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Bob has responsibility for financial and strategic functions at TELUS supporting a 950-person finance team which includes financial reporting and analysis finance operations risk management revenue assurance taxation investor relations treasury pension investment management ventures investment mergers and acquisitions and corporate strategy. He is also responsible for the financial policy of TELUS and its relationships with the capital market.
Bob was formerly EVP CFO and secretary-treasurer of Clearnet Communications Inc. from its 1994 IPO until its $6.5 billion acquisition by TELUS in the fall of 2000.
During Bob's career as CFO his Finance teams have received considerable external recognition for innovative and successful large financings risk management and CSR practices Alexander Hamilton Awards for treasury and risk management investor relations activities as well as being rated best in class in Canada and on a global basis for the quality of external financial disclosure.
Bob is a director of various TELUS subsidiaries and a vice-chair of the Business Council of British Columbia and a member of its Economic Policy Committee. Bob is a director and chair of the Audit Committees of Royal & SunAlliance Insurance Company of Canada and Ascalade Communications Inc. In addition Bob serves on the Vancouver Advisory Board of the Salvation Army British Columbia Division.
Bob obtained a Bachelor of Commerce (Honours) degree from Queen's University in 1983 and an MBA from the University of Western Ontario in 1985. | 