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MARY BARROLL
Mary Barroll is the Director of Business and Legal Affairs
for Alliance Atlantis Broadcasting Inc. As Director, Mary
manages the staff of contract administrators who negotiate and
draft the program license agreements for the company's thirteen
analog and digital television networks. She works closely with
the Programming, Finance, Marketing and Promotions Divisions and
advises them on legal issues ranging from copyright and
trademark rights and infringement matters, Canadian content
rules, licensing of intellectual property, broadcast standards,
co-production and licensing agreements. In addition to her work
with conventional television, Mary is responsible for providing
legal services to the Interactive Division and is the key legal
counsel for
Alliance Atlantis' webcasting venture, U8TV. Mary negotiated
and drafted the software development and affiliate agreements
for U8TV and regularly advises management on legal issues
relating to the content on the U8TV website and the Alliance
Atlantis family of websites.
Mary received her LLB from Queen's University and is called
to the Bar in Ontario and Alberta. Before joining Alliance
Atlantis, her legal practice at the national law firm of Bennett
Jones reflected a unique blend of the broadcasting and
technology industries. Her practice included: broadcast
licensing and TV and film production agreements; ownership,
assignment and licensing of intellectual property; copyright and
trademark disputes including Internet piracy; advising news
organizations on defamation, publication bans, contempt of court
and other media law issues; website and software development
agreements; technology transfer agreements and other commercial
transactions in the broadcasting and new media industries.
Prior to her legal career, Mary worked in the broadcasting
industry as a TV journalist, documentary producer and on-air
talent for private and public sector broadcasters in both daily
news and current affairs programming. In addition to a B.A. in
English from UBC, Mary also has diploma in Broadcasting Arts
from Mount Royal College.
Mary has been an active public speaker on subjects related to
intellectual property law, media, entertainment and
communications law, the Internet and new media, to professional
organizations and schools, including: the Canadian Bar
Association, Banff Television Festival; The Banff Centre; Alberta New Media Association; Applied Multimedia
Institute; Presidents of the Universities and Colleges of
Alberta Association; Mount Royal College; Western University
Faculty Association; International Association of Business
Communicators, among others.
Mary was the founding president of the Alberta Chapter of
Women in Film & Television and is currently on the Steering
Committee of the Toronto Chapter of Canadian Women in
Communications. Her professional achievements and potential were
recognized by the broadcasting industry in 2000 when she became
the recipient of the national Jeanne Sauve Professional
Development Award sponsored by Canadian Women in Communications.
She was also chosen as a participant in the inaugural Alliance
Atlantis Banff Television Executive Program in 2000.
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MARNEY J. BERUBE
Marney J. Berube is a veteran producer of children’s’
television. Throughout the years she has worked on flagship
programming: TVOntario’s Today’s Special, International
Children’s Day of Broadcasting and YTV’s YAA! Youth
Achievement Awards. In the past two years Marney’s focus
has shifted to the web. She has been a vital force behind the
award winning TVOKids.com website. Her work has been recognized
with an international Emmy (1996), TWIFT’s Alliance’s Joanna
Caslon Award (1993) and a Gemini for "Most Popular
Website"(2001). Currently Marney is Series Producer for The
Crawlspace, The Weekend Crawlspace and The Nook
(TVOntario). She lives in Toronto with her family and is an avid
runner and YMCA volunteer fitness instructor.
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JUDITH CAMPBELL
Judith Campbell is the Vice President, Canadian Women in
Communication.
Judith's background encompasses broadcasting, education, and
strategic planning – in addition to technical skills and
expertise.
Prior to moving to Toronto in July, Judith was an instructor
at the B.C. Institute of Technology. Her background also
includes consulting for companies in Canada and the United
States, General Manager Northern Operations for radio,
television and cable of Okanagan Skeena Group, and Operations
Manager for Roger's Satellite Radio Network.
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SARAH K. CLARKE
After receiving the Andy McDermott Memorial Award in sales
and a Bachelor of Applied Arts (Radio and Television
Broadcasting) from Ryerson Polytechnic University, Sarah entered
the world of international program distribution. She has worked
in all facets of distribution including educational, home video,
film, television, inflight and Internet sales. This has taken
her to many trade markets such as NATPE, Mip, MipCom, WAEA,
London Programme, Toronto International Film Festival,
Convergence Television, MipAsia and Banff Television Festival.
