Conny Lo is a professional with over 20 years of international experience in fundraising, advertising creative, marketing and communications with a specialization in strategic planning, business development and Marketing. 

Conny currently works at Princess Margaret Cancer Foundation (PMCF), in Toronto, as the Associate Director, Major Gifts. Prior to that, Conny worked for SickKids Foundation, where she was recruited to spearhead a brand-new fundraising initiative within the Chinese community. With her broad range of experience ranging from the private to non-profit sectors, and an extensive global background, she successfully developed and executed a fundraising strategy locally and internationally. 

Conny’s for-profit experiences including her worked at Scotiabank, where she served as senior marketing manager for multicultural banking. She lightheartedly says that: “It must be a joke from God; instead of spending millions of marketing dollars for the bank, I end up being an ally to fundraisers and was given a goal to raise millions.” 

Conny was born and raised in Hong Kong. Due to her trilingual capability, English and two Chinese dialects, Cantonese and Mandarin, and her capacity to understand and embrace the relevance and beauty of diversity in Canadian culture has set her on an exciting path in cross-sector business development. Conny is the award winner of Top 25 Canadian Immigrant and Outstanding Community Leader in 2020. 

A little-known fact is that Conny is a serious dog lover. She was the first Chinese speaking St. John Ambulance Therapy Dog Volunteer. This generated a lot of buzz in the community, so much so, that it garnered media interviews, and landed Conny and her dog on a magazine cover and they were featured on TV. Conny’s canine passion, became her freelance job – as a dog trainer. Conny was optimistic and a little naïve and believed that she could apply her dog training skills to her kids.  Apparently, she was wrong, so very wrong.