Firehood Angel Camp

MICHELLE SKLAR

Head of Venture Growth, entrepreneurship@UBC & Board Member

Vancouver Entrepreneurs Forum

Michelle Sklar is a strategic communications leader with expertise in performance driven growth marketing, storytelling, community building and entrepreneurship. With over two decades of comprehensive achievements in both B2B and B2C industries, Michelle has a proven track record as an executive leader in digital marketing, PR, strategic partnerships, and company building. She has focused her professional career development on scaling ideas to impact in the Emerging Technology, Digital Media, Events, Retail and Nonprofit industries.

Her broad cross-functional expertise is in brand strategy, content creation, building marketing teams, stakeholder engagement, project management and impact reporting. She leads EDI (equity, diversity, and inclusion) initiatives, change management, developing comprehensive leadership tracks and mentorship programs – all to help empower the organizations she works with to flourish. She thrives in Startups and fast paced environments, where culture and vision match the desire to be transformative.

She has an insatiable appetite for travel and culinary adventures which keeps her road-tripping across North America, taking cooking classes in Morocco and exploring beaches from Barcelona to Cuba.

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