Wallace McCain Institute Looking For New CEO
MONCTON – The Wallace McCain Institute at the University of New Brunswick is searching for a CEO.
The business leadership program announced on May 31 that it’s started the recruitment process to find a new chief executive.
The program’s board has called on the expertise of HR recruitment firm Knightsbridge Robertson Surrette (KBRS) to help find its next CEO.
Managing Partner Andrea Forbes-Hurley will serve as the lead consultant in the recruitment process.
The new CEO will be the successor to executive director Nancy Mathis, who has served the Wallace McCain Institute since its founding in 2008.
“It’s been an incredible 15 years and there has never been a better time to transition WMI leadership,” said Mathis.
Mathis plans to retire this coming August but plans to help and support the Wallace McCain Institute.
“With a new fiduciary board, well established, high impact peer-based programs, and as we settle into the ‘new normal’ post-COVID, WMI is very well positioned to continue to build on its mission to give our region’s entrepreneurs and business leaders what they need to succeed,” she added.
Founded with the financial support of McCain Foods co-founder Wallace McCain and his wife, former New Brunswick Lieutenant Governor Margaret Norrie McCain, the institute bills itself as a springboard to the region’s best-in-class entrepreneurial business leaders, equipping them to handle the intricacies and challenges of the Atlantic Canadian market.
The Wallace McCain Institute offers aspiring entrepreneurs a variety of programs, including a cohort program where entrepreneurs work together in a series of workshops and lectures on themes pertaining to Atlantic Canadian business, building networks and relationships.
The collective revenue of the Wallace McCain Institute’s CEO members is over $1-billion – those CEOs employ more than 9,000 employees.