Last year, she consulted with a new media company to help
develop a web-enabled software system for rights management
tracking to service the film, television, music and publishing
industries.
With over twelve years of experience, Sarah is currently the
head of TWI program sales for IMG distributing both sports
(Wimbledon, Stars on Ice, Telus Skins Games) and documentary
programs (Colour of War, Ali: Through the Eyes of the World) in
Canada. In addition, she has had the opportunity to "put on
an Executive Producers hat" and work on television
productions such as Kurt Browning – Gotta Skate, Telus Skins
Game and Holiday Festival on Ice. After work hours, Sarah enjoys
golf, hiking, music, and "Talk Cinema" sessions. She
looks forward to developing more television projects in the
future as well as gaining more knowledge of new media
convergence.
www.imgworld.com
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CORRIE COE
Corrie is currently the Director, Programming Administration at
CTV Television Inc. where she is responsible for the set-up and
administration of the BCE-CTV programming benefit funds, amongst
other projects. Corrie joined CTV from the Canadian Television
Fund, where she was Senior Director – Legal, Policy and
Corporate Affairs. Previously, she worked at the Ontario Film
Development Corporation, initially as in-house counsel and in
business affairs, and then as Executive-Coordinator of the
Ontario Film Investment Program. Prior to joining the OFDC in
1992, Corrie practiced entertainment, corporate commercial and
intellectual property law at Smith, Lyons in Toronto.
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JENNIFER DOBSON
For over five years, Jennifer has played several challenging
roles in the new media industry. Her avid interest in the
Internet began while conducting research as an intern junior
producer at CBC NewsWorld Business World. In 1998, she
joined MediaLinx Interactive, L.P., (now Sympatico-Lycos Inc.),
as a producer. During her two-and-a-half years with Sympatico-Lycos
Inc., Jennifer worked on several content agreements, including
the Amicus Financial partnership, and was promoted to product
manager.
Since August 2000, Jennifer has been an Associate Director,
Business Development, at Bell Globemedia Interactive Inc. where
her focus has been on negotiating distribution and content
agreements as well as contributing to the development of
convergence initiatives. Jennifer is responsible for the
development and implementation of the wireless distribution
strategy for mobile.globeandmail.com. In autumn 2001, she was
also part of the team that launched GlobeinvestorGOLD.com – a
subscription-based financial web site delivering the next
generation of online personal finance.
Jennifer’s hobbies include playing piano, reading, sailing
and viewing documentaries. After graduating from the University
of British Columbia with a B.A., she volunteered to work on an
independent film entitled Heroes In the Seaweed. Her
experience in the Internet industry and her interest in film,
print and television journalism have combined to influence her
perspective on convergence trends. She looks forward to
developing new convergence projects in the new media industry.
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WENDY ELL
As Sales Team Manager at CBC Calgary, Wendy assists her team
of marketing and sales professionals act as consultants to the
advertising community from a local, regional or national
perspective. She also works at developing solid relationships
with key contacts within Calgary’s corporate and retail
sectors. The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation has many facets (i.e.
television, radio, internet). Wendy is able to make use of these
various facets and assist corporations with the development and
implementation of sound marketing plans.
Wendy holds a top honours degree in Marketing and
Advertising from the University of Lethbridge. Upon graduation
in 1992, Wendy was given special recognition for being the
marketing graduate with the highest academic
achievement. To supplement her degree, she completed a
special two-year correspondence course offered by The Institute
of Canadian Advertising, making her a "certified"
advertising agency practitioner in Canada. She
completed this program as well with top honors recognition.
Over the past 10 years, Wendy has held a variety of positions
in marketing, television production, public relations,
journalism and magazine publishing. Her varied background has
given her a keen understanding and appreciation of the varied
media and her pleasant demeanour has helped her relate
particularly well with advertisers. Wendy takes great pride in
being CBC's youngest Sales Manager in Canada.
Her sales and marketing team makes use of
television's unique ability to be both a mass advertising
tool and at the same time, a highly
targeted method of delivering a communications
message. Her team works with both retail and corporate
clients and uses all platforms of the CBC to develop
comprehensive advertising, public relations and investor
relations plans. Prior to joining the CBC, Wendy worked for six
years as a communications strategist and has worked on
nearly 100 marketing plans for a broad spectrum of
clients. Her role at the CBC is to work with advertisers in
making use of CBC Platforms in a manner that complement their
current marketing plans. Platforms include CBC English
Television, CBC French Television, CBC Newsworld, CBC.ca, local
market websites, community outreach programs and
occasionally, assistance from CBC Radio One.
