Timothy W. Casgrain
Chair, Board of Directors
Toronto

Timothy W. Casgrain was appointed Chair of the CBC/Radio-Canada Board of Directors on April 26, 2007, for a
five-year term, which ended in May 2012. He will remain in his position until a new chair is appointed.

As Chair, Mr. Casgrain acts as the principal liaison between the Board and the President and CEO, ensuring the Board is alert to its obligations under federal law and to its public responsibilities.

Mr. Casgrain is Vice-Chairman of Skyservice Investments Inc., a wholly-owned Canadian aviation company, and has been involved with Skyservice since 1997. From 1976 to 2002 he served as Executive Vice President of Brascan Financial Corporation (now Brookfield Asset Management) and from 1988 to 1995 he was seconded to NBS Technologies Inc. as President and Chief Executive Officer. Mr. Casgrain began his career as a teacher with CUSO in Chad, Africa, and he later became an accountant with Deloitte & Touche.

Born in Montréal, he received a Bachelor of Arts degree from McGill University in 1969. In 1976, he became a member of the Order of Chartered Accountants of Quebec.

Hubert T. Lacroix
President and CEO
Montréal

Hubert T. Lacroix was appointed President and CEO of CBC/Radio-Canada on November 5, 2007, for a five-year term beginning on January 1, 2008.

As President and CEO, Mr. Lacroix is responsible for overseeing the management of CBC/Radio-Canada in order to ensure that Canada's national public broadcaster can deliver on the various aspects of its mandate and continue to offer Canadians a broad spectrum of high quality programming that informs, enlightens and entertains, and that is created by, for and about Canadians.

Just before joining CBC/Radio-Canada, Mr. Lacroix held the position of Senior Advisor with the Montreal office of Stikeman Elliott, a law firm recognized nationally and internationally for its business law practice. Prior to this, Mr. Lacroix was Executive Chairman of Telemedia Corporation and of the other Boards of Directors of the various companies in the Telemedia corporate structure. Before joining Telemedia, he was a Senior Partner at McCarthy Tétrault, a major Canadian law firm.

Mr. Lacroix received his Bachelor of Civil Law (1976) and his Master's degree in Business Administration (1981) from McGill University. He has been a member of the Bar since 1977.

In addition, he is a Trustee of the Lucie and André Chagnon Foundation and a Director of their private holding company, as well as a Director of the Montreal General Hospital Foundation.

Linda Black, c.r.
Calgary

Linda Black was appointed to the Board of Directors of CBC/Radio-Canada effective April 21, 2008, for a four-year term, which ended on April 20, 2012.

Ms. Black sits on the Law Enforcement Review Board of Alberta and is a member of the Alberta Secretariat for Action on Homelessness. She participated in the Government of Canada’s Task Force on Governance and Cultural Change in the RCMP. Ms. Black has been active on a number of boards throughout her career including, currently, the Law Enforcement Review Board of Alberta, the Board of Governors of Mount Royal College, the Peter and Catharine Whyte Foundation (Banff), and the Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies. Until recently, she was a public member of the Alberta Board of Certified Management Accountants. Ms. Black was also involved with the Board of Governors of StrathconaTweedsmuir School in Okotoks, Alberta.

Ms. Black attended Memorial University of Newfoundland, studying economics (1970−1972). She later earned a Bachelor of Laws from Dalhousie University (1975) and a Master of Laws from the University of Ottawa (1982).

Edward W. Boyd
Toronto

Edward W. Boyd was appointed to the Board of Directors of CBC/Radio-Canada effective June 1, 2010 for
a five-year term.

Mr. Boyd is Chief Executive Officer of 58Ninety Inc., a digital marketing agency, where he has created interactive marketing strategies and solutions for major corporate clients. Previously, Mr. Boyd was President and CEO of Iceberg Media.com, a pioneering Canadian Internet radio broadcaster, which was later acquired by Standard Radio. Before joining Iceberg, he held the position of President at e-commerce book retailing company Indigo Online. Mr. Boyd has served as Senior Vice-President of New Media and New Business for Young and Rubicam Canada, as well. There, he provided interactive strategies for a variety of significant clients. He also served as the founding President of the Interactive Advertising Bureau of Canada.

