Notre conseil
Ann Bowman
Board of Directors, The Bentway
Vice Chairman, Enterprise Strategic Client Group, RBC
Retiring as vice chair with RBC, Ann’s experience reflects a broad range of executive leadership roles over 25 years, including Head Private Banking Canada, VP/Head Strategy for Canadian Banking, Channel strategy, Technology transformation and Sales Strategy. In the earlier part of her career, she held a range of roles in Commercial and Corporate banking.
Ann is bilingual and holds a Baccalauréat en sciences économiques from the Université Laval, an MBA from Queen’s University and has completed all three levels of the CFA program (AIMR).
As well, Ann has dedicated her expertise to a number of organizations and is the current chair of the National Gallery of Canada Foundation, past-chair of the Ontario Chamber of Commerce. She has also served on the Boards of the Women’s College Hospital Foundation, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre and Foundation and Peggy Baker Dance Projects.
David G. Smith
Gail O’Brien, LL.D.
Gail O’Brien holds positions with a variety of non-profit organizations in Canada and abroad. She is Co-Chair of the Council for Canadian American Relations, Chair of the Dean’s Advisory Council for the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Calgary and the Birks Advisory Board for Calgary, Vice-Chair of the Glenbow Museum, Trustee of the board of The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids), and Trustee of the Board of the Ontario Science Centre. She is also the past chair of the National Arts Centre Foundation and past board member of the YWCA of Calgary. Formerly the owner of a speciality women’s boutique and General Manager of Calgary’s Holt Renfrew, Gail was the recipient of the Women of Distinction Award for Business and Entrepreneurs in 2000. She holds a BA in English and Fine Arts from McGill University.
Robert S. Weiss, F.C.A.
Robert S. Weiss, F.C.A., is Treasurer of CBAC. Until his retirement in September 2000, he was the Managing Partner of Arthur Andersen for Toronto and partner-in-charge of the Ontario practice. He was recognized by the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Ontario as a Fellow in 1994. A graduate of the University of Toronto in Political Science and Economics, Robert now serves as a member of the Governing Council and the Business Board of U of T and is Past Chair of the Audit Committee. Past Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, he served as Chair of the Canadian Arts Summit Steering Committee in 2001-2002.