Last week IAB Canada announced a number of changes including newly-elected Chair (Dominique-Sebastien Forest of TC Media (a division of Transcontinental Inc.) as the new Chair of the Board of Directors.
IAB Canada’s 2012 Board of Directors includes:
Paula Gignac, IAB Canada President
Dominique-Sébastien Forest, TC Media Chair
Carolyn Cramer, Tribal Fusion Vice-Chair, VP Publisher Council
Dawna Henderson, henderson bas kohn Board Liaison to Agency Council
Peter Vaz, M2 Universal Digital VP Emerging Platforms, Mobile Councils
Adam Kardash, Heenan Blaikie VP Policy Council
Jay Aber, The Aber Group Inc. VP Marketing Council
Jeff Lancaster, Outrider VP Search Comte.
Martin Lundie, Ernst & Young Treasurer
Brian Fitzpatrick, MindShare Canada
Veronica Holmes, Zenith Optimedia Canada
Marie-Josée Lamothe, L’Oréal Canada
Michael Lorenzi, Tim Hortons
Eric Morris, Google Canada
Paula Presley, Yahoo! Canada
Bryan Segal, comScore Media Metrix
Joe Strolz, Microsoft Advertising
John Szczygiel, Bell Media/Sympatico.ca
Alfredo Tan, Facebook
Dana Toering, AOL Canada
Chris Williams, Media Contacts
In addition to finalizing the national Board, the Québec Regional Council includes:
Samuel Parent – Vice President, IAB Canada, Regional Director, Québec Council
Nathalie Boucher, Olive Média – Chairman, Québec Council
Patrick Tapp, Jobboom – co-Vice-Chairman, Québec Council
Sylvie Robitaille, Sympatico – co-Vice-Chairman, Québec Council
France Brunelle, Casale Media – VP, QC Publisher Council
Geneviève Guay, Carat – VP, QC Agency Council
Philippe Roberge, Intact Assurances- VP, QC Advertiser Council
Malik Yacoubi, Cossette – VP, QC Mobile Council
Nicolas Darveau-Garneau, Google – VP, QC Video Comte.
Alexandre Hénault, Mediative
Stephen St. Pierre, Human Equation
With Dominique now leading the board, it should be interesting to see if we’ll start to see some changes within Canada’s online advertising industry, as the IAB attempts to be the governing body for the Canadian advertising industry.