Staff & Board

Executives & Board

Team Rubicon requires individuals foolish enough to think they can change the world, and smart enough to have a chance.

Executives
Board

Mischa
Kaplan

Chief Executive Officer

Mischa Kaplan became CEO of Team Rubicon Canada in July 2025. Mischa joined the Canadian Armed Forces (Reserve Force) in 2007, serving first as an Infantry Officer in Ottawa and then as an Intelligence Officer in Toronto, holding junior command positions and supporting training, operations, and taskings across Canada. After leaving the military in 2012, Mischa assumed ownership of his family's specialty food retail business, successfully scaling it before selling the business in 2020. He has since held senior leadership roles with several local and national nonprofit organizations, including Cystic Fibrosis Canada and, most recently, Scouts Canada.As Executive Director of Corporate Services at Scouts Canada, he held executive responsibility for HR, Finance, IT, Youth Safety, Legal Services, and Indigenous Reconciliation, and led major organizational transformations in organizational governance, youth safeguarding, and digital modernization. Mischa also teaches part-time in the School of Business at Algonquin College, where he has designed and taught courses on leadership, business ethics, corporate social responsibility, and human resources management. He lives in Ottawa with his wife and three daughters and enjoys a range of outdoor activities, including camping, hiking, paddling, and skiing.

Tim
Kenney

Chief Operating Officer

Tim Kenney joined Team Rubicon Canada in July 2023 upon retirement after more than 26 years of service with the Canadian Armed Forces. Having served as an Infantry Officer with The Royal Canadian Regiment, Tim's career spanned postings in Petawawa, Toronto, Valcartier, Meaford, Montreal and Trenton; as well as deployments to Afghanistan, Kuwait, and Iraq. Tim was was awarded the Meritorious Service Medal for his time as a CO in Iraq, as well as the US Meritorious Service Medal following a year-long deployment in Afghanistan. Tim holds a double-major in Business Administration and Politics & Economics, as well as a Master of Defence Studies (specializing in Strategic Planning and Systems Analysis). Tim is an avid sports fan, having played hockey, football and soccer at a high level; and currently enjoys coaching minor hockey.

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Stephani
Baker

Vice President, Development and Communications

Steph Baker joined Team Rubicon Canada in April 2024. She brings 15 years' experience in retail banking and over two decades of deep expertise in non-profit leadership, fundraising and communication strategy, operations and finance. For over 10 years she was a Senior Executive for an affordable housing charity where she managed real estate development and construction, finance and operations. Steph has a BA from UBC (French Major) and a Certificate de Langue et Literature from the Universite de Paris. She is active in her community, serving on multiple boards and committees and was nominated as a YWCA Woman of Distinction in 2023. When not helping others, Steph gets shit done by building her off grid cabin, woodworking, kayaking and travelling the world.

Josh
Bowen

Vice President, Organizational Excellence

Josh Bowen brings more than 20 years of crisis leadership and emergency management experience to Team Rubicon Canada. A Canadian Army veteran, Bowen served 13 years in the military where he was deployed on five major disaster response operations. He has taught and led in academic institutions, was a senior leader at the Canadian Red Cross, and supported the development of Canada’s National Risk Profile initiative and Canada’s National Adaptation Strategy. Bowen holds a Masters Degree in Disaster and Emergency Management from York University, an Executive MBA from the University of Alberta, and is an alumnus of the National Preparedness Leadership Initiative program at Harvard University. In his spare time, Bowen can be found changing his socks on a mountain trail somewhere in the Canadian Rockies.