Mr. Boyd holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in political science from the University of Toronto (1986), and a Masters in Business Administration degree from the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto (1997). He also received an ICD.D certification from the Institute of Corporate Directors (2011).

Peter D. Charbonneau
Ottawa

Peter D. Charbonneau was appointed to the Board of Directors of CBC/Radio-Canada effective December 19, 2008, for a five-year term.

Mr. Charbonneau is a general partner at Skypoint Capital Corporation, an early-stage technology venture capital firm. He also sits on the boards of Mitel Networks Corporation, CounterPath Corporation (TSX-V:CCV), Teradici Corporation, and TrueContext Corporation (TSX-V:TMN).

Mr. Charbonneau completed a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Ottawa (1975) and an MBA from the University of Western Ontario (1977). He has been a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Ontario since 1979. Mr. Charbonneau also holds the ICD.D certification, having completed the Directors’ Education Program of the Institute of Corporate Directors of Canada. He is a member and Fellow of the Institute of the Chartered of Ontario.

George T.H. Cooper
Halifax

George Cooper was appointed to the Board of Directors of CBC/Radio-Canada effective May 9, 2008, for a four-year term, which will continue until he resigns or a new appointment is made.

Mr. Cooper is a senior partner in the law firm McInnes Cooper in Halifax, and is the immediate past Chair of its Board of Directors. He currently acts as Managing Trustee of the Killam Trusts, which oversee educational and scholarship trusts worth some $400 million at five Canadian universities and the Canada Council for the Arts.

Mr. Cooper received his Bachelor of Science (1962) and his Bachelor of Laws (1965) from Dalhousie University. He later attended Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar, where he received a Bachelor of Civil Law (1967), and was admitted to the Nova Scotia Bar the same year. Dalhousie University, the University of Alberta and the University of King’s College have each granted him honorary Doctor of Laws degrees in 2004, 2007 and 2008, respectively.

Pierre Gingras
Blainville

Pierre Gingras was appointed to the CBC/Radio-Canada Board of Directors effective February 3, 2011, for a
five-year term.

Mr. Gingras was previously a member of the Quebec National Assembly for the electoral district of Blainville. In this capacity, he chaired the official opposition caucus and was opposition critic for transportation. Prior to being elected MNA, Mr. Gingras was a Blainville city councillor for four years before going on to serve a 12-year term as mayor. He founded and led the Parti de l’action civique de Blainville. At the time he entered municipal politics, he was commissioner of the Sainte-Thérèse school board and, before that, worked in the printing industry.

Over the course of his career, Mr. Gingras has also acted as chair of the Laurentides Regional Development Council, as a board member of the MRC Thérèse-De Blainville, and as board member and treasurer of the Union of Quebec Municipalities (UMQ). Mr. Gingras currently sits on the board of the Amicale des anciens parlementaires du Québec. Active in the community, he has been a member and vice-president of youth services with the Blainville Optimist Club, chair of the Carrefour action municipale et famille, and has held a number of positions with the World Family Organization.

Patricia A. McIver
Vancouver

Patricia A. McIver was appointed to the Board of Directors of CBC/Radio-Canada effective June 18, 2008, for a
five-year term.

Mrs. McIver is a Chartered Accountant and currently works with Richardson Partners Financial Limited, a prominent independent wealth management firm. In the course of her extensive career in the financial industry, she also has been employed by two well-known chartered accounting firms, PriceWaterhouseCoopers and Manning Elliott. Prior to joining Richardson Partners Financial Limited, she held an advisory position at Standard Life, an important international financial services group.

