The Board of Directors are elected stewards of I³ Investment Cooperative and all it's beneficiaries and provides a solid foundation on which all else can build. They will govern I³ Investment Cooperative on behalf of the members according to our Rules of Cooperation and the BC Cooperative Association Act.

Board membership lasts for up to three years. As of September 2018, there are five directors, with the potential to increase to nine:

1. Citizen Engagement: Caroline Smalley (Canada / UK)
   Caroline is a UK-born business owner and creative strategist living in the mountains of Whistler, BC. Her passion is to develop and support sustainable economies. She is the founder of the I³ Investment Coop and co-founder of The Citizens Media^®: a crowdfunding platform that connects communication with decentralised commerce – and the generosity of local businesses – to bring money into community based projects.

2. The Commons: Michel Bauwens (Belgium / Global)
   Followed by new economists around the world, Michel is a Peer-to-Peer theorist and an active writer, researcher and conference speaker on the subject of technology, culture and business innovation. Founder of the P2P Foundation

3. Technology & Systems Integration: Eric Howe (Canada)
   Most highly rated programmer on Stackoverflow in Canada. Co-founder of The Citizens Media^®

4. Community Development: Irma Wilson (South Africa)
   Active member of the P2P Foundation. Irma is a futurist, business unusual strategist, edge inhabiter and provocateur, who keeps a finger on the Social Economic and Inclusive Innovation pulses.

5. Finance and Integrated Reporting: Layne Hartsell (USA / Thailand)
   Layne Hartsell, USA (雷恩∙哈特塞尔 - 마이클 레인 핫셀) is a fellow at the P2P Foundation in the philosophy of ethics and technology, and at the Asia Institute (Seoul) in the Technology Convergence and 3E Program (Energy, Economy, and Environment) with Tsukuba University, Japan. He is also a research professor at the Center for Ethics in Science and Technology, Department of Philosophy at Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok. His work is in the access to technologies from a framework of global justice. Other past projects or collaborations: project scientist at Sensorica Labs (Montreal); lecturer at Mahidol University, Siriraj Medical Center, Department of Molecular Biology and Bioinformatics; assistant professor, convergence studies, Sookmyung Women's University and Research Institute for Asian Women - Asia-Pacific Women's Information Network Center; P2P Convergence Group for Open Reasoning, Fukushima Research Group; assistant professor, Sungkyunkwan University and the Advanced Institute of Nanotechnology, South Korea.

The Board would like to thank the ongoing support of its principal Co-op Consultant, Martin J. Frost

Marty Frost has spent the past 36 years working in and for co-operatives.  17 years spent with CRS Workers’ Co-operative, including 10 as General Manager, saw that co-op triple its working membership and quadruple its sales, and become one of the most successful worker co-op businesses in the country. 19 years as a co-op developer with Devco (FWC Development Cooperative) has provided Marty with the opportunity to work with well over 150 groups, supporting the start-up and development of their co-ops.  

Marty has served on the board of directors of the Cooperative Housing Federation of Canada, and the board of the Canadian Worker Co-op Federation, of which he was a founder. He has served on the advisory board to the Ministers responsible for Co-operatives at both Federal and Provincial levels, and has done extensive consultations on the Co-ops Act of BC. He currently serves as a director for the BC Co-operative Association and for CCEC Credit Union.  Marty has provided co-operative development and education in eight provinces and two territories of Canada, as well as in Indonesia, Mongolia and China, and has studied at the Mondragon co-operative system in Spain. For further information: Curriculum Vitae

Board Responsibilities

The board will deal with concerns related to maintaining values and overall management:

1. Leadership consulting

2. Identify investment opportunities, collaborators, sponsors and partners

3. Project approvals and accountability of funds

Next Director Election

There will be no less than 2 director meetings per year.

Board Nominations

Each year, we'll ask our members to nominate fellow members to stand for election for the Board. Our goal is strong and balanced leadership, and our nominations process helps us get there.

Beneficiary Committees

There will be opportunities to participate at different levels, including serving in various committees that are in place and have vacancies at the time of membership.

Proposed committees include:

1. The Commons (incorporates Purpose, Vision, Mission & Guiding Principles)

2. Sustainability and Corporate Social Responsibility - Internal and External

3. Corporate Governance and Compliance

4. Finance and Integrated Reporting

5. Investment

6. Community Development

7. Marketing and Communications

8. Technology & Systems Integration (incorporates Marketplace and 3P Exchange)

9. Citizen Engagement