Pride At Work Canada
Board Members
- Michael Bach (Co-Chair)
Toronto, Ontario
Michael Bach is the National Director of Diversity, Inclusion and Equity for KPMG in Canada, Deputy Director of Diversity for KPMG International reporting to Lord Michael Hastings (KPMG's International Director of Citizenship and Diversity), and also Chair of the KPMG Global Diversity Advisory Council.
In addition to a number of volunteer positions, Michael also currently sits on the Advisory Board for TRIEC - the Toronto Region Immigrant Employment Council, is a board member of exeQutive; and is the founding co-chair of Pride at Work Canada. - Clayton Caverly (Secretary)
Toronto, Ontario
Clayton Caverly has spent his 24 years as a lawyer with Fraser Milner Casgrain in Toronto and Vancouver, and as an out gay partner in a conservative sector, is proud to see his national business law firm take a leadership position on diversity issues.
A significant part of his career has been in employment law so he is both personally and professionally familiar with workplace issues that can affect the LGBT community. He is excited at the prospect of bringing that knowledge, and his familiarity with legal issues and the duties of directors generally, to Pride at Work Canada’s Board as it sets out to develop its initial mandate and program for improving the lives of community members in the place where they spend such a big part of themselves. - Richard Coté
Montréal, Québec
Richard Coté has been involved with the LGBT community for the last 18 years, and as a founding member of Pride at Work Canada, believes that continuing his involvement as a board member is a natural next step for him.
Over the past 10 years at Hewitt Associates, Richard has been an active member of their Pride Alliance network and five years ago, took steps to found a Canadian chapter which now boasts over 40 members. Additionally, Richard has also served on the Canadian Diversity Council for Hewitt whose focus is to promote Diversity in all areas of their business and to help leaders understand and navigate through cultural differences. - Wayne Cuervo
Toronto, Ontario
Wayne Cuervo is a Project Manager with Cisco Systems who, like his company, believes that giving back to his community is important. While dollars and cents matter, Wayne and Cisco Systems take the position that donating time to community endeavours and encouraging others to do so as well, helps support our society and the ripple effect of that amplifies and far outlasts the initial contribution.
Founder of Cisco Canada’s GLBT Enterprise Resource Group, Wayne saw a need and partnered with the local leadership team and corporate governance board to build out a strategy to bring that idea to fruition.
Today, Wayne looks forward to making a positive change through his involvement as a Director with Pride at Work Canada. - Stephen Ebanks
Toronto, Ontario
Stephen is a Senior Manager of Policy and Programs in Group Compliance at Scotiabank. He has a Bachelor of Business Administration in Accounting, an MBA in Management and is a Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist.
Stephen has had a keen interest in diversity for a number of years and it has become more of a passion when he moved to Canada over four years ago. Stephen believes that he can bring several perspectives to the Board to make it well-rounded and diverse.
Originally from the Caribbean, Stephen would bring an international perspective on being gay in the work environment and now as a founding member and Vice-Chair of the Employee Resource Group – Scotia Pride Committee, he is able to offer a perspective on the challenges faced when assisting to create such a group in a large financial services organization and more importantly making it sustainable. Stephen hopes to bring his personal and professional experiences above to the Board as well as his desire to promote inclusiveness if LGBT issues in the workplace. - Milé Komlen
Hamilton, Ontario
Milé Komlen is a Canadian lawyer specializing in human rights law, corporate social responsibility and diversity management. He has over 20 years of experience promoting human rights and implementing diversity strategies in a variety of business, community and institutional settings. He is also a founding board member of Pride at Work Canada.
Milé is currently the Director of Human Rights & Equity Services at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario. As a member of the University’s Senior Management Team, Milé advises the university on diversity and inclusive initiatives, and oversees human rights consultations and complaints.
For nearly six years prior, Milé was the Senior Diversity Consultant with the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce (CIBC). In this role, he provided strategic guidance on employment equity and diversity initiatives throughout the bank’s global operations, and led the bank’s employee Affinity Group strategy. He founded the first LGBT employee group in the Canadian financial services industry and has written speeches for the bank’s presidents on LGBT issues.
He also currently serves as the Chairperson of the Equity Advisory Group at the Law Society of Upper Canada and as Chair of the Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Section of the Ontario Bar Association. - Jennifer Quinn (Treasurer)
Toronto, Ontario
Jennifer is a Manager in Deloitte’s Financial Advisory Practice and has been with the firm for six years, having worked in both Vancouver and Toronto. She is actively involved in Deloitte’s LEAD network (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgendered Employees At Deloitte) and was responsible for the launch of the network’s Vancouver chapter.
She is proud of the focus that Deloitte has been putting on diversity and hopes to contribute to this momentum through both her involvement with LEAD and her position with Pride at Work.
- Martine Roy
Montréal, Québec
Born in Montreal, Martine Roy joined IBM's Saint John office in 1999 and became involved in their LGBT employee affinity group, the Blue Q Network, when she decided to set up a local chapter for her and her fellow employees. Later, when she returned to Quebec, she moved to form yet another local chapter of the group, this time, called Nuance Chapter which currently boasts 20 members. Since then, they have participated in numerous events, Pride marches as well as an Executive Breakfast.
In 2005 and 2006, Martine was awarded the Diversity & Inclusion Certificate of Appreciation by IBM and was also part of the 2008 Technical Support Emerging Leadership Forum.
In 2008 Martine Roy became part of Pride at Work Canada board. - Stephanie Stewart (Co-Chair)
Toronto, Ontario
Stephanie Stewart is a Senior Business Analyst with Hewlett-Packard Canada and has been in their employ for almost ten years.
In addition to her normal work duties, Stephanie has been active in HP’s diversity programs, helping to discuss LGBT challenges and visibility within the company, as well as pushing them to do better and create more inclusive work environments. She has also been passionate about her work as Chair of the HP Canada Pride group over the past five years and is now their Canadian representative on the HP Pride Global Council.
Looking forward, Stephanie is excited and energized about what an organization like Pride at Work can accomplish and knows that she can contribute to that success. - Charlie Ung
Vancouver, British Columbia
Charlie Ung joined IBM in 2001 and is currently working at their Pacific Development Centre (PDC) in Vancouver, Canada. Splitting his time between Vancouver and New York, Charlie works in the Corporate Communications function specializing in New Media and Event Management.
He is the West Coast representative for Blue Q/Nuance, IBM's GLBT Diversity Networking Group, and is also an active member of IBM's East Asian Networking Group. During the summer of 2008, Charlie spent a month volunteering in Ghana, West Africa as one of the first participants of IBM's Corporate Service Corps; a highly competitive leadership development program designed to provide global experience as well as tackle socio-economic issues in the host country. He also helped produce IBM's Asian Leadership Summit, a thought leadership event where dozens of companies came together to discuss issues such as global leadership, competing in a global environment, and developing the next generation of talent.
Looking forward, Charlie hopes that his participation in Pride at Work Canada will benefit the GLBT community on the West Coast as well as the Asian GLBT community; both of which have very little representation.
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