Catherine is an Associate Partner with Helix. She has over 25 years of business experience, and 18 years in publishing with three leading global organizations (Thomson, Pearson, and McGraw Hill). Catherine has held a variety of management and senior management positions in sales, marketing, editorial, operations, and IT. She has launched database marketing, direct marketing, e-marketing, and loyalty programs before they became the norm, and has been involved with three separate ERP implementations (JD Edwards, SAP, and Oracle). Prior to publishing, Cathy worked in advertising, retail, banking, utilities, and the not-for-profit sector where she also gained practical knowledge in public relations, media, events, and fundraising as a complement to business and technology. In her most recent position, Catherine was the Vice President of Information Technology and Productivity, a member of the McGraw Hill Executive Team, and a member of the Global Technology Solutions Leadership Team for McGraw Hill Companies globally. Catherine has provided leadership and direction to McGraw-Hill Ryerson’s use of information and was responsible for the company-wide IT and digital strategy. Catherine’s past responsibilities in IT have included strategy and execution in infrastructure and applications, risk management and compliance, IT disaster recovery and business continuity, portfolio and project management, governance, change management, process management, process re-engineering, enterprise content management, enterprise resource planning and transformation, e-commerce, and strengthening IT and business alignment. Catherine is currently a Board member for the CIO Association of Canada, and the former President of the CIO Association Ontario Chapter. She has also served on a number of IT Advisory Boards including the Gartner North American Mid-Size Enterprise Board, has been on various IT/CIO panels, and has been instrumental in fostering key strategic partnerships within the CIO/IT