Dan Kershaw (Halifax, NS) is CEO and Executive Director of Furniture Bank, a Toronto-based charity and social enterprise tackling furniture poverty across the Greater Toronto Area. Over twelve years, Dan has led Furniture Bank's transformation into a dual-model organisation whose commercial furniture removal services cross-subsidise the redistribution of furniture to families transitioning from homelessness, fleeing domestic violence, or arriving as refugees to turn empty housing into furnished homes. Earlier in his career, he held senior operating roles in startup and growth-stage technology companies, and taught statistics and marketing at the college level. Dan holds a Master of Applied Environmental Studies from the University of Waterloo and an MBA from the Ivey Business School at Western University. He currently serves on the FundraisingAI Advisory Council, Virtuous AI Executive Council, and writes and speaks on AI adoption in the charitable sector. Recognition includes Clean50 (2018, 2020), the TRICO Foundation Social EnterPrize, and the Ingenious Award for Innovation in Technology.