Executive Team

Daniel Muzyka President and Chief Executive Officer Dr. Daniel F. Muzyka is the President and Chief Executive Officer of The Conference Board of Canada and the RBC Financial Group Professor of Entrepreneurship at the University of British Columbia's Sauder School of Business. He was previously the Dean at the Sauder School of Business at UBC, as well as the Dean of the Faculty of Management at UBC Okanagan. Prior to 1999, Dr. Muzyka taught and held senior administrative positions at a number of universities and institutions, including the Harvard Business School, INSEAD, Babson College, Northeastern University, Wharton School (University of Pennsylvania) and Williams College. Dr. Muzyka has extensive experience in academics, finance, and business, and has participated on a number of boards of companies, venture capital funds, as well as not-for-profit and government organizations. He worked in industry with General Electric in finance and strategy and was a strategy consultant, with Braxton Associates. In addition, he has been a board member and consultant to several other business and not-for-profit organizations, including the Vancouver Board of Trade (Past Chair), Graduate Management Admissions Council (GMAC), New Ventures B.C., and the European Venture Capital Association. Dr. Muzyka chaired NSERC's Expert Advisory Committee on Partnerships and Innovation. Dr. Muzyka is currently Vice Chair and a public director of the Investment Industry Regulatory Organization of Canada (IIROC). He serves or has served on various government councils, including The Natural Sciences & Engineering Research Council (NSERC), The B.C. Competition Council, and the B.C. Premier's Technology Council, among others. Dr. Muzyka holds a Doctorate of Business Administration from Harvard University, an MBA with concentration in Strategic Planning from the University of Pennsylvania, and a BA with Honours in Physics and Astronomy from Williams College. He has been awarded the National Order of Merit (Chevalier de l'Ordre National du Merite) by the Government of France.

Glen Hodgson Senior Vice-President and Chief Economist Glen Hodgson brings nearly 31 years of experience and a specialization in international economic and financial issues to the position of Senior Vice-President and Chief Economist of The Conference Board of Canada. Mr. Hodgson is responsible for overseeing the Board's macro-economic outlook products, tourism, custom economic research, and is the Board's chief spokesperson on economic issues. He has published two books and over 170 articles and briefings. He has written extensively on Canadian tax reform and is co-authoring a series on the economics of pro sports in Canada. Glen is leading a new Conference Board research initiative, the Canadian Alliance for Sustainable Health Care (CASHC), just as he led the creation of the Board’s Global Commerce Centre. Glen is a regular contributor to the Conference Board's economics blogs. Mr. Hodgson joined the Board in September 2004, after 10 years at Export Development Canada (EDC). He also spent a decade with the federal Department of Finance. From 1984 to 1988, Mr. Hodgson served at the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in Washington D.C., as Advisor/Assistant to the Executive Director for Canada, Ireland and the Caribbean. Mr. Hodgson has a B.A. (Honours) in Economics from the University of Manitoba, a M.A. in Economics from McGill University, and pursued Ph.D. studies at McGill. He is the current president of the Ottawa Economics Association and coached youth sports for many years.

Michael Bloom Vice-President, Organizational Effectiveness and Learning The Conference Board of Canada

Dr. Michael Bloom, Vice-President, Organizational Effectiveness and Learning at The Conference Board of Canada, is responsible for managing five research groups: Organization Effectiveness and Learning Research; Education, Health & Immigration Programs; Organizational Excellence; Governance and Sustainable Enterprise; and the Directors College. He oversees funded research projects at the Conference Board and has management responsibility for nineteen executive networks.

Corporately, Michael is leading a major three-year Conference Board research initiative, The Centre for Food in Canada, which is developing a vision, framework and core plan for a National Food Strategy. He is also leading the Centre for Business Innovation whose goal is to bring about major improvements in firm-level business innovation in Canada as a cornerstone of improved national competitiveness and prosperity. Previously, he led CanCompete, a flagship Conference Board research initiative whose 25 studies explored strategies for enhancing Canada’s sustainable competitiveness.

Recent major research projects under his direction and studies authored by him include: Governing Food: Policies, Laws and Regulations for Food in Canada (2011); Saskatchewan in the Spotlight: Acquisition of Potash Corporation of Saskatchewan Inc.—Risks and Opportunities (2010); Navigating Through the Storm: Leaders and the World of Work in 2020 (2010); Building From the Ground Up: Enhancing Affordable Housing in Canada (2010); Healthy People, Healthy Performance, Healthy Profits: The Case for Business Action on the Socio-Economic Determinants of Health (2009); Turning Green Into Gold: Green Marketing for Profit (2009); Learning and Development Outlook 2009 (2009); “Hollowing Out”: Myth and Reality: Corporate Takeovers in an Age of Transformation (2008).

Other projects include: How Canada Performs—Education and Skills Chapter; Canada Partner—The Global Competitiveness Report; 2011 Annual Report Card on the State of Board Diversity; Sector Council Research Project; Socio-Economic Benefits of Sport Participation in Canada; and the Public Works and Government Services Procurement Project. He also oversaw development of the Innovation Skills Profile, the General Innovation Skills Aptitude Test (GISAT), and the Skills Credentialing Tool.

Dr. Bloom speaks on human capital, work and workplaces, education trends, innovation and productivity, immigration, health, organizational effectiveness, food policy, credentialing, skills, learning and development, and international benchmarks.