Wendy has helped introduce many non-traditional
advertisers to CBC's comprehensive, yet customized wheel of
advertising. CBC's uniqueness as a public broadcaster,
specifically designed to educate and unite
Canadians, has shown advertisers the great value
associated with such programming as Hockey Night in Canada,
Canada: A People's History, The Nature of Things and
The Olympic Games.
As technology advances and new media platforms continue
to improve, advertising options will vary and consumers
will value information in new ways, from different sources and
at different times. Wendy views her role as a marketing
professional as being able to work closely with clients in
identifying their prime marketing objectives, fully
understanding key consumers and ultimately designing
customized marketing initiatives that best reach these
consumers.
Wendy knows the value of remaining abreast of the
advancements in technology and the resulting changes in consumer
habits. To her, marketing is a science and the
DNA is the ever- changing combination of
technological advancements, trending, attitude shifts
and timing.
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LILLYANN GOLDSTEIN
Lillyann graduated from McGill Law School with both a Bachelors
of Civil Law and Common Law at the tender age of 21, earning the
title of being the youngest women to ever enter and graduate
from McGill Law School. She moved to Ontario in 1976 and became
admitted to the Bar of Ontario. After working for large
corporate employers such as William M. Mercer, Peat Marwick and
Shell Canada, where she specialized in taxation, she entered the
entertainment field. She became employed by @Wallace Studios and
shortly thereafter took over the company. She continues her
legal career by maintaining her expertise as legal counsel to
@Wallace Studios as well as a couple other companies involved in
the real estate and manufacturing sectors. She initiated the
concept of one stop for production, by enticing over 17 tenants
in differing areas of the pre and post production field to move
into the 56,000 sq. ft. @Wallace Studios complex. Her company,
@Wallace Studios, is the only privately owned rental sound
studio facility to be owned and run by women. She has been
actively involved in the entertainment industry for over 17
years. Recently she has acquired the "Gooderham & Worts
Historical District" in Toronto, in partnership with
Cityscape.
Lillyann has recently become involved in the area of
production and as been involved as associated producer of
"Sprite", executive producer "Sun Wind
Moons", " Tiny Timmy Time" (in Pre-Production),
"Real Teens Real Talk"(in Pre-Production) " Cook-Out"(in
Pre-Production). Lillyann has been active in several industry
associations such as: CWC, CIFC, Women in Film and Television (WIFT-T):
Board of Directors/ Special Events: 1991 to 1992; Commercial
Production Association of Toronto (CPAT): Founding Member and
Board of Directors 1991 to 1992; International Television and
Video Association (ITVA); National Treasurer 1991 to 1992 and
Advisor/ Board of Directors 1999-2000; Ontario Film and
Television Studio Owners Association (OFTSOA): Founding Member
and Board of Directors 1991 to Present; Corporate TV: Member and
Volunteer 1999 to present;
Membership Committee of the Academy of Canadian Film and
Television 1995-1996, and
Advisory Counsel to Canadian Film Centre Bell Habitat New Media Centre -2002.
Lillyann sits of the Board of Directors of 2 up and coming
companies: Dante Entertainment and Diginiche Inc. both of which
are very active in the new media area as well as the
entertainment convergence realm. In her free time she likes to
travel and be active with her two sons and husband. She enjoys
traveling, playing piano, tennis and squash. She take pottery
classes, sails, bikes and of course plays on her computer. She
looks forward to taking the knowledge she acquires in this CORUS
New Media Course to help shape the projects she plans to be
involved with, in addition to both the direction of her company
and those on which she sits as a member of the Board of Director
or in an Advisory Capacity.
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ANNIE HADIDA
Originally from Montreal, Annie began her career in theatre
working as a stage manager for various operatic companies. A
graduate from the Communication Studies program at Concordia
University, her first job was as a production coordinator for
CFCF-TV, Montreal's CTV-affiliate. Following this, Annie moved
over to Specialty-TV with The Weather Network/MétéoMedia where
she had a variety of positions including field, promo &
studio producer and spending 5years as the company's senior
producer and manager of commercial production.
Annie spent two years working as a freelance
producer/director in Toronto and Montreal creating entertainment
and short feature format projects for an interactive-TV
environment. Working as a freelancer gave her the opportunity to
pursue other passions, including writing and working in film,
this resulted in an independent film shot on-location in Havana,
Cuba.
