Board members

   
Paul Cantor
Chair of the Board*
(Toronto, Ontario)

Paul Cantor
Jamie Baillie
Bob Baldwin
Cheryl Barker
Diane Bean
Léon Courville
Anthony R. Gage
Lynn Haight
Jean Lefebvre
William A. MacKinnon
Michael P. Mueller

   

Appointed to the Board of Directors effective March 28, 2000.

Mr. Cantor is Senior Advisor at Bennett Jones LLP. He is also Chair of the York University Board of Governors and sits on the Boards of ING Bank of Canada and of Intact Financial Corporation. Mr. Cantor previously served as Chair & CEO of National Trust Company; President & CEO of Confederation Life; President, Investment Bank, Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce (CIBC); and Managing Partner of Russell Reynolds Associates Canada. As well, he has held Board appointments at CIBC, National Trust Company, Torstar, E-L Financial and Hees International Bancorp. Mr. Cantor was the founding Executive Director of the World Bank/Government of Canada-sponsored International Leadership Centre for Financial Sector Supervision at York University. He began his career at the Government of Canada’s Department of Finance and subsequently worked at Polysar Limited, a federal crown corporation.

Mr. Cantor is a former Chair of the Canadian Bankers Association’s Taxation Committee and acted as Chair of the ICD Commission on the Governance of Executive Compensation. He also served on the Federal Reserve Bank of New York’s International Capital Markets Committee; on Revenue Canada Taxation’s Advisory Committee; and on the Ontario Premier’s Council on Economic Renewal.

Mr. Cantor holds a BA from the University of Alberta, an LLB from the University of Toronto and is a Fellow of the Institute of Canadian Bankers (Ryerson University).

 

* As Chair of the Board, Mr. Cantor is an ex-officio member of all Board committees.