Gerri Sinclair

Gerri Sinclair is one of Canada’s most eminent digital media specialists. Her career of more than 20 years spans the fields of new media technology, entrepreneurial business, academic research and government policy. In 2010, she was appointed Senior Innovation Strategist and Distinguished Visiting Professor at Ryerson University. She is also principal of The Gerri Sinclair Group, a consultancy focused on digital media and emerging technology strategies for government, corporations and academic institutions.

Previously, Sinclair was the executive director of the Masters of Digital Media graduate program at Vancouver's Centre for Digital Media. She has also served as chair of the Telecom Policy Review, advising the federal government on Canada’s future policy and regulatory telecommunications framework. In 1996, she founded NCompass Labs, a company that developed Internet-based content management software for commercial enterprises and was later acquired by Microsoft. Sinclair was the first president of the Government of British Columbia’s 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, the Robert Bateman Foundation, the Vancouver Airport Authority and the TMX.

Sinclair holds a PhD in renaissance drama and an honorary doctorate in computing science from The University of British Columbia.