Currently working as a producer and the manager of
ExpressVu's pay-per-view web site. Passions include writing,
travelling, movies and photography.
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DANA JOHL
Dana Johl is the Director of Content for an interactive
content production company, The Chalk Network, and the Producer
and Director of the syndicated television show, Dave Chalk
Computer Life.
Dana graduated from Ryerson Polytechnic University in Toronto
with a degree in Broadcast Journalism. Following a brief stint
in news at BCTV in Vancouver, she realized she wanted the
flexibility to pursue a story in more depth than a two-minute
news piece would allow. She returned to Toronto with a plan to
pursue a Production career in News Features or Lifestyle
programming. There she joined Atlantis Broadcasting (now
Alliance Atlantis,) and worked her way up from an entry-level
production position, to Associate Producer in just two seasons.
Her credits there include Craftscapes on Home and Garden
Television, Images on Life Network, and Dish it Out
on the Food Network.
In 1999 Dana joined the Chalk Network, leaving Toronto for
the milder climate of her hometown Vancouver. Starting as the
Producer of video tutorials for the Internet, Dana soon became
Senior Producer of the Dave Chalk Computer Life television show,
and the company’s In-flight technology programs. The Chalk
Network has since evolved it’s main business focus to
web-based training – using it’s expertise in technology
products, video production and rich media to train sales forces
and consumers on computer hardware and software,
telecommunications technology and financial services. Dana has
recently been promoted to the role of Director of Content, while
continuing to Produce and Direct the Dave Chalk Computer Life
television show. Dana has managed the creative for many high
profile projects including video vignettes for the Windows XP
launch as well as on-line learning platforms for Telus and Royal
Bank.
Dana’s next goal is to combine her television experience
with her growing knowledge of new media to produce interactive
programs for television and the web.
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LINDA LEFLER
Linda Lefler has spent her career at one company, working in
three distinct disciplines. As a graduate Industrial Engineer (Dalhousie
University, 1985), she began work for MTT, now a part of Aliant
Telecom.
Aliant Telecom provides
leading-edge telecommunications and information-handling
services, spanning voice calling and call management, to
Internet and high-speed data communications.
Linda spent her first years at MTT in
engineering provisioning and network administration. She was a
keen participant in the corporate focus on Quality Teams and
continuous improvement. Outside of work, she served and provided
leadership on professional engineering committees, including
strategic planning, student affairs and women in engineering.
In 1992, an opportunity to work on a community fund raising
campaign (United Way Loaned Rep program) stimulated her interest
in marketing, and in 1995 she moved to the Market Development
Department as a Product Manager. She brought her engineering
knowledge and practices, and intrinsic ESTJ (Myers-Briggs
Personality Indicator) leadership style to the lifecycles of
diverse products, including telephone service and features,
in-building wiring, Aliant’s new digital cable service, and
the Atlantic Zone news and information website. A strong
interest in lifelong learning was realized when she completed
the Mount Saint Vincent / Saint Mary’s University joint
Management Development Program in 1998.
In 2000, Linda Lefler achieved certification as a New Product
Development Professional though the Product Development and
Management Association (PDMA). This certification recognizes
that professional qualifications can be earned through work
experience and study, in the unique marketing area of Product
Development.
In 2001, Linda moved to the third phase of her career, in
Aliant’s Regulatory Matters Department. As a Senior Regulatory
Advisor, she works in the interface between Aliant and the CRTC.
Her responsibilities include ensuring corporate compliance with
the federal regulations, and developing strategies to allow the
business to function in the environment, and to influence the
CRTC as the environment evolves.
Linda Lefler is a member and former chapter executive of
Canadian Women in Communications. She was selected as a
participant in the inaugural session of the CWC/Corus New Media
Career Accelerator to be held at the Banff New Media Institute
in March 2002.
She lives in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia with her husband and
five-year old son. She is active in church life as a Sunday
School coordinator, and is a volunteer with the local chapter
of the United Ostomy Association of Canada.
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SHAUNA McCAFFREY
Shauna McCaffrey has worked with the Canadian Cable
Television Association (CCTA) for the past seven years in
various capacities, most recently being promoted to the position
of Director of Industry Affairs.
