Jill Denham has over 20 years experience in the financial services sector. She is a former Vice Chair of CIBC. From 2001 to 2005 she was Vice Chair CIBC Retail Markets. Prior to that she had responsibility for the European business of CIBC and prior to that she was President, Merchant Banking. She also had experience as an investment banker and a commercial banker.
Jill chairs the board at Lifeworks and at Munich Re Canada. She is the Lead Director at Canaccord Genuity and a director of CP Rail and Kinaxis. She was a Governor of Upper Canada College and a trustee on the board of CAMH. She is a former director of the Ontario Teachers Pension Plan and National Bank and the Foundation Board of the Hospital for Sick Children, and the Prostate Cancer Research Foundation. She was also a member of the Task Force on the Future of Securities Regulation in Canada.
She holds an HBA from the Ivey Business School at Western University and an MBA from Harvard Business School.
HBA '83
Ivey Business School
Jill Denham
Chair, Lifeworks Inc.
Toronto, ON