Interesting ..title ..of this event over at the Empire club on May 30

JP Gladu became a director of Noront ..one month ago.

https://www.empireclub.org/events/reconciliation-bay-street/

Reconciliation on Bay Street: In Through The Business Door

MAY 30 2017 12 PM

ONE KING WEST HOTEL, 1 KING ST. WEST

Ron Jamieson, First Senior VP of Aboriginal Banking at BMO and JP Gladu, President & CEO of the Canadian Council for Aboriginal Business

Reconciliation on Bay Street: In Through The Business Door

The 92nd Call to Action of the Truth and Reconciliation Committee is a call issued to corporate Canada.

Join Ron Jamieson, First Senior VP of Aboriginal Banking at BMO, and member of the Conference Board of Canada’s Council on the Corporate Management of Aboriginal Affairs, and JP Gladu, Presidet & CEO of the Canadian Council for Aboriginal Business as they discuss the action needed to respond to this call.

Ron Jamieson

Born on the Six Nations of the Grand River reserve in southern Ontario in 1948, Ron a Mohawk who inhabits two worlds—and he’s got the moccasins and the wing tips to prove it. He became the first Aboriginal stock broker in Canada and spent the next 10 years selling real estate-backed securities. Beginning as a trainee he progressed to being the company president.

In the early ‘90s the Bank of Montreal approached him and engaged him as Vice-President to establish BMO’s Aboriginal banking making him Canada’s first Aboriginal senior executive at a big bank. He built the first financial bridges to the Aboriginal market.  Increasing the bank’s Aboriginal portfolio to over 1 billion dollars—and it’s still growing. Ron made BMO the bank of choice for Aboriginal communities.

Ron always makes time to volunteer his talents: he’s very proud of having chaired the economic section of the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples and has served as a Director of many aboriginal business organizations. He developed a program that allows Indian people on reserve to at last own their homes. It’s his legacy to the First Nations of Canada. Ron is known as a man of great integrity; whose word is his bond. He is considered by many as the greatest single force for Aboriginal economic development Canada has ever seen.

Ron Jamieson has received both the Order of Ontario and the Order of Canada. The Governor General of Canada cited his award being “for his pioneering contributions to the finance industry, notably in improving access to financial services for First Nations people across Canada.”

JP Gladu

Jean Paul (JP) Gladu is currently the President and CEO of the Canadian Council for Aboriginal Business (CCAB) based in Toronto. Anishinaabe from Thunder Bay JP is a member of Bingwi Neyaashi Anishinaabek located on the eastern shores of Lake Nipigon, Ontario. JP completed a forestry technician diploma in 1993, obtained an undergraduate degree in forestry from Northern Arizona University in 2000 and holds an Executive MBA from Queens University. JP has over two decades of experience in the natural resource sector. His career path includes work with Aboriginal communities and organizations, environmental non-government organizations, industry and governments from across Canada.  In JP’s current capacity at CCAB, he speaks extensively not only across Canada but internationally as he shares the challenges and successes of Aboriginal business in Canada today.

Currently, JP serves on the Board of Ontario Power Generation and Noront Resources as well as the Canadian Electricity Association Public Advisory Panel.  His previous appointments include Colleges and Institutes Canada (previously ACCC), the Northern Policy Institute, Canadian Foundation for Economic Education, advisory member to the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers, a committee member to the Provincial Forest Policy Committee. In 2014, he was identified as a Diversity 50 Board Ready Candidate from the Canadian Board Diversity Council and a recipient of the Community Service Award – Transformation Awards from Diversity Magazine.

As a father to his young daughter Chloe, along with a passion for his community, his culture and traditions; JP brings the past, present and future to the table, moving non-Aboriginal and Aboriginal business toward sustainable partnerships and shared economic prosperity.