Board of Directors

George Cope is Chair of the Board of Bank of Montreal, having been appointed to this position effective March 31, 2020. Mr. Cope has served in public-company chief executive roles in the Canadian communications industry for more than 25 years, earning a reputation as an innovative operational and financial strategist and leader of high-performance teams. Mr. Cope served as President and Chief Executive Officer for BCE Inc. and Bell Canada, the country's largest communications company, from 2008-2020. Mr. Cope retired from Bell on January 5, 2020. Mr. Cope was appointed to the Order of Canada in 2014, inducted into the Canadian Business Hall of Fame in 2018 and recognized as: Report on Business CEO of the Year, Corporate Citizen Award (2019), one of Harvard Business Review's top 100 Best-Performing CEOs in the World (2019); Canada's Outstanding CEO of the Year (2015); Ivey Business Leader of the Year (2013); Marketer of the Year (1997); and one of Canada's first Top 40 Under 40 (1996). A graduate of the Ivey School of Business at Western University (HBA '84), Mr. Cope has also been awarded honorary doctorates by Western, the University of Windsor, Trent University and Queen's University. He served as Chair of United Way Toronto in 2013, and received the Queen's Diamond Jubilee Medal for Bell Let's Talk in 2012 and the Richard Ivey School Distinguished Service Award in 2009. Mr. Cope recently retired from the board of Maple Leaf Sports & Entertainment Ltd. (MLSE). He serves on the board of Brain Canada and is the lead independent director at CGI.

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Darryl White was appointed Chief Executive Officer of BMO in 2017. He serves as a director of BMO Financial Group as well as its U.S. subsidiary, BMO Financial Corp. He is a member of the Ottawa-based Business Council of Canada, the Washington, D.C.-based The Business Council, the Mayor of Beijing’s International Business Leaders Advisory Council, and The Bank Policy Institute, a nonpartisan public policy, research and advocacy group, representing leading banks in the U.S. Darryl is Chair of the Catalyst Canada Advisory Board and a member of the Catalyst Board of Directors.

Mr. White has strong ties to United Way Centraide. In 2018, he became Co-Chair of the Inclusive Local Economic Opportunity Roundtable, a partnership between BMO and United Way Greater Toronto that brings together business and community leaders to develop approaches to reduce economic disparity in the region.

Mr. White serves as Campaign Cabinet Co-President for the Montréal Children’s Hospital Foundation. He is also a director of both the National Hockey League’s Montreal Canadiens, and Alpine Canada, the governing body for alpine, para-alpine and ski cross racing in Canada.

Mr. White is a graduate of the University of Western Ontario's Richard Ivey School of Business and has completed the Advanced Management Program at the Harvard Business School.

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Jan Babiak, a Corporate Director, is a former Managing Partner at Ernst & Young LLP (EY), an accounting firm. From 1982 until the end of 2009, and based in the United Kingdom from 1990 onwards, she held a number of roles including global assurance and advisory P&L leadership roles in Technology Security and Risk Services and Regulatory and Public Policy; and she founded and led their global Climate Change and Sustainability Services practice. She also served on EY’s management board for Northern Europe, Middle East, India and Africa. Her current listed company portfolio includes serving on the board of Walgreens Boots Alliance, Inc. where she chairs the Audit Committee and serves on the Finance Committee. She joined the board of Euromoney Institutional Investor PLC beginning December 1, 2017 and serves on its Nominations Committee, Remuneration Committee and as its Senior Independent Director. She recently completed her final term having served nine years as a Council member for the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales but continues to serve on select working groups. She has previously been named by NACD Directorship magazine as “One of the Most Influential People in the Boardroom Community”. She received a B.B.A. in Accounting from the University of Oklahoma and an M.B.A from Baldwin Wallace University and holds international information systems security and control, as well as US and UK accounting qualifications.

