Staff & Instructors
You’re going to love learning with us.
Camp Tech instructors understand small businesses because we’ve built them. We focus on teaching practical skills that won’t overwhelm you, and we won’t ask you to spend thousands on expensive tools. You deserve instructors who are patient, respectful, and empathetic. That’s us.
Libby Brewer-Dulac
Training Facilitator
With over a decade of experience designing, producing, and marketing digital content for kids and families, Libby loves helping others discover how the right tech tools can make their businesses run smoother and bring their passions to life. These days, she works with creative, women-led businesses as a Squarespace website designer, helping them build beautiful, functional websites and streamline their day-to-day operations—so they can focus on what they do best.
Kristy Guthrie
Instructor
Kristy Guthrie is a content strategist with over a decade of experience helping organizations tell their story, boost their impact, and reach their goals. In 2017, she founded Bright Light Content Inc., a small but mighty agency that plans, creates, and promotes strategic digital content for world changers.
Andréa Jones
Instructor
Andréa Jones is the social media strategist who helps small business owners go from stuck to strategic with her simple approach to social media: “take one little step each day. Build your social media savvy over time.” Digital business owners around the world flock to her award-winning agency, Savvy Social School, and top-100-rated marketing podcast by the same name — so they can discover how to make their impact on the world with social media (without the overwhelm). And spread their positivity across social platforms.
When she’s not teaching the power and positivity of social media, you can find Andréa at home with her growing family in picturesque Niagara Falls, Canada.
Jess Joyce
Instructor
Jess Joyce is an SEO Consultant who's worked in-house and agency side throughout Toronto for over 15 years. Starting as a front-end developer, she's morphed into running strategy for brands, but will get into the code where they allow her. These days she helps out mostly tech and SAAS companies with SEO and content. You can book a chat with her for any of your SEO consultant needs.
Nicole Mickelow
Instructor
Nicole got her career start in television before making a move to the world of digital over 15 years ago. She led digital/content teams for great organizations like Astral Media, TIFF and Skate Canada and then ventured out on her own to launch Mnemonics Media. She taps into over two decades of career experience covering digital strategy, content creation and marketing execution to help her clients with their varied business objectives. When not immersed in the work she loves, she can be found running through the city with her Eastbound Run Crew co-founders and run buddies or hitting up delicious restaurants on the east side.
Sara Norton
Instructor
Sara Norton is the Owner of REPLY-ALL, providing marketing automation services and tech advisory to small and growing businesses.
She has 13+ years of marketing experience across many industries including entertainment, non-profit, education, and software, as well as launching two businesses of her own.
Sean Power
Instructor
Sean Power is Director of Analytics Consulting at Bounteous, a digital transformation and co-innovation agency. He brings over a decade of experience in digital strategy and analytics. Before joining Bounteous, Sean ran a digital marketing agency specializing in B-Corps, social enterprises, and nonprofits. He currently volunteers on the Program Advisory Committee for the Digital Business Management program at Humber College. Sean holds a B.A. (Distinction) in History with a minor in English from the University of Western Ontario in London, Canada, and a Graduate Certificate (Hons.) in Marketing Management from Humber College in Toronto, Canada.
Hema Ramsingh
Instructor & Training Facilitator
Hema is a Toronto-based freelance digital marketing strategist with over 15 years of experience as part of corporate marketing teams. Presently, Hema collaborates with small businesses, entrepreneurs and content creators developing comprehensive digital and content marketing strategies to bring their brand to life.
Jules Ribi
Instructor
Jules has spent the last 10 years immersing herself in the intricacies of social media and digital marketing and advertising. Her experience in both agency and private sector settings has led her to work with a wide breadth of clients with diverse business objectives to ensure their digital strategies have maximum impact. A graduate of the University of Ottawa and Algonquin College, Jules specializes in digital strategy, Facebook and Instagram advertising, influencer marketing, content creation, and media relations. In her spare time you’re likely to find her blogging, reading sci-fi novels, and munching on Suzy Q donuts.
Jyll Saskin Gales
Instructor
Jyll Saskin Gales is a marketing coach, consultant and trainer. She advises business owners across industries and sizes, helping them get the best ROI from their marketing. Jyll teaches at Google for Startups, Camp Tech, Jelly Academy, boutique agencies, Fortune 100 companies and her own Learn with Jyll platform. She is TikTok's resident "Google Pro" with more than 60,000 followers tuning in for her clear & simple marketing tips. Jyll previously worked at Google for 6 years and has an MBA from Harvard Business School.
Avery Swartz
Founder & CEO
Avery is the founder and CEO of Camp Tech. She's the author of See You on the Internet: Building Your Small Business with Digital Marketing. Avery's also a tech correspondent for the media: you may have seen her on CTV's Your Morning, heard her voice on CBC Radio, or read her small business articles in The Globe and Mail. Avery was listed #5 on the Top 50 Women in Marketing list by Search Engine Journal.
Teri Vlassopoulos
Director of Operations
Teri Vlassopoulos is a CA, CPA with over 20 years of experience in finance and operations, specializing in the tech industry. She's worked for a wide range of companies such as EY, CGI, and FreshBooks. She is also a writer and her third novel, Living Expenses, is forthcoming in May 2025. She lives in Toronto.