Tori Allen, co-founder
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Tori started her career at CBC Radio, moving quickly from intern to on-air columnist, to studio director, to a founding producer of Q, the internationally-syndicated, multi-platform arts and entertainment show. In 2012, she moved to Seoul, Korea, where she worked as a freelance news reporter, documentary producer and TV news editor, followed by four years in Phuket, Thailand where she became Chief Household Officer, producing three children while hosting a branded podcast. Based near Montréal, Québec since 2020, Tori loves poutine, real winter, and helping clients bring their brand voice to life in audio. She’s led award-winning podcast productions with clients at Morgan Stanley, OnStar, OneTrust and Accenture.
Andy Sheppard, co-founder
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Andy has nearly 25 years of experience as a radio and podcast host, producer, and documentary maker at CBC Radio and Pacific Content. He has braved epic treks and giant bugs to produce stories and music in far-flung places such as Laos, Vanuatu, and South Africa. His work has been recognized with awards from Tribeca, The Global Association of Applied Behavioural Scientists, Deutsche Welle, and AdWeek. He has enjoyed creative collaborations with many brands, including Dell, Mozilla, Shopify, and Zendesk. As a showrunner, he led Charles Schwab’s Choiceology with Katy Milkman to the top of Apple Podcasts charts in science, and millions of downloads.
Aparita Bhandari, showrunner
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Aparita is an award-winning journalist, publishing in the print and audio spaces for more than two decades. Always on the hunt for a good story, she’s worked in a variety of styles, from short-docs to longform features, on shows such as Rocket Mortgage’s Home.Made, Mozilla’s IRL and Red Hat’s Command Line Heroes. Currently, she’s the producer of Morgan Stanley’s daily podcast, Thoughts on the Market. In her spare time, she dreams up passion projects such as Hindi language podcasts, Khabardaar and Darmiyaan.
Pedro Mendes, showrunner
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Pedro has worked as a radio and podcast producer, documentary maker and writer for over twenty years. His podcast work with leading brands, including Dell, McAfee and Marriott Bonvoy, has won numerous awards, most recently a Signal Award for Morgan Stanley’s What Should I Do With My Money? and the inaugural TribecaX audio storytelling award for Atlassian’s Making an Impossible Airplane. He has authored two books on the history of men’s style.
Robyn Edgar, sound designer
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Robyn has been making podcasts for nearly a decade. As a sound designer, she has helped shape the sound of award-winning shows for brands such as Atlassian, Morgan Stanley, Red Hat, Sanofi, Mazda, and Dell, among others. She’s engineered for American Public Media’s Marketplace and its suite of public radio shows and podcasts, for Spotify’s FOGO: Fear of Going Outside, for Audible’s Spooky Boo’s Night Frights, and for the independently-made and Ambie-nominated podcast Expectant. She is a graduate of the Salt Institute for Documentary Studies.
Pippa Johnstone, showrunner
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Pippa is a podcast producer with a background in theatre. She has produced award-winning branded podcasts like Atlassian’s Work Check, Microsoft’s AI Meets World, and Adobe’s Wireframe. She also independently created the Ambie-nominated podcast Expectant and four seasons of Word Bomb for TVO. She’s a graduate of TMU’s Masters in Media Production.
Brittany Duggan, showrunner
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Brittany has been making original podcasts with brands since 2017. She’s been part of the award-winning teams producing Red Hat’s Command Line Heroes, Morgan Stanley’s What Should I Do With My Money? and Segment’s Fixed That For You. Prior to podcasting Brittany was a print and web journalist, working at The Dance Current magazine from 2005-2016. She was a contemporary dancer, choreographer, and critic, and borrows some instincts from that work for her audio storytelling – turns out clear and engaging communication is not so different across mediums. Brittany is also a graduate of the University of British Columbia’s School of Journalism. Her kids think anyone wearing headphones must be listening to a podcast.
