Smith Analytics & AI Advisory Board
Smith School of Business is proud to work with highly-respected and accomplished industry leaders to ensure our Master of Management Analytics and Master of Management in Artificial Intelligence programs meet emerging needs, and provide strong connections to the business community.

Pavel Abdur-Rahman, MMA’16
Managing Director
Bluevale Capital Group

Armughan Ahmad
President & CEO
Appen

Hanny Ali, MMA’16
Head of Consulting & Transformation
Media.Monks

Lori Bieda (Advisory Board Chair)
Chief Data and Analytics Officer, North American Personal and Business Bank
BMO

Achille Ettorre
Faculty
International Institute for Analytics

Terry Hickey
Managing Director, Head of Information Technology
Onex

Jane Ho, MMA’14
AVP, Enterprise Data & Analytics Strategy
TD Bank

Erik Kalin, MBA’97
VP and COO
Retail at Empire Life

Michael Langton
President
Newcomp Analytics

Jawad Masud
SVP Operations, Engineering & Projects
Canadian Natural Gas Pipelines, TC Energy

Kamyar Moud, MSc’04
Director, Investment Strategy and Asset Liability Management
New York Life Insurance

Shyam Ramchandani, MBA’09
Chief Science Officer
CorVista Health

Ian Scott
Partner & Chief Data Scientist
Deloitte

Mark Segal, MBA’04
Chief Information Officer
CBI Health

Mark Shafer
Senior Vice President, Decision Science & Integration
Walt Disney Parks and Resorts

Francis Silva, MMA’18
EVP, Digital & Artificial Intelligence
Bond Brand Loyalty

Alison Simpson
President & CEO
Canadian Marketing Association

William Stewart
Head of Data & Insights
RBC Global Asset Management

Stephen Thomas
Executive Director, Analytics and AI Ecosystem;
Adjunct Assistant Professor
Smith School of Business

John Weatherill
Chief Commercial Officer
WestJet

Andrea Wood, MMA’16
Delivery Executive
Zafin

Paul Zikopoulos
VP, Technology Group Skills & Enablement
IBM
Past Advisory Board Members
- David Anderson, 2020–2023
- Michelle Ash, 2017–2022
- Declan Brady, 2016–2020
- Brenda Brouwer, 2020–2021
- Randy Brown, 2018–2021
- David Court, 2016–2021
- Glenda Crisp, 2016–2017
- Joe Daly, 2018–2019
- Sarah R. Davis, 2017–2020
- Oliver Dizon, 2020–2021
- Greg Duncan, 2017–2022
- Michael Durland, 2016–2022 (Chair 2016–2020)
- Jeff Durr, 2017–2018
- Cindy Forbes, 2017–2022
- Matt Fowler, 2018–2021
- Darin Graham, 2018–2021
- Gary Kearns, 2017–2023
- Clinton Keay, 2018–2022
- Joseph Kurian, 2021–2021
- Damian Lee, 2016–2017
- Ryan Maund, 2016–2020
- Yuri Medvedev, 2017–2019
- Manuel Morales, 2018–2019
- Jose Murillo, 2017–2022
- Raymond Pineda, 2016–2019
- Brian Ross, 2016–2021
- Ronan Ryan, 2017–2020
- David Saunders, 2016–2021
- Mark Sylvia, 2018–2021
- Phillip Thomas, 2020–2022
- Mark Wagner, 2020–2022
- Michael Zerbs, 2016–2019