Mallory Yawnghwe is a dynamic force in the worlds of entrepreneurship and community engagement, leveraging her extensive experiences, deep community ties, and education to drive positive change. As the Co-Founder & Co-CEO of Indigenous Box, Mallory champions Indigenous businesses and nurtures meaningful connections within and between Indigenous communities and corporate Canada. She holds a Bachelor of Commerce in Supply Chain Management from MacEwan University and was the first Indigenous person in Canada to hold the S.C.M.P. designation.

Mallory is highly respected in business and community circles, having consulted on a wide range of initiatives, including those with the Indigenous Women in Community Leadership’s Circle of Abundance, Fort Edmonton Park's Indigenous Peoples Experience, MacEwan University’s Centre for Supply Chain Excellence, the Royal Alberta Museum, Supply Chain Canada, Global Affairs Canada, the Government of Alberta, the University of Waterloo, and Edmonton Global. She has also provided insights in advisory meetings with various Canadian government officials and leaders in employment, workforce development, and disability inclusion.

Mallory and Indigenous Box also acted as the primary advisor to the Trade Commissioner Service on the first Indigenous and Northern Artists and Makers Directory – a compendium of Canadian companies from across Western Canada and the territories that will allow officers at Canada’s 160 missions abroad to connect them with foreign buyers and partners.

Recently Mallory was invited to speak about Indigenous Box's unique economic development model at The World Economic Forum in Peru, and at the G20 Summit in Brazil.

Kham is a trained musician and business leader with a passion for social impact. His journey to Indigenous Box is less ‘typical’ and more ‘out-of-the-box’. A professional side-musician by trade, this results driven, big-picture-thinking, Co-Founder and Co-CEO considers himself ‘the drummer for Indigenous Box’.

What does that mean? It means he approaches his role in the company in the same way that he approaches a job as a side-musician, and particularly, as a drummer: a great drummer puts the music and the ensemble first. They know that their role is to provide a solid and comfortable foundation for the lead players to rest on. But it’s not enough just to play a beat, a great drummer propels the music forward, dictating the pace and the dynamic, all while making musical choices that underpin the intent of the songs. Most of all, they’re the glue that holds the ensemble together.

As one of Kham’s early mentors, the late iconic Canadian drummer Tom Doran taught him, “the audience should never notice the drummer. They only notice the drummer when they make a mistake”. The way Kham puts it, “you might not always notice the drummer, but nobody dances when they aren’t there”. But ‘the proof of the pudding is in the eating’. Kham’s creativity, thoughtful and supportive stewardship of the Indigenous Box story, and ability to push the envelope is the pulse behind the company's rapid-growth and deep connection with their customers.

Whether connecting with a concert-going audience or with Indigenous Box’s customers, Kham’s intention is the same: act in service, and improve with every performance.