About
Governance and board
Rungwell is governed by a volunteer board of directors, which appoints the Executive Director, approves the budget and the ethics charter, and answers to the members at the annual meeting.
The board
| Director | Since | Committees | Background |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sunita Varghese Chair | 2019 | Nominating and Governance (chair) | Former Chief Financial Officer of a Toronto credit union. Director of two Ontario charities. |
| Joseph Githinji Director, co-founder | 2021 | Ethics | Co-founded Rungwell and led its work in Kenya from 2015 to 2021. Chair of Rungwell Kenya Limited. Software engineer. |
| Hugh Carrington Director | 2018 | Audit and Finance (chair) | Retired audit partner. Thirty years auditing charities and public bodies in Ontario. |
| Dr. Grace Karanja Director | 2020 | People and Wellbeing (chair); Ethics | Labour economist at a university in Nairobi. Studies youth employment and informal work in East Africa. |
| Ramon Villaluz Director | 2020 | Audit and Finance; Nominating and Governance | Lawyer in Makati. Chair of Rungwell Philippines, Inc. |
| Elaine Roussel Director | 2022 | Ethics (chair) | Former head of product at a Montréal computer-vision company. Writes on the ethics of data supply chains. |
| Daniel Kimani Labeller-elected director | 2025 | People and Wellbeing | Quality reviewer at the Nairobi centre. Elected by labellers at both centres in March 2025 for a two-year term. |
| Nadine Arsenault Executive Director (ex officio, non-voting) | 2015 | — | Attends all board meetings except in camera sessions. |
- Directors are unpaid. Travel to board meetings is reimbursed. Directors declare their interests annually and leave the room for any item in which they have one.
Committees
- Audit and Finance
- Financial statements, the external audit, risk and the budget. Meets four times a year.
- Ethics
- The ethics charter, client and project vetting, and referrals from cohort representatives. Meets six times a year.
- People and Wellbeing
- Pay, the wellbeing program, health and safety, and the Executive Director’s performance. Meets four times a year.
- Nominating and Governance
- Board composition, elections and the bylaws. Meets twice a year.
The labeller-elected director
Since 2025 labellers at both centres, including Rungwell at Home, elect one director for a two-year term. Candidates must have worked at Rungwell for at least two years. The first election, in March 2025, had a turnout of 61% and was won by Daniel Kimani, a quality reviewer in Nairobi. The next election is due in the first quarter of 2027.
Raising a concern
Anyone, inside or outside Rungwell, may raise a concern about our conduct in confidence with the chair of the ethics committee and the General Counsel at ethics@rungwell.org. Concerns are acknowledged within five working days. Nobody who raises a concern in good faith will suffer for it.
Page last reviewed 12 October 2026