Mrs. McIver holds a Bachelor of Arts (honours) in business administration from the Richard Ivey Business School at the University of Western Ontario (1985). In 1988, she earned her Chartered Accountant Designation from the Canadian Institute of Chartered Accountants (CICA) and the Institute of Chartered Accountants of British Columbia (ICABC). Subsequently, Mrs. McIver completed the CICA In-Depth Tax Program and the CICA Tax Specialty programs in Corporate Reorganizations and Wealth Preservation. She holds both the CFP (Certified Financial Planner) and TEP (Trust and Estate Practitioner) designations.

Brian R. Mitchell
Montréal

Brian R. Mitchell was appointed to the Board of Directors of CBC/Radio-Canada for a five-year term, effective
April 21, 2008.

Mr. Mitchell is a corporate commercial lawyer and serves as the managing partner of Mitchell Gattuso, a boutique Montreal law firm with an extensive corporate practice. He previously worked as a junior associate for the Montreal law firm Ahern Lalonde Nuss Drymer.

Mr. Mitchell graduated from St-Andrews College, Aurora. He holds a Bachelor of Arts (cum laude) degree in History and Literature from Harvard University. He subsequently attended the Faculty of Law at McGill University, where he was awarded the 125th Anniversary Entrance Scholarship and in 1985 graduated from the National Program with a Bachelor of Common Law and a Bachelor of Civil Law.

Rémi Racine
Montréal

Rémi Racine was appointed to the CBC/Radio-Canada Board of Directors effective October 12, 2007, for a four-year term. On December 1, 2011, he was appointed to the Board of Directors for another four-year term.

Since 1999, Mr. Racine has been Chairperson of the Board and CEO and Executive Producer of Behaviour Interactive (formerly A2M), the leading independent video game developer in Canada and an award-winning interactive multimedia business. From 1996 to 1999, he held the position of Executive Producer and General Manager at Behaviour Interactive, a platform game producing company that he eventually acquired. In 1994, Mr. Racine co-founded MMI MultiMedia Interactif, a CD-ROM entertainment maker, where he served as Vice-President, Finance and Development, before selling the company in 1996.

Mr. Racine holds a bachelor’s degree in business administration (major in administration, finance and real estate) from Université du Québec à Montréal.

Edna Turpin
St. John's

Edna Turpin was appointed to the CBC/Radio-Canada Board of Directors effective December 6, 2006, for a five-year term, which will continue until she resigns or a new appointment is made.

Dr. Turpin has been an executive consultant for local, national and international clients since 2002 and was previously involved in business organizations in various capacities, including as Interim Executive Director of the Canadian Mental Health Association’s Newfoundland and Labrador Division and Director of Marketing and International Development for the College of the North Atlantic.

Dr. Turpin holds a master’s degree in education, educational psychology, (M.Ed.) from Memorial University of Newfoundland (1971), and a doctorate in education (Ed.D.) from the University of Maine at Orono (1981).

John Fitzgerald Young
Prince George

John Fitzgerald Young was appointed to the CBC/Radio-Canada Board of Directors effective September 9, 2009 and served on the Board until May 21, 2012.

Mr. Young is the Dean of the College of Arts, Social and Health Sciences at the University of Northern British Columbia and a Senior Fellow at the International Center for Law and Religion Studies at Brigham Young University. Prior to that, he was an Assistant Professor of Political Science (1997–2004), and later the Chair of Political Science (2004–2008) at the University of Northern British Columbia. Mr. Young has also been a Visiting Research Fellow at the Slavic Research Centre at Hokkaido University and a Visiting Professor at Brigham Young University.

Mr. Young holds a doctorate in political science from the University of Toronto (1997), as well as a Master of Arts degree from the Institute of Soviet and East European Studies at Carleton University (1989). He received a Bachelor of Arts degree with honours in Slavic Studies from the University of Alberta (1987), and a certificate in Russian language training from the Pushkin Pedagogical Institute in Moscow (1988).