日期:2023/09/22   NOAH

The Honourable David C.Dingwall

The Government of Canada appointed Dingwall to the position of president 
and chief executive officer of the Royal Canadian Mint

In the 1993 Canadian election, under The Honourable Jean 
Chrétien, Mr. Dingwall was appointed to Cabinet as:
 Minister of Public Works 
 Minister of Supply and Services
 Minister responsible for Canada Post
 Minister responsible for Canada Mortgage and Housing
 Minister responsible for the Royal Canadian Mint
 Minister responsible for Defense Construction Limited 
 Minister responsible for the Atlantic Canada 
Opportunities Agency

David C.Dingwall  had professional guidance and exchanges with Professor Dr. William Chai, Executive Director of the Noah Foundation

royal canadian mint

Operating since 1911, the Royal Canadian Mint runs one of the most respected and technically advanced gold and silver refineries in the world—producing superior precious metal bars, grain and world-leading bullion investment products.

Our vision

The Government of Canada has announced the portrait of His Majesty King Charles III will grace the obverse of all new Canadian coins. As a result, the Royal Canadian Mint has started a historic transformation process last undertaken 70 years ago. We will be inviting our engravers as well as artists from our database of more than 350 coin artists, of all backgrounds and from all parts of Canada, to participate in a design process that is both inclusive and geographically representative of our country’s diverse talent.

 

Setting the Bar

Our refinery has consistently pushed the boundaries of gold refining since introducing our first 999 fine gold bullion coin in the mid-1960s.

 In 1982, we broke new ground by introducing the world's first 99.99% pure gold bullion coin.

In 1998, we reached an unprecedented level of purity at 99.999%, cementing our position as a global leader.

 Today, we are entrusted as the sole mint to issue 99999 fine gold bullion investment products, including grain, kilo bars and more.

Supported by our world-class ISO 9001 accredited facility and advanced assay lab, we ensure exceptional quality and efficiency throughout the refining process.

Ecosystem

As a leading refiner of London Good Delivery and COMEX gold and silver exchange bars, and manufacturer of best-selling gold and silver bullion products, our pool accounts offer exceptional liquidity. 
We collaborate with renowned Canadian and global banks, major bullion traders, funds, and investment firms. 
Deposits come from diverse North American sources, including mines, jewellery manufacturers, scrap dealers, and pawn shops, as well as high-grade industrial scrap dealers.
Our London Good Delivery gold bars are widely accepted on prestigious precious metal exchanges worldwide (New York, London, Tokyo, Shanghai, and Dubai).

Accreditation and certification

As full standing members of the London Bullion Market Association (LBMA) and the Mining Association of Canada (MAC), we adhere to the highest industry 
standards and practices. 
Our assay lab participates in regular ASTM and LBMA proficiency testing and since 1919.
Our gold refinery holds a position on the LBMA’s coveted Good Delivery List. 
Today, our gold and silver refineries proudly hold certification under the LBMA’s Responsible Gold & Silver Guidance, and we are the only Good Delivery Refiner to hold MAC membership.

Canadian Values ,Global Reach

We ensure all material refined and used in our precious metal investment products has been sourced responsibly, and that our refining and bullion production complies with LBMA standards and industry best practices.  All of our customers and suppliers of precious metals are required to comply with our Responsible Metals Program.  

 

BOARD MEMBERS

Phyllis Clark

Edmonton, Alberta
Chair of the Board of Directors

Biography

Phyllis Clark graduated from the University of Toronto with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science and Economics and completed her Doctorial Candidacy and Master of Arts in Economics at the University of Michigan.

From 2002 to 2016, Ms. Clark served as the Vice-President (Finance and Administration) and Chief Financial Officer at the University of Alberta, following five years as Vice-President (Finance and Administration) at York University. Previously, she was Assistant Deputy Minister of Ontario's Management Board Secretariat and, between 1991 and 1992, was the province's Chief Economist and Assistant Deputy Minister of Finance.

Ms. Clark is currently serving on the Board of the Alberta University Hospital Foundation and the Glenn Gould Foundation, the Alberta Investment Management Corporation, the Inuvialuit Investment Corporation, and the Edmonton Symphony and Concert Hall Foundation.

Ms. Clark was appointed as Chair of the Mint's Board of Directors on May 11, 2018.

Fiona L. Macdonald, ICD.D.

Vancouver, British-Columbia
Board Member

Biography

Fiona L. Macdonald holds a BA in International Relations and an MBA from the University of British Columbia, and is a member of the Institute of Corporate Directors. Ms. Macdonald is currently a director of MN8 Energy, which is one of the largest independent owners and operators of solar and battery storage in the USA.  Ms. Macdonald is the Chair of their People Committee.  In addition, Ms. Macdonald is the Chair of the Board of Directors for the Greater Vancouver Food Bank.

