Chantal Schutz, CPA
Chantal Schutz is a Canadian Chartered Professional Accountant (CPA, CA) with over 20 years of experience in public company leadership, board governance, and capital markets. She has held senior executive and director roles across technology, energy, industrial IoT, healthcare services, and agri-technology companies listed on NASDAQ and the TSX Venture Exchange.
Chantal currently serves as a Director of Open World Ltd., where she is a member of the Audit Committee, Compensation Committee and Chair of the Governance, Compliance and Nominating Committee, providing oversight across financial reporting, risk management, executive compensation, and governance frameworks in a multi-jurisdictional, digital-asset environment.
Most recently, Chantal served as Chief Financial Officer and Executive Vice President of mCloud Technologies Corp. (NASDAQ: MCLD | TSX.V: MCLD), where she supported international expansion, capital raising, regulatory compliance, and dual-listed public company reporting.
She previously served as Chief Executive Officer and Board Director of NYCE Sensors, leading a strategic repositioning that drove more than 300% revenue growth and executed key financing initiatives. She has also served for over six years as a Board Director and Audit Committee Member of Clean Seed Capital Group (TSX.V: CSX), contributing deep expertise in audit oversight, internal controls, and public company governance.
Earlier in her career, Chantal articled at KPMG and PwC and later held senior audit and finance roles with responsibility for Canadian and U.S. GAAP reporting, PCAOB and CPAB compliance, Sarbanes-Oxley and Bill 198 internal control frameworks, and board-level financial reporting. She has led audit quality assurance reviews for publicly listed companies and designed firm-wide audit and risk-based methodologies.
Chantal holds a Bachelor of Commerce in Entrepreneurial Management from Royal Roads University and has served as an instructor and facilitator for BCIT and the Chartered Accountant School of Business.
Her experience spans audit and risk oversight, mergers and acquisitions, capital markets, governance, executive compensation, and scaling technology-enabled businesses.