Leadership

ROM Governors

The ROM Board of Governors is a federally incorporated private sector Board, responsible for the ROM’s long-term financial health and for the growth and management of its financial assets (endowments, capital and flow-through funds). 

• Robert E. Pierce
  Board Chairman
  Partner, Stonegate
  Private Counsel LP
• Tye W. Burt
  Board Vice Chair
  Chair and Principal, Carbon Arc Capital Investment Inc. 
• Richard Wernham
  Board Vice Chair
  President, Soutterham Investments Limited
• Shreyas Ajmera
  President, Seenergy Foods Ltd.
• Sal Badali
  Partner, Odgers Berndtson
• Jennifer Ivey Bannock
  Director, The Ivey Foundation
• Josh Basseches
  Ex-Officio, Director & CEO, Royal Ontario Museum
• John Bianchini
  CEO & Director, Hatch Ltd.
• Stephen Bowman
  Toronto Managing Partner, Bennett Jones LLP
• Bonnie Brooks, C.M. 
  Former Chair, ROM Board of Trustees; former Vice Chair and CEO, HBC
• Mary Anne Bueschkens
  CEO and Board Member, ABC Group Inc.
• Michael Detlefsen
  Co-Managing Director, Muir Detlefsen & Associates Ltd.
• Victor G. Dodig
  President & CEO, CIBC
• Martha Durdin
  Ex-Officio, President & CEO, Canadian Credit Union Association, Chair, ROM Trustees
• Bob Farquharson
  Director and Vice Chairman, AGF
• Linda Hasenfratz
  Vice Chair
  CEO, Linamar Corporation
• Chris Jamroz
  CEO STG Holdings, LLC. and St. George Logistics, Executive Chairman
• Anna-Maria Kaneff
  Vice President, Commercial Division, Kaneff Group of Companies 
• Robert A. Keilty
  President, Toronto Corporate Practice, HUB International HKMB Limited
• Michael Lee-Chin
  Chairman, Portland Holdings Inc.
• Ellen J. Moore
  President, Chubb Insurance Company of Canada
• Patricia L. Olasker
  Senior Partner, Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg LLP
• Frank Potter
  Ex-Officio, Chairman, Emerging Markets Advisors Inc., Chair, ROM Heritage Governors
• John Ruffolo
  Chief Executive Officer, OMERS Ventures
• Francis Shen
  President, Shen Capital Corporation
• Stephen Smith
  Chairman, President & CEO, First National Financial LP
• Cathy Spoel
  Board Member, Ontario Energy Board
• Joey Tanenbaum, C.M.
  Chairman & CEO, Jay-M Holdings Limited
• James Temerty, C.M.
  Chairman, Northland Power Inc.
• V. Prem Watsa, C.M.
  Chairman & CEO, Fairfax Financial Holdings Ltd.
• R. Browning Watt, Q.C. 
  Barrister & Solicitor
• Alfred G. Wirth
  President, HNW Investments Inc.