In 2020, following a successful 38-year career with PricewaterhouseCoopers (“PwC”), Carol has taken on independent director roles, is a senior advisor to Strategy Corp and is the Chief Financial Officer of Equality Fund. She is a professional accountant with many years of experience volunteering on Not for Profit Boards where she has often chaired Audit Committees based on her expertise. She obtained her ICD.D in 2017. Carol currently serves on the board of the Ottawa Community Foundation, the National Art’s Centre Foundation, and the International Women’s Forum (IWF) – Canada Board. She previously served on the boards of Ashbury College, Alzheimer’s Society of Ottawa-Carleton, Ottawa Centre for Research and Innovation and the Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario (CHEO) Foundation. She recently completed the Women’s Director Development Program at Kellogg/Northwestern.
Over the course of her career with PwC, Carol was involved in a variety of audit and financial consulting engagements including initial public offerings, business valuations and IFRS conversions and internal controls over financial reporting (ICFR) and risk management. Her range of experience includes providing services to organizations in the investment management, pensions, manufacturing, retail, telecommunication, government, not-for-profit, real estate, and high technology sectors of the economy. She was the PwC Ottawa Office Managing partner from July 2012 to August 2018.
Carol was named a Fellow Chartered Accountant (FCA, now FCPA) in 2009. In 2014, the Women’s Executive Network (WXN) named Carol one of Canada’s 100 Most Powerful Women.