Ottawa

We are starting something new! The Ottawa Chapter is planning a profile series, highlighting local female leaders in infrastructure. If you would like to be part of this exciting initiative or would like to suggest someone to be profiled, please contact us.

The Ottawa Chapter launched with the awards event in April 2016. For the past two years, we have hosted panel discussions with local industry leaders.

WIN offers networking opportunities for women working in infrastructure, and is open to women at all levels working in the infrastructure industry, and across all disciplines. Our members work in government and industry; accounting and law, financial advisory, engineering, planning, sustainability, and construction firms, as well as infrastructure and pension funds, multilaterals, and commercial and investment banks.

WIN’s mission is to help women to emerge as leaders in this growing field in which historically women have been under represented.

Leah Carson
Senior Manager, Deal Advisory, Global Infrastructure Advisory
KPMG LLP
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Leah works in KPMG's Infrastructure Advisory practice, and was a founding member of the Ottawa WIN Chapter. Leah has provided public and private sector clients with business and financial advisory services across the infrastructure asset lifecycle. Previous to working at KPMG, Leah worked for a large engineering firm. Leah holds an MBA from the Richard Ivey School of Business and a Masters of Applied Science from Dalhousie University.

Beth Cassells
Partner, Deal Advisory, Global Infrastructure Advisory
KPMG LLP
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Beth has over 30 years of experience with KPMG and has played a lead role in advising federal, provincial and municipal governments. Beth has advised on over 40 major projects and led the development of approximately 75 studies and reviews. She brings a strong combination of technical skills (project management, drafting and financial analysis) and perspective to the planning and implementation of capital projects. Beth has been the project coordinator and key writer for a wide variety of transactions and transformation including defence, health care facilities, real estate development, roads, bridges, rail, education, telecommunications and gaming.

Janet Mrenica, FCPA, FCMA, FPFA
Project Executive Lead
Taproot.jem.Systems
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Janet Mrenica is an FCPA/CMA and is a retired Federal Public Service Executive with over 30 years of experience, that included 10 years in corporate and finance executive-level functions at Environment and Climate Change Canada, and 10 years as a consultant in the international development sector. In her final year she was in a new role, a Project Executive Lead in community engagement, wellness initiatives in local community and university environments. She has been responsible for developing a forward thinking national compliance program for the Community Infrastructure program, Regional Operations Sector, Indigenous Services Canada and has had oversight of Public Private Partnerships. She has been involved with WIN Ottawa since 2017 and is a We-WIN Mentor in 2021-2022. She has received a CPA Canada Innovation Award of Excellence in Public Sector Financial Management (2015) for the recognition of a national management framework on contaminated sites/environmental liabilities. She is an Integral Professional Coach™, likes to walk long distance and is a new grandmother of two.