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Advisory Committee

Chair

Michael McEwen
Consultant: Media, Policy, and Strategy Ltd

Vice Chair

Madeleine Noland
President, ATSC (ex-officio) 

Members

  • Yiyan Wu – Professor, Western University, Chair ATSC Tower Network Implementation Team (IT5), ATSC Board Member, (Retired) Principal Research Scientist, Communications Research Centre (CRC) Ottawa
  • Anne Schelle – Managing Director, Pearl TV Group U.S.A 
  • Richard Friedel – Chair ATSC Board, Pearl TV Group U.S.A 
  • Dave Folsom – Pearl TV Group U.S.A 
  • Guy Bouchard – IEEE BTS, (Retired) Technical Director, Télé-Québec
  • Alex Babakhanov – Director of Marketing, Avateq Corp
  • Vlad Anischenko – CTO, Avateq Corp
  • Kirk Nesbitt – Technical Advisor, Canadian Association of Broadcasters / Broadcast Committee Chair, Radio Advisory Board of Canada (RABC)
  • Erin Ruttan – Digital Equity/ATSC Program Designer, City of Calgary
  • Tessa Potter – President, Western Association of Broadcast Engineers (WABE), Senior Broadcast Technician SBL / Broadcast Liaison TNSE
  • Craig Hrycoy – Principal Architect, Cable, Rogers Communications Inc.

CRTC (Observers)

  • Simon Levasseur – Director, Financial and Multiplatform Technology Analysis, CRTC
  • Michael Crupi – Senior Engineer, CRTC
  • Daniel Pye – Director, Television Programming, CRTC
  • Michael Craig – Manager, Radio Policy and Applications, CRTC

ISED (Observer)

  • Almoustapha Brah Moumouni – Engineer, Engineering, Planning and Standards Branch, Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada

Humber Polytechnic

  • Gina Antonacci – SVP Academic, Humber Polytechnic (ex-officio)
  • Sanjay Puri – VP Administration and CFO, Humber Polytechnic (ex-officio)
  • Derek Stockley – AVP, Academic, Humber Polytechnic (ex-officio)
  • Tyler Charlebois – Interim Dean, Office of Research and Innovation, Humber Polytechnic (ex-officio)
  • Orest Sushko – Director, B²C Lab