Cornell Wright

Cornell Wright

Ontario, Canada

Cornell Wright is President of Wittington Investments, Limited (the principal holding company of the Weston group of companies, which includes George Weston, Loblaw and Choice Properties). As President of Wittington, Mr. Wright serves as a director of the Weston group of companies.

Mr. Wright joined Wittington in 2021 following a 20-year career at Torys LLP (a law firm), where he was a leading corporate lawyer. He served as Chair of the firm’s Corporate Department and was co-head of the firm’s M&A Practice. As a lawyer, his practice focused on M&A transactions, both public and private, and other critical situations. He played a lead role acting for some of Canada’s largest public and private companies in their most significant strategic matters.

Mr. Wright has a broad range of experience in complex transactional, securities, family-controlled business, private equity, regulatory, governance, activism and compliance matters. He has counselled boards of directors and board committees on corporate governance matters, crisis management and shareholder engagement issues. He is a Fellow of The American College of Governance Counsel.

Mr. Wright is a Trustee of University Health Network and a member of the Dean’s Advisory Board at the Rotman School of Management, and is past Chair of the board of the National Ballet of Canada.

He holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from McGill University and JD and MBA degrees from the University of Toronto.

Mr. Wright is a director of BCE and Bell Canada since April 2021.

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