Caroline Riseboro

Caroline Riseboro

 Caroline Riseboro is an award-winning fundraising professional who has raised over $2 billion in her 25 year career. She currently serves as President & CEO of Trillium Health Partners Foundation, the largest hospital in the country, and where she is leading a ground-breaking fundraising campaign to build the largest hospital in Canada. Under her leadership, Trillium Health Partners has doubled in revenue and secured the largest donation in healthcare history.

Prior to her role at Trillium, Caroline was the President & CEO of Plan International Canada, where she helped transformed the organization transformed from the 7th to 2nd largest charity in the country. Caroline remains the youngest person in history to lead a major Canadian charity, and she is well respected for being a champion of innovation. She is credited with launching award-winning campaigns that have engaged Canadians on some of the world’s toughest issues.

Caroline’s accomplishments have been widely recognized when she was named Canada’s Most Admired CEO (public sector) and twice being recognized as one of Canada’s Top 100 Most Powerful Women. Caroline has held senior executive roles including at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) Foundation and World Vision Canada, and has held multiple board roles including as Chair of the Association of Fundraising Professionals, the Humanitarian Coalition and the Canadian Partnership for Children and Women’s Health (CANWACH). 

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Jim Spatz is the Executive Chairman of Southwest Properties Limited, one of Atlantic Canada’s leading real estate developers. Southwest owns, operates, and develops residential and commercial real estate in Atlantic Canada, and through its majority ownership of Premiere Suites, has extended stay accommodations across Canada.

Jim has led the company for the past 33 years. His first career was as a physician. Jim practiced Family and then Emergency Medicine for 15 years.

Along with his responsibilities in the office, Jim is involved in a number of community activities. Jim currently chairs the Capital Campaign Council for the new Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, steering an ambitious $40 million campaign in support of a new waterfront art gallery in Halifax. Jim is a founding partner and Fellow of the Creative Destruction Lab Atlantic, the mentorship and investment organization for technology start-ups. Jim has served on the boards of several organizations, including the Board of Governors of Dalhousie University, Atlantic Canada’s largest university, from 2001 – 2015, and as Dalhousie’s Board Chair from 2008 – 2014, the Canadian Stem Cell Foundation, the National Executive Committee for the 2017 Governor General’s Canadian Leadership Conference, and as a Life Director of Neptune Theater.

In 2007, Jim along with his late father, Simon, were inducted into the Nova Scotia Business Hall of Fame. In 2013, Jim received the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal for his significant achievements and contributions to the community. In 2015 Jim was named Atlantic Business Magazine’s CEO of the Year for Atlantic Canada, in 2018 he was named Waterstone Human Capital’s Most Admired Canadian CEO in the mid-market space, and in 2019 Jim was awarded the Power of Humanity Award from the Nova Scotia Division of the Canadian Red Cross. Jim is a member of WPO and CEO.

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