Meet Our Leaders

Executive Team

Janiece Evans-Page
Chief Executive Officer

Janiece Evans-Page is the Chief Executive Officer of Tides, a nonprofit and philanthropic organization dedicated to advancing social justice. She leads Tides’ work with doers and donors to center the leadership of changemakers from communities historically denied power, connecting them to operational and advisory services, capacity building, and resources to amplify their impact. Under her leadership, Tides has evolved its mission, vision, and strategic direction to center proximate leaders and their communities. The organization has also developed a new set of grantmaking best practices and revised its service model for supporting fiscally-sponsored projects to grow their capacity to effectively run their organizations and meet their missions.

Prior to joining Tides in 2021, Janiece served as the inaugural Chief Sustainability and Diversity Officer at Fossil Group and Head of Fossil Foundation. In this role, she launched Fossil Group’s global philanthropy practice, leading the strategic development of its social impact investment portfolio and environmental sustainability framework. She was also the architect of Fossil Foundation’s signature initiative, which empowers youth through innovative partnerships with social entrepreneurs. Previously, Janiece spent more than 20 years at Hewlett-Packard, serving as vice president and general manager of HP’s Imaging and Printing Attach Organization, which she launched and grew into a $600M+ global enterprise. She also launched HP’s global e-inclusion strategy, which included a global team that led digital inclusion investments in 20+ countries. 

Janiece serves on several boards, including Southern New Hampshire University, Echoing Green, and St. Mary’s College’s School of Economics and Business, as well as numerous advisory councils. In May 2024, Janiece will receive an Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters from Golden Gate University in recognition of her cumulative accomplishments and commitment to lead and serve, locally and globally. In 2021, she was honored at the 12th Annual Powerful Women of The Bay Awards luncheon and was selected as one of the San Francisco Business Times’ 2021 Most Influential Women in Business. In 2018, she was honored by Ebony Magazine as one of its Power 100 awardees. 

She holds a B.S. in Social Sciences/Organizational Behavior from the University of California at Berkeley, and an Executive M.B.A. from Golden Gate University in San Francisco. 

Suneela Jain
Chief Legal and Compliance Officer

Suneela Jain is Tides Chief Legal and Compliance Officer and Chief of Staff.  In this capacity, Suneela oversees Tides’ legal risk and compliance function, supporting organizational awareness and frameworks for risk management that center Tides’ mission and values. Prior to joining Tides, Suneela worked as an attorney at Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton and Gunderson Dettmer, and as a pro bono attorney at The Nature Conservancy.  In those roles, she advised individuals, non-profits, and a range of private and public actors about issues relating to corporate governance, shareholder relationships, investments, and structuring joint venture and other partnerships. At Cleary, she also advised small businesses as chair of the Microenterprise Project at Volunteers of Legal Services and served as a member of the Pro Bono, Diversity & Inclusion, and Mentoring Committees.

Suneela is a member of the Board of Directors of The New Left Accelerator, a member of the Investment Committee at Realize Impact, and a member of the Ethics Task Force of the Council on Foundations.  Suneela received her JD from Yale University, and her BA from UCLA.

Karen Caldwell
Chief Financial Officer

Karen Caldwell brings 30+ years of finance, strategy, investment, and operations expertise to Tides. Fueled by her heartfelt passion for advancing social justice, she is excited to leverage her financial and operational acumen to foster meaningful change in alignment with Tides’ mission as the Chief Financial Officer.

Most recently, Karen was the Reform Alliance’s Chief Financial Officer, collaborating closely with executive leadership to champion criminal justice reform. Her extensive background spans financial reporting, accounting, investments, and risk management across sectors, including finance, government, and nonprofit organizations.

Previously, Karen held esteemed CFO roles in major organizations such as the NHP Foundation and the New York City Housing Authority, managing budgets exceeding $3.5 billion. Earlier in her career, she gained invaluable experience as a capital markets strategist at prestigious institutions like Amundi, ABN AMRO, and JP Morgan.

