Board of Directors

Meet our board

Our Board of directors are business and academic leaders in the digital agriculture, plant protein, and agri-food sector. They provide strategic guidance to support our vision of accelerating the Manitoba economy through our pillars of innovation and research; intelligent technology integration; skills, training, and talent development; and capital enablement.

Ray Bouchard

Board Chair, President & CEO, Enns Brothers

Randy Roller

Board Vice-Chair, VP & General Manager, The North West Company

Andrea Legary

Board Committee Chair, Chief Science and Technology Officer, The Recoup Group

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Dr. Jaime Cidro

Associate Vice-President, Research and Innovation, University of Winnipeg

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Dr. Jay Doering

Associate Vice-President, Partnerships, University of Manitoba

Marty Fisher

President/Principal, Show and Tell Agency

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Danielle Graff

Partner, MLT Aikins

Tim Hore

Dean, Russ Edwards School of Agriculture & Environment, ACC

Maureen Kinnear

VP Technology Development & Services, G3 Canada Ltd

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Dr. Lysa Porth

Professor, Finance, Lang School of Business & Economics, University of Guelph

Erin Romeo

Executive Vice-President of Digital Innovation, Strategy and Partnerships, Glacier FarmMedia

Directors Emeritus

Sandy Riley

CEO, Richardson Financial Group

Bob Silver

President & CEO, Western Glove Works

Thank you to past board members

Our past board members have played an integral role in advancing digital agriculture. We are thankful to our founding board for generously sharing their expertise, resources, and knowledge to launch EMILI in 2016, and to all of our past board members (listed alphabetical by last name) for sharing their knowledge and experience with us: Dr. Mark Alexiuk, Vince Barletta, Sean Barnes, Dr. James Currie, Jason Dyck, Ray Hoemsen, Dr. Peter Jones, Dr. Amin Kabani, Kevin Lusk, Steve McCabe, Chris Minaker, Leah Olson, Dr. Simon Potter, John Scarce, Dr. Annette Trimbee, Paul Vogt, and Colin Wiebe.