On June 30, 2016, The Governor General released a list of 113 appointment to the Order of Canada. Kathleen Taylor was among them. Here is her Wikipedia entry:
Kathleen “Katie” Taylor (born August 25, 1957) is the Chair of the Board of the Royal Bank of Canada (RBC), and the first woman to chair the board of a major Canadian bank.[1] Taylor became Chair of the Board in January 2014, having served on the board since 2001, and has also chaired the Human Resources and Corporate Governance committees, and served on the Audit and Risk Committees.[2]
Taylor is also the former President and Chief Executive Officer of Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts.
Taylor is the Chair of the Board of the Hospital for Sick Children Foundation[3] and a member of the Board of Trustees for The Hospital for Sick Children.[4] She is also a director of the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board,[5] where she serves on the Audit and Human Resources Committees, and a director of Adecco Group, where she serves on the Audit Committee.[6] In addition, she is Chair of the Principal’s International Advisory Board of McGill University, a member of the Dean’s Advisory Council of the Schulich School of Business at York University, and a member of the National Council of the C.D. Howe Institute. Most recently, Taylor was nominated to join Air Canada’s Board of Directors.
You can find my posts about Kathy by following this link: http://myochs.blogspot.ca/search/label/Kathleen%20Taylor
She was previously profiled as the most powerful woman in Canada. The halls of OCHS have produced some notable and distinguished people that have contributed positively to society, I am please to have walked those halls when she did.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/order-of-canada-recipients-1.3659510
