TORONTO – TVO announced Friday the appointment of Gary Comerford, Kristin Morch and Mark Wakefield to its board of directors. The new TVO board members will each serve a three-year term.
Comerford is a strategic marketing expert with more than 35 years of experience in the financial services industry. He is currently EVP and chief marketing officer at Reinsurance Group of America International, where he oversees all strategic marketing efforts worldwide. From 1989 to 2009, Comerford worked at Sun Life Financial in senior executive roles. He is a director of Aditya Birla Minacs Worldwide Inc, vice-chair of the Canada-India Business Council, and past chair of The Shaw Festival.
Morch is co-founder and trustee of The Pace Family Foundation, based in Toronto, which contributes to improving health care in Ontario, and in Rwanda, The Democratic Republic of Congo, Uganda, Niger and Kenya. She has served as general counsel to The Continental Saxon Group for more than 11 years. Previously, as a partner at the law firms, Aird and Berlis LLP, and Aylesworth Thompson, Morch specialized in real estate financing. She has also served on the board of directors for the Toronto Rehabilitation Hospital Foundation.
As TVO’s former interim chief financial officer, Wakefield returns to TVO as a board member. He is the principal of Journey to Excellence where he provides consulting advice to leading Canadian companies. Previously, he was a senior consultant with The Finance Group, and VP of finance/chief accountant at Xerox Canada Inc. Wakefield also serves as treasurer and board member of Kinark Child and Family Services, a children's mental health organization.
“Mr. Comerford’s strategic marketing knowledge, Ms. Morch’s philanthropic vision, and Mr. Wakefield’s finance and business expertise will serve TVO well, as we move ahead with our digital innovation strategy and our ambition to use educational media to help Ontario’s kids be successful in school and engage citizens of all ages in the big issues of the day,” said Lisa de Wilde, CEO of TVO, of the announcement.
