Presented
in Alphabetical order:
Jim Balsillie | Edmée
Métivier | Isabelle
Le Breton-Miller | Danny
Miller
Jim Balsillie as Keynote Speaker for the 2005
CCSBE/CCPME Annual Conference
We are happy to announce that the keynote
speaker for the 2005 CCSBE/CCPME Annual conference will be Jim
Balsillie, Chairman and
co-CEO at Research in Motion.
Research In Motion is a leading designer,
manufacturer and marketer of innovative wireless solutions
for the worldwide mobile communications
market. RIM's portfolio of award-winning products include the
BlackBerry® wireless
platform, the RIM Wireless Handheld.™ RIM is listed on the
Nasdaq Stock Market (Nasdaq: RIMM) and the Toronto Stock Exchange
(TSX: RIM). Revenue for fiscal 2005 was $1.35 billion.
Jim Balsillie
has been with Reasearch in Motion since 1992 and is responsible
for directing RIM's strategy, business development
and finance. In 2002 Jim also founded the Centre for International
Governance Innovation (CIGI) in 2002, a world-class global research
institute focused on the restructuring of international governance,
with particular emphasis on financial and economic institutions.
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 Edmée Métivier
Executive Vice President, Integrated Risk and Technology Management
Edmée Métivier joined the
Business Development Bank of Canada (BDC) in August 2000 as Senior
Vice President, Strategic
Planning and Resources Management. Member of the Senior Management
Team.
In April 2004, she was appointed Executive Vice President, Integrated
Risk and Technology Management. She is responsible for the Systems
and Technology, Credit Risk Management, Treasury, Integrated Risk & Portfolio
Management and Aboriginal Banking Services.
Ms. Métivier has extensive experience in banking as well
as in strategic human resources management, strategic planning,
client relationship management and business development. She holds
a Master of Arts in Practicing Management from University of Lancaster,
England. Over the past 20 years, she has held positions of increasing
responsibility at the Royal Bank of Canada, where she was Vice
President, Small and Medium Enterprises.
Ms. Métivier's involvement
with youth, education and entrepreneurship is well known. She is
a member of the Board for the following organizations:
the Board of Directors of Shad International, the Board of Directors
of the Women's Y Foundation of Montreal and the Board of Directors
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Isabelle Le Breton-Miller
Isabelle Le Breton-Miller received her M.Sc.
in human resources management from HEC Montreal. She has served
in senior human resource management positions in a variety of companies
and is currently the president of Organizational Effectiveness
Research. Her areas of research interest are organization design,
human resources strategies, and family enterprise. She has published
in Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, Journal of Business Venturing,
Business Horizons, Strategic Organization, and other journals.
Her most recent book is “Managing for the Long Run” (with
Danny Miller, Harvard Business School Press, 2005), selected by
JPMorgan Chase as one of the 10 “must read” books for
2005. She consults with major international corporations in the
areas of human resources and organizational design.
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Danny Miller
Danny Miller received his Ph.D. from McGill
University. He has held professorships at McGill University, HEC
Montreal, Columbia University and the University of Alberta. He
is currently Research Professor of Strategic Management at HEC
Montreal, and Chair in Strategy and Family Enterprise at the University
of Alberta. His areas of research interest are strategy, organization
design and change, and family business. He has published over 120
articles in journals such as Management Science, Strategic Management
Journal, Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review,
Administrative Science Quarterly, and Quarterly Journal of Economics,
and has served on the editorial boards of ASQ, AMJ, SMJ, Journal
of Management, and other journals. He has published 6 books, the
most recent of which is “Managing for the Long Run” (with
Isabelle Le Breton-Miller, Harvard Business School Press, 2005).
He consults with major international corporations in the areas
of strategy and organizational design.
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