Dan Shannon
Chief Partnerships Officer

In his role as Chief Partnerships Officer, Dan leads our work with doer and donor partners who hold charitable funds at Tides Foundation, as well as Tides’ overall growth strategy. He’s responsible for expanding and deepening engagement with Tides Foundation partners, ensuring that our service offerings and delivery model align with our partners’ needs and best support their impact.

In his previous role as Partner and Managing Director at Purpose, a leading social impact agency and consultancy, Dan collaborated with mission-driven organizations to design and implement strategies and campaigns aimed at mobilizing people to take action and create meaningful change. With a background in non-profit campaigns, communications, and organizing, Dan has led projects with US-based social justice organizations, including the ACLU and NARAL, as well as INGOs focused on international development and human rights, including UNICEF and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

Sajit Joseph
Chief Digital and Transformation Officer

Sajit Joseph is the Chief Digital and Transformation Officer at Tides, where he is responsible for technology, business operations, and transformation. Sajit is a C-Level executive with deep expertise in driving large-scale business transformation, building digital businesses, running business operations, and using innovation to transform organizations. The Fast Company magazine recognized him as one of the top 5 Innovative Leaders of 2022 and his team was recognized as the most Innovative team of 2023.

Before Tides, he was the Chief Innovation Officer and executive leader of the American Red Cross. During his 6+ year tenure as the Chief Innovation Officer, he led the transformation of the organization using innovation. Before that, he was with leading management consulting firms like Deloitte and Publicis Sapient where he held various management and technology consulting roles, working with companies ranging from Silicon Valley startups to Fortune 500 companies like Walmart, Sprint, Kohl’s, Audi, and OfficeMax.

Sajit holds a Masters in International Business, a Post Graduate Diploma in Mass Communications, and a Bachelors in Engineering.

Liz Landon
Chief People Officer

Liz Landon is Tides’ Chief People Officer overseeing all HR-related activities and serving as a cultural champion for the organization.

Prior to joining Tides, Liz led the transformation of the international HR function of Fishawack Health as its first Chief People Officer and as one of its board members after spending her prior chapters as Heartland Alliance’s Chief Human Resources Officer and Vice President of Human Resources at the Lyric Opera of Chicago. At Lyric, Liz initiated the first IDEA program, which included designing and securing funding for a paid internship program to open opportunities in the arts to underrepresented groups. Liz started her career with Accenture, where she played global leadership roles in Human Resources, and in Accenture’s Management Consulting practice, where she worked with clients, focusing on organizational strategy, diversity and equity, and change management.

Liz holds a B.A. in Economics, an M.B.A, and an M.A. in Public Policy from the University of Chicago. She serves as a member of Extraordinary Women on Boards.

Ayesha Khanna
Executive Director, Tides Center

Ayesha Khanna has spent her career dedicated to advancing opportunities and rights for diverse founders and marginalized communities through high-impact, innovative approaches. She has worked 20+ years in social impact and business sectors leading national and global organizations. As Managing Director of CARE Enterprises, Ayesha developed CARE’s global impact fund and tailored gender equal policies and practices to small businesses led by, employing and serving women. She was a member of Acumen Fund and as a President with Points of Light, led business development and the global practice. In addition, Ayesha founded the CivicX social enterprise accelerator, led the YWCA, and began her career building health centers in Punjab, India.

Ayesha has experience providing fiscal sponsorships and designing programs to accelerate early-stage founders as part of the incubator she led at Points of Light and working with 275+ startups in the CivicX portfolio. She has also led many organizations through transformative change starting as a senior manager in the strategy practice of Andersen Consulting. She has served on numerous community boards and is co-founder of the Atlanta Civic Collaboratory, Innovator in Residence at Emory University’s Hatchery, chairs solutions journalism non-profit Atlanta Civic Circle, and serves on the national Fuse Corps city fellowship and TEDx Atlanta Boards of Directors.