Colleen Moorehead is an accomplished business leader, as a two-time public company Canadian CEO, two-time public board chair (DND-T, and lead director SUM-T) of technology businesses. Colleen was most recently the Chief Client Officer at Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP, until retiring in January 2024. Over her career, she has held a variety of corporate leadership positions and has a deep understanding of business development strategy in the services sector.

She has extensive experience in founder-led companies, with a background in financial technology, capital markets and legal, having chaired both Governance and Compensation committees. In her role as Chair, she has built significant experience in shareholder engagement.

While past board experience has been in technology companies, she is industry agnostic although focused on companies and industries where technology is disrupting the business model. To strengthen her investment and operating knowledge of emerging technologies, she is currently Chair of The51, a seed stage venture firm and financial platform investing in the economic power of women, on the Board of Advisors for iNovia Capital (VC) and VERTU Capital(PE). Past board roles include Dye & Durham (DND-T), and Merrco, a private paymentprocessing company, Solium (SUM-T), Nexient (NXN-T), and E*TRADE Canada (ETC-T).

Colleen was an early entrant to the financial services technology industry as co-founder of E*TRADE Canada in 1997, after a long career in the financial services and investment industry at Merrill Lynch and CIBC.

As a well-known trailblazer and mobilizer, Colleen’s efforts to support, mentor and advance women throughout her 30-year career have contributed to meaningful organizational changes for Canadian companies and women in business. She is also very active in philanthropic initiatives as co-chair of Kids Help Phone capital campaign, Artscape, Women’s College Hospital Foundation and Covenant House.

Colleen is the co-founder and continues as the business director of the Judy Project at the UofT Joseph L. Rotman School of Management since 2003. Since launch, the Judy Project has supported the ascent of more than 400 women into C-suite positions. She also edited and

published the best-selling leadership book The Collective Wisdom of High-Performing Women: Leadership Lessons from the Judy Project. The book features personal stories of Canadian women business leaders and highlights the characteristics of great leaders. The book has sold

over 20,000 copies.

Over the course of her career, Colleen has been recognized and honoured with several awards including CVCA Ted Anderson Community Leadership Award in 2024, the Women of Distinction Award for 2020 and 2021 by YWCA Toronto, the 2021 Trailblazer Award by the Women’s College Hospital Foundation, 2015 Catalyst Canada Honours Champion – Business Leader, and the Business Builder 2010 Award by the Canadian Marketing Hall of Legends.

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