Joel Alleyne

Joel's tenure as Chairman and President of GSA Consulting Group Inc. saw the management consulting firm grow from a small core team of three consultants to a company with over 75 employees in offices across Canada and the US, doing business globally. In this role, he developed successful service offerings for sectors as diverse as professional services, healthcare, insurance, pharmaceutical, finance, and government.

Joel has held a number of executive positions with high-tech companies; among them, he directed eHealth efforts for the Bank of Montreal subsidiary Cebra, and was the former Chief Information and Knowledge Officer for Borden Ladner Gervais LLP. Currently, he is the Executive Director of the Canadian Health Industry Electronic Commerce Association (HIEC), where he has directed and led many cross-industry electronic commerce initiatives for the insurance sector. He is a graduate of the University of Toronto with a Bachelors of Science in Computer Science and a Masters of Information Studies.

He is currently teaching in a graduate programme and working towards a PhD in information and knowledge management at the University of Toronto iSchool. He was appointed in 2003 to the Entovation 100 Global Knowledge Leadership Map, which includes global thought leaders and practitioners in the field who are playing a role in shaping the new knowledge-based economy. He is Practitioner in Residence at the University of Toronto's Knowledge Media Design Institute. Mr. Alleyne is also a faculty member and Senior Research Associate with the Kaieteur Institute for Knowledge Management.