Paul Connor

Paul Connor is Treasurer and Executive Director of the Canadian Open Data Society. His involvement in the Open Data community started with the 2015 GO Open Data Summit in St. Catharines, Ontario, and continued through co-chairing the 2018 Canadian Open Data Summit in Niagara Falls, Ontario. He started working with data while managing federal election campaigns in the early 2000s, going on to become versed in performance reporting data as President & Executive Director of Angel Investors Ontario. With AIO and its counterpart, the National Angel Capital Organization, he helped organize several national conferences across Canada for Angel investors and technology companies. He has also worked as an economic research manager for Niagara Region and as a schoolteacher. His volunteer work includes chairing the Governance Committee of the Professional Geoscientists of Ontario, a statutory self-regulatory body for geoscience professionals.