{"id":18,"date":"2014-06-02T14:32:18","date_gmt":"2014-06-02T14:32:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.telfer.uottawa.ca\/womensenterprise\/?page_id=18"},"modified":"2014-06-02T14:36:11","modified_gmt":"2014-06-02T14:36:11","slug":"who-are-we","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.telfer.uottawa.ca\/womensenterprise\/who-are-we\/","title":{"rendered":"Who are we?"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Taskforce for Women\u2019s Business Growth <\/em>is a national and non-partisan consortium of prominent women business owners, SME service agencies, academics, and industry associations. Founded in 2009, the mandate of the Taskforce is to grow women\u2019s enterprises through the creation of public policy, advocacy, applied research, collaboration and sharing of best practices.<\/p>\n

Taskforce Founding Members<\/h3>\n
\n
\nChair: Barbara Orser<\/strong>
\nDeloitte Professor
\nTelfer School of Management
\nUniversity of Ottawa<\/p>\n

Sandra Altner<\/strong> Chief Executive Officer
\nWomen\u2019s Enterprise Centre of Manitoba<\/p>\n

Mary Anderson<\/strong> Executive Director
\nWEConnect Canada<\/p>\n

Clare Beckton<\/strong> Executive Director
\nCentre for Women in Politics & Public Leadership
\nCarleton University<\/p>\n

Penny Collenette<\/strong> Adjunct Professor
\nUniversity of Ottawa Faculty of Law
\nAnne Day<\/strong> Founder
\nCompany of Women<\/p>\n

Laurel Douglas<\/strong> Chief Executive Officer
\nB.C. Women\u2019s Enterprise Centre<\/p>\n

Dr. Sandi Findlay<\/strong> Assistant Professor
\nBusiness Administration & Tourism
\nMount St. Vincent University<\/p>\n

Laraine Kaminsky<\/strong> Global Diversity Strategist
\nGlobal LK<\/p>\n

Isabelle Le Breton-Miller<\/strong> Associate Professor
\nHEC Montr\u00e9al Department of Management<\/p>\n

Stephanie MacKendrick<\/strong> President
\nCanadian Women in Communications<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\n

Sonia Menendez<\/strong>
\nExecutive Director
\nCentre for Women in Business,
\nMount St. Vincent University<\/p>\n

Barbara Mowat<\/strong> President
\nImpact Communications Limited<\/p>\n

Tracey Scarlett<\/strong> Chief Executive Officer
\nAlberta Women Entrepreneur<\/p>\n

M. Brenda Robertson<\/strong> Founding Partner
\nOdgers Berndtson Ottawa<\/p>\n

Paula Sheppard<\/strong> Executive Director
\nNewfoundland & Labrador Organization of Women
\nEntrepreneurs<\/p>\n

Laura Small<\/strong> Chief Executive Officer
\nWomen Entrepreneurs of Saskatchewan Inc.<\/p>\n

Joanne Stanley<\/strong> Co-Founder and President
\nCanadian Women in Technology<\/p>\n

Ruth Vachon<\/strong> President
\nR\u00e9seau des femmes d\u2019affaires du Qu\u00e9bec<\/p>\n

Marnie Walker<\/strong> President
\n401 Bay Centre<\/p>\n

Maxime Westaway<\/strong> Executive Director
\nThe International Alliance for Women<\/p>\n

Betty Wood<\/strong> Governance and Operations
\nGlobal Banking Alliance<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Taskforce for Women\u2019s Business Growth is a national and non-partisan consortium of prominent women business owners, SME service agencies, academics, and industry associations. Founded in 2009, the mandate of the Taskforce is to grow women\u2019s enterprises through the creation of public policy, advocacy, applied research, collaboration and sharing of best practices. Taskforce Founding Members […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-18","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.telfer.uottawa.ca\/womensenterprise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/18","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.telfer.uottawa.ca\/womensenterprise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.telfer.uottawa.ca\/womensenterprise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.telfer.uottawa.ca\/womensenterprise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.telfer.uottawa.ca\/womensenterprise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/sites.telfer.uottawa.ca\/womensenterprise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/18\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24,"href":"https:\/\/sites.telfer.uottawa.ca\/womensenterprise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/18\/revisions\/24"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.telfer.uottawa.ca\/womensenterprise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}