Community Foundation trustees

With degrees from Queen’s, Columbia and Osgoode Hall Law School, Julia practised law with Torys LLP in Toronto and Hong Kong and built a legal recruitment business in Singapore before becoming a non-profit CEO with CivicAction, Futurpreneur Canada, the Canadian Children’s Literacy Foundation and Habitat for Humanity Canada, Chair of Ontario's Expert Roundtable on Immigration, and director of many non-profit and business organizations.

She’s been named one of WXN’s Top 100 Most Powerful Women, a YWCA Toronto Woman of Distinction and Woman of Influence’s Canadian Diversity Champion, and received the Pearson Centre for Progressive Policy Leadership Award, the Goodman School of Business Distinguished Leader Award and the Prix RelèveON Prix Hommage du Club canadien de Toronto.

Julia also serves on the boards of United for Literacy, Vancity Community Investment Bank, and InvestEco Capital, and as an Honorary Lieutenant Colonel in the Canadian Armed Forces.

Recently retired President and CEO of the Canadian Credit Union Association, Martha Durdin is a seasoned executive, Corporate Director and Board Chair. Prior to her role at CCUA, she held various senior management roles, including Managing Principal at Navigator as well as an executive position at BMO Financial Group. Early in her career, Martha worked in the Prime Minister’s Office on Parliament Hill.

Over the past 20 years, Ms. Durdin has volunteered extensively and sat as a board member on several Crown agencies and for profit and NFP organizations. Among them, she is the immediate past Chair of the Royal Ontario Museum Board of Trustees, served three terms as the Chair of the Ontario Arts Council and chaired the Governance Committee of the Washington DC-based WOCCU. She is currently a Director of The Canada Post Foundation, 8-Twelve Financial Technologies Inc., Dane Creek Capital Corp. and Roots of Empathy.

Martha is bilingual; holds a BA (Hon) from Western University, an MSc from the London School of Economics, and an ICD.D from the Institute of Corporate Directors. She is the recipient of the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Medal and the Lieutenant Governor’s Distinguished Service Award.

As Chief Commercial Officer for Canada Post from 2016, until his appointment as CEO in 2019, Doug led growth strategies for Canada Post, oversaw all commercial functions, including Sales, Marketing, Retail, Digital, Business Development and Customer Service.

With its subsidiaries Purolator, SCI and Innovapost, Canada Post is a leader in providing innovative e-commerce, marketing and logistics solutions.

Doug is an accomplished senior executive with more than 30 years of broad experience in the consumer packaged goods industry.

Before joining Canada Post, he led established companies through complex business transformations. He was President and CEO of Scotsburn Dairy Group. Prior to that, he was President and CEO of Ganong Bros. Limited and held executive roles with Parmalat, Nestlé and Coca-Cola.

Doug chairs the board of Innovapost and is a Director of the Purolator Board.

Doug earned a Bachelor of Commerce degree and a Master’s in Business Administration from Dalhousie University.

Vikram (Vik) Khurana is a Canadian entrepreneur, experienced in business consulting & IT outsourcing. Previously, Vikram worked with TD Bank. Since then, he has founded many India-centric businesses such as Prudential Consulting Inc., a healthcare BPO Service Provider, Leading System Consultants, a company engaged in India related advisory services, amongst others. Vikram has been an advisor, board member, investor, and consultant to a number of multinational companies and organizations in the field of Information Technology, Business Process Outsourcing and Information Technology Enabled Services. Vikram has also invested in a variety of start-ups as an Angel investor.

Vikram is currently the Chair of Toronto Business Development Centre (TBDC) – a leading business incubator that has been locally, nationally and internationally recognized for its efforts in nurturing the growth of new and emerging businesses in the Greater Toronto Area. He also serves as a Board member of Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corporation (OLG) and Ontario Capital Growth Corporation (OCGC).

Vikram is an engineering graduate from India and also holds a Master’s in Business Administration, from St. Mary's University in Halifax. He is an active participant in a variety of fundraising activities for development-related causes such as schools for underprivileged children, and long-term aid initiatives for Haiti. In 2011, he co-chaired the first Diwali gala to raise funds for the Emergency Department at Toronto Western and Toronto General Hospital. Vikram has also received the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Medal in recognition of his achievements and work in the community.

Rob Lackie is Inuit and President and Founder of iTUK – Inuit of Toronto Urban Katimavvik. He is a Sixties Scoop survivor from Labrador. His mother is a residential school survivor.

Mr. Lackie has experience on several boards and committees such as the Native Canadian Centre of Toronto, the Aboriginal Sport and Wellness Council of Ontario and Na-Me-Res (Native Men’s Residence). His strategic ideas are broad-based and cut across political divides; his work with Aboriginal agencies in Toronto has provided positive change for the community.

Rob was the 2011 Recipient of the Aboriginal Affairs Award recognized for his dedication and work he has done in the City of Toronto.

An accomplished senior executive offering a track record of delivering results, Jeffrey has found success across industries in Canada and the United States. He possesses a rare blend of proven business acumen and global citizenship and leverages strategic, analytical, forward-thinking, creative, and problem-solving abilities to lead teams, to address complex business challenges, and manage transformations.

Currently CEO of TVO, Jeffrey has previously served as Commissioner of the Canadian Football League, Chair of Canadian eSports organization Tiidal Gaming Group, and in senior executive roles at Canadian Tire Corporation, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, and global not-for-profit Right to Play. Jeffrey holds a Juris Doctor (J.D.) from Harvard Law School and a Bachelor’s Degree in Psychology from Amherst College. He and his wife Carly and their two sons live in North York.

As Vice-President, Engineering, Alexandre oversees the execution of capital investment projects to increase parcel capacity and improve service while reducing operational costs. He was previously Vice-President, Business Transformation.

Alexandre is a senior executive with more than 20 years’ experience in strategy, business transformation, process optimization and program delivery. In his role as Vice-President Multimodal Innovation at CN Railway, Alexandre led the strategy to transform CN from a railroad-centric company to an integrated end-to-end logistics business. He has also worked on significant IT initiatives, highlighting the need to invest differently in technology with a focus on customer experience. He has also worked for Accenture in a variety of process and project management roles.

He completed a Master of Business Administration from McGill-HEC and a degree in Chemical Engineering from École Polytechnique de Montréal.