In this role Shauna helps formulate and develop marketing
plans and strategies that guide the industry in particular the
CCTA's small system members. Likewise she oversees the
Association's activities with community programming and the
CCTA's national Galaxi Awards.
In addition to her work at the CCTA Shauna is currently the
President of CTAM of Canada. The Cable and Telecommunications
Association for Marketing (CTAM) is the primary professional
development organization dedicated to the discipline and
development of marketing excellence in cable television, new
media and telecom.
In San Francisco in July 2001 Shauna was awarded a TAMI which
is CTAM's most prestigious honor for volunteerism. Shauna was
recognized for her outstanding efforts on behalf of CTAM and
becomes the first Canadian to be awarded this high standard.
Shauna channels her energy and enthusiasm into her community
as well as her professional endeavors. She was Co-chair of this
year's CCTA United Way/Centraide Employee Campaign which
exceeded initial goals by 56 percent and surpassed last year's
total by 129 percent. Shauna's unique on-line charity auction
proved to be a popular idea with industry peers and will serve
as the foundation for future efforts.
Shauna's personal interests include travel and photography as
well as renovating a new home she recently purchased in Ottawa.
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SUE MCGARVIE
Sue’s professional training is in psychology and
reproductive medicine, and she has been a registered Sex
Therapist since 1992. Her parents thought she was going to be a
physician so they are still wondering where they went wrong. She
is the founder of The Ottawa Sex Therapy Clinic and is a member
of The Society of Obstetricians and Gynecologists of Canada, The
Canadian Urology Association, The Federation of Medical Women,
and The Sex Therapy Council of Canada. She is also the author of
two books on sexuality, and has been an expert witness,
insurance industry consultant, pharmaceutical and government
lobbyist and a professional speaker.
Beginning in 1993, Sue hosted a #1 rated radio call-in show
for five years called Sunday Night Sex With Sue with Standard
Broadcasting on The Bear CKQB in Ottawa. She has since gone on
to produce a 90-second syndicated radio series called Sexual
Solutions which runs on stations nationally including the new
MOJO radio in Toronto.
Since 1999, Sue has been a founder and the Vice President of
Content for Passion Media, a multi-media company marketing
mainstream, tasteful sexuality and relationships throughout
North America. The company’s website Passionvillage.com gets
millions of page views monthly, and is a provider of sexuality
and relationship content for Sympatico.ca. The company will be
listed on the CDNX stock exchange early in 2002.
Sue wrote the applications and lobbied the CRTC for two
national digital television licenses, which were granted in
December 2000 for Passion Television and The Singles Network.
These two specialty channels will be launched in the fall of
2002.
Sue McGarvie has been a named a Woman of Distinction (1997),
the I. H. Asper Broadcast Entrepreneur of the Year (1998),
Business and Professional Women’s Association Woman of the
Year (1994) and a finalist as a member of Canada’s Top 40
Under 40. She is also the 2002 Women in the Spotlight Award
winner for volunteer of the year for her work as National
Mentorship Director with Wired Women.
Sue is the Chapter Chair of The Canadian Women in
Communication in the National Capital Region, and a national
corporate director with a number of boards including UNIFEM -
part of The United Nations Association of Canada.
Sue stays sane and grounded with the help of a supportive
husband, two freckled kids, and a chocolate addiction.
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CAROL MCLEAN
Carol began her career in the broadcast industry in 1990 as
Marketing Representative for TMN – The Movie Network. She was
promoted to Sales Director for TMN a short time later,
responsible for sales targets and implementing subscription
growth marketing programs. She moved to Showcase Television
prior to its launch in September 1994 as the Affiliate Director,
responsible for securing distribution of Showcase Television
with cable and satellite providers across Canada. She then moved
to Bell ExpressVu as Programming Director, as part of the
start-up team that brought Bell ExpressVu to air in September
1997, responsible for securing carriage agreements with over 70
Canadian and US networks. Carol moved on to start her own
company, doing a variety of consulting work, primarily with Star
Choice Television. She joined CTV in February 2001 as Senior
Director, CTV Specialty Television Distribution, responsible for
distribution revenue for 14 CTV and NetStar specialty television
networks.
When not working, Carol can be found plotting
her next holiday somewhere off the beaten track, attempting to
learn Spanish (not going well) or looking for that perfect
bottle of Chardonnay (going much better).
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VIVIANNE MORIN
Bachelor in Business Administration and Chartered
Accountant, Vivianne began her career at Grant Thornton.