Ms. Macdonald's past Board appointments include the following. She was a Board Member and Chair of the Management Resources and Compensation Committee, and a Member of the Audit and Governance Committees of GMP Capital, a financial institution traded on the Toronto Stock Exchange. Ms. Macdonald was also a Board Member of the BC Ferry Authority and the Real Estate Board of Greater Vancouver. Finally, Ms. Macdonald was the past Chair of the BC Chapter of the Institute of Corporate Directors, where she currently remains as a Member of their Advisory Board.

Ms. Macdonald was appointed to the Mint's Board of Directors on June 11, 2018. She is the Chair of the Human Resources and Workplace Health and Safety Committee.

Serge Falardeau, ASC, CPA

Sainte-Marie de Beauce, Quebec
Board Member

Biography

Serge Falardeau has several years of experience as Chief Executive Officer for various manufacturing and service companies with national and international business operations. Mr. Falardeau is a Certified Corporate Director and also holds a Bachelor's degree in Business Administration from Laval University and is a Chartered Professional Accountant (CPA, CA). Mr. Falardeau has also been a board member of PH Tech Inc., Texel Inc., ADS Composite Materials Group and Bocenor BF Group Inc.

Mr. Falardeau was appointed to our Board of Directors on October 18, 2017. He is a member of the Audit Committee and of the Human Resources and Workplace Health and Safety Committee.

Pina Melchionna

Toronto, Ontario
Board Member

Biography

Pina Melchionna is currently the President and Chief Executive Officer of the Canadian Institute of Traffic and Transportation (CITT), a learning and development organization offering professional certification in supply chain logistics. Prior to her role at CITT, she worked for several national banks and financial institutions and started her career as a lawyer.

Ms. Melchionna holds a Bachelor of Arts from York University, a Juris Doctorate law degree from Osgoode Hall Law School and a specialized Master of Business Administration in Financial Services from Dalhousie University. She completed the ICD-Rotman Directors Education Program and earned the ICD.D designation in 2015 and the Competent Board Global ESG (CBG.D.) in 2022.

Ms. Melchionna is a member in good standing of the Ontario Bar Association. She has served on the board of SGI Canada and also sits on the board of the Raymond James Trust Company. She is also a sessional instructor at Centennial College, British Columbia Institute of Technology, Ascenda School of Management and the Schulich School of Business.

Ms. Melchionna was appointed to our Board of Directors on June 2, 2019. She is the Chair of the Governance and Nominating Committee.

Cybele Negris

Vancouver, British-Columbia
Board Member

Biography

Cybele Negris is a tech CEO, serial entrepreneur, experienced corporate director, sought-after speaker, mentor, columnist and a Hall of Fame inductee of Canada’s Top 100 Most Powerful Women.

Cybele co-founded Webnames.ca in 2000, steering its evolution into the security driven, brand-protection focused, proactively client centric registrar that is Webnames Corporate today.

Specializing in governance, security, risk, and compliance, Cybele serves as an ICD.D accredited director on numerous corporate boards, among them the Royal Canadian Mint, AGF Management, BCAA, BlueShore Financial, and Damon Motorcycles. She is also Vice-Chair of Science World and the Small Business Roundtable of BC, and chairs the Departmental Audit Committee for Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada. She has a long history of mentoring, advocacy and promotion of women, girls, and woman-identifying persons in STEM/STEAM.

A four-time winner of Canada's Top 100 Most Powerful Women and nine-time winner of PROFIT W100, some of Cybele’s other recognitions include Business in Vancouver Top 500 business leaders in the Tech Innovators category (2021,2022), BC Business Most Influential Women in Business 2018, 2017, 2015, and Business In Vancouver’s Influential Women in Business 2010 and Top 40 Under 40 2003.

Ms. Negris was appointed to our Board of Directors on October 18, 2017. She is the Vice-Chair of the Board of Directors, and a member of the Audit Committee and the Human Resources and Workplace Health and Safety Committee.

Gilles Patry, C.M. O.Ont.

Ottawa, Ontario
Board Member

Biography

Dr. Gilles Patry is President Emeritus and Professor Emeritus at the University of Ottawa. He is the former President and Chief Executive Officer of the Canada Foundation for Innovation. Dr. Patry also served as Executive Director of the U15 Group of Canadian Research Universities.

Dr. Patry holds a B.A.Sc. and M.A.Sc. in civil engineering from the University of Ottawa, and a Ph.D. from the University of California, Davis. He has received honorary doctorates from the University of Waterloo, McMaster University, the University of Lyon (INSA-Lyon), Western University, Carleton University, the University of Ottawa and McGill University.

Dr. Patry is a Member of the Order of Canada, a recipient of the Order of Ontario and a member of Professional Engineers Ontario. He is a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.

Dr. Patry is a member of the Board of Trustees at Queen’s University and chair of the Department Audit Committee at Fisheries and Oceans Canada.

Dr. Patry was appointed to our Board of Directors on June 11, 2018. He is Chair of the Audit Committee.