Dr. Bloom is a graduate of the University of Oxford (DPhil) and Carleton University (BA, MA).

Jean-Pierre Boisclair Vice-President and Chief Financial Officer

J-P Boisclair is Vice-President and Chief Financial Officer of The Conference Board of Canada, responsible for the Board’s financial and performance management and reporting.

Prior to joining the Conference Board in 2004, his experience included serving as head of a non-profit research and educational organization and, in the private sector, as CEO of an aerospace industry company. He has been a Partner in a national public accounting firm, and chaired of the Independent Panel on Modernization of Comptrollership in the Government of Canada.

He chairs the Board of Directors of the Ottawa Children's Treatment Centre, has served as a Governor of the Ottawa Hospital and is currently a member of the Board of Directors of eHealth Ontario where he chairs the Finance Committee. He is a Chartered Accountant and was elected a Fellow of the Ontario Institute of Chartered Accountants in 1985.

Perry Eisenschmid Vice-President Marketing, Sales and IT

Perry is Vice-President, Marketing, Sales & IT and Chief Privacy Officer at The Conference Board of Canada. He joined the Conference Board in January 2002. In this position, Perry has overall responsibility for establishing and implementing an annual corporate marketing, sales, and I.T. plans. Perry also oversees The Conference Board of Canada’s virtual network of over 500 Chief Marketing Executives from across the country—a subset of which gathers periodically for live meetings to hear from top marketing-related authors and practitioners and to discuss and debate the top marketing issues of the day.

Perry started his career in management with Quaker Oats and Procter and Gamble. Prior to joining The Conference Board of Canada, Perry held senior management positions at the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce that culminated in the role of President and CEO of CIBC Trust along with membership on the Board of Directors of CIBC Bank and Trust Cayman Ltd.

Perry is a graduate of York University, with a bachelor and masters in Business Administration, specializing in marketing.

David Stewart-Patterson Vice-President Public Policy

David Stewart-Patterson is respected as one of Canada’s most creative and articulate policy minds. He joins the Conference Board of Canada after 15 years at the Canadian Council of Chief Executives, the past seven as its Executive Vice President, where he engaged in policy development and advocacy across a broad range of national and international issues.

A graduate of Carleton University’s School of Journalism, David has written three books and worked as a reporter, editor and senior manager in print and broadcast media, with positions including Parliamentary correspondent for The Globe and Mail’s Report on Business and business anchor for CTV’s Canada AM.

A bilingual native of Montreal, David is a passionate volunteer, currently Vice Chair of the Canadian Youth Business Foundation, which last year provided experienced mentors and no-collateral financing that enabled young Canadians to launch 600 new businesses. He also is a director of The Prince’s Youth Business International, the U.K.-based global network of charities supporting young entrepreneurs.

Barb Hogberg Executive Director Human Resources

Barb Hogberg is the Executive Director of Human Resources at The Conference Board of Canada. In this position, Barb is responsible for the leadership and management of all strategic and operational Human Resources initiatives at The Conference Board of Canada, which has been recognized three times in recent years as a top employer in the National Capital Region. Barb also acts as an internal reviewer for select HR-research reports on behalf of her research colleagues.

Prior to joining The Conference Board in 1998, Barb held human resources positions of increasing scope and responsibility at Deloitte & Touche, and its predecessor firm, Touche Ross. Barb is a member of the Human Resources Professional Association of Ontario; the Ottawa Compensation Group; the Employer Council of Champions; the Council of HR Executives, and, the CHRO Roundtable. Barb recently stepped down from her role on the Board of Directors of the Hospice at May Court.

Ross Roxburgh Executive Director Ross has worked in the fields of organizational change, human resources, leadership coaching and development and change management for more than 35 years. Prior to joining Deloitte & Touche LLP, he worked in human resource management roles in the university sector as well as the transit and telecommunications industries. With Deloitte Ross helped to build strong Human Capital practices in Ottawa and Toronto. Ross was a Deloitte Partner for fourteen years, leaving the Firm in 2000 to establish his own practice. Ross earned his Bachelor's degree in Honours English at Carleton University, then completed a Master's degree in the Interdisciplinary School of Canadian Studies at the same institution. More recently, he graduated from the one-year Organization and Systems Development (OSD) Program (Becoming a Better Intervener) offered by the Gestalt Institute of Cleveland and continued his development through various coaching-focused programs both in Cleveland as well as at the Gestalt International Centre in Massachusetts. Through National Training Laboratories (NTL), he completed the DOPS Program (Development of the Personal Self). Ross is a Certified Management Consultant and was accredited by Deloitte as a Master Facilitator.

Ian Cullwick Vice-President, Leadership and Human Resources Research Ian Cullwick is the Vice-President of Leadership & Human Resources Research at The Conference Board of Canada. Ian specializes in governance effectiveness, human resources strategy, organization design, compensation strategy, and performance management. Ian spent 24 years with a major International consulting firm where he focused on the crown corporation, not-for-profit, construction, high technology, aviation, professional services and public sectors. He is a frequent speaker at industry and functional conferences on the topic of governance effectiveness, labour market trends and compensation management, and is the author of a number of research studies and articles on governance and organizational effectiveness. Ian has served as a sessional lecturer at the Sprott School of Business where he taught a fourth year course in Organizational Design and a graduate course on High Performance Organizations. He currently serves as the Chair of the Board of the Ottawa YM/YWCA.