Shelley Arnusch
Shelley Arnusch was Avenue’s Editor in Chief from 2021 to 2024 and worked with Avenue in various editorial roles over the previous 14 years. She has more than two decades of experience working in magazines. Prior to working with Avenue, Arnusch worked for the Calgary Herald’s award-winning Swerve magazine and at Pique Newsmagazine in Whistler, B.C. She has won numerous Alberta Magazine Awards and International Regional Media Association Awards for her writing and editing work and a National Magazine Award for her writing.
Heather Campbell
Heather Campbell is an energy professional with a diverse, three-decades-long energy career in a full range of energy industries. With her focus on energy transition, sustainability, and inclusion, she currently serves as an independent adviser for Rev Innovations as they aim to expand low-carbon, low-cost energy solutions.
Campbell holds a Bachelor of Engineering Science degree in Biochemical and Chemical Engineering from Western University in addition to a Master of Laws in Energy Law and Policy from the University of Dundee.
She is an engaged, lifelong community volunteer and is currently a board director with Calgary’s performing arts centre Arts Commons and a member of the Advisory Council for Western Engineering. She is an advisory council member of the B.C. Centre for Innovation and Clean Energy, and is an advisory board member of the National Research Council of Canada’s Industrial Research Assistance Program. She is the former co-chair of Alberta’s Anti-Racism Advisory Council, a former Commissioner with the Calgary Police Commission, and has been awarded the Queen Elizabeth II Platinum Jubilee Medal, the Calgary Black Chambers Black Achievement Award in Energy, and the 2024 Harry Jerome Decade Leader Award.
Ray DePaul
Ray DePaul is the founding Executive Director of the Institute for Innovation and Entrepreneurship at Mount Royal University, where he helps develop the innovative and entrepreneurial talent Alberta needs. He has been a successful entrepreneur, selling his company to Intel, and was also a key member of the team that brought the iconic BlackBerry to the world. He is on the Board of Directors of robotics company, Attabotics and the non-profit Platform Calgary and is proud to be a mentor to many young entrepreneurs. Ray holds a Bachelor of Mathematics in Computer Science from the University of Waterloo and a Master of Business Administration from Wilfrid Laurier University.
Jeff Dyer
Jeff Dyer has served in the not for profit sector for over 25 years, leading agencies involved in poverty reduction, affordable housing, youth leadership development, ending homelessness. He now serves as the CEO of Trellis Society — where all those weave together. In each of these roles, he has had the privilege of aligning personal values with organizational vision: creating spaces for young people to thrive, leaders to grow, justice and mercy to emerge and everyone to belong.
Dyer is a graduate of the University of Alberta, with both a Bachelor of Education and a Masters of Business Administration.
When not working, he is sharing life with his young adult children, eating his way through Avenue magazine’s Best Restaurants list with his wife and running along the Bow River. Dyer is a member of the Avenue Top 40 Under 40 Class of 2014.
Jessie Fiddler-Kiss
Jessie Fiddler-Kiss is a member of the Metis Nation of Alberta. Her family comes from the Fiddler/Fidler’s of Batoche in the Treaty 6 territory the homeland of Metis Nation, and from Banff and High River in Treaty 7 territory. She is grateful to be a guest on Treaty 7 Territory.
Fiddler-Kiss is a member of Avenue’s Top 40 Under 40 Class of 2022 in recognition of her work creating and founding The Moss Bag Project, an Indigenous-led reciprocity-guided non-profit, that offers pre and post-natal education, through Auntie School and the Telus Spark, and an academic scholarship through a partnership at the University of Saskatchewan.
Principal and facilitator of FiddlerKiss Consulting, her work in education; Indigenous curriculum and policy development; and leadership spans over two decades in Saskatchewan and Alberta.
Fiddler-Kiss is a retired Olympic Oval athlete, USask Huskie Hockey alumni, and MRU athlete, and was recognized by her undergrad and graduate university as a business leader.
Käthe Lemon
Käthe Lemon is the president and co-owner of RedPoint Media Group. RedPoint is the publisher of Avenue and The Scene, and through RPM Content Studio also creates award-winning custom publications, content-driven events and digital content for clients including the Alberta Cancer Foundation, the Calgary Foundation, Axis Connects, Divine Flooring and others. Lemon and her business partner Roger Jewett took ownership of RedPoint in 2023.
Prior to being named president in 2021, Lemon was the Editor of Avenue magazine for 15 years. During that time, the magazine was named Magazine of the Year by the Alberta Magazine Publishers Associations and won multiple awards for excellence in writing, photography and design at the provincial, national and international level. Lemon was named Alberta Editor of the Year in 2011.
Much like Avenue, Lemon is a relentless supporter of Calgary and works to celebrate the city’s many success stories and push the city to be even better.
She is also currently the chair of the board of directors for the International Regional Magazine Association and the Calgary Outdoor Swimming Pool Association.
Sarah Meilleur
Sarah Meilleur is the CEO of Calgary Public Library, an award-winning library system with 22 locations, serving over 1.6 million people. She is a recognized speaker at international conferences, has authored numerous journal articles, and lectures at Harvard University on library design. Sarah led the design thinking, completion and launch of Calgary’s award winning new Central Library, which has seen over 5.6 million visitors since opening in November 2018.
She is a member of the Avenue Top 40 under 40 Class of 2011, was a recipient of Queen Elizabeth ll’s Platinum Jubilee Medal in 2022 for outstanding service to family, community, and country, and received a Blackfoot name of Pookaipiyakii, which translates to Children Dancing Woman, from Blackfoot Elder Miiksika’am in 2023.
Mark Starratt
Mark Starratt is principal of StarrGazer Advisory Inc. Outside of work, Starratt is very active in the community. He was founder and chair of the board of trustees for the Banff Sports Hall of Fame. From February 2013 to July 2016, he served on the board of governors at the University of Calgary and was vice chair of the investment committee and member of the executive committee. Starratt recently completed a four-year term as a director of the Paralympic Foundation of Canada. He currently serves on the Cumming School of Medicine Advisory Board at the University of Calgary and on the boards of several private companies, including as board chair for Alberta Veterinary Laboratories (Solvet), and is currently a trustee for two Olympic athletes. Starratt has been a Rotarian since 1997 and served as district governor for D5360 in 2008/09. Since then he has served in a variety of roles within Rotary, including acting as co-chair of the bid committee that brought the 2025 Rotary International Convention to Calgary and after as the co-chair of the host organizing committee for the convention, which will be held in Calgary in June.
In April 2013, he and his wife Jennifer formed The Starratt Family Foundation to advance neuromuscular disease education and research, and to help improve accessibility for those with disabilities. They are focused on building partnerships and relationships to continue to grow the impact of the Foundation.
Starratt is a member of Calgary’s Top 40 Under 40 Class of 2005. The same year he was named a Distinguished Alumni by the University of Alberta. In December 2022, he was awarded the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee Medal for his professional accomplishments and community service.
