Moya Greene, CEO, Canada Post
As President and CEO, she sits on the Board of Directors of Canada Post Corporation. She also chairs the Strategy and Priority Committee, responsible for managing Canada Post's and the Canada Post Group of Companies’ vision, strategies, priorities, long-term goals and policy framework targets. She also sits on the Board of Directors of Purolator Courier Ltd, a subsidiary of Canada Post, and of Tim Hortons Inc. Ms. Greene has been a senior officer of three of Canada's largest multinational companies, first in banking and financial services, where she held the positions of Managing Director, Infrastructure Finance at TD Securities Inc., and Senior Vice President, Retail Products at Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce; and most recently as Senior Vice President, Operational Effectiveness at Bombardier Inc. Ms. Greene has acquired a strong track record in strategic planning, complex negotiations and relationship building. She has also a strong public sector background. Having spent the first part of her career in Ottawa, over a 17-year period Ms. Greene assumed progressively senior roles in seven different Ministries of the federal public service. Ms. Greene started her public service career in 1979 as an Immigration Adjudicator, and moved from there to take on senior policy positions first in the Department of Labour, and subsequently in the Privy Council Office, where she held the senior policy position responsible for transportation. Ms. Greene has managed a number of difficult federal-provincial files as well, first in her capacity as Director of Inter-Provincial Affairs in the Department of Consumer and Corporate Affairs and later in the Office of Federal -Provincial Relations. Over the course of her public service career, Ms. Greene was responsible for large and complex strategies often involving difficult multi-national files and a wide array of competing sectoral interests. As Assistant Deputy Minister, Policy, at Transport Canada, Ms. Greene was responsible for broad reform of the over-burdened transportation system; the privatization of CN; the deregulation of the Canadian airline industry; and the commercialization of the Canadian port system. Reform was also her mandate when, as Director General, Policy, at Employment and Immigration Canada, Ms. Greene led the effort to overhaul the Unemployment Insurance System. Ms. Greene has used her position to help a variety of social causes. Canada Post incorporates mental health into its vision of and commitment to a healthy workplace, including the need for increased awareness, the call for more research funding, and employee training. Under her direction, Canada Post has initiated workplace changes that enhance the mental health of employees, and inspires other companies to acknowledge mental illness. Ms. Greene is a graduate of Osgoode Hall Law School and Memorial University of Newfoundland and is considered by colleagues and former employers as a strong strategic leader and adept at managing difficult and complex stakeholder relationships. Ms. Greene was recognized in 2003 by the National Post as one of Canada's Top 100 influential women and in 2004 and 2008 by WXN as one of Canada's most powerful women for her work in the private and public sectors. |


