People: George Weston Ltd (WN.TO)

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Summary

Name Age Since Current Position

W. Galen Weston

 72 2011 Non-Independent Executive Chairman of the Board

Paviter Binning

 52 2012 President, Non - Independent Director

Richard Dufresne

 2012 Chief Financial Officer

Gordon Currie

 54 2005 Executive Vice President, Chief Legal Officer

Geoffrey Wilson

 2009 Senior Vice President - Financial Control and Investor Relations

Robert Balcom

 Senior Vice President, General Counsel, Canada, Secretary

Khush Dadyburjor

 Senior Vice President - Corporate Development

J. Bradley Holland

 Senior Vice President - Taxation

J. Robert Prichard

 64 2012 Lead Independent Director

Anthony Graham

 56 1996 Non-Independent Director

John Lacey

 69 2009 Non-Independent Director

Sarabjit Marwah

 2013 Director

A. Charles Baillie

 73 2003 Independent Director

Peter Eby

 74 2012 Independent Director

Darren Entwistle

 50 2011 Independent Director

Isabelle Marcoux

 43 2007 Independent Director

Thomas Rahilly

 69 2007 Independent Director

Barbara Stymiest

 56 2011 Independent Director
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Biographies

Name Description

W. Galen Weston

 Mr. W. Galen Weston, O.C, is Non-Independent Executive Chairman of the Board of George Weston Limited. Mr. Weston is the Executive Chairman of the Corporation and was Chairman of Loblaw from 1976 until his retirement in 2006. Mr. Weston is Chairman of Brown Thomas Group Limited, Holt, Renfrew & Co., Limited and Selfridges & Co. Ltd., and is President of The W. Garfield Weston Foundation. Mr. Weston received a B.A. and was awarded an Honorary Doctor of Laws degree from the University of Western Ontario.

Paviter Binning

 Mr. Paviter Singh Binning is President, Non - Independent Director of George Weston Ltd. Mr. Binning is the President and former Chief Financial Officer of the Corporation. Prior to these positions, he was an Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Chief Restructuring Officer of Nortel Networks Corporation.(4) Prior to joining Nortel, Mr. Binning was a board member and Chief Financial Officer at Hanson plc and Marconi Corporation plc. Mr. Binning previously held various senior corporate and operational finance roles at Diageo plc. Mr. Binning is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (U.K.).

Richard Dufresne

 Mr. Richard Dufresne is Chief Financial Officer of George Weston Ltd. Mr. Dufresne is joining Weston from a Canadian food distributor where for the past number of years he has held the position of Chief Financial Officer. Prior to that, he held senior positions within the investment banking sector.

Gordon Currie

 Mr. Gordon A. M. Currie is Executive Vice President, Chief Legal Officer of George Weston Limited. Mr. Currie, who prior to September 2005 was Senior Vice President and General Counsel of Direct Energy. His experience in private practice and in the business sector will enable Mr. Currie to contribute to a wide variety of strategic and business initiatives within Weston and its affiliated companies. He holds an LL.B. from the University of Toronto and a BA from The University of Western Ontario.

Geoffrey Wilson

Robert Balcom

 Mr. Robert A. Balcom is Senior Vice President, General Counsel, Canada, Secretary of George Weston Ltd.

Khush Dadyburjor

 Mr. Khush Dadyburjor is Senior Vice President - Corporate Development of George Weston Limited. Mr. Dadyburjor was also an officer of Nortel, serving in the capacity of Vice President & Global Head, M&A at Nortel Networks Canada.

J. Bradley Holland

 Mr. J. Bradley Holland is Senior Vice President - Taxation of George Weston Ltd.

J. Robert Prichard

 Mr. J. Robert S. Prichard, O.C., O. Ont, is Lead Independent Director of George Weston Limited. Mr. Prichard is the non-executive Chair of Torys LLP, Chair of the board of directors of Metrolinx, the regional transportation agency for Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area and Chairman of the Bank of Montreal. He is a former President and CEO of Metrolinx. Mr. Prichard is a past President and Chief Executive Officer and a former director of Torstar Corporation and President Emeritus of the University of Toronto. Mr. Prichard graduated from the University of Chicago with an M.B.A., from the University of Toronto with an LL.B., and from Yale Law School with an LL.M. He is an Officer of the Order of Canada, a Member of the Order of Ontario and Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. He is Chairman of Penguin Canada, a trustee of the Hospital for Sick Children and a member of Canada’s Economic Advisory Council and Ontario’s Economic Advisory Panel.

Anthony Graham

 Mr. Anthony R. Graham is Non-Independent Director of George Weston Limited. Mr. Graham is President and a director of Wittington Investments, Limited, President of Selfridges Group Limited and also President and Chief Executive Officer of Sumarria Inc. He is a former Vice Chairman and director of National Bank Financial. In addition to the public companies listed below, Mr. Graham is also a director of Graymont Limited, Brown Thomas Group Limited, de Bijenkorf B.V., Holt, Renfrew & Co., Limited, Selfridges & Co. Ltd. and Grupo Calidra, S.A. de C.V. Mr. Graham is also Chairman and a director of President’s Choice Bank (a subsidiary of Loblaw). He was awarded an Honorary Doctor of Laws degree from Brock University. Mr. Graham serves as Chairman of the Ontario Arts Foundation and the Shaw Festival Theatre Endowment Foundation. He also serves as a director of the Art Gallery of Ontario, Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, Luminato, St. Michael’s Hospital and the Trans Canada Trail Foundation.

