BOARD OF TRUSTEES
Martha J. Shuttleworth, President, Founder
Lorna L. McKay; C.F.P.
Zoë A. Coombes, M. Arch. 

MANAGEMENT
Anthony C. Coombes, Executive Director
Marcy L. Burchfield, Geomatics/Research   Program Manager 

PUBLICATIONS AND OFFICE ASSISTANT
Allison Savaria



BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES

Martha J. Shuttleworth, a philanthropist, was born in London, Ontario, and graduated from Glendon College, York University, in 1972.  Throughout the 1980's, she was a significant funder of Canada's anti-tobacco industry movement.  Martha is President of the Foundation, an organization she founded in 1996.

Anthony C. Coombes worked with Martha Shuttleworth, founder, in developing the purposes and characteristics of The Neptis Foundation.  He became Executive Director in 2002.  Tony's previous career forcussed for some thirty years on the senior strategic management of large-scale urban district development -- as public manager, private developer and consultant.  Click here for further biographic information.  

Marcy L. Burchfield began her career in municipal planning at the City of Chicago where she worked to deploy their city-wide enterprise GIS and assisted in developing policies on GIS data standardization in the departments of Environment and Emergency Services.  In 2000, she received her Master of Science from the University of Toronto, Department of Geography where the focus of her research was the application of remote sensing and geomatics technologies to study and illustrate challenges facing the urban environment.  Immediately following her studies, Marcy worked with a group of economists at the University of Toronto and the London School of Economics to study and explain patterns of urban sprawl across the continental US.  This work was published in the Quarterly Journal of Economics in 2006.  For the last eight years, Marcy has been with the Neptis Foundation where she manages all geomatics research for Neptis's research program on regional growth management and serves as the liaison between the foundation and its  research activities at the Cartography office in the Department of Geography at the University of Toronto.

Marcy has served on the governing board for the Ontario Geospatial Data Exchange and is currently active in the policy advisory committee for GeoConnections, a national partnership program led by Natural Resources Canada to make Canada's geograhic data, tools and services readily accessible on the internet.  Recently Marcy was invited to share her experience and exchange ideas as a member of Placing Creativity, a partnership established by staff at the City of Toronto and the Martin Propserity Insitute at the Univeristy of Toronto. Placing Creativity works to develop new ways of stimulating regional prosperity by leveraging the connections between culture, economy and places through cultural mapping.