National Advisory Council

Lynda Partner is a talented and accomplished serial entrepreneur, a strategic marketer with a passion for building fast growing, customer-centric businesses and brands. Lynda has created and built brands, birthed new product lines, and leveraged the full potential of channel marketing, CRM systems and sales tools. She is currently the President of Partners Inc - a strategic marketing firm with special expertise in on-line and multi-channel marketing.

Lynda is best known in Ottawa as the Founder and CEO of GotMarketing, a developer of marketing software, which she grew from zero to thousands of paying customers within 2 years. Prior to GotMarketing, Lynda successfully executed a turnaround of financially troubled software company Carvelle Inc. where, within 2 years she sold the company, delivering excellent returns to the shareholders.

Lynda also spent 6 years at TMI Communications, now the satellite division of BCE, where she was VP of Sales and Marketing. While at TMI, she helped launch a nation-wide mobile satellite network.

As a community volunteer Lynda is the Chair of the marketing committee of the Ottawa Hospital Foundation, and sits as a Board member of CAUCE Canada - the Coalition against Unsolicited Commercial Email. She is an active investor and mentor and is always in demand as a speaker on marketing, business development, and product commercialization. She holds a Bachelor of Commerce from the University of Ottawa