John Lacey

 Mr. John S. Lacey is Non-Independent Director of George Weston Limited. Mr. Lacey is Chairman of the Advisory Board of Brookfield Private Equity Group and provides advisory services to the Corporation and Loblaw. Mr. Lacey is a former Chairman of Alderwoods Group, Inc., an organization operating funeral homes in North America and former President and Chief Executive Officer of the Oshawa Group (a food retailer, now part of Sobeys Inc.). Mr. Lacey graduated from Kearsney College, South Africa and the Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration.

Sarabjit Marwah

A. Charles Baillie

 Mr. A. Charles Baillie, O.C., LL.D., is Independent Director of George Weston Limited. Mr. Baillie, a corporate director, is also Chair of Alberta Investment Management Corporation. Mr. Baillie is a retired Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Toronto Dominion Bank. Mr. Baillie graduated from the University of Toronto with a B.A. and from Harvard Business School with an M.B.A., and holds an Honorary Doctorate from Queen’s University. Mr. Baillie is Chancellor Emeritus of Queen’s University, Chair of the Art Gallery of Ontario’s Board of Trustees, President of Authors at Harbourfront, a director of the Royal Conservatory of Music, a director of the Luminato Festival of Art and Culture, a director of Business for the Arts and a member of the Advisory Committee of Canada’s National History Society. Mr. Baillie is a former Chair of the Canadian Council of Chief Executives.

Peter Eby

 Mr. Peter B. M. Eby is Independent Director of George Weston Limited. Mr. Eby, a corporate director, is a former Vice Chairman and director of Nesbitt Burns Inc. He was associated with Nesbitt Burns Inc. and its predecessor companies for 38 years in several senior capacities. He is a former Chairman of Olympic Trust. Mr. Eby graduated from the University of Toronto with a B. Comm. and from the University of California-Berkeley with an M.B.A. Mr. Eby is a director of TD Asset Management USA Funds Inc.

Darren Entwistle

 Mr. Darren Entwistle is Independent Director of George Weston Limited. Mr. Entwistle is President and Chief Executive Officer of TELUS Corporation. Mr. Entwistle holds a Bachelor of Economics (Honours) degree from Concordia University, an M.B.A. in Finance from McGill University and a diploma in Network Engineering from the University of Toronto. He also received an Honorary Doctorate of Laws from Concordia University and an Honorary Degree in Business Administration from the Northern Alberta Institute of Technology. Mr. Entwistle is on a number of boards including the Canadian Council of Chief Executives. Mr. Entwistle is also an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Conservatory. Mr. Entwistle is a past director of the TD Bank Financial Group, McGill University, the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra and the Edge Endowment Fund. He also served as Chair of the Royal Conservatory of Music’s Capital Campaign.

Isabelle Marcoux

 Ms. Isabelle Marcoux is Independent Director of George Weston Limited. Ms. Marcoux is Chair of the Board of Transcontinental Inc., a Canadian printing, publishing and interactive marketing company. Prior to joining Transcontinental in 1998, Ms. Marcoux practiced corporate and securities law at McCarthy Tétrault LLP. Ms. Marcoux has an LL.B. in Civil Law and a B.A. in Economics and Political Science from McGill University. Ms. Marcoux is a member of the Board of Trade of Metropolitan Montreal and sits on the selection committee for the Canadian Business Hall of Fame.

Thomas Rahilly

 Mr. Thomas F. Rahilly is Independent Director of George Weston Limited. Mr. Rahilly, a corporate director, was Vice Chairman of RBC Capital Markets, a division of Royal Bank of Canada from 1996 until his retirement at the end of 2006. Prior to this role, Mr. Rahilly was an investment banker for over 30 years. Mr. Rahilly graduated from the University of Toronto with a B.A., an LL.B. and an M.A. In the past five years, Mr. Rahilly has also served as a director of Wittington. Mr. Rahilly also served as Chairman of the Board of Trustees of Trinity College at the University of Toronto.

Barbara Stymiest

 Ms. Barbara G. Stymiest, F.C.A.,, is Independent Director of George Weston Limited. Ms. Stymiest, a corporate director, serves as a director and Chair of Research in Motion Limited (known as BlackBerry). She has also held various senior management positions at the Royal Bank of Canada and served as a member of the Group Executive responsible for the overall performance of the Royal Bank of Canada. Ms. Stymiest is a former Chief Executive Officer of TSX Group Inc., Executive Vice-President and Chief Financial Officer at BMO Nesbitt Burns and Partner of Ernst & Young LLP. Ms. Stymiest obtained her H.B.A. from the Richard Ivey School of Business, University of Western Ontario and F.C.P.A. from the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Ontario. Ms. Stymiest serves as a director of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research and University Health Network and has worked with a number of professional and charitable organizations including the CICA’s Accounting Oversight Committee, United Way Campaign Cabinet and the Royal Ontario Museum.

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