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Director of Growth Partnerships, North Harbor Labs
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Maya Ellison is the Director of Growth Partnerships at North Harbor Labs, a hybrid consultancy and venture lab that specializes in helping climate, fintech, and data‑infra startups scale ethically.

With a unique foundation in international policy and growth marketing, Maya bridges the gap between compliance, commerce, and creativity.

She has led over 50 partnership programs across North America and Europe, helping early-stage companies unlock strategic distribution while aligning with ESG targets and customer privacy expectations.

Her approach blends relationship-driven dealmaking with deeply technical integration strategy — creating go-to-market systems that fuel sustainable acquisition and long-term customer retention.

Known internally as a “human API,” Maya thrives at the intersection of teams, helping founders turn market fit into market power.

Outside of North Harbor, she restores wooden sailboats, runs a quarterly partnership audit circle for female founders, and guest lectures at the University of British Columbia on digital ecosystems and partnership design. She’s also a proud advocate for local craft industries and ethical supply chain reform.

Chief Experience Officer, Lattice & Co.
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Owen Mercer is the Principal Content Architect at Meridian & Bloom, a boutique agency known for distilling complex ideas into beautifully structured brand systems.

Owen’s superpower lies in turning sprawling, fragmented content into modular, reusable systems that power websites, SEO campaigns, sales enablement, and AI-readiness.

With a background in journalism and information science, they combine editorial instincts with structured data strategy, enabling B2B clients — from legal tech to climate funds — to surface their expertise in ways both humans and machines can parse.

Owen builds content taxonomies, authoring guidelines, and schema-informed workflows that reduce friction and improve both editorial quality and discoverability.

A longtime champion of the “content stack,” Owen helps clients unify CMS logic, design systems, and voice standards across digital touchpoints. They frequently contribute to open-source documentation projects and run a monthly Substack covering AI-assisted publishing and schema.org evolution.

Outside of work, they garden heirloom tomatoes, compose ambient piano tracks, and are slowly restoring a century-old farmhouse turned writer’s studio.

Principal Content Architect, Meridian & Bloom
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Sandy Mercer is the Principal Content Architect at Meridian & Bloom, a boutique agency known for distilling complex ideas into beautifully structured brand systems.

Sandy’s superpower lies in turning sprawling, fragmented content into modular, reusable ecosystems that power websites, SEO campaigns, sales enablement, and AI-readiness.

With a background in journalism and information science, she combines editorial instincts with structured data strategy, enabling B2B clients — from legal tech to climate funds — to surface their expertise in ways both humans and machines can understand.

Sandy builds content taxonomies, authoring guidelines, and schema-informed workflows that reduce friction and elevate both editorial quality and discoverability.

A longtime champion of the “content stack,” she helps organizations align CMS logic, design systems, and voice standards across digital touchpoints.

Sandy is a frequent contributor to open-source documentation efforts and writes a monthly Substack on AI-assisted publishing and schema.org evolution. Beyond her professional work, she gardens heirloom tomatoes, composes ambient piano music, and is lovingly restoring a 100-year-old farmhouse into a writer’s studio on Vancouver Island.

Creative Technology Director, Signal North
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Silas Brant is the Creative Technology Director at Signal North, a digital studio blending code and story to prototype the future of interactive media. With a background in game design, motion graphics, and WebGL development, Silas engineers emotionally resonant experiences that live between animation, performance, and browser logic.

At Signal North, he’s led the build-out of interactive data stories for climate coalitions, cinematic product reveals for DTC brands, and poetic web experiments for digital artists. Silas believes in “human latency” — the small moment of pause before interaction — and he designs to stretch that moment into something magical.

His work has been featured at OFFF, FITC, and The Verge’s annual showcase of experimental web art. Beyond the screen, he teaches creative coding at Parsons, builds generative art installations for festivals, and performs as a live VJ using custom software he builds from scratch. Silas is also an advocate for neurodivergent accessibility in design systems, and serves as a technical mentor in inclusive XR projects.

When he’s not in code or color palettes, you’ll find him building synth modules or hiking through BC’s backcountry with a drone in his pack.

