MaRS Discovery District

Ontario Sunshine List 2025 · 42 employees earning $100K+

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At a Glance
2025

Employee Count

42

2025 Sunshine List

Total Compensation

$6.5M

Salaries + taxable benefits

Average Salary

$150,022

2025 Sunshine List

Median Salary

$128,638

Half earn more, half less

Who makes the most at MaRS Discovery District in 2025?

Grace Lee Reynolds, Chief Executive Officer, was paid $327,541 in 2025 — the highest total compensation among 42 MaRS Discovery District employees on the Sunshine List; the median salary there was $128,638.

How has MaRS Discovery District's Sunshine List changed?

MaRS Discovery District listed 2 people in 2004 and 42 in 2025 — 21× as many; payroll on the list went from $366K to $6.5M, and the median salary moved from $182,500 to $128,638.

How many MaRS Discovery District employees earn over $150,000? →

Salary Trend

Median salary by yearLine chart of 21 yearly values of median salary, from $182,500 in 2004 to $128,638 in 2025. No data for 2005.$100K$125K$150K$175K$200K200420092013201620212025
Median salary, 2004–2025. Axis starts at $100,000, the Sunshine List disclosure threshold. That threshold has never been indexed to inflation, so this line can fall over time simply because more people newly cross it — not necessarily because pay fell.

Top Employees
2025

#1Grace Lee Reynolds
$327,541
Chief Executive Officer
#2Krista Jones
$290,571
Chief Delivery Officer
#3Jason Macfarlane
$278,233
Head of Venture and Partner Services
#4Christine Bome
$241,851
Vice President, Public Affairs
#5Adnan Smajlovic
$202,243
Senior Director, Information Technology Operations and Software Engineering
#6Richard Bozzato
$201,950
Senior Advisor, Health Venture Services
#7Tyler Hamilton
$195,384
Senior Director, Climate
#8Mark W. Abbott
$193,649
Director, Technological Stewardship
#9Elana Granieri
$191,626
Senior Director, Finance
#10Erin Eizenman
$184,436
General Counsel and Corporate Secretary
#11Amy De Almeida
$182,383
Senior Director, People and Culture
#12Kathryn A. Hayward
$173,188
Director, Content
#13Wendy P. Bairos
$169,235
Director, Corporate Communications
#14Lara Torvi
$154,937
Director, Programming and Content Partnerships
#15Louise Pichette
$148,818
Director, Health Sciences
#16Marlon N. Murray
$145,430
Senior Manager, Information Technology Security and Dev Ops
#17Aislinn Malszecki
$140,766
Product Lead
#18Ian Spence
$139,605
Senior Manager, Business Development
#19Erin Hennessey
$135,267
Senior Manager, Benchmarking and Insights
#20Ana F. Gonzalez Guerrero
$133,460
Senior Manager, Climate and Cities
#21Yutao Yan
$132,716
Senior Software Engineer
#22Chris Giantsopoulos
$131,899
Facilitator and Instructional Designer, Core Startup Service
#23Mayisha Sultana
$127,976
Senior Manager, Business Development
#24Sarah M. Liss
$127,070
Senior Manager, Content
#25Shilpa R. Sharma
$126,949
Associate, Corporate Innovation

See all 42 employees in 2025 →

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Biggest Year-over-Year Increases
2024 → 2025

Grace Lee Reynolds at MaRS Discovery District had the largest increase in disclosed pay on the 2025 Sunshine List: $157,225 to $317,263, up 101.8%.

Grace Lee Reynolds+101.8%
Chief Executive Officer
$157,225 → $317,263
Jason Macfarlane+16.8%
Head of Venture and Partner Services
$231,742 → $270,730
Louise Pichette+22.4%
Director, Health Sciences
$117,869 → $144,240
Christine Bome+9.7%
Vice President, Public Affairs
$215,086 → $235,850
Adnan Smajlovic+10.7%
Senior Director, Information Technology Operations and Software Engineering
$177,151 → $196,157

A year-over-year increase or decrease in disclosed pay can include overtime, a retroactive payment, a vacation payout or severance, not only a change in base pay, rate, or role — the Sunshine List discloses total salary paid that year, not a pay rate. This list is ranked by the dollar increase, not by the percentage shown.

<5 people were new to MaRS Discovery District's list in 2025; 42 who were on it in 2024 were not. See the full 2025 roster →

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