Vector Institute

Ontario Sunshine List 2025 · 72 employees earning $100K+

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At a Glance
2025

Employee Count

72

2025 Sunshine List

Total Compensation

$12.8M

Salaries + taxable benefits

Average Salary

$163,241

2025 Sunshine List

Median Salary

$136,772

Half earn more, half less

Who makes the most at Vector Institute in 2025?

Thomas Anthony Gaffney, Special Advisor to the Chair, was paid $567,001 in 2025 — the highest total compensation among 72 Vector Institute employees on the Sunshine List; the median salary there was $136,772.

How has Vector Institute's Sunshine List changed?

Vector Institute listed 3 people in 2017 and 72 in 2025 — 24× as many; payroll on the list went from $446K to $12.8M, and the median salary moved from $138,585 to $136,772.

How many Vector Institute employees earn over $150,000? →

Salary Trend

Median salary by yearLine chart of 8 yearly values of median salary, from $138,585 in 2017 to $136,772 in 2025. No data for 2020.$100K$120K$140K$160K201720182021202220242025
Median salary, 2017–2025. 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

#1Thomas Anthony Gaffney
$567,001
Special Advisor to the Chair
#2Cameron Schuler
$448,150
Chief Commercialization Officer and Vice President Industry Innovation
#3Deval Pandya
$377,000
Vice President, Artificial Intelligence Engineering
#4Alan Veerman
$374,970
Chief Operations and Finance Officer
#5Roxana Sultan
$337,095
Chief Data Officer and Vice President, Health
#6Glenda Lynne Crisp
$272,927
President and Chief Executive Officer
#7Melissa Elizabeth Judd
$258,964
Vice President, Research Operations and Academic Partnerships
#8Ben Davies
$257,445
Chief Information Officer
#9Kari Clarke-Zemnickis
$232,837
Vice President, Marketing and Communications
#10Craig Michael Stewart
$225,259
Executive Director, Applied Artificial Intelligence Programs
#11John Willes
$222,317
Artifical Intelligence Infrastructure and Research Engineering Manager
#12Shweta Khushu
$221,772
Manager, Artifical Intelligence Engineering
#13David Bruce Emerson
$217,995
Applied Machine Learning Scientist
#14Arash Afkanpour
$215,962
Applied Machine Learning Scientist
#15Andres Rojas
$215,341
Director, Applied Artifical Intelligence Projects
#16Shaina Raza
$208,219
Applied Machine Learning Scientist, Responsible Artifical Intelligence
#17Robert Andrew Naccarato
$206,001
Director, Scientific Computing
#18Dhanesh Ramachandram
$203,229
Applied Machine Learning Scientist
#19Edward Kihoon Chang
$201,064
Senior Technical Program Manager
#20Amrit Krishnan
$198,061
Technical Team Lead
#21Marcelo Lotif Araujo
$194,434
Senior Software Developer, Machine Learning
#22Masoumeh Shafieinejad
$191,427
Applied Machine Learning Scientist, Privacy-enhancing technology
#23Carolyn Chong
$184,107
Senior Product Manager
#24Gary Burlakoff
$182,288
Director, Finance
#25Daniel Roy
$171,450
Research Director and Vector Faculty Member

See all 72 employees in 2025 →

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Biggest Year-over-Year Increases
2024 → 2025

Thomas Anthony Gaffney at Vector Institute had the largest increase in disclosed pay on the 2025 Sunshine List: $499,920 to $534,173, up 6.9%.

Thomas Anthony Gaffney+6.9%
Special Advisor to the Chair
$499,920 → $534,173
John Willes+19.9%
Artifical Intelligence Infrastructure and Research Engineering Manager
$171,212 → $205,366
Alan Veerman+9.9%
Chief Operations and Finance Officer
$339,539 → $373,047
Shaina Raza+13.5%
Applied Machine Learning Scientist, Responsible Artifical Intelligence
$169,121 → $191,987
Andres Rojas+11.5%
Director, Applied Artifical Intelligence Projects
$178,334 → $198,906

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.

14 people were new to Vector Institute's list in 2025; 11 who were on it in 2024 were not. See the full 2025 roster →

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