Max Ventura is the Chairman of CANVAS' Board. He is an established social development professional who has spent over two decades as head of Philam Foundation. Max is also the chairperson of the Philippine Coalition on Volunteerism, and serves as a trustee of the Museum Foundation Philippines, the Philippine College of Surgeon-Cancer Commission Foundation, the Philippine Foundation for Health and Development Inc. of The Medical City, and the Angat Buhay Movement of Atty. Leni Robredo.  

Rachel Follosco is a founding partner of the Law Offices of Follosco Morallos and Herce, a highly regarded law firm specializing in corporate and commercial law; public-private partnerships; construction; energy, aviation and mining; litigation and arbitration; immigration law; intellectual property law; taxation; and labor law. She is a tax expert, with extensive exposure in international taxation, tax structuring, and tax planning in relation to property acquisition, financing, and capital investment transactions. She is a tax consultant for various USAID-funded projects for the Bureau of Internal Revenue, particularly the taxation of the telecommunications industry and projects focused on improving business competitiveness in the Philippines. In addition, she was a senior lecturer in Taxation Law, Banking and Finance, and Legal Accounting at the University of the Philippines from 1994 to 2000 and in 2009.

Liza Flores is a past president of Ang Ilustrador ng Kabataan (Ang INK), the Philippines' first and only organization of illustrators for children. She is also a partner at Studio Dialogo, a small design and illustration studio in Manila. For CANVAS, she art directed and designed Karapat Dapat (2018), which was included in The White Ravens list for 2020, a selection by the International Youth Library of the best 200 children’s books around the world.

Robby Galang is the dean of the John Gokongwei School of Management in Ateneo de Manila University.  He was formerly a Senior Private Sector Specialist for the World Bank.  Prior to joining the World Bank Group, Robby has had more than a decade of international experience in the analysis of strategic and regulatory issues for private corporations. Robby completed his PhD in Management from the IESE Business School, his MSc in Development Economics from Oxford University and his AB in Communications from Ateneo de Manila University where he was the class valedictorian.

Gigo Alampay is the founder and executive director of CANVAS. For his work in CANVAS, Gigo was awarded a writing fellowship by the Rockefeller Foundation at its Bellagio Center in Italy. The fellowship is one of the most prestigious and competitive in the world, counting among its past awardees numerous Nobel laureates, Pulitzer winners, and MacArthur fellows. Gigo is also a policy consultant and lawyer with more than two decades experience in working with the Philippine government on various economic and competition-enhancing reform initiatives in the country. Gigo has been honored with outstanding alumni awards from the University of the Philippines, and the Graduate School of Global Policy and Strategy of the University of California San Diego.