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Corporate Directory Corporate Directory Board of Directors Galen G. Weston, B.A., M.B.A. Gordon M. Nixon, C.M., O.Ont.(1,2) Christi Strauss(1,4) Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the Corporate Director; Chair, BCE Inc. and Director, Corporate Director; former President and Chief Corporation; Chairman and Chief Executive BlackRock, Inc.; former President and Chief Executive Officer, Cereal Partners Worldwide, a Officer, Loblaw Companies Limited; Chairman, Executive Officer, Royal Bank of Canada; General Mills joint venture with Nestlé. Choice Properties Real Estate Investment Trust; Advisory Board, KingSett Canadian Real Estate Chairman, President’s Choice Bank; Director, Income Fund L.P.; Chairman, MaRS Discovery Wittington Investments, Limited. District; Chair, Queen’s University Capital Barbara Stymiest(1*,2,3) Campaign; Trustee, Art Gallery of Ontario. Corporate Director; Director, Blackberry Limited; Director, SunLife Financial Inc.; Director, Alannah Weston(4) President’s Choice Bank; former Member, Group Deputy Chairman, former Creative Director, J. Robert S. Prichard, O.C., O.Ont., LL.B., Executive, Royal Bank of Canada; former Chief Selfridges Group Limited; Chair, Selfridges M.B.A., LL.M., LL.D.(2*,3) Executive Officer, TMX Group Inc., Chair, Group Foundation; Board member, Blue Marine Non-Executive Chair, Torys LLP; Chair, former Canadian Institute for Advanced Research; Foundation and Reta Lila Howard Foundation; President and Chief Executive Officer, Trustee, University Health Network; Chair, Director, Wittington Investments, Limited. Metrolinx; Chair, Bank of Montreal; Director, Advisory Council for the Ivey Institute for Onex Corporation and Barrick Gold Leadership. Corporation; President Emeritus, University of Isabelle Marcoux, B.A., LL.B.(4*) Toronto; Trustee, Hospital for Sick Children. Chair, Board of Directors, Transcontinental Inc.; Director, Rogers Communications Inc. and Power Corporation of Canada; Director of the Thomas F. Rahilly, B.A., M.A., LL.B.(2,3*,4) (1) Audit Committee Montreal Children’s Hospital Foundation; 2016 Corporate Director; Retired Vice-Chairman, (2) Governance, Human Resource, Nominating Co-Chair of Centraide of Greater Montreal’s RBC Capital Markets. and Compensation Committee campaign. (3) Pension Committee (4) Environmental, Health and Safety Committee Robert Sawyer(1) * Chair of the Committee Sarabjit (Sabi) S. Marwah(1,2) Corporate Director; Director, Walter Group; Senator with the Senate of Canada; former former Director and President and Chief Vice-Chairman and Chief Operating Officer of Executive Officer, RONA Inc.; former Chief The Bank of Nova Scotia; Director, Cineplex Inc. Operating Officer of Metro Inc. and TELUS Corporation; Trustee and Vice-Chair, Hospital for Sick Children; Member of the Board of Directors, Toronto International Film Festival. Corporate Officers W. Galen Weston, O.C. Allan Bifield Nadeem Mansour Chairman Emeritus Deputy Chief Financial Officer Vice President, Internal Audit Services Galen G. Weston Khush Dadyburjor Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Chief Strategy Officer John Poos Group Head, Richard Dufresne Robert A. Balcom Pension and Benefits Executive Vice President, Senior Vice President, Chief Financial Officer General Counsel and Secretary John Williams Group Treasurer Gordon A.M. Currie Geoffrey H. Wilson Executive Vice President, Senior Vice President, Peter Effer Chief Legal Officer Investor Relations, Group Head, Tax Business Intelligence and Communications Rashid Wasti Kerry Rathbone Executive Vice President, Chantalle Butler Assistant Secretary Chief Talent Officer Vice President, Group Controller 144 George Weston Limited 2016 Annual Report.
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