The federal government last week reappointed Sandra Mason and William (Bill) Tam to CBC/Radio-Canada’s board of directors and also appointed former Numeris CEO Neil McEneaney to the board as a replacement for Sandra Singh, whose term has expired.
All three appointees will serve a five-year term. Mason and Tam’s reappointments are effective June 1, while McEneaney’s term started Feb. 17.
Based in Toronto, Mason is a chartered professional accountant with more than 20 years of financial experience in the Canadian media industry, including seven years as chief financial officer at The Globe and Mail from 2008 to 2015. She is also a former board director and audit committee chair for The Canadian Press, and she previously served as board chair and treasurer of Canadian Women in Communications and Technology. She was first appointed to the CBC/Radio-Canada board in June 2020.
Tam is the co-founder of the Digital Technology Supercluster in Vancouver, a federal government initiative to drive large-scale R&D collaboration among industry leaders, start-ups, small and medium-sized enterprises and post-secondary institutions. He also serves on the steering committee of the Cascadia Innovation Corridor initiative, a cross-border partnership linking Vancouver, Seattle and Portland, Oregon, as a cohesive innovation hub. He was recently appointed chair of the Centre for Digital Media in Vancouver, and he is the former president and CEO of the BC Tech Association. His first appointment to CBC/Radio-Canada’s board was in June 2020.
McEneaney is a CPA and currently works as a self-employed media consultant in Toronto, with data and audience measurement expertise garnered during his more than eight years as president and CEO of Numeris before his departure in July 2024. He is also a former CBC executive, having served as chief business officer of English services from 2014 to 2016, and prior to that as interim executive vice president of English services as well as more than 12 years as general manager of finance and strategy for CBC.
Photos of (l-r) Sandra Mason, Bill Tam and Neil McEneaney borrowed from CBC’s website and McEneaney’s LinkedIn profile, respectively
