About TELUS Fund

Jack Shute is a partner of ‘The&Partnership’, an internationally renowned communications agency, and General Manager of ‘The Greenhouse’. Jack an integrated communications leader, overseeing teams who bridge the worlds of creativity, strategy, media and data. He has worked with a wide range of clients in the UK, Canada, the US and Japan including TELUS, Lexus, Nissan, Sony PlayStation and many others.

Jack has been closely involved with the strategy and execution of the Social Purpose mission at TELUS, from macro communications, to rolling up his sleeves at many TELUS Days of Giving events. He is based in Vancouver, with his wife and two young children, and is passionate at giving back to the wider Canadian community that welcomed his family with open arms after their move from the UK.

Alex is the Chief Accounting Officer at lululemon. He joined lululemon in 2014 and is currently responsible for leading the company’s global financial operations that include financial reporting, accounting, shared services, procurement, corporate tax, and sales tax. Alex has a breadth of experience from his time at lululemon, which includes acting as co-CFO on an interim basis, and leading the treasury function for several years. He serves as a director of the Health and Wealth Committee providing oversight for the company’s pension plans in Canada and the US.

Prior to joining lululemon, Alex spent 11 years working at Ernst and Young in the UK, US, and Canada. His experience spans a wide range of industries including retail, oil and gas services, transportation, travel management, real estate, utilities, and telecommunications.

Alex holds a degree in Economics from the University of Nottingham and is a Chartered Accountant in both Canada and the UK.

Juggy Sihota
Senior Vice-President, TELUS

Juggy Sihota is a senior executive who builds and leads institutions at global scale, known for aligning long-term value, social trust, and commercial performance. Over a distinguished career at TELUS, she has led some of the company’s most complex and consequential transformations across healthcare, technology, social investment, and Canada’s creative and cultural sectors.

As Senior Vice-President, Social Impact, and Chair of the TELUS Friendly Future Foundation, Juggy stewards a $120 million endowment supporting more than 500 charities annually and reaching over two million youth across Canada. The Foundation has evolved into a disciplined, outcomes-driven platform advancing equity in health, education, and digital inclusion at national scale.

Previously, as Senior Vice-President at TELUS Health, Juggy helped build one of the world’s leading healthcare technology organizations, serving 76 million lives across 160 countries. She played a central role in embedding social purpose into growth strategy and healthcare service delivery, ensuring innovation translated into measurable access and care across diverse populations, including underserved communities, through initiatives such as the expansion of Health for Good mobile clinics.

Juggy also leads TELUS’s national content and creator investment strategy, including TELUS Fund and STORYHIVE, supporting Canadian filmmakers, producers, and storytellers while strengthening the country’s cultural infrastructure.

She brings deep governance experience, having chaired the VGH & UBC Hospital Foundation and the Greater Vancouver Board of Trade, and currently serves as a Director of the Vancouver Airport Authority and Vice Chair of the Vancouver International Film Festival. Her leadership is marked by clarity, accountability, and long-term stewardship.

Her contributions have been recognized nationally, including being named one of Canada’s Most Powerful Women and receiving the King Charles III Coronation Medal. Juggy is driven by a belief that institutions endure when they earn trust, invest for the long term, and act decisively at moments that matter.

President, GoCo

Since October 2019, Benoit has led GoCo, a new disruptive Canadian company that brings next-generation business communications solutions to market. It operates as an independent carrier, but is part of the TELUS family.

Benoit has 23 years of experience in the telecommunications industry where he has held leadership positions in Marketing as well as Customer Solutions targeted to Business clients. He also played a key role in developing TELUS’ business strategy in Canada – notably in building its presence in Quebec and facilitated numerous mergers and acquisitions. Prior to joining GoCo, he was responsible for national business product development and marketing at TELUS.

Benoit holds a marketing degree from Université Laval and completed senior executive training programs at Paris’ INSEAD and the Harvard Business School. He is a member of the Cercle des présidents du Québec (Quebec Council of Presidents) marketing network. He also sits on the board of Numana and is a member of its Executive Committee.

Consultant

Independent Director, residing in Vancouver, B.C.

Lucille Pacey is the former President and CEO of Arts Umbrella, Canada’s visual and performing arts institute for young people. Lucille’s extensive experience in the education and technology sectors covers more than 30 years. Prior to joining Arts Umbrella she consulted in the education sector and most notably was on contract with the Reed Midem Organization based in Paris, where she helped launch an international market for educational services and products. As Vice-President of the Open Learning Agency, she had direct operating responsibility for the Open University. Open College, Open School and the Knowledge Network (the public educational television service in British Columbia).

Lucille holds a Masters degree in Educational Administration from the University of Alberta. She is the Former Chair of the Vancouver International Film Festival Society and Former Chair of the National Board for Culture Days. Lucille sits on the Membership Committee of the BC-CPA as a public representative and is a member of the International Woman’s Forum in Vancouver. She has served on the Board of Emily Carr University of Art and Design, the Board of the Vancouver Biennale, President of the Canadian Association for Distance Education, was the founding President of the non-profit society Art Starts in Schools, and Chaired the CANARIE Board, Canada’s Network for Advanced Research.

Dr. Thomas Ungar is a Professor at University of Toronto and past Psychiatrist-in-Chief at St. Michael’s Hospital of the Unity Health Toronto and North York General Hospital. Dr. Ungar has clinical and health leadership experience as a family physician, addiction medicine provider and psychiatrist. He is a thought leader using human centered design to improve quality of care addressing Equity and systemic implicit bias of Mental Health and Substance use disorders as part of the Mental Health Commission of Canada structural stigma research team. He is an award winning educator, communicator and creator of the You Tube web-series Think You Can Shrink?