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Senior Leadership Team
Caitlin Havlak
Co-founder & CTO
Caitlin is a developer and data analyst who uses her data and technology skills to drive audience revenue and growth potential for news outlets. She helped develop The Discourse’s audience revenue and growth strategy. She also led data journalism at The Discourse and taught data visualization at the UBC Graduate School of Journalism as an adjunct professor.
Tim Lam
Senior Manager, Audience Strategy
Tim is a writer and digital strategist who specializes in marketing, journalism, and media. His deep love for storytelling drove his career leading digital marketing in the media and ad agency world. Recently, he was the editor-in-chief for Cold Tea Collective, a platform serving the young Asian diaspora. He is a proud Simon Fraser University RADIUS Fellow and passionate about community building and civic engagement.
Editorial Team
Joe Lanane
Publisher Success Manager
Joe Lanane is a U.S.-based journalist with a passion for helping news operations establish locally and expand nationally. He helped Community Impact Newspaper grow “bigger than Texas” as executive editor, and more recently he consulted and freelanced for multiple outlets, including Local Media Association. He and his wife, Kimberly, currently travel full-time in an RV with their dog, Jordan.
Amy Van Es
Audience Strategy Manager
Amy is a digital strategist passionate about making the internet an equitable space. She spent the first decade of her career growing audiences in tech and publishing (most recently, as Deputy Editor at Today’s Parent) and has resolved to spend the second sharing what she learned to empower both individuals as digital citizens, and impact-driven projects.
