Our Team

Board of Directors

Paulina Chow joined the Terry Fox Humanitarian Award Program as Chief Executive Officer in 2014. She brings more than 15 years of experience in academia, having held administrative, research, and teaching roles at Simon Fraser University, the London School of Economics, and the University of Southern California. Earlier in her career, she spent over a decade in financial services with BC Central Credit Union and Coast Capital Savings.

After obtaining her BA at Simon Fraser University, Paulina continued her studies earning an MSc at the London School of Economics and an MA at the University of California, where she also pursued her doctoral studies. She is deeply committed to the mission of the Terry Fox Humanitarian Award and to advancing its long-term impact.

Scott R. Earthy founded Fremont Private Holdings in 2012. He has more than twenty years of experience making direct private investments in growing middle market companies using long term family office capital. He is based in New York.

Prior to joining Fremont, Mr. Earthy was a Managing Director and a member of the Investment Committee at Ingleside Investors, a single family investment office in New York. Earlier in his career, he sourced and executed direct investments on behalf of the Chicago-based Pritzker family and the Vancouver-based Armstrong family. Mr. Earthy’s other previous work experience includes the mergers and acquisitions practice of Goldman Sachs and the financial institutions group at McKinsey & Company.

Mr. Earthy has a Bachelor of Commerce degree from Queen’s University and an MBA from Stanford University.

Kirsten Fox is the Director of Community Development for BC & Yukon at the Terry Fox Foundation. She is honoured to be the third generation in her family to serve on the board for the Terry Fox Humanitarian Award, following her grandmother Betty Fox and her father Fred Fox. Kirsten is a Member of the Terry Fox Foundation and the Terry Fox Research Institute. Kirsten is one of Terry Fox’s nieces and is proud to represent the Fox Family on the Board.  While Terry Fox is best known for his 1980 Marathon of Hope and his impact on cancer research, Kirsten is proud to see that he is also still inspiring today’s youth in their humanitarian efforts.

Dr. Alex Lachapelle works at the nexus of medicine and technology. After training as a medical doctor at McGill University, he completed a PhD in engineering and artificial intelligence at the University of Oxford, where he studied as a Rhodes Scholar. Alex currently lives in New York City, and is a partner in a venture studio setting up new healthcare and technology ventures. Before moving to New York, he was Director of Product for Genomics plc, a British start-up that aims to prevent cancers through the power of genomics, and worked on product and strategy at Imagen, a start-up applying artificial intelligence to radiology. He previously served on the executive boards of two international medical education associations and was program director for the Dr Julien Foundation in his hometown of Montreal. Alex is a proud alumnus of the Terry Fox Humanitarian Award Program and is a member of its Board of Directors.

Paulina Cameron is the Chief Growth Officer at Echo Storytelling Agency, which has been pioneering the most engaging ways to preserve company and family stories in bespoke books, videos, podcasts, immersive experiences, and digital story hubs, as well as teach the power of storytelling to leaders and sales teams. Previously, she was COO of Flytographer, a global marketplace connecting travellers with local photographers; CEO of The Forum, where she tripled revenue and expanded nationally to support thousands of women entrepreneurs.

An advocate for gender equity, Paulina authored Canada 150 Women and served on the Prime Minister’s Expert Panel on Youth Employment. She currently holds an advisory role with Innovate UBC and Minerva, and has served on the boards of YWCA Metro Vancouver and the Immigrant Employment Council of BC. Her recognition includes BIV’s BC Top 500, Globe and Mail Changemaker, BIV’s Top Forty Under 40 and BCBusiness Most Influential Women in Finance.

Paulina is a CPA, CA and began her career with KPMG.

M. Craig Shepherd joined the board of the Terry Fox Humanitarian Award Program in June 2025 and is a 1988-91 recipient of the award.

Craig is a Senior Managing Director with Blackstone Life Sciences and a member of its Investment Committees. Since joining Blackstone in New York in 2017, Mr. Shepherd has played a leadership role in numerous Blackstone investments and is now based in the Cambridge, Massachusetts office. 

Prior to Blackstone, Mr. Shepherd worked at another life sciences investment firm and at Amgen, where he held various leadership roles at Amgen’s global HQ in California and its international HQ in Switzerland.

