George Roter
Head, Research Strategy & Operations
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolGeorge Roter is a strategic leader with over two decades of experience building and scaling mission-driven organizations across non-profit, government, and private sectors. He co-founded Engineers Without Borders Canada and later led open innovation and community-building efforts at Mozilla, demonstrating an uncommon blend of grassroots movement-building and programmatic innovation. Currently he drives research strategy and operations at CIFAR while advising and partnering with social ventures through Rippleworks and his independent practice, helping organizations design structures and systems for scale. His recent work includes reorganizing global teams and management systems for the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team and launching national initiatives like the Canada Plastics Pact. Known for moving fluidly between strategy, operations, and technology choices, he emphasizes unbureaucratic operational support to accelerate impact. A Waterloo-trained mechanical engineer, he pairs technical curiosity with practical experience in fundraising, organizational design, and cross-sector collaboration.
11 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
BASc, Mechanical Engineering, BASc, Mechanical Engineering at University of Waterloo
Github Skills (24)
open-data10
voice10
crowdsourcing9
mozilla9
planning6
google-play-store5
health4
irc3
google-play3
css3
telegram2
campus2
google2
open-source1
typescript1
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
mozilla/participation-metrics-org
Jul 2016 - Jul 2016
Participation metrics planning repository
Contributions:3 commits, 3 pushes, 9 comments in 1 day
planningmetricsparticipation
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