Louise Neil is the Principal Advisor, Investigations & Professional Education, with Toddington International Inc. (TII), bringing senior investigative, operational, and educational expertise to TII’s client engagements, professional education programs, and continuing development of investigative methodologies.
A seasoned police major-crime investigator, educator, and former Royal Canadian Air Force pilot, Louise brings more than three decades of operational, leadership, and educational experience spanning military aviation, major-crime investigations, intelligence, and professional education. Her extensive practical background helps ensure TII’s investigative services and educational programs remain grounded in real-world operational experience.
Louise serves as a senior advisor on complex investigative assignments and contributes to the design and delivery of advanced investigative and professional education programs for government, law enforcement, defence, financial institutions, and private-sector organizations. She also advises TII on investigative methodology, curriculum development, educational standards, and the preparation of practitioners delivering TII programs.
Her areas of expertise include Open-Source Intelligence (OSINT), major-crime investigations, intelligence analysis, interviewing, critical thinking, and investigative methodology. Louise plays an important role in the continuing evolution of TII’s proprietary investigative education and AI-enabled programs, helping translate operational experience into practical methodologies and learning that can be applied in demanding professional environments.
In addition to her work with TII, Louise maintains an independent professional consulting and instructional practice and teaches at the Justice Institute of British Columbia (JIBC).
Louise holds a Bachelor of Arts in Law and Psychology from Carleton University. Her combination of operational experience, investigative expertise, and professional education makes her a valued senior advisor to TII and its clients.
As an associate of Toddington International’s Vancouver Headquarters, Sarah provides daily support for the company’s international e-learning division.
Sarah is also an Investigator for Service Canada – Employment and Social Development Canada’s Integrity Services Branch, specializing in the Temporary Foreign Worker Program. She conducts investigations on employers in order to determine compliance in accordance with the Immigration and Refugee Protection Acts and Regulations (IRPA/IRPA).
Sarah previously worked for Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) at the Vancouver International Mail Centre for over three years, first as a Student Border Services Officer and then subsequently transitioning into an administrative role as an Enforcement Clerk, as well as a Casual Refunds & Processing Clerk. While working as an officer for CBSA, she interpreted and applied the Customs Act, and the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act, intercepting and seizing contraband travelling through the mail stream, including a variety of narcotics, prohibited weapons, illegal media, and other forms of impermissible goods, through the use of x-ray detection technology, risk assessments, and inspections.
Carina McDonald is a Senior Associate and member of Toddington International’s international faculty, bringing extensive operational experience in intelligence, investigations, interviewing, and online investigations. As a recognized specialist in Human Intelligence (HUMINT), Social Media Intelligence (SOCMINT), and critical thinking, she supports TII’s delivery of advanced intelligence education to government, law enforcement, defence, and private-sector organizations.
Drawing on her police training experience, Carina has developed particular expertise in integrating traditional investigative techniques with modern digital intelligence methodologies. Her work focuses on intelligence collection, behavioural analysis, online investigations, interviewing strategies, and analytical decision-making, helping investigators navigate increasingly complex information environments.
Working alongside TII’s international team of subject matter experts, Carina contributes to the development and delivery of specialized education programs that combine operational experience with practical, evidence-based methodologies. Her collaborative approach supports TII’s mission of providing intelligence professionals with relevant, current, and operationally focused capabilities.
Carina’s professional interests include HUMINT, SOCMINT, critical thinking, investigative interviewing, digital investigations, and the evolving role of artificial intelligence in supporting investigative and intelligence workflows while reinforcing the importance of human judgment and analytical rigor.
As part of Toddington International’s global network of specialist instructors and advisors, Carina contributes to the company’s ability to deliver world-class intelligence education and advisory services to clients worldwide.
With unique experience working at the Public Health Agency of Canada’s National Microbiology Laboratory (NML), Chelsey Goodman has played a vital role in many of Canada’s global infectious disease prevention and response initiatives, including the 2014 Ebola outbreak, the 2009 H1N1 avian flu pandemic, the 2008 SARS pandemic, and bio-terrorism surveillance at the 2010 Winter Olympics.
Chelsey is one of a small number of responders to experience real-time pandemic activation, as well as play a role in response and subsequent mitigation of global impacts. Her knowledge of how disease outbreaks occur and what a real-time Emergency Operations Center can do is based on first person experience acting in the capacity of the NML’s Emergency Operations Chief.
As well as her real world scientific data-analysis experience, Chelsey is a highly skilled Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) practitioner and a passionate educator.
Mark Ploszay is a Specialist Advisor in Intelligence Analysis and Defence with Toddington International Inc., bringing more than 30 years of experience across military intelligence, civilian law enforcement, analytical technology, professional education, consulting, and international business development.
During 22 years as a United States Air Force intelligence analyst, Mark worked across Signals Intelligence, Electronic Intelligence, Human Intelligence, counter-terrorism, and counter-insurgency. He was certified as an Intelligence Analyst under the U.S. National Security Agency Professionalization Programme and served as a Royal Air Force Duty Reporting Officer at a joint multinational analysis and reporting centre.
Mark later worked with the West Mercia Constabulary Major Investigation Unit, providing intelligence support to investigations involving organized crime, human trafficking, major fraud, and homicide. He subsequently held senior training, programme-management, subject-matter expert, and global business-development roles with i2 and IBM, supporting defence, national-security, law-enforcement, immigration, customs, and border organizations internationally.
Since establishing his UK-based consultancy in 2017, Mark has advised and briefed senior audiences across government, defence, intelligence, law enforcement, and technology sectors.
At TII, Mark contributes to selected client engagements involving intelligence analysis, defence and national-security capability development, curriculum design, professional education, executive briefings, and strategic advisory support.
Yaniv Pereyaslavsky serves as Senior Associate, Economic Security & Strategic Intelligence at Toddington International Inc, where he contributes to the development and delivery of advanced intelligence solutions, strategic advisory services, and executive education programs. Bringing extensive experience in open-source intelligence, corporate intelligence, economic security, strategic planning, and risk assessment, Yaniv helps organizations understand and respond to an increasingly complex global threat environment.
Prior to joining Toddington International, Yaniv held intelligence and strategic advisory roles supporting government and industry, specializing in economic security, sensitive technologies, foreign investment risk, and strategic intelligence. His work has included intelligence collection, analytical methodologies, risk assessment, geopolitical analysis, and decision support for organizations operating in complex international environments.
Working closely with Toddington International’s leadership team, Yaniv plays an expanding role in the development of new intelligence methodologies, AI-enabled intelligence solutions, research initiatives, and specialized client engagements. His practical experience and forward-looking approach contribute to TII’s continued evolution as an international intelligence education, research, and advisory organization.
Yaniv’s professional interests include economic security, strategic intelligence, emerging technologies, foreign influence, supply chain resilience, critical infrastructure, corporate intelligence, and the responsible integration of artificial intelligence into intelligence collection and analysis.
As part of Toddington International’s leadership team, Yaniv supports governments, defence organizations, financial institutions, and multinational corporations through intelligence-led research, strategic advisory services, and professional education designed to strengthen organizational resilience and informed decision-making.