Craig holds an MBA from Harvard Business School, a law degree from McGill University, and a BA from the University of Western Ontario. Craig has served on the boards of various business and other non-profit organizations, including Medcan Health Management, the Tufts University Parents Leadership Council, the American Kidney Fund, the Healthcare Advisory Board of the Partnership Fund for New York City and the McGill University Chancellor’s Advisory Board.

Brent Cameron comes to the Board from Boyden Canada, named one of the top five executive search firms in Canada by Forbes. He serves Boyden as Canadian Board Chair and as Regional Managing Partner for Western Canada. For more than two decades he has advised over 100 boards on CEO and Board succession. 

His board experience is concentrated in governance, human resources and executive leadership. Brent is a Board Director of the BC Cancer Foundation, where he chairs the Governance & HR Committee. Previously he served on the board of the Take a Hike Youth Mental Health Foundation, and at the Greater Vancouver Board of Trade was inducted into the Council of Governors in 2022, where he previously served as Board Chair, Chair of Governance and Nominations, Senior Vice Chair, and Past Chair. He has also served on the board of the UBC Alumni Association, and as a member of the United Way of the Lower Mainland’s Campaign Cabinet. 

Brent holds an MBA from the UBC Sauder School of Business and a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) from Queen’s University. He has been named one of Business in Vancouver’s “Influential Business Leaders” every year since 2021. 

Michael Rossi brings more than two decades of senior leadership experience, including seven years as President of adidas Canada, where he led a full-scale corporate turnaround and scaled the business across 50 retail locations, and built category leadership in Canada. Today, he is the President and Founder of Voce Leadership, an executive coaching and leadership practice serving C-suite executives across North America. 

His board experience includes Unisync Corp. and, since 2018, the Terry Fox Foundation, where he served as Board Chair until this summer. At the Terry Fox Foundation, Michael was actively involved in transforming governance, leading director recruitment, CEO onboarding, and building the Cancer Breakthrough Fund, a venture philanthropy first in Canadian oncology. 

Michael is a graduate of the Ivey Business School at Western University, where he was Class Valedictorian, and has completed executive development at Harvard Business School. 

External Committee Members

Arnie Bose is an alumnus of the Terry Fox Humanitarian Award Program and currently serves on its Audit Committee.  He earned a Bachelor of Arts in Chartered Accountancy Studies and a Master of Accounting degree from the University of Waterloo. He later earned his CA designation after gaining experience with Arthur Andersen and Ernst & Young.  Subsequently, Arnie held progressively senior finance positions with Mount Sinai Hospital, Sick Kids Hospital, Infrastructure Ontario, and Romspen.  

Outside of work, Arnie has focused his efforts on anti-fraud and governance initiatives to improve public sector fiscal management.  He was previously elected to the Senate of the University of Waterloo and served on its Finance Committee. He has also served on the Governing Council of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Ontario and the Board of Directors of CPA Ontario.  Presently, Arnie works as Vice-President, Finance for Novajet and serves as the national treasurer of Mensa Canada.

Almost 25 years ago, Luisa immigrated to Canada from South Africa and converted her South African Chartered Accountant designation to its Canadian equivalent. Upon arriving in Canada, she gained invaluable experience working as a Manager in the Vancouver office of Deloitte until 2004. Since then, she has held various finance roles, including a director position, but her true passion has always been internal audit, where she has dedicated most of her professional career—including seven years at lululemon athletica. For the past 10 years, Luisa has worked at the H.Y. Louie Group of Companies, most notably leading the Internal Audit practice at London Drugs Limited. 

Luisa is also an active volunteer, serving on the Board of the Association of Women in Finance and the Chartered Professional Accountants of British Columbia (CPABC). She joined the Terry Fox Humanitarian Award (TFHA) Audit Committee in 2017.  

Professor Heinkel received his Ph.D. degree in Finance from the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley, in 1979, after completing a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration and an MBA from California State University, Hayward and spending three years as a U.S. Naval Officer.

Prof. Heinkel joined the UBC Faculty of Commerce (now the UBC Sauder School of Business) in 1979, where he remains today. His teaching responsibilities have spanned undergraduates, MBA and Ph.D. students, in the areas of investments and the theory of corporate finance.

Prof. Heinkel undertakes both academic research and professional endowment oversight roles. He currently serves as Vice-Chair of the UBC Faculty Pension Plan, as well as serving on two smaller endowment investment committees, and an oversight committee within the Ministry of Finance for the Province of British Columbia.

