Tracee Smith is a member of Missanabie Cree First Nation in northern Ontario and has over 20 years of corporate and charitable work. She holds an MBA specialising in Indigenous Economic Development and a Masters in Finance from Queens University. She has created investment and wealth management strategies for both TE Wealth and Bank of Montreal, specific to the Indigenous community. She spent over five years with TD and TD Securities in Commercial Banking, and Wealth, and recently advised and co-authored with RBC Economics, "Building Bandwidth: Preparing Indigenous youth for a Digital Future". 

She has advised many organisations on finance and Indigenous strategy including National Aboriginal Capital Corporations Associations, Dundee Investment Management, NATIONAL Public Relations, Nestle Waters, Mohawks of Bay of Quinte, Royal Bank of Canada, amongst others. She currently sits on the Board of Directors of The Shoebox Project for Women, and in the past has been a Director of Ontario Nature, Smilezone Foundation, and The National Arts Centre.

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She is also the Founder and CEO of Outside Looking In, which she started as a business, then turned it into a national charity, which has become the largest Indigenous youth charity in Canada. She has implemented the organizations' programs in over 40 Indigenous communities across the country.

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She has won numerous awards, including being named one of Canada's top 50 Artists by The Canada Council for the Arts.

Ms. Randle is an experienced lender and business partner with over 25 years in the Canadian Banking industry.  Having held various positions in Business Banking, Real Estate Secured Lending, and Financial Restructuring, she has a deep background in risk management developed through both client facing and Executive oversight roles.  In 2018, Ms. Randle progressed to the position of Chief Risk Officer at MCAN Mortgage Corporation which focused on Enterprise Risk Management and Governance for the deposit taking, construction and mortgage lending business lines.  In late 2021, she joined Equitable Bank in its newly created Chief Credit Officer role, and with her team, lead the Bank's 2nd line of defence in the integration of risk frameworks during the acquisition of Concentra Bank.  Having worked her entire career in Financial Institutions, she is experienced with the regulatory landscape, monitoring and measuring emerging risks and trends, building resilience in uncertain times, and institutional integration of risk and strategy.

Ms. Randle holds an Honours Medial degree in Psychology Sociology from Queen's University and a Bachelor of Commerce,  Honours Business Administration degree from the University of Windsor. She is a former member of IWIRC (International Women's Insolvency & Restructuring Confederation),and is currently working on her ESG designation for Business Leaders.