustainability programs, to unforgettable sponsorship activations and headline-grabbing product launches, Jessica’s insight and leadership ensures Canadians brands are at the forefront of earned and social news cycles. 

Jessica has significant experience in managing crisis communications and stakeholder relations to ensure brand reputation and risk management are always top of mind.

Prior to joining North Strategic, Jessica was a part of the Samsung Canada MARCOM team and High Road Communications. Her international experience includes PR in London, England supporting a variety of technology and consumer brands. 

Kathleen McDonald

Peloton Interactive

Communications Manager