Mike is a retired financial executive who has been on the TFHA Investment Committee since 2017. Before retiring he was the Executive Director, Investments for the UBC Faculty Pension Plan. He has over 25 years of experience in the institutional investments field including prior senior executive roles with two large international consulting firms.

Mike has been on several board investment committees for both large pension plans and foundations/endowments, including a large public sector trust fund. 

Additionally, Mike is the Chair of the Investment Advisory Committee for the Terry Fox Foundation. He holds a Bachelor of Commerce degree and is also a Chartered Financial Analyst.

Dr. Kelly McCaul performed his undergraduate studies in Edmonton, Alberta, and then continued to Queen’s University where he received his medical degree in 1992. He is a proud alumnus and was a recipient of the Terry Fox Humanitarian Award in 1987. Having completed medical school, he went on to further training in Halifax, Nova Scotia where he attained his Internal Medicine and Hematology degrees. His Leukemia and Bone Marrow Transplant Fellowship was then attained at the Vancouver General Hospital and the British Columbia Cancer Agency.

In Sioux Falls for 20 years, Dr. Kelly McCaul developed a comprehensive Hematology program, and a Bone Marrow/Stem Cell transplant program that serves the tri-state area of South Dakota, Iowa, and Minnesota. After Sioux Falls, he moved to Knoxville, where he founded the University of Tennessee’s Transplant and Cellular Therapy Program. Dr. McCaul is now located in Knoxville, Tennessee.

Staff

Paulina Chow joined the Terry Fox Humanitarian Award Program as Chief Executive Officer in 2014. She brings more than 15 years of experience in academia, having held administrative, research, and teaching roles at Simon Fraser University, the London School of Economics, and the University of Southern California. Earlier in her career, she spent over a decade in financial services with BC Central Credit Union and Coast Capital Savings.

After obtaining her BA at Simon Fraser University, Paulina continued her studies earning an MSc at the London School of Economics and an MA at the University of California, where she also pursued her doctoral studies. She is deeply committed to the mission of the Terry Fox Humanitarian Award and to advancing its long-term impact.

Born and raised in Los Gatos, California, Holly Cornwell moved to British Columbia in 2013 to attend university. She earned her Bachelor of Commerce from the University of Victoria, where she also nurtured a passion for sustainability and making a positive impact. She is honoured to work for an organization whose aims are to address critical needs in society and improve the lives of others. As the Senior Program Officer, Students & Alumni, for the Terry Fox Humanitarian Award she is the go-to contact for students and alumni at the Terry Fox Humanitarian Award. 

Biography coming soon.

Amy Tucker is the Program Manager at the Terry Fox Humanitarian Award Program, rejoining the team in 2024. She previously worked with the organization in 2014 to 2017 before moving to administrative roles at the University of the Fraser Valley. Amy holds a BA from Simon Fraser University and values the opportunity to make a meaningful impact on students’ lives.

Ringers is a fractional team of three seasoned marketing professionals, bringing together strategy, ideas and creative firepower. Their experience and adaptability give organizations an unfair advantage when it comes to solving communications challenges and telling stories that make a difference. Ringers is proud to support TFHA and help shine a light on the remarkable young humanitarians making their mark in communities across Canada.

Anna Pérez Verdía moved from Mexico City to Vancouver Island to pursue a degree in Sociology at the University of Victoria. During her undergraduate studies, she developed a strong interest in social issues, particularly those related to immigration, gender equality, and access to education. As Philanthropy Officer with the Terry Fox Humanitarian Award Program, Anna is eager to support the advancement of youth education and to contribute to the meaningful and lasting social impact of the award. 

Leo Ruan joined the Terry Fox Humanitarian Award Program as a Co-op developer in 2021. Leo is passionate about delivering applications that focus on user experiences. Leo is currently completing his Bachelor of Science at Simon Fraser University and upon graduation, he will continue working towards building applications that are user-friendly. Leo is always engaged in learning for professional and personal growth. He is grateful for being part of the Terry Fox Humanitarian Award Program team.

Finlay Chow-White is currently a third-year Business student at Simon Fraser University. Finlay is proud to be part of an organization that carries forward Terry Fox’s legacy of courage and humanitarianism, and to see firsthand the impact it has on the students it supports.