Michelle Ackerman is an infrastructure and real-estate development leader specialized in delivering public-private partnerships, and large-scale residential and mixed-use projects. An organized and engaging communicator, Michelle works collaboratively with stakeholders and partners to align goals, and creatively solve problems. During her engagement with Kilmer Group, she has been responsible for project development, marketing and stakeholder relations for the 2015 Pan/Parapan Am Games Athletes’ Village, and its legacy master planned Canary District community, transforming Toronto’s downtown east. Other notable projects include the ONroute Highway Service Centres network across Ontario’s 400 series highways, Brightwater, the 72-acre redevelopment of the former Imperial Oil refinery site in Port credit, the Provincial Affordable Housing Lands Program in the West Don Lands, which will deliver over 2,300 rental units to market (including 30% affordable units) and serving as Project Director for the development of the first purpose-built, mixed-use Indigenous Hub in Canada. Michelle has an MBA from the Rotman School of Business at University of Toronto and is currently Chair of ULI Toronto.