Governance Groups
Common Approach is a set of four impact measurement standards that are created for – and governed by – social purpose organizations. This is an inclusive approach to building a standard.

The governance of Common Approach is structured to be community-driven.
Board of Directors

Sila Basturk Agiroglu
Senior Associate, Rally Assets

Anouk Bertner
Managing Director, Future of Good

Charles Buchanan
CEO, Technology Helps

Tamsin Chen
Social Impact Manager, International Foundation for Valuing Impacts

Melek De-Wint
Independent consultant

Dan Kershaw
Executive Director, Furniture Bank

Shivam Kishore
Senior Advisor of Digital Transformation & Sustainability, UN Environment Programme

Djibril Ouattara
Global Chief Program Officer, buildOn

Marie-Josee Privyk
ESG Insights Collective

Zahra Qureshi
Founder, Optinum Professional Corp

Mike Ronchka
Director of Social Impact Measurement, Sun Life Canada

Kate Ruff
Executive Director and Head of Research, Common Approach

Bryn Sadownik
Senior Manager of Research and Evaluation, Vancity Community Foundation

Varun Srivatsun
Senior Advisor, Indigenous Access to Capital, NRCan

Heather Tanaka
Investment Principal, InBC Investment Corp.
Social Purpose Organization Council

Ian Capstick
Chief Impact and Communications Officer, Animikii

Elizabeth Chick
CEO, Buy Social Canada

Colin Corcoran
CEO, Community Sector Council Newfoundland Labrador (CSCNL)

Julia Grady
Executive Director & Co-Founder, 10C Shared Space

Mohamed Huque
Director of Community Impact, Toronto Foundation

Dan Kershaw
Board Representative

Jerry Koh
Principal, Nice Futures Corporation

Lynette Nduta
Research Coordination Lead, 60 Decibel

Tristan Smyth
Chief Impact & Strategy Officer, Warshield
Technical Committee

James Arruda
Senior Impact Measurement Specialist, Indigenous Youth Roots - IYR

Chantal Buard
Co-Founder & CEO, Impact Atlas

Sylvain Carle
Director, CI/VIC: Canadian Impact / Venture Investment Coalition

Alex Castner
Chief platform architect, threshold.world

Mark S. Fox
Professor of Industrial Engineering and Computer Science, Distinguished Professor of Urban Systems Engineering, Founding Director, Centre for Social Services Engineering

Bart Gajderowicz
Executive Director, University of Toronto Urban Data Centre

Murat Kantarcioglu
Ashbel Smith Professor of Computer Science, The University of Texas at Dallas

Art Law
Manager of Impact Strategy and Measurement, TAS_Impact

Alexandra Pittman
Founder and CEO, ImpactMapper

Daniela Rosu
Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Toronto

Liz Wilson
Founder and Co-Director, Metataxis NZ Limited