Nine New Team Members. One Powerful Bench. Integrated Strategic Partners Isn’t Slowing Down.

Catherine Sparks brings more than two decades of executive leadership across municipal government, private industry and consulting, including a decade as Director and Branch Manager with the City of Edmonton. GNW

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Six senior hires and three support staff this fall makes Integrated Strategic Partners the deepest bench in Alberta government relations and expands the firm’s service offerings across the country

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EDMONTON, Alberta, Sept. 15, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Integrated Strategic Partners (ISP) today marked the completion of its senior consultant bench for fall 2026, with six senior hires joining the firm in just over two weeks: Hal Walker, Marty von Wuthenau, Catherine Sparks, J’lyn Nye, Robyn Henwood and Aileen Giesbrecht.

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“Six senior team members joining the firm in two weeks, in addition to three support staff is not just headcount. It’s bench depth,” said Andre Corbould, Managing Partner at ISP. “Each of our senior hires has experience as a key decision maker on the files they serve; whether in a newsroom, a minister’s office, a boardroom, or city hall. That first-hand expertise is what underpins our ability to move client files across the line.”

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Hal Walker joins ISP as Principal – Business Advisory Services, bringing more than 45 years in real estate investment and development and five decades advising Alberta’s political leadership, including chairing Ralph Klein’s 1992 leadership campaign.

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Marty von Wuthenau joins as Principal – Ontario East, bringing senior level experience across politics, cooperative financial services, and global public affairs, including five years leading regulatory campaign work for Philip Morris International in Lausanne, Switzerland.

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Catherine Sparks brings more than two decades of executive leadership across municipal government, private industry and consulting, including a decade as Director and Branch Manager with the City of Edmonton.

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J’lyn Nye brings nearly four decades in journalism, communications, and community leadership to ISP’s defence sector files, drawing on her standing as Honourary Colonel of 408 Tactical Helicopter Squadron and her relationships across the Canadian Armed Forces.

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Robyn Henwood brings more than 20 years across the pharmaceutical industry and provincial and federal public service, including her role as Government Relations and Policy Lead for Roche across Western Canada the Territories and Federal, and as Chief of Staff to a Minister.

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Aileen Giesbrecht brings more than two decades with the City of Edmonton, most recently as City Clerk, where she led Edmonton’s 2021 and 2025 municipal elections and worked alongside six City Councils and six City Managers.

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With the addition of two principles and four senior consultants, the firm is also excited to announce Devyn Onwuachi, Nathan Thiessen and Nathan Li as our newest members of the Research and Consulting Support Team.

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ISP’s clients have direct access to practitioners who have already worked their sector from the inside, at every order of government and across regulated industry. Now supported with more research and consulting expertise.