Leadership Biographies

	The Institute of Chartered Accountants of Ontario

Leadership Biographies Gregory M. Gallant, FCA Chair Gregory Gallant is a Partner with Grant Thornton LLP in Toronto. He is the immediate past Chair of the Firm's Partnership Board and has served on the Board for the last four years. He previously was Chair of the Firm’s Compensation and Professional Standards Committees. A Chartered Accountant since 1978, Greg was elected a Fellow of the Ontario Institute in 2009. Greg has been a member of Council since 2005. He has served as Chair of the Finance Committee, and was a member of the Executive Group from 2007. Greg also volunteers for the provincial and federal operations of a political party where he has been active in political campaigns, fundraising and party administration including serving as Chair of the federal party’s Audit Committee. R. N. (Rod) Barr, FCA President and CEO R. N. (Rod) Barr, FCA, was appointed by Council as the Institute’s President and CEO in 2009. Rod has had a distinguished career with Deloitte & Touche LLP, having held many varied positions with his firm in Toronto, Hamilton, New York, Vancouver, London and Wilton, Connecticut. From 1996 until his retirement in 2008, he was the firm’s National Securities partner. Rod has had a long history of service to the CA profession, with a particular focus in the areas of student education and securities-related matters. He was elected as a member of the ICAO’s Council from 1999 until 2006, culminating with his service as the Institute’s 2004-2006 Chair. From 2006 until 2009, he was one of the Ontario representatives on the CICA Board of Directors. In addition, Rod has been a member of the Council of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of BC, a member of the Board of Governors of the BC School of Accountancy, Chair of the Inter-provincial Education Group, and a member and Chair of the CICA Board of Examiners. He served on the Securities Regulatory Advisory Group for the rewrite of the CICA Handbook sections on securities-related engagements from 1998 until 2009. He holds a BA from the University of Waterloo and is the 2007 recipient of its Faculty of Arts Alumni Achievement Award.
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