CBC / Radio-Canada

Timothy W. Casgrain was appointed Chair of the CBC/Radio-Canada Board of Directors on April 26, 2007, for a five-year term.

As Chair, Mr. Casgrain acts as the principal liaison between the Board and the President and CEO ensuring the Board is alert to its obligations under federal law and to its public responsibilities.

Mr. Casgrain is Vice-Chairman of Skyservice Investments Inc., a wholly owned Canadian corporate aviation company, and has been involved with Skyservice since 1997. From 1976 to 2002, he served as Executive Vice-President of Brascan Financial Corporation (now Brookfield Asset Management), and from 1988 to 1995, he was seconded to NBS Technologies Inc. as President and CEO. Born in Montréal, he received a Bachelor of Arts from McGill University in 1969. In 1976, he became a member of the Order of Chartered Accountants of Québec.

Hubert T. Lacroix was appointed President and CEO of CBC/Radio-Canada by order-in-council dated October 31, 2007, for a five-year term. He began his mandate on January 1, 2008.

As President and CEO, Mr. Lacroix is responsible for overseeing the management of CBC/Radio-Canada in order to ensure that Canada’s national public broadcaster can deliver on its mandate and continue to offer Canadians a broad spectrum of high quality programming that informs, enlightens and entertains, and that is created by, for and about Canadians.

Prior to Mr. Lacroix’s appointment to CBC/Radio-Canada, he held the position of Senior Advisor with the Montreal office of Stikeman Elliott, a law firm recognized nationally and internationally for its business law practice.

Mr. Lacroix received his Bachelor of Civil Law (1976) and his Master of Business Administration (1981) from McGill University. He has been a member of the Bar since 1977.

Linda Black was appointed to the Board of Directors of CBC/Radio-Canada effective April 21, 2008, for a five-year term.

Ms. Black sits on the Law Enforcement Review Board of Alberta and is a member of the Alberta Secretariat for Action on Homelessness. In addition to many other Board positions, Ms. Black acted as Founding General Counsel for the University of Calgary. Prior to that, she held several senior positions within the Government of Newfoundland and Labrador, including Assistant Deputy Minister for the Department of Employment and Labour Relations, and Solicitor for the Department of Justice.

Ms. Black attended Memorial University in Newfoundland and studied economics (1970-1972). She later earned a Bachelor of Laws from Dalhousie University (1975) and a Master of Laws from the University of Ottawa (1982).

Edward W. Boyd was appointed to the Board of Directors of CBC/Radio-Canada effective June 1, 2010, for a five-year term.

Mr. Boyd is Chief Executive Officer of 58Ninety Inc., a digital marketing agency, where he has created interactive marketing strategies and solutions for major clients.

Previously, Mr. Boyd was President and CEO of Iceberg Media.com, a pioneering Canadian Internet radio broadcaster, which was later acquired by Standard Radio. Before joining Iceberg, he held the position of President at e-commerce book retailing company, Indigo Online.

Mr. Boyd holds a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from the University of Toronto (1986), and a Master of Business Administration from The Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto (1997).

Peter D. Charbonneau was appointed to the Board of Directors of CBC/Radio-Canada effective December 19, 2008, for a five-year term.

Mr. Charbonneau is a general partner at Skypoint Capital Corporation, an early-stage technology venture capital firm. Prior to taking on his current position with Skypoint Capital Corporation,
Mr. Charbonneau was an Executive Vice-President of March Networks Corporation. Previously, he had spent 13 years at Newbridge Networks Corporation in various capacities, including Chief Financial Officer, Executive Vice-President, President and Chief Operating Officer, and Vice-Chairman.

Mr. Charbonneau holds a Bachelor of Science from the University of Ottawa (1975) and a Master of Business Administration from the University of Western Ontario (1977). He has been a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Ontario since 1979. Mr. Charbonneau also holds the ICD.D certification, having completed the Directors’ Education Program of the Institute of Corporate Directors of Canada.

George Cooper was appointed to the Board of Directors of CBC/Radio-Canada effective May 9, 2008, for a four-year term.

Mr. Cooper is a senior partner in the law firm McInnes Cooper in Halifax and is also Chair of its Board of Directors. He currently acts as Managing Trustee of the Killam Trusts, which oversee educational and scholarship trusts worth approximately $425-million at five Canadian universities and the Canada Council for the Arts.

Mr. Cooper received his Bachelor of Science (1962) and his Bachelor of Laws (1965) from Dalhousie University. He later attended Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar, where he received a Bachelor of Civil Law (1967), and was admitted to the Nova Scotia Bar the same year. Dalhousie University, the University of Alberta and the University of King’s College have each granted Mr. Cooper honorary Doctor of Laws degrees in 2004, 2007 and 2008, respectively.

