Narinder has been recognized as Canada’s Top 40 Under 40 and a BMW Foundation Responsible Leader. Her work spans across sectors and silos, bringing depth and rigour to drive social impact in North America and the Global South. She is the President of the Sonor Foundation and Founder of New Power Lab. Narinder has built, designed and scaled social ventures across the globe. In partnership with the Boston Consulting Group (BCG) she designed and led a venture philanthropy fund, LEAP | Pecaut Centre for Social Impact, and alongside Sandra and Joseph Rotman at the University of Toronto, she was the founding Executive Director and architect of Rise, a microfund for entrepreneurs with mental health and addiction challenges, where she was awarded UofT’s Excellence Through Innovation Award. Further, she built a boutique gender-lens and social equity lens impact investing fund, Marigold Capital. In the Global South, she worked in microfinance across Burkina Faso, Cote d’Ivoire, Mali with La Première Agence de Microfinance (PAMF) and in impact investing in Ghana & Nigeria with Acumen. She is a lecturer at Ryerson University and the University of Toronto. Narinder serves on multiple boards including the Community Foundations of Canada and Venture for Canada and is an investor and advisor in a number of social ventures and impact initiatives.
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TiE is the world’s largest entrepreneurship network in the world with 13,000 members and 3200 charter members in 58 chapters across 12 countries. Since its inception, in 1992, TiE members have generated over $1 trillion of wealth through their entrepreneurial endeavours. TiE’s sole mandate is to foster entrepreneurship and help its members create wealth through entrepreneurism. TiE Canada has three chapters – TiE Ottawa, TiE Toronto and TiE Vancouver.
Started in 2002, TiE Ottawa is celebrating its 20th anniversary. TiE Ottawa fosters entrepreneurship by providing a platform for networking, mentorship, global connectivity, entrepreneurship training and funding to Canadian entrepreneurs. Join the TiE Ottawa at ottawa.tie.org.