Our Team

Meet our operations team:

CEO and Chair
Dr. Catherine Boivie 

Dr. Catherine Aczel Boivie joined CanWIT as its CEO and Chair in the summer of 2012 to provide governance and leadership expertise with the aim of taking CanWIT to the next level. She is a widely respected executive with more than 20 years of experience in the leadership of information technology, most recently as the Senior Vice President of Information Technology and Facility Management for Vancity Credit Union. Previously, she was Sr VP of IT and CIO at Pacific Blue Cross and CAA British Columbia. Catherine is the Executive in Residence at the Beedie School of Business at Simon Fraser University. She is also an experienced board member having served on several boards, including those of Insurance Corporation of B.C. (ICBC), Certified General Accountants Association of Canada, the Burnaby Board of Trade and is the Founding President of the Chief Information Officers Association of Canada (CIOCAN). Catherine has a strong understanding of Board Governance and Oversight and received the ICD.D designation from the Institute of Corporate Directors.

Fun fact: Catherine professes that while not being great at it, she enjoys quilting.  She even belongs to a local quilt guild where she admires all of the other women's beautiful quilting skills. 

Executive Director 
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Emily Boucher took on the role of Executive Director from her former position with CATAAlliance as its Director of Communications, a role she’s had since 2008. A gen-Y leader in her own right, Emily is passionate about Canada’s technology sector and driven to lead initiatives that support the advancement of women within the tech sector. As a PR and Communications’ specialist, she especially loves sharing the inspiring stories of Canada’s female leaders in the tech sector. Emily recently led the Atlantic Division of CATAAlliance, where she enjoyed developing new business relationships and leveraging CATAAlliance's resources to assist the business growth of Atlantic Canada's most innovative companies. Emily holds a B.A. (Honours) in Political Science and English Literature from Carleton University, a diploma in Public Relations from Algonquin College, and is currently finishing her Masters in Public Relations part-time from Mount Saint Vincent University's renowned MPR program. She was the winner of the 2008 IABC Rick Green Award.

Fun fact: Emily is a huge fan of professional soccer. During World Cup events she can be found cheering for team France (and Canada, of course). It’s advised not to mention anything about the final match of the 2006 FIFA World Cup around her…

Director of Operations
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Alice Debroy has been with CATAAlliance since 1993 which has given her the rare opportunity to be part of an association reinventing itself to proudly be the largest high tech association in Canada. As the technology director, maintaining the membership data and communications was a priority.   She currently holds the title of Webmaster, responsible for the development and maintenance of the organizations web sites and databases working in html, css, mysql. Her artistic talents are constantly sought after for logos, brochures, signage. She studied Computer Science Engineering Technology at Algonquin College and Flat Pattern Design at Richard Robinsons Academy of Design.

Fun fact: Alice enjoys running with her rottwiler/lab rescue dog named Spike on cold, crisp, sunny winter days and letting her imagination wander to palm trees and warm ocean breezes.

Director of Membership Services
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Cathi Malette has been working with CATAAlliance for nearly two decades. In this time she has had the opportunity to challenge her skills and gain experience by working with CATA on numerous projects and events with a wonderful key team as well as having the opportunity to meet and work with new people. Working with CATA means working with the technology issues and advocacy involved in  areas such as the
Innovation Nation campaign, First Responders and Interoperabilty, broadband and SRED  One of the most interesting of endeavors has been the evolution of CanWIT since 2005. Cathi is currently Manager of Members Services & Sales Associate,  leading the customer care and office coordination for CATA and CanWIT.  Cathi holds a B.A. hons. in English Literature from Carleton University and and diploma in Licensed Practical Nursing from Algonquin College.

Fun fact: Cathi has recently taken up yoga and in so doing has abandoned all her previous notions about yoga being easy or not strenuous.

Past Vice Chair, i-CANADA
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Dr. Cindy Gordon is the Founder of Helix Commerce International Inc., a company specializing in business innovation, collaboration commerce, and social media. Helix also recently announced a new business offering for Virtual World solutions. Select Helix Fortune 500 Clients are: Amdocs, Bell Canada, CIBC, Microsoft, MTS Allstream, RIM, Royal Bank of Canada, SAP, Siemens, TD, Xerox, etc. Helix also works with not for profit leading organizations, like The Canadian Cancer Society and George Brown College. She is also the President of Terra Forum Canada, a subsidiary operation of Terra Forum that develops and implements Microsoft and IBM portal solutions. Dr. Gordon is seeding Terra Forum Canada, and has formed an integrated operating relationship between Helix and TerraForum Canada given their complementary service offerings. Terra Forum is a leading innovation and portal organization headquartered in Brazil, Denmark and Canada, with over 195 FT employees with clients like: Dell Computers, CVRD, HSBS Johnson and Johnson, Vale, etc.. Together, Helix Commerce International and Terra Forum deliver strategy to systems development requirements, extending their innovation and growth service delivery capabilities.