PTP Pink Awards 2025

Founder of Catalyst.

Visionary media leader. Founder, entrepreneur, and angel investor. Creator and champion of women-led organizations. Her latest venture, Catalyst, is dedicated to content creation for the global marketplace by powering women creators and investing in their ideas.

Bristow has been influencing how people watch television for the past 25 years. She has created thousands of hours of original content, built entire entertainment divisions and content companies from the ground up, innovated new ways to reach audiences, and garnered multiple industry and business awards for her contributions and leadership.

Julie has served on the boards of influential domestic and international associations, including the Canadian Academy of Cinema and Television, William F. White International and the Canadian Centre for Ethics in Sport. She volunteers her time to charitable organizations focused on addiction and mental health. Most recently, she joined the advisory board for Pink Triangle Press and helped launch the Pink Paper and the inaugural PTP Pink Awards.

Executive Director of The Veritas Foundation.

Mark is a Board member and co-founder of LGBTQ Corporate Directors Canada Association, former Board Chair of The Toronto Botanical Garden, and co-founder and Board member of the Canadian Business History Association. In 2017, Mark was recognized by The Financial Times of London (UK) as the OUTstanding LGBT Global Business Leader for the year. He also received the Association of Fundraising Professional’s (AFP) Outstanding Philanthropist of the Year recognition in 2018 for his charitable work, among many other accolades.

He is the author/editor of six books, and was appointed to the Monument Advisory Committee for the new LGBTQ+ Purge Monument in Ottawa. Mark is the Financial Contributor to The Canadian Encyclopedia. Mark is the Benefactor of the Mark S. Bonham Centre for Sexual Diversity Studies at the University of Toronto, the Bonham Scholarships, and Bonham Chair in International Finance at the Rotman School of Management. He was the Capital Campaign Co-Chair for the new LGBTQI2S youth homeless shelter in Toronto and the Casey House Hospital campaign. In 2002, Mark was admitted as a Member of the Group of 175 most influential graduates of the University of Toronto.

Heaton Dyer is a retired Media Executive. He had served as the Executive Director of Strategy and International Relations for CBC/Radio-Canada, responsible for providing strategic thinking and planning as well as leading efforts to build international alliances and partnerships.

After leaving CBC/Radio-Canada he worked as the Chief Growth Officer for Canada’s oldest 2SLGBTQIA+ advocacy organization and publisher, Pink Triangle Press, where he still serves on the Board of Directors.

Dyer has had a long career in both strategy and programming, especially in news and current affairs. He is Australia born and has worked for four public and five private media companies on three continents and has nearly 40 years experience in media.

Dyer lives with his husband in Port Dover, on the shores of Lake Erie.

President of Pink Media.

Matt Skallerud began his online career in May 1995 with the launch of GayWired.com, which became one of the top 3 LGBTQ+ websites worldwide. Having worked with companies, large and small, for more than 20 years to reach the LGBTQ+ online consumer through this site and others, he is now focused on the most cutting-edge global innovations in programmatic ad buying, social networking and Web 2.0 technologies.

In addition, Skallerud is the former Board Chairman of the International Gay & Lesbian Travel Association (IGLTA) and has served on the boards Travel Gay Canada (TGC) and the LAGLCC. He is actively involved with key national LGBTQ+ organizations including the NGLCC, Out Professionals and Lambda Legal, just to name a few.

Vice-President, Content Development & Programming at Bell Media.

Justin Stockman is responsible for English TV programming including CTV, Crave and Bell Media’s suite of English-language specialty channels with a focus on developing groundbreaking new content and international content sales. In 2023, Stockman was recognized by Playback as Executive of the Year.

Stockman also leads Bell Media’s diversity and inclusion initiatives, both internally
as a member of the organization’s Diversity Leadership Council and with external
partners like HireBIPOC, the definitive and ubiquitous industry-wide roster of
Canadian BIPOC creatives and crew working in screen-based industries.