Our Board of Directors

Glen Lougheed is a serial tech entrepreneur and angel investor. Since November 2017, he has served as a special advisor, innovation, and technology to the Minister of jobs, economic recovery, and innovation. Lougheed is the CEO of Backrail Labs and Applied Post, and prior to this, he was the CEO of Overinteractive Media and NodeFly.

He has also served as a mentor and advisor numerous times including with e@UBC and Youth Innovation Labs.

Glen Lougheed

Liz has many years of experience as a community developer, social policy advocate and social enterprise practitioner. Her career began as a Child and Youth Worker with agencies supporting vulnerable youth in Vancouver’s inner city and as a result of her experiences, logically moved to roles in systemic advocacy with organizations like First Call.

Today Liz is the CEO of the Association of Neighbourhood Houses of BC, a large, provincially-based social service organization with 8 neighbourhood houses and Sasamat Outdoor Centre as part of its portfolio. Prior to her current role, she was the Director of Community Investment for Vancity, managing a variety of teams in the impact business, impact real estate, Indigenous partnerships, sponsorship and events and granting spaces.

Prior to joining Vancity, Liz was the manager of strategic programs for Vancity Community Foundation (VCF), and earlier in her role as executive director, Liz led the Potluck Café Society from start-up through to sustainability. Today, Potluck is an award winning, nationally recognized social enterprise that she still provides volunteer support to.

Liz holds a Multidisciplinary Masters in Policy and Practice, and serves on the Board of the Potluck Café Society. She lives in East Vancouver with her husband and two children.

Elizabeth Lougheed Green

Bahar Moussavi is a co-founder of The C.O.D.E. Initiative Foundation. She has earned her Master of Education (M.Ed.) at UBC and specializes in areas of inclusive education, neurodiversity acceptance and empowerment, and positive behaviour support for neurodivergent students.

Bahar is an award-winning entrepreneur, named in BC Business 30 under 30, TEDx speaker, and an activist in the area of neurodiversity empowerment.

As a woman of colour and a neurodivergent individual, Bahar has first-hand experience with the impacts of non-inclusive education. She, therefore, strives to amplify the voices of people with lived experiences, and ensure the mission, operations, and programs of CODE are designed with the input of the communities it serves.

Bahar Heravi Moussavi

Emre found Globalme, a language and data services company, and grown it to be one of the Top 100 Tech Companies in BC. Following the acquisition of Globalme by a private equity firm, Emre enjoys mentoring and coaching founders and entrepreneurs.

Emre Akkas