
2026 TOP 100 Awards
NOVEMBER 26, 2026 | FAIRMONT ROYAL YORK
CANADA’S MOST POWERFUL WOMEN: TOP 100
Meet the Judges

ELISE AHENKORAH
Lead Culture and Inclusion Strategist +
Keynote Speaker, Inclusion Factor

MAEGHAN ALBISTON
VP & Chief Human Resources Officer
CPKC

FATEN ALSHAZLY
Principal and Chief Creative Officer, WeUsThem

ULRIKE BAHR-GEDALIA
Technology, Business & Public Policy
Executive | Innovator | National Lead - Cyber Security & Future of AI Councils |
Government Relations

CLARE BECKTON
Founder, Own Your Own Success

DESIRÉE BOMBENON
Founder & CEO | Chair, AspiHer
Women's Business Club | UN Global
Compact Network Canada, YPO

SIMON CUSUMANO
Senior Manager, Talent and Performance
(Acting), LCBO

LORRAINE GRAY
Vice President, System Operations &
Station Services, Hydro One

VENI IOZZO
Special Advisor, CIBC

JAN JACOB SEALE
HR Business Partner
Postmedia

LAURA KAVANAGH
Chief Human Resources Officer
Postmedia

ARDEN KENWAY
Senior Human Resources Business
CIBC

CASSANDRA MACHADO
Senior Manager - Diversity, Equity and
Inclusion (Acting), LCBO

ATOUSSA MAHMOUDPOUR
Founder, Principal, AMR Law

KEISHA MARANT
Senior Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
Manager, Women at TD Lead
TD Bank Group

SARAH-JANE MARTIN
Managing Partner, Chief Talent Officer
and Associate General Counsel
Sprott Inc.

ATTY MASHATAN
Canadian Research Chair & Associate
Professor | Founder and Director, Ted
Rogers School of Management - TMU |Cybersecurity Research Lab

JANICE MCDONALD
Entrepreneur, strategic advisor, board
director and author

SHILPA MISHRA
Managing Director MNP Corporate
Finance, MNP

FADWA MOHANNA
Co-Founder & CEO, One37 ID

INDIRA NAIDOO-HARRIS
AVP, Diversity & Human Rights,
University of Guelph

NKECHI NWAFOR-ROBINSON
Founder & CEO | VP, Technology
Operations & Services and Cloud
Transformation, Empowered in My Skin |EDC

JENNY OKONKWO
Inclusive Leadership Development, ERGs, Workplace Belonging, Psychological Safety, Transform Consulting Inc.

DANIELLE PAES
Chief Innovation Officer & VP, Global
Affairs, Amily Oliver + Co.

VASIE PAPADOPOULOS
Founder | Advisory Board Member,
KLEO LLC | Lucia

ZEBBY RAJAN
AVP, Risk, CIBC

KERRY ROBBINS
Vice President, Senior Customer
Complaints Office, TD Bank Group

JACKIE SCALES
Chief Inclusion Officer, Teck Resources Ltd.

AMANDA SPAKOWSKI
Director, Inclusion,
Infrastructure Ontario

MELISSA VILLAMAR
Human Resources Generalist
Sprott Inc

LEENA WADHER
Director Human Resources
CPKC

DR. CHARLIE WALL-ANDREWS
Executive Director | Assistant Professor,
SOCAN Foundation | Toronto Metropolitan
University

SHAUNA YOHEMAS
VP, People, Culture & Equity
NorQuest College

SASHA ZHOVTA
Human Resources Generalist
Hyundai Auto Canada






