Ross Grieve

Ross’s public service spans health, sports, education, the arts, and business.

He serves as a member of the National Cabinet for the Banff Centre Capital Campaign, the Honorary Advisory Board of the Anything is Possible Tour, the Board of Governors of Junior Achievement of Northern Alberta and Northwest Territories, the Board of Governors of The Miller Thomson Foundation, and the Board of Governors of the Canadian Olympic Foundation.  He is also Honorary Director of the Edmonton Business Council for the Visual Arts.

In addition to his position as President and Chief Executive Officer of PCL Construction Group Inc., Ross serves as a member of the Canadian Council of Chief Executives and of the World Presidents’ Organization.  He is also a member of the Board of Directors of Melcor Developments Ltd.

He was named Consumers’ Choice Businessman of the Year in 2004, and was selected by the University of Alberta as its 2005 Canadian Business Leader of the Year

Dick Haskayne

Dick has been a Director of 20 public companies, serving as Chairman of six of them, and is noted for his philanthropic support and volunteer commitment to the community.

He currently sits on the Board of Weyerhaeuser Company, and is past Chairman of the Board of TransCanada Corporation, Fording Inc., NOVA Corporation, TransAlta Corporation, and MacMillan Bloedel.  He was Chairman, President and CEO of Interhome Energy Inc. (IPL and Home Oil), and was President of Hudson’s Bay Oil and Gas, where he spent more than 20 years.

Dick holds the title of Board Chair Emeritus at the University of Calgary.  In 2001, the University of Calgary honoured him with The Richard F. Haskayne Chair in Accounting, and in 2002 the Faculty of Management was renamed the Haskayne School of Business.  In 2002, he and his wife, Lois, received the Generosity of Spirit Award for their philanthropy by the Association of Fundraising Professionals.

Dick is an Officer of the Order of Canada and has received the Canadian Business Leader Award. He is a Fellow of the Canadian Institute of Chartered Accountants and of the Institute of Corporate Directors.  He is also a Trustee of the Alberta Heritage Foundation for Medical Research, a Board member of the Hotchkiss Brain Institute, and a life member of the Alberta Children’s Hospital Foundation, and serves on the Advisory Committee for the Order of Canada

 

 

Peter Lougheed

Peter served as Premier of Alberta for 14 years, from 1971 to 1985. 

After retiring from politics, he became a partner in the Calgary-based law firm of Bennett Jones LLP from 1986 to 1999.  He is currently Counsel at the firm. 

He is a Director of several Canadian companies, and serves as President of the Advisory Council of the Historica Foundation of Canada, a charitable organization with the mission to foster the enhancement of Canadianism.  He is also a member of the Trilateral Commission, a group formed by private citizens of Europe, Japan and North America to help think through the common challenges and leadership responsibilities of these industrialized areas in the wider world.

Peter served in the late 1980s as Co-Chair of the Canadian Alliance for Trade and Job Opportunities, which sponsored Canada’s participation in the Canada-U.S. Free Trade Agreement.  In 1991, he became the Co-Chair of a high-level, bi-national group entitled the Canada-Japan Forum 2000: Partnership Across the Pacific.  The Forum’s mandate was to provide advice on enhancing the relationship between Canada and Japan. 

He is a member of the Privy Council of Canada and is a Companion of the Order of Canada. 

Peter received the Harvard Business School’s Alumni Achievement Award in 1986.  He is Chancellor Emeritus of Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario and holds eight Honorary Doctor of Laws degrees from Canadian universities.

Ted Newall

In addition to almost 50 years in private industry, Ted has devoted many years of service to developing sound public policy in Canada.  He has served as Chairman of the Business Council on National Issues and of The Conference Board of Canada, and received the Public Policy Forum award and the APEX Public Service Citation for his contribution to cooperation between government and the private sector in the area of public policy.

An Officer of the Order of Canada, Ted is the former Chairman of NOVA Corporation, a Director of Maple Leaf Foods Inc., and Chairman Emeritus of Canadian Pacific Railway. He has served as a Director of nine other public companies.  He is also a Director of the Canadian Public Accountability Board.

Ted was inducted into the Canadian Business Hall of fame in 2001.  Prior to that, he was named The Financial Post CEO of the Year for 1993, received the University of Alberta’s Canadian Business Leader Award in 1996, and was named International Business Executive of the Year for 1998 by the Canadian Council for International Business.  He also received the Honorary Membership Award in 1998 from the Association of Professional Engineers, Geologists, and Geophysicists of Alberta, and the Conference Board of Canada Honorary Associate Award in 2000.

He is a Fellow of the Institute of Corporate Directors, and an Honorary Fellow of the Chemical Institute of Canada.  Ted received his Honorary Doctor of Laws from the University of Saskatchewan, University of Calgary, University of Regina, and University of Ottawa.