Olga Stachova is the CEO of MOSAIC. She joined MOSAIC after a long career as Chief Operating Officer at Mitacs, a national non-profit organization delivering research and training programs to graduate and postgraduate students in Canada through partnerships with the private sector and the federal and provincial governments. She brings 20 years of experience managing a fast growing, distributing, non-profit organization, as well as operational expertise in program design, delivery, and evaluation, and a proven track record of building strategic partnerships among diverse stakeholder groups. Olga has a Master’s Degree in English and Philosophy from the University of Constantine the Philosopher in Nitra, Slovakia. Prior to immigrating to Canada, she was Senior Project Manager at Management Partners, the leading HR consulting company in the Slovak market. She was highly successful in her role of recruiting personnel for international organizations opening subsidiaries in Slovakia. Olga is the recipient of the 2009 Business in Vancouver Top Forty Under 40 Award, as well as the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal.

Subramanian Sangeeta has over 20 years of professional experience in in the not-for-profit sector in Canada and Asia in the areas of strategic planning, equity and inclusion, facilitation, research and policy, partnership development, stakeholder engagement, mentoring, leadership development and civic engagement. Her experiences of working in different countries and sectors, and as an immigrant racialized woman in a settler society have helped her develop the skills to operate in a variety of cultural settings and communicate effectively and engage meaningfully with different constituencies.

Sangeeta is the founder of Chetana Consulting, a boutique firm the focuses on systems approach to Equity, Diversity and Inclusion in the public and private sector. Prior to this, she has held senior leadership roles with the Immigrant Employment Council of BC, Toronto Region Immigrant Employment Council, The Maytree Foundation, South Asian Women’s Centre and Ontario Council of Agencies Serving Immigrants, Sangeeta is active in the community in her professional capacity and as a volunteer serving on the Burnaby Intercultural Planning Table, Board of BC College of Nurses and Midwives, Burnaby Together – Coalition Against Racism and Hate, and Nova Vita Co-op Housing Society.

Sangeeta completed her post-graduate studies in Management from the Indian Institute of Management and a program in Non-Profit Management and Leadership from Schulich School of Business York University. She also is a certified trainer on Inter-Cultural Communication and has extensive training and experience in facilitation. As a lifelong learner and disruptor of status quo, Sangeeta derives her passion and commitment for this work from the many Indigenous, Black and racialized people that show up in white spaces everyday and continue to battle through trauma to make the world a better place for everyone that has been marginalized.
Her motto is:

“I am no longer accepting the things I cannot change. I am changing the things I cannot accept.” ― Angela Y. Davis