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Sophie Brochu is the President and Chief Executive Officer of Hydro-Quebec and has been active in the energy industry for more than 30 years. A graduate in economics from Université Laval, she began her career in 1987 at SOQUIP, a Quebec Crown Corporation. In 1997, she joined Énergir as Vice President, Business Development. In 2007, after holding various positions in the company, she became President and Chief Executive Officer, a position she held until December 2019. Ms. Brochu sits on the Board of Directors of Hydro-Quebec. Involved with Centraide of Greater Montreal, Ms. Brochu is the Chair of Fondation Forces Avenir which promotes students’ involvement in their communities. She is cofounder of “ruelle de l’avenir”, a project aimed at encouraging students in the Centre-Sud and Hochelaga neighbourhoods of Montréal to remain in school. Ms. Brochu was honoured as an Officer of the national order of Quebec, an honour granted to those who have changed the face of Quebec. Ms. Brochu is a member of the Order of Canada.

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Craig Broderick is a Corporate Director. He is a Senior Director of Goldman, Sachs & Co., from which he retired as an active employee in January 2018. He was until then, the firm’s Chief Risk Officer, a member of its Management Committee, and chair or co-chair of key risk committees. He spent 32 years with Goldman Sachs, primarily in the risk field. He is active with his alma mater including serving for nine years as a Trustee, and was chair of its Investment Committee. Mr. Broderick is a member of the advisory council of the International Association of Credit Portfolio Managers. Mr. Broderick also sits on the Boards of Street Squash, an organization that supports children, families and schools in Harlem and Newark, as well as, FREE (Finance Requires Effective Education), an organization that teaches the basics of finance to students in underserved communities. He holds a BA from the College of William and Mary.

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Stephen Dent is a Managing Director and co-founder of Birch Hill Equity Partners, a Toronto-based private equity firm. Mr. Dent has over 30 years experience in private equity and deep expertise in capital allocation, strategic planning, accounting and finance. Prior to his current role, he spent 15 years at a major Canadian chartered bank culminating in a senior role leading the Canadian private equity division of the bank. He is a Member of the Business Council of Canada. He is involved in the founding and ongoing support of Our Children’s Medicine; an organization promoting Indigenous employment with leading Canadian companies. He is also involved in the founding and ongoing support of the Birch Hill Scholarship Program; supporting business school education for Indigenous youth. He holds a BBA from Wilfred Laurier University and an MBA from the Ivey School of Business at Western University.

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Christine Edwards is a Corporate Director. Ms. Edwards is a former Capital Partner and chair of the Bank Regulatory Practice Group of Winston & Strawn LLP, an International law firm headquartered in the US (August 2003 to January 2021). Prior to joining Winston & Strawn, she was Executive Vice-President and Chief Legal Officer at several Fortune 250 Financial Services Companies including Bank One Corporation and Morgan Stanley. In those roles she had responsibility for each company’s law, compliance, regulatory and government relations functions. Ms. Edwards is ranked nationally in the area of Financial Services and Securities Regulation by Chambers USA and America’s Leading Lawyers for Business; she is an Illinois Super Lawyer and is listed in The Legal 500.

Ms. Edwards is Vice Chair of the Board, and Chair of the Audit Committee for Rush System for Health. In addition, she serves as a Vice Chair of the Board, Chair of the Audit Committee as well as a member on the Executive Committee, Audit and Nominating and Governance Committee for Rush University Medical Center. Ms. Edwards serves on the Leadership Board of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Center for Capital Markets in Washington D.C. Ms. Edwards is also the Co-Chair of the Chicago chapter of Women Corporate Directors. Ms. Edwards received a B.A. in English and Education from the University of Maryland and a J.D., with honors, from the University of Maryland School of Law.

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Martin Eichenbaum is the Charles Moskos Professor of Economics at Northwestern University (where he has been a Professor since 1988) and co-director of the Center for International Economics and Development at Northwestern University. He is an International Fellow of the C.D. Howe Institute and a fellow of both the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Econometric Society. He is also an Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) and a co-editor of its Macro Annual. He spent four years as the co-editor of the American Economic Review. He is a consultant to the European Commission. He has served as a consultant to the Federal Reserve Banks of Atlanta and Chicago and the International Monetary Fund. He is a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. He received a Bachelor of Commerce from McGill University and a Doctorate in Economics from the University of Minnesota.