Pursuing her goal to be involved in the Communication field, she
accepted the challenge to join Coscient Group in
1992 as a controller. Coscient Group, publicly
traded company positioning itself towards acquisitions (SDA
Productions and Allegro Films), Vivianne is
nominated corporate controller within the Group.
Moving on to Vice-President , Business affair and production
financing within the Motion Group, she
develops an expertise in production financing in many types of
production such as Drama, Youth programming, Variety shows ,
Animation and Magazines. In 2000, she joined the Cite-Amerique
team and is acting as both CFO and Executive
producer in it's Feature Films and Television production. Cite-Amerique
is the producer of many acclaimed TV show such as Random
Passage and Dice, and the Feature Film Lost
and Delirious.
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YVONNE PAULSON
Born in Scotland and raised in Ontario and Alberta, Yvonne
is the General Manager - City Sites - Western Canada. Yvonne's
career in Communications began in 1980 at Alberta Government
Telephones (known today as TELUS). Yvonne has worked as a
secretary, dispatcher, billing representative, sales assistant,
telesales, outside sales - large accounts, client program
manager, event marketing and today as General Manager - City
Sites in Western Canada.
Yvonne has enjoyed a very exciting career working on many
projects such as Canada Winter Games, Telus Open - Golf, Spruce
Meadows, Theatre events and most recently city sites for
Sympatico-Lycos Inc. She has offices in Calgary, Edmonton and
Vancouver. Yvonne joined Sympatico-Lycos Inc. in January of
2001.
Yvonne and her husband Brian have been married for over 18
years and have two children, Ariana and Damian. An avid soccer
player, Yvonne spends her free time training and driving her
kids to their soccer. She also loves to spend time with friends
and family.
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LALLY P. REMENTILLA
Lally P. Rementilla brings ten years of dynamic and
progressive experience to her pivotal position as Area
Vice-President Finance and CFO at Lucent Technologies Canada
Corp. In this capacity, she directs a team of managers and
business analysts in the financial planning, analysis and
reporting for a multi-million dollar sales, marketing, R&D,
and services organization.
In addition to designing, planning and leading the
implementation of advanced financial and forecasting systems,
Lally guided her team and the company’s senior management to
achieve a 27-basis point increase in profitability for the
national services organization at Lucent Canada.
Prior to her promotion to CFO two years ago, Lally advanced
through a series of key business, sales and customer service
positions in Lucent’s Global Service Provider and Network
Systems Groups. Lally achieved break-through results in each of
these roles, from successfully implementing new value-added
management processes to dramatically exceeding targets for
profitability, sales and service excellence.
In recognition of her exceptional career achievements, Lally
has received several corporate awards, including nomination to
Lucent’s worldwide Achiever’s Club, a recognition award from
the Lucent Global CFO organization, and an award for Business
Excellence. Equally important, she generously contributes her
time and talent to coaching others toward success, which has
also helped her staff and colleagues to garner individual and
group awards from the company.
Lally earned a Master of Business Administration from the
Schulich School of Business at York University in Toronto as
well as a B.A. with a major in communication from the Ateneo de
Manila University in the Philippines. She is a member of the
Board for Toronto’s Theatre Passe Muraille, Co-Chair for
Membership of Canadian Women in Communications, and a member of
the Canadian Investor Relations Institute. In her spare time,
Lally enjoys travelling, yoga, and entertaining.
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REKHA SHAH
Rekha began her career in Television in Canada at the age of 11
as a cast member on Nickelodeon's flagship show "You Can't
do that on Television". Fast Forward ten years - Rekha
found herself in front of the camera again - hired by TV Ontario
to launch, develop and host "The Nook": a six-hour
morning pre-school block. The Nook became the highest rated
block of programming in its market, it's audience jumping 150%
in its first year. While at TVO, Rekha also acted as a creative
consultant on the tween series "Stuff".
Upon graduation from Ryerson University's Radio and
Television program, Rekha moved to Torstar. There she gained
first hand experience in the "converging" newspaper
and television worlds. As a producer, on-air personality,
director and writer with Toronto Star Television, Rekha worked
with The Star's editorial, advertising and communication
departments to help them meet their promotion objectives - from
30 second spots to documentary-style segments.
In January 2001 Rekha was tasked with establishing an
independent production division under Torstar. As the Director
of Program Development with TMG Entertainment, her
responsibilities include creative, operational and financial
business strategy. Most recently Rekha participated at the CRTC
Hearings in Hamilton, as a member of the Torstar Team in support
of Hometown Television.
