Our Board
Karen Lilly Executive Director & Co- Founder
Managing Director, Purpose to Impact
Karen Lilly has over 15 years experience in Human Resources, Talent Management, Training and Coaching. Areas of expertise include Fundraising, Learning and Development, Facilitation, Training, Talent management, Leadership Planning, Career and Leadership Coaching, People Strategy and Diversity & Inclusion. Karen is the proud mom of two boys and passionate about community engagement. Karen also volunteers for Junior Achievers, is the local school PTA Vice Chair and a mentor for Durham Women’s network and U of T Alumni network
Ige Egal, Vice-Chair
Policy Advisor, Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development
Ige is passionate about community development. He believes in the power of sport to provide transformational opportunities for both individuals and communities. As a proponent of equitable access to formative extra-curricular opportunities, Ige has worked across various sports, activities, and communities. Ige was the founding executive director at the Toronto Inner-City Rugby Foundation (TIRF), Canada’s leading grassroots rugby-for-development organization. In his role, he built partnerships across public, private, and non-profit sectors using rugby to provide learning and personal development opportunities as well as develop caring and compassionate citizens in Toronto’s priority neighbourhoods. Ige works at the Paris based Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) as a policy adviser. He also serves as a board director for MLSE LaunchPad, a place where youth facing barriers use sport to recognize and realize their potential.
John Snell
Owner, NMTeaB Consultancy and Ela’s Teas
John has spent the last 37 years in the tea business, working in a variety of impoverished countries on the planet. In the last year John has founded his own company NMteaB Consultancy in this capacity he has been able to carry forward his passion for empowering others through various projects with the UN's FAO amongst others. John has sat on the Board of the Ethical Tea Partnership and has developed sustainable development programming for various entities. Having personally experienced the dramatic positive impact that access to opportunity and dignity has, with respect to building confidence and responsibility in the young, John is a firm advocate that KidsCan Charity can play a vital role building these attributes in our children and communities. John is a Father of three and a Grandpa to 4. In his personal time John is an avid soccer player, a builder of furniture and decks and believes strongly in a sense of humour as a cure to all…