Mike Wright
Co-Founder & CEO
Mike has over 18 years of experience in business and IT and was a key player in a successful exit. With MESH/Diversity, Mike has turned to his passion, helping create business cultures that thrive.
Dr. Leeno Karumanchery
Co-Founder and Head of Behavioural Sciences
Leeno has over 28 years of experience and is world reknown for his expertise in the fields of Emotional Intelligence and Diversity. Leeno’s research underpins the MESH/Diversity platform.
Adrienne O’Pray
VP of Client Success
Adrienne brings leadership experience from two decades of work in the public and private sectors. She also brings experience championing change and promoting economic and social policy debate and development in New Brunswick.
Elaine McKinnon
Chief Financial Officer
Elaine is a Chartered Professional Accountant with over 30 years of experience working in the information technology sector. She has worked with companies such as East Valley Ventures, Brovada Technologies, Bell Aliant and IBM Global Services.
Jason Aube, P.Eng.
CTO
Jason has over 20 years of experience in the technical field. He is responsible for technology and engineering at MESH/Diversity.
Hugh Comerford
Chief Innovation Officer
Hugh is a certified Innovation Facilitator, a Global Leader in Neuro-Linguistics and MESH’s Senior Executive Coach. Hugh leverages his expertise to help executives drive meaningful professional development and personal growth using the MESH Diversity Intelligence™ Model.
Naveen Mehta
Chief Legal Officer
Naveen is a seasoned human rights and labour/employment lawyer with 20 years of experience. He has also worked as General Counsel to one of Canada’s largest labour organizations. An award-winning global Diversity, Inclusion and Workplace Leadership speaker, coach, and strategist, he is well-known as a thought leader on D&I in the legal profession and professional services industries.
Al Sturgeon
VP Business Development
Al has over 20 years of experience across sales, marketing, product management and customer engineering. Al has a passion for bringing new solutions to market and scaling startups.
Karen Bennett
Organizational Development Lead
As an Organization Development Expert, Karen brings 30+ years of experience in team building, leadership and
organizational development skills in both the profit and not-for-profit sectors. Her focus is centred on helping teams understand, appreciate, and utilize their differences in constructive ways to develop workplace cultures where people and organizations thrive.
Ria Riaz
Head of Marketing
Brett Whitaker
Lead Developer
Brett has been in love with coding for almost as long as he can remember. He is a full-stack developer with an eye for design and a strong focus on front-end user experience.
Michelle Wilson
Customer Success Specialist
Michelle is an experienced Customer Success Specialist with hands-on experience building and developing strong partnerships with her clients. Experienced at digging deep to provide insight and recommendations to help achieve success while developing strong partnerships.
Symone Jennings
Client Success Specialist
Symone has built an extensive career focused on community building, relationship management and making positive social impact. Utilizing a humancentered design approach she successfully builds and maintains a strong and meaningful relationship with her clients by engaging in a deep discovery process to better understand their needs and the value she can bring to their organizations.
Aaron McKinnon
Marketing Specialist
Aaron brings a variety of skills to our marketing team thanks to a background in public relations, communications, graphic and web design. He has worked in product branding and marketing, while also fuelling his love of art through his work with a local art gallery.
MESH/diversity empowers D&I professionals with the strategic support, tools, metrics and data needed to drive the success across their organizations.
