Shannon Doram
Shannon Doram (Top 40, 2022) is the president and CEO of YMCA Calgary. Her team has opened two of the world’s largest YMCAs and is extending the reach of the YMCA to more Calgarians each year. She is the Audit Committee Chair of the Calgary Municipal Land Corporation (CMLC) and was recently awarded the Queen Elizabeth II Platinum Jubilee Award for community leadership.
Christy Lane
Christy Lane (Top 40, 2018) is a venture partner with IA Capital. She is a serial founder and award-winning exercise scientist with expertise in insurance, analytics, digital health and wearable devices. She is also the co-founder of Flora Fertility and the Stanford Wearable Health Lab, and the founder and former CEO of Vivametrica. She has been recognized as a Female Founders of Insuretech Winner and a Top 20 Women in Tech.
David Legg
David Legg (Top 40, 2003) is a professor of Sport Management and Adapted Physical Activity at Mount Royal University and the founder and chair of the Calgary Adapted Hub Powered by Jumpstart. He is a board member for both Commonwealth Sport Canada and the International Council of Sport Science and Physical Education and is also the incoming chair of the Calgary Sport and Major Event Committee for Tourism Calgary.
Käthe Lemon
Käthe Lemon is president and co-owner of RedPoint Media Group. RedPoint is the publisher of Avenue and The Scene, and, through RPM Content Studio, creates award-winning custom publications, including Leap on behalf of the Alberta Cancer Foundation, SPUR on behalf of the Calgary Foundation, Create Calgary on behalf of Calgary Arts Development, and others. Prior to acquiring RedPoint, Lemon was editor of Avenue for 15 years.
Renee Matsalla
Renee Matsalla (Top 40, 2023) is the co-founder and CEO of Tacit Edge Product Leadership. Previously, as a senior product manager at Benevity, she helped scale the company to a $1.1 billion unicorn valuation and led the creation of flagship products used by brands like Nike, Apple and PayPal. She is an ICF-certified Professional Business Coach (ACPT) and globally recognized product leader and AI educator. She has received Start Alberta’s Digital Talent Award.
Avnish Mehta
Avnish Mehta (Top 40, 2017) is an entrepreneur. He is the principal at Stand and Command, the co-founder of FARE Developments, and a “Beer Baron” at Village Brewery. He is also a non-profit board-governance advisor. As a community volunteer, Mehta is a board member of organizations such as Heritage Calgary, GlobalFest and the Impact Investment Committee of Calgary Foundation.
Nuvyn Peters
Nuvyn Peters (Top 40, 2016) is CEO of Axis Connects, an organization that advocates for gender diversity in leadership. In her previous role as vice-president of advancement at the University of Calgary, she led the ambitious Energize campaign to exceed its fundraising goal, raising a milestone $1.41 billion. She is the founder of boutique consulting firm Peters & Associates. Maclean’s magazine named Peters one of Canada’s top newsmakers of the week, and she was a recipient of Canada’s Top 40 in 2018.
Nabeel Peermohammed
Nabeel Peermohammed (Top 40, 2024) has obtained successful results at the Alberta Court of Appeal, Alberta Court of King’s Bench, Alberta Provincial Court, British Columbia Supreme Court, British Columbia Provincial Court, Federal Court, Tax Court of Canada, and the Federal Umpire. He was named Lawyer to Watch in the 2018 and 2021 editions of the Lexpert Directory and joined his firm, Brownlee LLP Litigation, in 2013. His primary area of practice is Insurance Defence Litigation. He was invited to the Brownlee partnership in 2020.
Rob Roach
Rob Roach (Top 40, 2006) is the deputy chief economist at ATB Financial. He is a co-author with Todd Hirsch of three books: The Boiling Frog Dilemma: Saving Canada From Economic Decline; Spiders in Space: Successfully Adapting to Unwanted Change; and Spiders in COVID Space: Adapting During and After the Pandemic. Passionate about the arts and inclusion, Roach recently served as the chair of the National AccessArts Centre, Canada’s largest and oldest disability arts organization.