Brenda Eprile

Brenda is a seasoned corporate director. She has experience serving on various board committees, having chaired Audit, Governance and Human Resources and Compensation committees and being board chair of two public companies (TSX and NASDAQ). She is currently Board chair for Global Container Terminals, a business that owns two marine terminals on Canada’s west coast and two terminals in the Port of New York and New Jersey. She chairs the audit committees of Westport Fuels Systems Inc. and Atlantica Sustainable Infrastructure plc, both public companies listed on NASDAQ. She is on the board of privately held Canvas GFX, a visual communication B2B SaaS solutions provider and Assuris, an entity that protects Canadian life insurance policy holders in the event of a failure of a Canadian life insurer.

Brenda led mortgage lender Home Capital Group’s board in responding to a severe liquidity and regulatory crisis in April 2017. She was involved in securing the support of Berkshire Hathaway as a strategic sponsor and in settling major regulatory and class action litigation. During her tenure as chair she oversaw a revamping of the board and the hiring of a new CFO and CEO.

Brenda’s business background includes running the risk consulting practice for PwC Canada and building their national regulatory consulting practice assisting financial services firms, public companies and regulators. Prior to her twenty year consulting career, Brenda was a senior member of the Ontario Securities Commission as Chief of Staff (Executive Director), capping twelve years as a securities regulator including six years in the Office of the Chief Accountant (as Chief Accountant and Associate Chief Accountant) and two years in the Enforcement Branch.