Meet the Team

President

“Karen loves bringing innovative ideas to life. With over two decades in electronics manufacturing, she led lean manufacturing and ran and optimized factories at Celestica worldwide prior to INSEAD, and led M&A integrations and a startup after INSEAD, as well as a dip into financial services but has returned to her love of working with companies to bring electronic products, medical to aerospace to IOT and wearables, to market built cost-efficiently here in Canada. She has degrees in Economics and Engineering from Queen’s, and is INSEAD MBA‘03J. She lives in Toronto, is married to James and has two entrepreneurial daughters!”

Treasurer

“Joe grew up in Canada but after INSEAD spent almost 20 years abroad (mostly in London) before returning to Canada in 2013. He’s worked as an entrepreneur, advisor and investor. Joe spends his leisure time hitting the gym, reading the Economist, and hanging out with his young son.“

VP, National Events

“Nathalia was born in Colombia and has lived in Canada for the past 13 years. She has a background in engineering and global experience in management, operations, strategy , marketing and product development. She loves traveling (specially to Colombia), jogging and is passionate about technology, digital transformation and personal improvement”

VP, Communication

“Nurjan is a marketer with all-around business and international experience. She is experienced in balancing high-level strategic planning with day-to-day execution and optimization of marketing initiatives. 

As VP of Communications at INSEAD NAA Canada, Nurjan helps to foster social and business connections among Canada-based INSEAD community. 

VP, Careers

“After graduating from INSEAD, Sajeel has worked in start-up space in fintech and is currently working as Director Corporate Strategy at Sun Life.  Before INSEAD, Sajeel worked extensively in leadership roles across financial services, including fintech space, in Pakistan and Malaysia”

President Toronto Chapter

“JC has been with HSBC since 2011. He heads the Canadian Public Sector Debt Capital Markets team. Prior to this role, JC worked in Audit, M&A Advisory, Corporate Banking and Financial Sponsors Coverage. JC is a Chartered Accountant and an INSEAD MBA graduate.”

President Ottawa Chapter

“Mary is an Ottawa-based BI consultant in planning and forecasting solutions on SAP platform, specifically BI Integrated Planning (BI-IP) and BPS in addition to general BI. Has worked on multiple BI and Planning projects in US, Canada, NZ, and Asia.

Mary is involved in advocacy for Dementia, Senior and Housing issues and participated in National Dementia Conference organized by Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) and member of Dementia Advocacy Canada. Involved in several startup / entrepreneurial technology projects plus advisory. Trying to initiate changes that can make research happen faster and loosen the bottleneck of research participation.”

President Vancouver Chapter

“Marty is a Vancouver based enterprise software sales manager. Military veteran and mentor, graduate of US Air Force Academy. Originally from Lithuania – moved to British Columbia for its best outdoors experience. Enjoys salsa dancing and meeting INSEAD alumni for drinks.“