Ian Connerty is President of Gayle Alexander Associates a Government Relations, Risk Management and Cybersecurity consulting firm in Toronto Canada. 

He brings broad experience in government relations and risk and reputation management to his clients in Canada and abroad. After many years in government as a former senior advisor to Canadian and Ontario Cabinet Ministers, and as a former Municipal Councillor, he has a profound understanding of how decisions are made at all levels of government. He also has in-depth experience of how to communicate client needs to government.

Mr. Connerty has assisted innumerable private sector clients in dealing successfully with government and has experience in several policy areas including justice, procurement, high tech, training, municipal planning, health care, infrastructure and transit.

His government tenure includes senior staff positions with a Canadian Minister of Justice, a former Premier of Ontario and Ministers of Revenue and Skills Development. Mr. Connerty was also elected to Municipal Council where he was Chair of the Finance and Budget Committee. He also served as a Senior Associate with the Intergovernmental Committee on Canadian Urban Research

After serving in government he was appointed Vice President of Parsons Brinckerhoff Canada (now WSP) and helped the firm establish a successful presence in the Canadian market as a premier provider of professional consulting and engineering services specializing in transit and transportation.

Mr. Connerty is also a past Chair of the Canadian News Hall of Fame, a past member of the Board of Governors of the National Newspaper Awards and past President of the Public Affairs Association of Canada. 

As well, Mr. Connerty is former managing partner and publisher of two municipal planning and public affairs magazines in London, UK. He also served as a member of the Canadian team on the Club of Rome’s Goals for Mankind project.

Terence Young ICD.D is the President of Gravitas Strategies and one of Canada’s leading government relations professionals.

With thirty five years experience in the public and private sectors, Terence understands the key dynamics of reputation, campaigns and media relations. Terence has specialized in stakeholder engagement, and has unique success in issues and risk management regarding regulated products in the telecommunications and pharmaceutical sectors. 

In government, Terence served as an elected Member of the Ontario Legislature from 1995 until 1999, as Parliamentary Assistant for Colleges and Universities and as Parliamentary Assistant to the Minister of Finance for Ontario. He also served as a Federal Member of Parliament from 2008 to 2015. Terence has hands-on expertise communicating complex issues related to public finance and implementing reforms with many local municipal councillors and staff throughout Ontario. 

As President of Gravitas Strategies, Terence has used his professional credibility and superb communications skills to resolve client issues at the Municipal, Regional, Provincial and National levels. Examples include obtaining increased funding for hospitals, convincing municipalities to introduce a public ban on smoking, and reversing a government plan to close a hospital. 

Prior to holding public office, Terence was a senior manager at Bell Canada, with various roles in Government Affairs, Public Affairs, customer service and Marketing. He also served as an adjudicator on the Board of the Alcohol and Gaming Commission of Ontario from March 2000 to March 2003.

In addition, Terence is the founding Chair of Drug Safety Canada, a national advocacy group devoted to making Canadians safer when using prescription drugs. 

He is also the author of the non-fiction bestseller Death by Prescription. Terence's fifteen-year old daughter Vanessa died in 2000 due to the Johnson & Johnson prescription drug Prepusid. Terence became a patient advocate after this tragedy, and fought for more stringent drug-monitoring system in Canada. In November 2014 Bill C-17 Vanessa’s Law, the largest improvement to the Food and Drugs Act in fifty years, sponsored by Terence, passed with full support from all parties in Parliament. The law focuses on prescription drug safety and compels health care institutions to report all serious adverse drug reactions to Health Canada. 

Chris Mathers is an expert in Cyber Security and the President of Chris Mathers Inc. a firm specializing in Crime and Risk Consulting with offices in Toronto, New Jersey, Panama and Madrid.

Chris spent 20 years working undercover for the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, the US Drug Enforcement Administration, and the US Customs Service. Posing as a gangster, a drug trafficker and even as a money launderer, Chris learned first-hand how organized crime operates. He can assist your company in preventing cybersecurity and corporate fraud as well as investigating bribery, blackmail, and extortion.

After leaving the RCMP, Chris joined the Forensic division of the international accounting firm KPMG where he became President of KPMG Corporate Intelligence responsible for international due diligence, asset recovery, and investigating and preventing organized crime and money laundering.

Chris is the author of a bestselling book, Crime School Money Laundering and is an accomplished public speaker and trainer. A popular media commentator, Chris has served as a consultant on several films and documentaries about organized crime, espionage and money laundering. As an expert on criminal justice issues, he is often interviewed on CNN, MSNBC, PBS, CBC and CTV as well as media outlets in Asia, Africa, Europe, Australia and the Caribbean