Rekha enjoys all outdoor activities and the arts. As a
volunteer she is a board member of the Scarborough Women's
Centre and is an active member in her cultural community. In
addition to Gujarati, Rekha speaks French and is studying
Spanish. Rekha will be attending the CWC/Corus New Media
Accelerator Program in Banff, March 2002.
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LILLIAN SIU
With a Masters of Applied Science Degree (Structural
Engineering) from the University of British Columbia, Lillian
started her career in the specialization of large-scale, dynamic
structures for the astronomy community with telescope enclosures
and mount systems. One of these structures, the Keck Telescope,
was instrumental in taking photos of the Jupiter meteor shower a
number of years ago. The precision instrumentation of these
structures developed to the involvement with the entertainment
sector. This led her to the design, fabrication and erection of
numerous roller coasters for Disney, Universal Studios and Six
Flags (GM Test Track at Epcot, ET the Ride at Universal Japan,
Batman and Robin). Her latest amusement ride was in the
development of a flight simulator, Soarin’ at the Disney
California Adventure, that projects guests 65 feet into an
inverted IMAX dome of 80 feet in diameter and simulates the
sensation of flying.
The program management of these projects, combined with
classical science and technological knowledge, provided a smooth
transition into the high tech world of telecommunications.
Lillian is the Western Telecommunications Manager for the
engineering consulting firm of Morrison Hershfield Ltd. Her work
includes the design and deployment of numerous telecommunication
infrastructure facilities for the wireline, wireless, broadcast,
cable and fibre sectors in Canada and the U.S. Currently she is
the leader of the design team for Alberta SuperNet, which is a
Government of Alberta initiative to create a broadband IP
network accessible to every community across the province. While
it is sometimes difficult to distinguish work from play, Lillian
enjoys cooking, eating, golf and hiking. She looks forward to
applying the new media knowledge to her provision of
telecommunication services for North America.
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ANDREA SZEGO
Armed with a degree in English, a French minor, and a year
of teaching in ESL in Asia, Andrea Szego began her career in
publishing in the female-oriented world of romance: as a
proofreader at Harlequin Enterprises. She took on a variety of
roles within Harlequin, finding her niche as the website content
manager. Soon Andrea was running the popular www.romance.net
site, managing the construction of an online store, overseeing a
sophisticated e-newsletter program and nurturing a budding
community. Romance.net's traffic and sales grew significantly,
and positioned the site perfectly as a springboard for the
corporation's next online venture.
Joining communications company General Content Corporation as
a project manager brought Andrea in contact with
www.PROFITguide.com -- the website devoted to Canadian
entrepreneurs, developed in partnership with PROFIT Magazine.
After a year of managing the site as an outsourced resource,
Andrea moved into Rogers, where she has helped PROFITguide.com
become a leader in its field as an exciting, full-featured
website standing above most magazine-based sites in Canada in
terms of depth, design and functionality. She is largely
responsible for such successful initiatives as the online
versions of the PROFIT 100 ranking of Canada's Fastest-Growing
Companies and the PROFIT-Compaq Essential Web Guide.
Along the way, Andrea has completed courses at Ryerson
Polytechnic University on Marketing and Project Management,
avenues she continues to explore.
In the CWC Accelerator course, Andrea looks forward to
exploring both big-picture and nuts-and-bolts perspectives of
issues facing the industry and relishes the chance to meet and
learn from women sure to be key players in Canada's new media
future.
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LOLA WONG
Lola Wong, Website
Coordinator - Technologies For Learning Group
Lola designs, develops and
maintains TLG's web-based learning sites. For TLG, Lola manages
the technical aspects of site design and build, as well as the
online life of the site. As the former Website Coordinator with
WTN - the Women's Television Network, Lola also brings to TLG a
strong background in project management.
Through Lola's education and
experience in the design and development of websites and
interactive games, she has acquired an impressive knowledge and
skill base using software such as: Adobe Photoshop, Premiere and
After Effects; SoftImage 3D, Director; Filemaker Pro;
Dreamweaver and Flash. In addition, Lola is proficient in HTML,
perl, SSI and Unix.
Lola is a graduate of Red River
College's Interactive Games Developer Certificate Program and
obtained her Bachelor of Science from the University of
Manitoba.
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