Gerri Sinclair

Member of the Executive, Governance and Nominations Committee

Gerri Sinclair, is the executive director of the Masters of Digital Media graduate school program at Vancouver's Centre for Digital Media. Dr. Sinclair previously served as chair of the Telecom Policy Review, advising the federal government on Canada’s future policy and regulatory telecommunications framework. She was also formerly the general manager of MSN Canada and the founder and CEO of NCompass Labs, a web content management company acquired by Microsoft. A former visiting scientist at IBM Research, Dr. Sinclair was the first president of the British Columbia Government Premier’s Technology Council, and the founding director of ExCITE, the first new media technology R&D centre in Canada. She has served on several government and corporate boards including Telus Corporation, BC Telecom, Canada’s Information Highway Advisory Council, Ballard Power and the TSX. She holds a PhD in renaissance drama as well as an honorary doctorate in computing science from the University of British Columbia.