The Boardlist releases list of top Canadian women in tech
The Boardlist, a curated platform that includes the names of women from various industries willing to join company boards, has released a lit of top Canadian women in tech. One of our featured WMNinTECH, Magaly Charbonneau, former COO of PasswordBox, made the cut.
The Boardlist was started in 2015 by Joyus founder Sukhinder Singh Cassid and is a curated talent marketplace for members of the tech community to recommend, discover and connect highly qualified women leaders with opportunities to serve on private and public company boards.
By The Boardlist’s estimates, 75-75% of private funded tech company boards have no women, despite the fact that board diversity is a proven driver of business performance. Through publicly sharing qualified women as hiring options, the platform aims to raise awareness about and improve upon diversity and gender parity.
““Over the last few months, press coverage about women in tech has been dominated by the ‘negative’ signals. The narrative rightly identifies many of the issues in the Valley that demonstrate women are not yet contributing at their fullest potential here,” Singh Cassidy wrote at the time of The Boardlist’s launch. “But absent almost entirely in this coverage is the experience of women entrepreneurs themselves.”
Singh Cassidy, herself a Canadian native transplanted to Silicon Valley, is a co-founder of financial services platform Yodlee, and acted as Google’s head of international operations in Asia Pacific (APAC) and Latin America (LATAM). For her part, she has been on the board of companies like TripAdvisor and J.Crew, and an advisor to Twitter.
The Boardlist launched in Canada in April of this year. Since then, the database has grown endorsements by 30 percent, candidates by 23 percent, and has seen a total of 13 companies using the platform. Globally, the organization has surpassed 2,000 women endorsed, 1,300 endorsements, and 300 searches.
See the full list of women, including Magaly Charbonneau, below:
Top Canadian women in tech
- Alice Reimer, board chair of Startup Calgary
- Andrea Stairs, managing director of eBay Canada
- April Dunford, managing partner and CEO of Sprint.ly
- Becky Finley, business lead & Canadian chief of staff at Facebook
- Candice Faktor, founder of Faktory Ventures
- Carol Leaman, CEO of Axonify
- Denise Jasienczyk, SVP customer engagement at Intelex
- Erin Young, chief marketing and merchandising officer at Well.ca
- Huda Idrees, CEO of Dot Health
- Janet Bannister, general partner at Real Ventures
- Janice Taylor, CEO of Mazu
- Justine Kilby, EVP of strategy at Ceridian
- Kim Lewis, group head of lending technology at D+H
- Kristine Steuart, CEO and co-founder at Allocadia
- Magaly Charbonneau, former COO of PasswordBox
- Malgosia Green, chief product officer of Top Hat
- Meredith Powell, co-founder of The Next Big Thing
- Mychelle Mollot, CMO of Solace
- Nicole Verkindt, founder and CEO of OMX
- Sabrina Geremia, managing director of integrated solutions at Google
Top Canadian women in Silicon Valley
- Angela Strange, managing partner at Andreessen Horowitz
- Carolyn Pollock, managing director at RevelOne
- Catherine Lacavera, director of IP and litigation at Google
- Catherine Courage, VP of ads and commerce user experience at Google
- Cathy Han, founder and CEO of 42 Technologies
- Donna Morris, SVP global people and places at Adobe
- Heather Tatroff, chief strategy officer at Chegg
- Karen Hayward, managing partner and CMO at Chief Insiders
- Kiersten Stead, investment director at Monsanto Growth Ventures
- Kristina Klausen, founder and CEO of Panda Tree
- Lorna Borenstein, founder and CEO of Grokker
- May Habib, founder and CEO of Quordba
- Melinda Richter, head of Janssen Labs at Johnson & Johnson Innovation
- Michelle Zatlyn, co-founder of CloudFlare
- Michelle Gonzalez, EIR at Comcast Ventures
- Sandi MacPherson, founder of Quibb
- Shaan Pruden, senior director of partnership management at Apple
- Shaherose Charania, CEO of Women 2.0
- Shivon Zillis, partner at Bloomberg Beta
Photo sourced from BizJournals
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