CFI Innovation Fund

Alison Symington provides consultancy services to a variety of industry and academic clients in the area of Life Science strategy, including proposal development and particularly at the interface of academia and industry. Previously Alison was the Vice President, Research and Corporate Development at Ontario Genomics where she was responsible for the development and management of large scale genomics projects as well as external stakeholder engagement.  Alison was also the Executive Director of Biotechnology Education Canada (BEC), where she led the organization through a substantive rebranding and refocusing, and sponsored a number of events that created national impact in Canada and international visibility for Canadian science education. Alison was also a professor and program coordinator at Seneca College’s School of Biological Sciences and Applied Chemistry. 
(Bio courtesy of https://lifesciencesontario.ca/about/leadership/alison-symington/)

Janet Halliwell is the Principal of JE Halliwell Associates Inc, a company offering value-added services in policy and management consultancy relating to post-secondary education and science and technology, particularly publicly-funded R&D. Janet has extensive and both past and current experience in S&T policy and the governance and management of S&T funding and policy bodies. She currently serves on the Board of Directors of Genome BC (GBC) and is Vice Chair of the Board of Canadian Science Publishing. She chairs GBC’s Research Program Committee, is a member of the GBC Sector Development Committee and is Chair of the Board for two Not-for-Profit S&T organizations - CASRAI (Consortia Advancing Standards in Research Administration) and the Canadian Science Policy Council.  In April 2007 Janet retired from many years of public service – serving in her final years as Executive Vice-President of the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC). From 1975-1996 Janet served the research and academic communities in other executive, advisory and management positions. She was Chair of the Nova Scotia Council on Higher Education (1992-1996), Chair of the Science Council of Canada (1990-1992) and an officer of the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (through to 1990).  (Bio excerpted from https://www.schoolofpublicpolicy.sk.ca/csip/about/our-people/janet-halliwell.php)

Dave Secord is Principal of Barnacle Strategies, a consultancy based on Salt Spring Island, B.C. that advises funders, ENGOs, Indigenous and research organizations. He has spent about half his career working in academia and half of it in foundations. From 2010-2016 he was VP Strategic Grantmaking at Tides Canada Foundation. From 2007-2010 he oversaw grantmaking in Alaska and B.C, for the Wilburforce Foundation. He has been active in various funder affinity groups focused on conservation and Indigenous philanthropy, including co-founding and chairing the circumpolar Arctic Funders Collaborative and serving on the board of the Canadian Environmental Grantmakers’ Network. In 2014 he spearheaded and chaired the Canadian Science Integrity Project. Before coming to philanthropy, he was a university professor for 12 years. (Bio courtesy of http://www.cegn.org/connect/conference/meet-the-panel/)

Kellogg S. Booth is Professor Emeritus of Computer Science at The University of British Columbia and a former Adjunct Faculty Member at the Centre for Digital Media. He is the former Director (1990-2002) of MAGIC, the Media and Graphics Interdisciplinary Centre at the University of British Columbia, and the former Scientific Director (2009-2015) of GRAND, the Graphics, Animation and New Media NCE, a former Canada-wide network of centres of excellence in digital media. He served as a Board Member and Secretary for the Computer Science Canada / Informatique Canada from 2017-2019. He has worked in the fields of computer graphics and human-computer interaction since 1968. Research interests include human-computer interaction, user interface design, collaboration technology, visualization, computer graphics, and analysis of algorithms. He has been involved in a number of interdisciplinary research projects at UBC and elsewhere over the past five decades. 
(Bio courtesy of https://www.cs.ubc.ca/~ksbooth/)

Dr. ‘Lyn Anglin is consultant experienced professional geoscientist with proven leadership skills, and a strong background in research management, government relations and public communications. She was Chief Scientific Officer and Vice President Environmental Affairs at Imperial Metals, a Vancouver–based mining company, from Sept 2014 to Dec 2018.

Prior to joining Imperial she was the inaugural President and CEO of Geoscience BC (GBC), a non-profit geoscience research organization focused on attracting resource development investment to B.C. Before joining GBC, ‘Lyn spent almost 20 years with the Federal Government, as a Research Scientist and Subdivision Head in the Mineral Deposits Division, and as Associate Director of the Pacific Division of the Geological Survey of Canada. She also spent three years as a Science Advisor and Policy Coordinator with the SR&ED Investment Tax Credit Program in Revenue Canada. (bio courtesy of C.D. ('Lyn) Anglin | LinkedIn)