Greg excels at relationship building, facilitating strategic partnerships, coordinating industry and sector initiatives, and forging substantive collaborations between the public and private sectors.

Ryan directs all business development strategies for Economic Development Winnipeg. He also leads the YES! Winnipeg initiative to attract new business and works with local companies to facilitate their expansion, increase their market potential and grow their network.

Karen leads the development and implementation of the tourism sales and servicing for all markets in order to increase Winnipeg's economy.

Kim's responsibilities incorporate all aspects of the day-to-day financial management duties of the corporation, as well as directing all finance-related administrative activities.

Tiffany assists Dayna with issues management involving such aspects as scheduling, event planning, meeting management and communications-related tasks. She also serves as the primary liaison for EDW's board of directors and coordinates all board-related activities germane to the organization.

Sandra is responsible for all in-house research and analyses that targets companies considering a relocation or expansion into Winnipeg. Her role includes the management and preparation of the following profiles: local, regional and global economic trends; industry sectors; key economic indicators; and business information. Sandra also conducts ongoing strategic research projects in collaboration with industry and government stakeholders.

Chris is responsible for guiding our content management system and conducting in depth research and analysis on the Winnipeg's regional economy.  Additionally he provides oversight on our economic industry sector forecasting, economic impact modeling and project manages new research initiatives.

Natalia is responsible for collecting, managing, and analyzing a broad cross section of both quantitative and qualitative data and market research.  She also tracks and analyzes industry trends, develops industry sector profiles and briefing documents for EDW.

Lukas delivers high quality data solutions to support business investment in Winnipeg, strategic industry sectors and economic development programming. 

He provides data for decision making across our organization and delivers unbiased and insightful analytics on a wide range of initiatives including EDW’s Business Retention and Expansion Program and Foreign Direct Investment.

Abigail is responsible for assisting the EDW Market Intelligence Team by coordinating work schedules, arrange meetings, conducting online research, ensuring that client inquiries are handled in a timely and professional manner and updating control data, report libraries and website data files.

Alberto proactively identifies new prospects to attract to Winnipeg by developing relationships with leading site selector consultants to inform them of and promote Winnipeg's strong value proposition. He also represents YES! Winnipeg on international business missions and welcomes incoming international delegations.

Sectors:  Energy & Environment and Financial Services

Bill proactively identifies new prospects within his sectors of responsibility and advances each prospect to a successful conclusion by understanding what assistance they require and engaging appropriate collaborators to deliver what the client needs.

Yvonne leads YES! Winnipeg’s Talent team, helping local companies and potential investors in the city to retain, attract, and develop the talent they need to help grow the economy.

Sectors: Life Sciences, Agribusiness, and Transportation & Distribution

Camila proactively identifies new prospects within her sectors of responsibility and advances each prospect to a successful conclusion by understanding what assistance they require and engaging appropriate collaborators to deliver what the client needs.

Sectors: Creative Industries and ICT

Kyla proactively identifies new prospects within her sectors of responsibility and advances each prospect to a successful conclusion by understanding what assistance they require and engaging appropriate collaborators to deliver what the client needs.

Sectors: Advanced Manufacturing, Aerospace

William proactively identifies new prospects within his sectors of responsibility and advances each prospect to a successful conclusion by understanding what assistance they require and engaging appropriate collaborators to deliver what the client needs.

Vanesa works to understand the talent needs of businesses in Winnipeg, and those interested in coming to our city. She is responsible for working with companies to develop strategies that enable them to attract, retain and develop talent in the city. She operates across all sectors in Winnipeg that require talent support.

Melanie is responsible for selling and promoting Winnipeg as the destination of choice for meetings and conventions. This includes attracting tourism business through local leaders with the Bring it Home program, while leveraging these business events and conferences to help showcase Winnipeg’s investment value proposition.

Daria is responsible for selling and promoting Winnipeg as the destination of choice for meetings and conventions. This includes attracting tourism business through local leaders with the Bring it Home program, while leveraging these business events and conferences to help showcase Winnipeg’s investment value proposition.

