Peter Andrews has over 25 years of senior executive strategic, operational, financial and transitional management experience in the technology and enterprise software sectors. Peter was the founder, CEO and Chairman of In-Touch Survey Systems. After growing In-Touch from startup to IPO, Peter was engaged by venture capital investors to turn around, grow and sell Grantium, Inc., an international enterprise software company; the market leader in Enterprise Grants Management software.

Subsequently, Peter made the decision to focus his knowledge and experience into helping other business leaders find success. In addition to his work as a Corum Regional Director, he serves as a chair for TEC Canada, the preeminent peer-to-peer leadership development program for Canadian business leaders.

He has been directly engaged in the negotiation of company financing, acquisitions and divestitures and delivers pragmatic results based management to his engagements. Peter holds an MBA from the Ivey School of Business and serves on the boards of several businesses and not for profit organizations.

Kanika, a resident of Ottawa, is Financial Controller at Harris Computer Systems. She found herself at home in Canada in 2018 after living in India and for a short while in the US. She is a qualified US CPA, her expertise resides in Finance side of things for Epilepsy Ottawa. She has previously worked with Big 4 firms as an Auditor before moving into Finance and Accounting with Harris in 2021. She lives with her husband and is occasionally visited by her mom with whom she owns a small business for Arts and Crafts called Craftify Mom. Kanika has an array of hobbies and likes to keep herself busy.

Dr. Tadeu A. Fantaneanu, also known as Dr. Tad to his patients, is an associate professor at the University of Ottawa and a clinician teacher, and neurologist within the Department of Medicine. He completed his undergraduate medical education at McGill University (2009) and adult neurology residency at the University of Ottawa (2014). He subsequently completed fellowships in Clinical Neurophysiology (2015) and Advanced Epilepsy (2016) at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School in Boston, Massachusetts. During this time, he also completed the Program in Clinical Effectiveness through the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Dr. Tad and his team are working to establish a comprehensive epilepsy program in Ottawa, Ontario.

He is currently the program director of The Ottawa Hospital’s Adult Epilepsy Program and EEG laboratory and director of the EEG fellowship.

Maruchi is an international development specialist and management consultant with over 12 years of experience in leading the design and implementation of global health and development programs across diverse sectors, including public, non-profit, and private organizations. Currently, he oversees the global portfolio of initiatives and collaborations for Development Delivery Partners (DDP), a management consulting firm that he founded. DDP operates at the forefront of environmental sustainability, global health, and development, providing invaluable advice to clients such as the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF), the World Health Organization (WHO), Global Health Visions, McKing Consulting Corporation, UNICEF, and more.

Throughout his career, Maruchi has served as a trusted advisor to philanthropic and donor organizations, international development partners, corporations, and national and sub-national governments. His expertise spans a wide array of global health and development issues, encompassing areas such as immunization, nutrition, Polio, COVID-19, Malaria, HIV/AIDS, water sanitation and hygiene (WASH), neglected tropical diseases (NTDs), family planning, maternal newborn and child health (MNCH), primary health care (PHC), development finance, climate finance and global education. His work experience includes global, regional, and country-level engagements in Sub-Saharan Africa, South-East Asia, the Middle East, and Canada, giving him a thorough understanding of both developing and developed country contexts.

Maruchi also dedicates his time to providing governance and strategy support to Epilepsy Ottawa, actively contributing to his local community in Ottawa.

He holds a Master of Science (MSc) degree in Sustainable Development from the University of Sussex, United Kingdom, complemented by a Postgraduate certificate in Supply Chain Management and Global Logistics from the University of Essex, United Kingdom. Additionally, he earned a Bachelor of Science (BSc) in Human Physiology from the University of Port Harcourt, Nigeria.

In his downtime, Maruchi indulges in his passions for playing tennis, enjoying music, watching soccer, and cherishing precious moments with his beloved wife and children.