VP of Product Strategy, Horizon Nest
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Lena Farrow is Vice President of Product Strategy at Horizon Nest, a proptech firm redefining how urban dwellers experience multi-unit living. A former architect turned product strategist, Lena specializes in translating spatial thinking into digital interfaces. She’s led initiatives that connect IoT sensors, tenant dashboards, and energy reporting into cohesive resident experiences — all while balancing city bylaws and property management realities.

Lena’s approach blends urban empathy, product velocity, and compliance nuance, making her a sought-after voice in smart building innovation. She’s spoken at SXSW and Sidewalk Labs events on the future of tenant UX and sustainability in housing infrastructure. At Horizon Nest, she helped launch an integrated living platform now used in 50,000+ units across North America. Outside of work, she practices urban sketching, volunteers with housing equity initiatives, and builds paper models of cities she’s visited — a habit she says keeps her spatial instincts sharp.

She holds degrees in environmental design and interaction design from McGill and NYU, respectively, and teaches part-time at Emily Carr University.

Head of Brand Foresight, Ardent Grove
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Noor Cavalli leads Brand Foresight at Ardent Grove, a future-vision studio helping mission-driven brands anticipate cultural shifts before they trend. With a background in anthropology and semiotics, Noor decodes symbolic signals across fashion, tech, climate, and identity to guide long-term brand positioning.

She has helped global retailers redesign their seasonal narratives to align with post-growth mindsets and advised financial institutions on re-humanizing their tone for the Gen Z trust crisis. Known for her weekly cultural radar decks and poetic presentation style, Noor sits at the intersection of brand strategy, cultural criticism, and speculative design.

She believes trends are symptoms of deeper human tensions — and her work aims to surface them before they peak. At Ardent Grove, she also oversees their in-house “Cultural Commons” archive: an evolving index of global visual motifs, brand rituals, and identity shifts.

When she’s not forecasting signals, Noor runs an independent zine, hosts tea salons around the theme of soft power, and lectures globally on pattern recognition in a distracted age. She’s based in Toronto and works across hemispheres.

Director of Growth Partnerships, North Harbor Labs
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Maya Ellison is the Director of Growth Partnerships at North Harbor Labs, a hybrid consultancy and venture lab that specializes in helping climate, fintech, and data‑infra startups scale ethically.

With a unique foundation in international policy and growth marketing, Maya bridges the gap between compliance, commerce, and creativity.

She has led over 50 partnership programs across North America and Europe, helping early-stage companies unlock strategic distribution while aligning with ESG targets and customer privacy expectations.

Her approach blends relationship-driven dealmaking with deeply technical integration strategy — creating go-to-market systems that fuel sustainable acquisition and long-term customer retention.

Known internally as a “human API,” Maya thrives at the intersection of teams, helping founders turn market fit into market power.

Outside of North Harbor, she restores wooden sailboats, runs a quarterly partnership audit circle for female founders, and guest lectures at the University of British Columbia on digital ecosystems and partnership design. She’s also a proud advocate for local craft industries and ethical supply chain reform.

Chief Experience Officer, Lattice & Co.
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Owen Mercer is the Principal Content Architect at Meridian & Bloom, a boutique agency known for distilling complex ideas into beautifully structured brand systems.

Owen’s superpower lies in turning sprawling, fragmented content into modular, reusable systems that power websites, SEO campaigns, sales enablement, and AI-readiness.

With a background in journalism and information science, they combine editorial instincts with structured data strategy, enabling B2B clients — from legal tech to climate funds — to surface their expertise in ways both humans and machines can parse.

Owen builds content taxonomies, authoring guidelines, and schema-informed workflows that reduce friction and improve both editorial quality and discoverability.

A longtime champion of the “content stack,” Owen helps clients unify CMS logic, design systems, and voice standards across digital touchpoints. They frequently contribute to open-source documentation projects and run a monthly Substack covering AI-assisted publishing and schema.org evolution.

Outside of work, they garden heirloom tomatoes, compose ambient piano tracks, and are slowly restoring a century-old farmhouse turned writer’s studio.