Corinne works closely with the YES! Winnipeg business development team to retain existing investment, support local company expansion, and attract new investment to the city.  Corinne also works closely with EDW’s Market Intelligence team to ensure effective flow of project work and intelligence to inform the efforts of YES! Winnipeg, among other responsibilities.

Sabena works closely with the YES! Winnipeg business development team to retain existing investment, support local company expansion, and attract new investment to the city.  Sabena also works closely with EDW’s Market Intelligence team to ensure effective flow of project work and intelligence to inform the efforts of YES! Winnipeg, among other responsibilities.

Gabriela works closely with the YES! Winnipeg business development team to retain existing investment, support local company expansion, and attract new investment to the city.  Gabriela also works closely with EDW’s Market Intelligence team to ensure effective flow of project work and intelligence to inform the efforts of YES! Winnipeg, among other responsibilities.

Noah works closely with the YES! Winnipeg business development team to retain existing investment, support local company expansion, and attract new investment to the city.  Noah also works closely with EDW’s Market Intelligence team to ensure effective flow of project work and intelligence to inform the efforts of YES! Winnipeg, among other responsibilities.

Matilda works closely with the YES! Winnipeg business development team to retain existing investment, support local company expansion, and attract new investment to the city.  Matilda also works closely with EDW’s Market Intelligence team to ensure effective flow of project work and intelligence to inform the efforts of YES! Winnipeg, among other responsibilities.

Laurie is responsible for leading the coordination of events, communications and activities with YES! Winnipeg’s investor network in conjunction with EDW's President and CEO, Dayna Spiring, and the Vice President, Sales and Business Development, Ryan Kuffner.

Natalie is responsible for managing the Business Development Managers, Sales Administrators and Client Service Manager in order to optimize overnight visitations across all markets.  Natalie is also responsible for attracting business events through the U.S. meetings and conventions market as well as the economic sectors of Energy and Environment and Information Communication Technologies.

Annie is responsible for attracting sports, special events and meetings and conventions to Winnipeg through the sport federations, unions, corporations as well as the key economic sectors of Advanced Manufacturing, Aerospace and Creative Industries.

Grace is responsible for attracting meetings and conventions to Winnipeg through the Canadian association and third party meeting planner markets as well as the economic sectors of Agribusiness and Life Sciences.

Stephanie is responsible for attracting meetings and conventions through the Canadian not-for-profits and Indigenous markets as well as the key economic sectors of Education, Financial Services, and Transportation and Distribution.

Sarah is responsible for selling and promoting Winnipeg as the destination of choice for the travel trade market.

Lynnea is responsible for managing client services by assisting clients in promoting their meetings, conventions, sports, special events and group tours that will be in Winnipeg in order to maximize attendance and elevate customer satisfaction.

Jen is responsible for the Team Winnipeg and Winnipeg Tour Connection partnerships and initiatives. She provides project-specific support to the meetings and conventions and travel trade teams and Tourism Winnipeg's industry events.

Crystal is responsible for managing  the customer relations management system, Simpleview,  as well as supporting the sales activities of the Business Development Managers and expediting the bids and proposals in order to attract meetings, conventions, sports and special events to Winnipeg.

Breanne is responsible for supporting the sales activities of the Business Development Managers and managing the planning and coordination of the meetings, conventions, sports, special events, and group tours site visits and familiarization tours.

Sarah is responsible for visitor services, travel information outreach, frontline training, familiarization tours and social media activities that contribute to enhancing visitor experiences.

Danica is responsible for inventory management and the delivery of front line visitor counseling.

Cody is responsible for marketing as it relates to Economic Development Winnipeg. He executes strategic marketing plans to increase business investment and visitation to Winnipeg.

Tyler is responsible for curating and creating digital and video content to promote and tell the Winnipeg story.

Gillian is responsible for writing and editing tourism marketing communications, handling travel media requests, developing story ideas, and the travel media program.

Mike is responsible for development and execution of Tourism Winnipeg's social media plan. He is also responsible for all creative online and offline writing for various marketing mediums.

Kelly is responsible for managing the content of the Tourism Winnipeg publications and website, approving all partner entries in Simpleview, compiling earned media, responding to image requests and managing the internal image gallery and photo contest.

Karen is responsible for the graphic design of the sales and marketing initiatives and maintains the brand standards.