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David Harquail is a Corporate Director. Mr. Harquail is Chair of Franco-Nevada Corporation, a gold-focused royalty and streaming company, and previously served as its CEO from 2007 to 2020. He recently served as Chair of the World Gold Council and on the Greater Toronto United Way Campaign Cabinet and has over 40 years of experience on public and non-profit boards and task force advisories. Mr. Harquail holds a B.A.Sc. in Geological Engineering from the University of Toronto, an MBA from McGill University and is a registered Professional Engineer in Ontario. He is also a major benefactor of the Harquail School of Earth Sciences and its Mineral Exploration Research Centre (MERC) at Laurentian University in Sudbury as well as the Harquail Centre for Neuromodulation at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre in Toronto.

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Lorraine Mitchelmore, a Corporate Director, was recently the President and Chief Executive Officer of Enlighten Innovations Inc. She is also the Former Executive Vice President Heavy Oil for Shell, and Former Shell Canada Limited President and Canada Country Chair. Ms. Mitchelmore has strong executive management skills and over 30 years’ experience in the international oil and gas industry, with deep expertise in business strategy, operations, employee health and safety and public policy and innovation with respect to low carbon Energy transition. Prior to joining Shell in 2002, Ms. Mitchelmore held increasing senior roles in three other international oil and gas companies. Ms. Mitchelmore holds a BSc in Geophysics from Memorial University of Newfoundland, an MSc in Geophysics from the University of Melbourne, Australia and an MBA from Kingston Business School in London, England. Ms. Mitchelmore currently serves on the Catalyst Canada Board of Advisors, Alberta Investment Management Corporation Board of Directors, and was the recent chair of the Federal Resources of the Future Economic Strategy Table. She is currently the Chair of Suncor Energy Inc.’s Environmental, Health and Safety Committee, as well as the Founder and co-chair of Smart Prosperity.

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Linda S. Huber is the Chief Financial Officer of FactSet Research Systems Inc. Ms. Huber was previously Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer at MSCI Inc., where she managed the Company’s global finance and investor relations functions. Prior to that she was Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Moody’s Corporation where she had executive responsibility for the corporation’s global finance activities, information technology, communications and corporate services functions, as well as The Moody’s Foundation. Before joining Moody’s in 2005, Ms. Huber served in several increasingly senior roles in financial services, having served as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer at U.S. Trust Company, a subsidiary of Charles Schwab & Company, Inc.; Managing Director at Freeman & Co.; Vice President of Corporate Strategy and Development and Vice President and Assistant Treasurer at PepsiCo. Ms. Huber also held the rank of Captain in the U.S. Army and during her four years of military service, she received two Meritorious Service Medals and became airborne qualified. Ms. Huber holds an M.B.A. from the Stanford Graduate School of Business and a B.S. (with high honors) in business and economics from Lehigh University.

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Eric La Flèche is President and Chief Executive Officer of Metro Inc., a leading Canadian food and pharmacy retailer and distributor, since April 2008. He joined Metro in 1991 and has held several positions of increasing responsibility, including Executive Vice-President and Chief Operating Officer from 2005 to 2008. Mr. La Flèche holds an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School and a civil law degree cum laude from the University of Ottawa. He is a long-time volunteer with Centraide of Greater Montreal (2015 Campaign Co-Chair) and serves on the advisory board of Tel-Jeunes, the leading kids help phone service in Quebec. Mr. La Flèche was recognized as Canada’s Outstanding CEO of the Year for 2020.

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Madhu Ranganathan is the Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer at OpenText. She brings more than 30 years of financial leadership experience, with an innovative Silicon Valley technology driven background with deep operational focus in software, hardware and tech-enabled services businesses. Prior to joining OpenText in 2018, she spent 10 years as the Chief Financial Officer of [24]7.ai, a global customer experience software and services company. Throughout her career she has served in various roles with innovative technology companies, and major accounting and financial services firms. Ms. Ranganathan currently serves as a Board Member & Audit Committee Chair for Akamai Technologies. She is a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants, India and a Member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants. She holds an MBA from the University of Massachusetts and a BS Accounting from the University of Madras.

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