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Selecting Canada’s Outstanding CEO of the Year
Celebrating its 31st anniversary this year, Canada’s Outstanding CEO of the Year award was established by executive search firm Caldwell Partners in 1990. This highly respected award honours an executive in Canadian business who exemplifies integrity, insists upon excellence, earns the trust of others and has built a globally competitive organization. It is the preeminent recognition for Canadian CEOs.
Canada’s Outstanding CEO of the Year advisory board comprises more than 20 of the country’s most respected business leaders and academics, including past honourees of the award. The board meets annually to select the current year’s recipient based on five key criteria: vision and leadership, corporate performance, global competitiveness, innovation and social responsibility.
The 2020 advisory board members are:
James Balsillie; Marie-P. Charette-Poulin, corporate director; Dean Connor, CEO and president, Sun Life Financial Inc.; George Cope, chair, Bank of Montreal; Patrick Daniel, chairman, Daniel Family Foundation; Paul Godfrey, executive chairman, Postmedia Network Inc.; Linda Hasenfratz, CEO, Linamar Corp.; Krystyna Hoeg, corporate director; Dezs? Horváth, dean emeritus, Schulich Chair in Strategic Management, Schulich School of Business, York University; Harold Kvisle, former CEO and president (retired), TransCanada Corp.; Jim Leech, chancellor, Queen’s University; Hugh MacKinnon, chairman and CEO, Bennett Jones; Nadir Mohamed, former CEO and president (retired), Rogers Communications Inc.; Gordon Nixon; Philip Orsino; Michael Roach, corporate director; Calin Rovinescu, CEO and president, Air Canada; Indira Samarasekera, president emeritus, University of Alberta; Lino Saputo, Jr., CEO and president, Saputo Inc.; Guylaine Saucier, corporate director; John Sheridan, corporate director; Edward Sonshine, CEO, RioCan Real Estate Investment Trust; Frank Vettese, corporate director and CEO emeritus, Deloitte Canada; Donald Walker, CEO, Magna International Inc.