Barry M. Rivelis, ICD.D

Vancouver, British-Columbia
Board Member

Biography

Barry Rivelis is President of PBC Solutions, a wholly owned subsidiary of Pacific Blue Cross (PBC). PBC Solutions delivers health benefits services to governments and other large payer organizations and was created in 2022. 

Barry has extensive experience in health, insurance, government, and telecommunications and held executive roles ranging from strategy to operations.  Prior to his current role, Barry was Sr. Vice President and Chief Strategy and Information Officer at PBC where he led the transformation of its enterprise-wide technology environment and new corporate strategy.  Since August 2020, Barry led the effort to secure the business and the subsequent creation of PBCS.  Before joining PBC, Mr. Rivelis was the Chief Information Officer of the Provincial Health Services Authority, Vancouver Coastal Health and Providence Health Care and, before that, Vice President, Health Care at Telus Corporation, where he was instrumental in the creation of Telus Health. Prior to joining Telus, Mr. Rivelis was a Vice President of Cap Gemini in Vancouver and a partner with Ernst & Young in Toronto – one of the youngest consulting partners in the Canadian firm's history.

Mr. Rivelis is a Member of the Information Technology Advisory Council of the University of British Columbia and an Honourary Governor of the Vancouver Foundation. He is a past member of the Board of the Vancouver Foundation and the Canadian Chamber of Commerce. In 2021, Barry was noted as a member of Business in Vancouver's (BIV) BC 500, the 500 most influential business leaders in British Columbia. In 2019, Barry was chosen as the BIV’s Chief Information Officer of the Year.

Mr. Rivelis holds a Bachelor of Arts (Hons) from York University, an MBA from the Schulich School of Business and the ICD.D designation from the Institute of Corporate Directors.

Mr. Rivelis was appointed to our Board of Directors on July 1, 2019. He is a member of the Audit Committee, as well as the Governance and Nominating Committee.

LEADERSHIP TEAM

Ms. Marie Lemay

President and CEO of the Royal Canadian Mint

Biography

Marie Lemay was appointed President and CEO of the Royal Canadian Mint in January 2019. With 20 years of service in senior government leadership positions, she has an extensive background in public policy. Prior to her appointment, Ms. Lemay served as Deputy Minister and Deputy Receiver General for Canada at Public Services and Procurement Canada, managing 12,000 employees and a $6 billion budget.

Ms. Lemay also served as Deputy Minister and President of the Canada Economic Development Agency for Quebec Regions, which promotes the long-term Economic development of the regions of Quebec. In 2012, she was Associate Deputy Minister at Infrastructure Canada, the main department responsible for federal efforts to enhance Canada's public infrastructure.

From January 2008 to 2012, Ms. Lemay was the CEO of the National Capital Commission, where she led a change in culture to one of openness and transparency, including the introduction of public Board meetings.

She was also the CEO of Engineers Canada where she led a number of international initiatives and oversaw several mutual recognition agreements

Ms. Lemay is a member of the Ordre des ingénieurs du Québec and of Professional Engineers Ontario, as well as a Fellow for both Engineers Canada and the Canadian Academy of Engineering. She is a member of the Richelieu Hardware Ltd. Board of Directors.

Michelle Richardson

Chief Impact Officer

Biography

Michelle Richardson is the Royal Canadian Mint's Chief Impact Officer.

Ms. Richardson supports the organization's ongoing Environmental, Social and Governance work with a special focus on Diversity, Equity and Inclusion. Ms. Richardson is also responsible for Communications, Public Affairs and Government Relations at the Mint.

Prior to joining the organization in September 2019, Ms. Richardson spent 15 years at Postmedia where she served in a variety of roles, including City Editor and Managing Editor of the Montreal Gazette and most recently as Editor in Chief of the Ottawa Citizen. In those roles, Ms. Richardson led substantial culture change initiatives during periods of profound business transformation.

Ms. Richardson is a graduate of Concordia University in Montreal where she obtained a Bachelor of Arts with a Specialization in Journalism.

Gini Bethell

Chief Transformation Officer

Biography

Gini Bethell joined the Royal Canadian Mint as Chief Transformation Officer in January 2022. She is an executive and consultant with thirty years of Business and Information Technology experience. She gained expertise in business, service transformation and strategic planning, as well as transformation change in both the public and private sectors, namely: Public Services and Procurement Canada (PSPC), Human Resource Services and Development Canada, Canada School of Public Service, Telus, NRCan and IBM.

Most recently, Gini was the CIO and Senior Assistant Deputy Minister in the HR to Pay Program Office at PSPC, responsible for the Strategic Engagement Sector and overall project management and analytics. 

Gini has served on several boards, including the Chair of the Government of Canada’s Integrated Pay Advisory Board, the Advisory Committee for the PWGSC Institute, First Vice Chair of the Bruyère Board of Directors and former Chair of the Bruyère Research Institute, as well as Vice Chair of the Alterna Bank and a member of the Board of Alterna Savings.

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