MONTREAL – Former Bell Aliant head Karen Sheriff has been nominated for election to the BCE Board of Directors, to replace the retiring Ronald Brenneman.
Sheriff (pictured) was president and CEO of Bell Aliant from 2008 to 2014, part of her 15-year career with the BCE group of companies. Most recently president and CEO of Q9 Networks Inc., the Toronto-based provider of outsourced data centre and cloud services, she is also a director of the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board and of WestJet Airlines.
"We are delighted that Karen Sheriff has agreed to bring her wealth of strategic and operational leadership experience and her deep knowledge of the Canadian communications sector to the service of our shareholders as a Director of BCE," said Gordon Nixon, chair of the BCE Board of Directors, in the announcement.
After more than 13 years of distinguished service, Brenneman will retire from the BCE Board at the company's annual general shareholder meeting in Ottawa on April 26.