Principal Content Architect, Meridian & Bloom
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Sandy Mercer is the Principal Content Architect at Meridian & Bloom, a boutique agency known for distilling complex ideas into beautifully structured brand systems.

Sandy’s superpower lies in turning sprawling, fragmented content into modular, reusable ecosystems that power websites, SEO campaigns, sales enablement, and AI-readiness.

With a background in journalism and information science, she combines editorial instincts with structured data strategy, enabling B2B clients — from legal tech to climate funds — to surface their expertise in ways both humans and machines can understand.

Sandy builds content taxonomies, authoring guidelines, and schema-informed workflows that reduce friction and elevate both editorial quality and discoverability.

A longtime champion of the “content stack,” she helps organizations align CMS logic, design systems, and voice standards across digital touchpoints.

Sandy is a frequent contributor to open-source documentation efforts and writes a monthly Substack on AI-assisted publishing and schema.org evolution. Beyond her professional work, she gardens heirloom tomatoes, composes ambient piano music, and is lovingly restoring a 100-year-old farmhouse into a writer’s studio on Vancouver Island.

Creative Technology Director, Signal North
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Silas Brant is the Creative Technology Director at Signal North, a digital studio blending code and story to prototype the future of interactive media. With a background in game design, motion graphics, and WebGL development, Silas engineers emotionally resonant experiences that live between animation, performance, and browser logic.

At Signal North, he’s led the build-out of interactive data stories for climate coalitions, cinematic product reveals for DTC brands, and poetic web experiments for digital artists. Silas believes in “human latency” — the small moment of pause before interaction — and he designs to stretch that moment into something magical.

His work has been featured at OFFF, FITC, and The Verge’s annual showcase of experimental web art. Beyond the screen, he teaches creative coding at Parsons, builds generative art installations for festivals, and performs as a live VJ using custom software he builds from scratch. Silas is also an advocate for neurodivergent accessibility in design systems, and serves as a technical mentor in inclusive XR projects.

When he’s not in code or color palettes, you’ll find him building synth modules or hiking through BC’s backcountry with a drone in his pack.

VP of Product Strategy, Horizon Nest
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Lena Farrow is Vice President of Product Strategy at Horizon Nest, a proptech firm redefining how urban dwellers experience multi-unit living. A former architect turned product strategist, Lena specializes in translating spatial thinking into digital interfaces. She’s led initiatives that connect IoT sensors, tenant dashboards, and energy reporting into cohesive resident experiences — all while balancing city bylaws and property management realities.

Lena’s approach blends urban empathy, product velocity, and compliance nuance, making her a sought-after voice in smart building innovation. She’s spoken at SXSW and Sidewalk Labs events on the future of tenant UX and sustainability in housing infrastructure. At Horizon Nest, she helped launch an integrated living platform now used in 50,000+ units across North America. Outside of work, she practices urban sketching, volunteers with housing equity initiatives, and builds paper models of cities she’s visited — a habit she says keeps her spatial instincts sharp.

She holds degrees in environmental design and interaction design from McGill and NYU, respectively, and teaches part-time at Emily Carr University.

Head of Brand Foresight, Ardent Grove
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Noor Cavalli leads Brand Foresight at Ardent Grove, a future-vision studio helping mission-driven brands anticipate cultural shifts before they trend. With a background in anthropology and semiotics, Noor decodes symbolic signals across fashion, tech, climate, and identity to guide long-term brand positioning.

She has helped global retailers redesign their seasonal narratives to align with post-growth mindsets and advised financial institutions on re-humanizing their tone for the Gen Z trust crisis. Known for her weekly cultural radar decks and poetic presentation style, Noor sits at the intersection of brand strategy, cultural criticism, and speculative design.

She believes trends are symptoms of deeper human tensions — and her work aims to surface them before they peak. At Ardent Grove, she also oversees their in-house “Cultural Commons” archive: an evolving index of global visual motifs, brand rituals, and identity shifts.

When she’s not forecasting signals, Noor runs an independent zine, hosts tea salons around the theme of soft power, and lectures globally on pattern recognition in a distracted age. She’s based in Toronto and works across hemispheres.