Richard E. Venn

Biography

Mr. Venn is Chairman of Element Fleet Management's board of directors and is Chair of the Compensation & Corporate Governance Committee as well as a member of the Risk & Credit Committee. Previously Richard held a 40-year career with the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce ("CIBC") where he led CIBC's investment banking and merchant banking operations. Mr. Venn served for seven years as the Chairman and CEO of CIBC's Canadian dealer and led CIBC's Corporate Development Group for more than a decade. He was instrumental in the formation of CIBC Mellon and CIBC FirstCaribbean and served as a board member with those companies for many years. Mr. Venn is a director of The Bank of N.T. Butterfield & Sons Ltd. He currently serves on the Foundation Board of Mount Sinai Hospital and is past Chair of the United Jewish Federation of Toronto and the United Way of Greater Toronto. He received a BASc (Engineering Science) in 1973 from the University of Toronto and completed his MBA at Harvard (Scholarship) in 1975.   - See more at: https://www.elementfleet.com/about-us/investor-relations/board-of-directors#sthash.Cq0dHODe.dpuf 

Research Interest

 Business & Management