Assuris announced today that Canada’s life insurance industry has elected three new members and re-elected one member to its board of directors at the corporation’s public annual general meeting on May 23.
Assuris is a not for profit corporation funded by the life insurance industry
It protects Canadian life insurance policyholders against loss of benefits due to the financial failure of a member company.
The three new members are:
- Martha Dunlop, a lecturer at the University of Toronto and an Education Consultant involved in professional development and training for chartered accountants and students preparing for a career as a chartered accountant;
- Hélène F. Fortin, a partner with GHL; and
- François Joly, recently retired president and chief operating officer of Desjardins Financial Security.
“Assuris is very fortunate to have such distinguished and capable individuals add to the strength of an already very prestigious roster of Board members,” said Gordon Dunning, Assuris’ president & CEO, in a news release.
Fred Gorbet was re-elected to the Assuris board. He is a member of the Advisory Council to the Dean of the Schulich School of Business and a member of the Board of Governors of York University.
Assuris’ board of directors consists of 10 individuals, all of whom are independent of the member companies. The other six members of the Board are:
- Michael A. Beck, chairman
- David Baird;
- Douglas Carr;
- Jacques Dumont;
- Gordon Dunning, president and CEO of Assuris; and
- Don Glover.