About TELUS Fund

Jack Shute is a partner of ‘The&Partnership’, an internationally renowned communications agency, and General Manager of ‘The Greenhouse’. Jack an integrated communications leader, overseeing teams who bridge the worlds of creativity, strategy, media and data. He has worked with a wide range of clients in the UK, Canada, the US and Japan including TELUS, Lexus, Nissan, Sony PlayStation and many others.

Jack has been closely involved with the strategy and execution of the Social Purpose mission at TELUS, from macro communications, to rolling up his sleeves at many TELUS Days of Giving events. He is based in Vancouver, with his wife and two young children, and is passionate at giving back to the wider Canadian community that welcomed his family with open arms after their move from the UK.

Consultant

Independent Director, residing in West Vancouver, B.C.

Nini Baird has for more than 25 years shared her expertise with TELUS Corporation. She was founding member, then chair, TELUS New Media and Broadcast Fund Board (1998-2004); founding Chair TELUS Vancouver Community Board (2005-2019); founding chair, TELUS Fund (2013-). In 2014 she was named a TELUS Legend for her contributions to these start-up initiatives.

She is immediate past Chair, Knowledge Network Corporation Board, on which she served for 12 years. She is a former Chair, British Columbia Arts Council, and for 19 years board member of British Columbia Film (now Creative BC). Her BC post-secondary career included senior arts leadership positions at Simon Fraser University, Emily Carr College (now University) of Art and Design and Open Learning Agency/Knowledge Network.

Nini is a member of the Order of Canada. Her awards and recognition include Canada 150 Women (2017) Honorary Doctor of Laws from Simon Fraser University (2015), , recognition as one of Top 100 Canada’s Most Powerful Women by the Women’s Executive Network (2013), and Keith Kelly Award for Cultural Leadership from Canadian Conference of the Arts (2006), and President’s 40th Anniversary Award from Simon Fraser University for her lifetime of devotion to the arts and leadership in the creation of their School for the Contemporary Arts (2005).

Carissa McCart is the Director of TELUS Studios. She leads a national video, design, photography, and digital production team that produces and creatively supports product, service and narrative-based marketing campaigns for TELUS. Carissa and her Studios team are passionate stewards of the TELUS brand and avid storytellers focused on the company’s world-leading social purpose efforts.

Carissa comes from a writing and communications background. Prior to joining TELUS in 2006, she worked in educational marketing for the Knowledge Network and the Open Learning Agency for a decade, inspiring in her a lifelong love of community-supported broadcasting and nurturing new voices in creative storytelling.

Carissa holds a BA from the University of Victoria. She is also on the board of the National Screen Institute, the only national training organization in Western Canada for writers, directors and producers in film, television and digital media.

President, GoCo

Since October 2019, Benoit has led GoCo, a new disruptive Canadian company that brings next-generation business communications solutions to market. It operates as an independent carrier, but is part of the TELUS family.

Benoit has 23 years of experience in the telecommunications industry where he has held leadership positions in Marketing as well as Customer Solutions targeted to Business clients. He also played a key role in developing TELUS’ business strategy in Canada – notably in building its presence in Quebec and facilitated numerous mergers and acquisitions. Prior to joining GoCo, he was responsible for national business product development and marketing at TELUS.

Benoit holds a marketing degree from Université Laval and completed senior executive training programs at Paris’ INSEAD and the Harvard Business School. He is a member of the Cercle des présidents du Québec (Quebec Council of Presidents) marketing network. He also sits on the board of Numana and is a member of its Executive Committee.

Dr. Thomas Ungar is a Professor at University of Toronto and past Psychiatrist-in-Chief at St. Michael’s Hospital of the Unity Health Toronto and North York General Hospital. Dr. Ungar has clinical and health leadership experience as a family physician, addiction medicine provider and psychiatrist. He is a thought leader using human centered design to improve quality of care addressing Equity and systemic implicit bias of Mental Health and Substance use disorders as part of the Mental Health Commission of Canada structural stigma research team. He is an award winning educator, communicator and creator of the You Tube web-series Think You Can Shrink?

Consultant

Independent Director, residing in Vancouver, B.C.

Lucille Pacey is the former President and CEO of Arts Umbrella, Canada’s visual and performing arts institute for young people. Lucille’s extensive experience in the education and technology sectors covers more than 30 years. Prior to joining Arts Umbrella she consulted in the education sector and most notably was on contract with the Reed Midem Organization based in Paris, where she helped launch an international market for educational services and products. As Vice-President of the Open Learning Agency, she had direct operating responsibility for the Open University. Open College, Open School and the Knowledge Network (the public educational television service in British Columbia).

Lucille holds a Masters degree in Educational Administration from the University of Alberta. She is the Former Chair of the Vancouver International Film Festival Society and Former Chair of the National Board for Culture Days. Lucille sits on the Membership Committee of the BC-CPA as a public representative and is a member of the International Woman’s Forum in Vancouver. She has served on the Board of Emily Carr University of Art and Design, the Board of the Vancouver Biennale, President of the Canadian Association for Distance Education, was the founding President of the non-profit society Art Starts in Schools, and Chaired the CANARIE Board, Canada’s Network for Advanced Research.

Alex is the Chief Accounting Officer at lululemon. He joined lululemon in 2014 and is currently responsible for leading the company’s global financial operations that include financial reporting, accounting, shared services, procurement, corporate tax, and sales tax. Alex has a breadth of experience from his time at lululemon, which includes acting as co-CFO on an interim basis, and leading the treasury function for several years. He serves as a director of the Health and Wealth Committee providing oversight for the company’s pension plans in Canada and the US.

Prior to joining lululemon, Alex spent 11 years working at Ernst and Young in the UK, US, and Canada. His experience spans a wide range of industries including retail, oil and gas services, transportation, travel management, real estate, utilities, and telecommunications.

Alex holds a degree in Economics from the University of Nottingham and is a Chartered Accountant in both Canada and the UK.