Marcel R. Coutu
Director since 2011
Mr. Coutu is a Company Director. He was President and Chief Executive Officer of Canadian Oil Sands Limited (an oil and gas company) from 2001 to 2014 and Chairman of Syncrude Canada Ltd. (a Canadian oil sands project) from 2004 to 2014. He was previously Senior Vice-President and Chief Financial Officer of Gulf Canada Resources Limited and, prior to that, held various positions in the areas of corporate finance, investment banking, and mining and oil and gas exploration and development.
Mr. Coutu is a director of Great-West Lifeco, Canada Life, Empower, IGM Financial, IG Wealth Management and Mackenzie. He serves as a Director of the Calgary Stampede Foundation since 2020. He was a Director of the Calgary Exhibition and Stampede from 2014 to 2020. He was also a Director of the Board of Governors of the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers.
Mr. Coutu holds a Bachelor of Science (Honours) in Geology from the University of Waterloo and an MBA from the University of Western Ontario (now Western University). He is a former member of the Association of Professional Engineers, Geologists and Geophysicists of Alberta and a former member of the Canadian Council of Chief Executives.