Petra Kassun-Mutch

Petra Kassun-Mutch: After 18 years in progressive positions in the publishing industry in Canada and the US, and after 7 years as President of McGraw Hill Ryerson’s Higher Education Division in Canada,  she left a successful corporate career at the top of her game to pursue her dream of starting a social purpose enterprise in a rural community and founded the Fifth Town Artisan Cheese Company in 2004 which became a leading example of a social and sustainable enterprise in Ontario. In September, 2011 Petra launched a new social venture called The Zugunruhe Project. Those in the early start up stage, the mission of this new enterprise is to advocate for and support the development of a vibrant, sustainable social enterprise sector in Canada. 

Her interests are primarily in the FOR PROFT sector and its role in making the world a better place through thoughtful and principled market based initiatives including Community economic development organizations, social businesses, cooperatives, social ventures, fair trade organizations and social entrepreneurs.