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.

Ron tracks, analyzes and interprets industry trends, data and market intelligence to help build Winnipeg’s business development value proposition. He is also responsible for training and development for EDW staff while facilitating strategic planning and departmental projects.

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 our control data repository, 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.

Sector: Financial Services

Bill leads YES! Winnipeg’s Business Development team, and works with the team to proactively identify new prospects and advance each opportunity to a successful conclusion by supporting the team in understanding what assistance the client requires 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
Sheena 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, Energy & Environment

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.

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.

Sector:  Creative Industries

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.

Sector:  Tech / ICT

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.

Ilona serves as the primary contact for investors of YES! Winnipeg.  She is responsible for implementing the strategy and necessary activities to attract, retain and engage investors to sustain private sector funding to further the initiatives of YES! Winnipeg and Economic Development Winnipeg.

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.

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.

Brittany is responsible for research and lead generation support for Tourism Winnipeg sales team.

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.

Eleanor manages the corporate communications activities specific to EDW. She executes a broad spectrum of deliverables based on strategic marketing & communications plans that span both digital and print formats. 

Gillian is responsible for writing and editing tourism marketing communications, handling travel media requests, developing story ideas, and the travel media program.  For July & August 2020, Gillian will serve as the primary point of contact for all EDW-related media and advertising inquiries.

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.

Maddy is responsible for creating and distributing digital content across all platforms. Maddy also facilitates the distribution of the e-newsletters, blogs and industry communications.