Board of Directors
Members sit on both ÃÛÌÒ´«Ã½. and Postmedia Network Inc. boards and have been appointed to serve until the next annual meeting of shareholders.
Peter Sharpe (Chair)
Mr. Sharpe retired as President and Chief Executive Officer of Cadillac Fairview Corporation in 2010, having served with the company for over 25 years. Mr. Sharpe is currently a director of Morguard Corporation and Chairman of the board of directors and Trustee of Clifton Blake Asset Management. Mr. Sharpe is also a past Chairman and current Trustee of the International Council of Shopping Centers.
Andrew MacLeod (Director)
Mr. MacLeod was appointed President and Chief Executive Officer of Postmedia in January 2019 and a Director of Postmedia in April 2019, after serving as President and Chief Operating Officer since 2017, Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer since 2016 and Executive Vice President and Chief Commercial Officer since July 2014. Prior to that, he held a number of senior executive positions in the technology industry, serving as the Senior Vice President and Regional Managing Director of North America at BlackBerry Limited. Mr. MacLeod currently serves as Director of Waterfront Toronto, Communitech and is the Chair of Invest Ontario.
Janet Ecker (Director)
Ms. Ecker is a Corporate Director who recently retired from the role of President and Chief Executive Officer of Toronto Financial Services Alliance, having served in the role for nearly 13 years. Ms. Ecker served as a Member of Provincial Parliament in Ontario from 1995 to 2003 and held the portfolios of Minister of Finance, Minister of Education, Minister of Community and Social Services and Government House Leader. In 2002, she was the first woman to deliver a budget in Ontario. In November 2016, Ms. Ecker was named a Member of the Order of Canada for being a leader in the financial industry.
Wendy Henkelman (Director)
Ms. Henkelman is a Corporate Director with extensive experience in finance including accounting, treasury, taxation, information systems, internal controls and risk management. She has held executive positions in major oil and gas companies including Vice President, Treasury and Compliance with Penn West Exploration and Country Tax Manager at Shell Canada Limited. Ms. Henkelman has chaired major pension trusts of public corporations, is the past President of the Canadian Petroleum Tax Society, is a past director of ATB Financial and is a former member of the Tax Executives Institute and the Canadian Tax Foundation. Ms. Henkelman currently sits on the board of TriSummit Utilities, where she chairs the Audit Committee.
Mary Junck (Director)
Ms. Junck is Chair of Lee Enterprises, Incorporated, a leading provider of local news, information and advertising in 74 primarily midsize markets in the United States. Ms. Junck began her career at the Charlotte Observer in 1972 as marketing research manager. She later held senior executive positions at the former Times Mirror Company, as Executive Vice President of Times Mirror and President of Times Mirror Eastern Newspapers. Ms. Junck is the retired Chair of the board of directors of the Associated Press, the world’s oldest and largest newsgathering organization, and served on the board of Augustana College in Rock Island, Illinois, a private liberal arts college.
Jason Kenney (Director)
Mr. Kenney is a distinguished Canadian politician who recently completed a 25-year career in elected public service at both the federal and provincial levels. Mr. Kenney served as the 18th Premier of Alberta from 2019 to 2022 and, prior to that, Mr. Kenney was a Member of federal Parliament from 1997 to 2016, representing Calgary Southeast. During this time, he held several key cabinet positions, including Minister for Citizenship, Immigration and Multiculturalism; Minister of Employment and Social Development; and Minister of National Defence. Mr. Kenney is currently a Senior Advisor at Bennett Jones LLP, one of Canada’s premier business law firms, and serves on the board of directors of ATCO Ltd.
Terrie O’Leary (Director)
Ms. O’Leary is a seasoned executive with significant experience in government relations, strategy and finance. Most recently, Ms. O’Leary served as the Executive Vice President of Business Strategy & Operations at Toronto Global. Ms. O’Leary’s extensive public and private sector experience includes serving as Interim President and CEO of Invest Toronto, as a Board Director at the World Bank in Washington, D.C., and as a member of the board of directors of the Greater Toronto Airports Authority. Ms. O’Leary was also the Chief of Staff to Canada’s Minister of Finance, Paul Martin, from 1993 to 1998.