Patricia A. McIver was appointed to the Board of Directors of CBC/Radio-Canada effective June 18, 2008, for a five-year term.

Mrs. McIver is a Chartered Accountant and currently works with Richardson Partners Financial Limited, a prominent independent wealth management firm. In the course of her extensive career in the financial industry she also has been employed by Price Waterhouse Coopers and Manning Elliott. Prior to joining Richardson Partners Financial, she held an advisory position at Standard Life, a financial services group.

Mrs. McIver holds a Bachelor of Arts (Honours in Business Administration) from the Richard Ivey Business School at the University of Western Ontario (1985). In 1988, she earned her Chartered Accountant designation from the Canadian Institute of Chartered Accountants (CICA) and the Institute of Chartered Accountants of British Columbia (ICABC). Subsequently, Mrs. McIver completed the CICA
In-Depth Tax Program and the CICA Tax Specialty programs in Corporate Reorganizations and Wealth Preservation. She holds both the CFP (Certified Financial Planner) and TEP (Trust and Estate Planner) designations.

Brian R. Mitchell was appointed to the Board of Directors of CBC/Radio-Canada for a five-year term, effective April 21, 2008.

Mr. Mitchell is a managing partner of Mitchell Gattuso, a boutique Montreal law firm with an extensive corporate practice. He previously worked for the Montreal law firm Ahern Lalonde Nuss Drymer, and served as articling student for Heenan Blaikie and Lang Michener in Montreal and Toronto respectively.

Mr. Mitchell holds a Bachelors of Arts in History and Literature from Harvard University. He subsequently was awarded the 125th Anniversary Scholarship by the faculty of Law at McGill University. He was admitted to the Quebec Bar in 1987.

Rémi Racine was appointed to the CBC/Radio-Canada Board of Directors effective October 12, 2007, for a four-year term.

Mr. Racine has been Chairman of the Board and CEO & Executive Producer of Artificial Mind & Movement (A2M), a leading independent video game developer in Canada and an award-winning interactive multimedia business since 1999. From 1996–1999, he held the position of Executive Producer and General Manager of Behaviour Interactive, a platform game producing company
Mr. Racine eventually acquired. In 1994, Mr. Racine co-founded MMI Multimedia Interactif, a CD-ROM entertainment maker, where he served as Vice-President of Finance & Development, before selling the company in 1996.

Mr. Racine holds a Bachelor in Business Administration (Major in Administration, Finance and Real Estate) from Université du Québec à Montréal.

Edna Turpin was appointed to the CBC/Radio-Canada Board of Directors effective December 6, 2006, for a five-year term.

Dr. Turpin has been an executive consultant for local, national and international clients since 2002. She was previously involved in business organizations in various capacities including Interim Executive Director of the Canadian Mental Health Association’s Newfoundland and Labrador Division, as well as Director of Marketing and International Development for the College of the North Atlantic.

Dr. Turpin holds a Master of Education, Educational Psychology (M. Ed.) from Memorial University in Newfoundland (1971), and a Doctorate in Education (Ed. D.) from the University of Maine at Orono (1981).

John Fitzgerald Young was appointed to the CBC/Radio-Canada Board of Directors effective September 9, 2009, for a five-year term.

Mr. Young is the Dean of the College of Arts, Social and Health Sciences at the University of Northern British Columbia, and a Senior Fellow at the International Center for Law and Religion Studies at Brigham Young University. Prior to that, he was an Assistant Professor of Political Science (1997–2004), and later the Chair of Political Science (2004–2008) at the University of Northern British Columbia.

Mr. Young holds a Doctorate in Political Science from the University of Toronto (1997), as well as a Master of Arts from the Institute of Soviet and East European Studies at Carleton University (1989). He received a Bachelor of Arts (Honours in Slavic Studies) from the University of Alberta (1987), and a certificate in Russian language training from the Pushkin Pedagogical Institute in Moscow (1988).

Pierre Gingras was appointed to the CBC/Radio-Canada Board of Directors effective February 3, 2011, for a five-year term.

Mr. Gingras was previously a member of the Quebec National Assembly for the electoral district of Blainville (2007–2008). In this capacity, he chaired the official opposition caucus and was opposition critic for transportation. Prior to being elected MNA, Mr. Gingras was a Blainville city councillor (1989–1993) and then served as mayor of Blainville (1993–2005). He founded and led the Parti de l’action civique de Blainville, and before entering municipal politics, he was Commissioner of the Sainte-Thérèse school board and worked in the printing industry.