Meet the Team

Karen Bozynski

Karen Bozynski

MBA’03J

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!”

Joe Sovran

Joe Sovran

MBA ‘94J

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.“

Gursheen Singh

Gursheen Singh

MBA'16J

VP, Memberships

“Gursheen has a deep expertise in Operation Excellence, adoption of technology in business solutions, and is currently working in remote healthcare. Most of his time is spent playing with his infant, or watching scientific documentaries. He would love to say Hi over a short hike, or better gliding in the sky. He aims to pursue a license in personal aviation (Shhh… don’t tell his wife!)”

Nathalia Parra

Nathalia Parra

GEMBA '17E

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”

Nurjan D'Mello

Nurjan D'Mello

MBA’10J

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. 

Laura Amin

Laura Amin

MBA’18J

VP, Faculty Relations

“Laura is a marketer from Bangladesh who moved to Canada recently and lives for food and travel. She has diverse experience across brand and advertising, product, strategy and operations.”

Sajeel Zahid

Sajeel Zahid

MBA’20D

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

JC Barrette

JC Barrette

MBA’11J

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.”

Nicolas Vilmin

Nicolas Vilmin

MBA’20D

President Montreal Chapter

 

Leading the value-add engagement of over 300 INSEAD alumni in Montreal & Quebec Region, through various opportunities to network, build relationships, develop knowledge, advance entrepreneurship, and give back as “business as a source for good

Mary Huang

Mary Huang

MBA ‘92J

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.”

Marty Smitas

Marty Smitas

MBA’18J

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.

Nkiruka Omorotionmwan

Nkiruka Omorotionmwan

MBA'09D

President Calgary Chapter

 

I am an experienced management consultant with over 20 years professional experience in strategy development, organization development, change management, merger integration, governance, project assurance and management. I have managed large-scale enterprise transformation projects in financial services and public sectors, and currently working in the Oil & gas sector. I am self-driven and work well in teams.