As the CEO and Co-Founder of two international companies, M&C Consulting and MC2, Giovanna Mingarelli plays the dual role of technology entrepreneur and thought leader. She has served in the office of a former Prime Minister of Canada and is a member of the Government of Canada Treasury Board Secretariat External Advisory Board for Talent Cloud, developing the future of work for Canada’s Public Service. She has also contributed to The Globe and Mail, The Toronto Star, CBC-Radio Canada, and the Hill Times and is a regular contributor to the Huffington Post and is cited by Harvard Business Review and Forbes.

Ms. Mingarelli has been an active contributor to events at the White House in Washington, D.C., and the World Economic Forum’s Annual Meeting in Davos, Switzerland. In 2015 Ms. Mingarelli was named one of Canada’s Top 100 Most Powerful Women by the WXN. She holds an Honours degree in Political Science and International Relations from Carleton University.