George A. Cope

Mr. Cope is President and Chief Executive Officer of BCE Inc. and Bell Canada, a position he has held since 2008 and will hold until his planned retirement in January 2020. He was recognized as Corporate Citizen of the Year in the Report on Business CEO of the Year Awards (2019), one of the Top 100 Best-Performing CEOs in the World by Harvard Business Review (2019) and as Canada’s Outstanding CEO of the Year for 2015 by the Financial Post. Mr. Cope sits on the board of directors of BCE Inc., Bell Canada and Bank of Montreal. Under his leadership, Bell announced the Bell Let’s Talk initiative in 2010, the largest-ever corporate commitment to Canadian mental health and now one of the country’s most prominent community investment campaigns. Mr. Cope was named Ivey Business Leader of the Year in 2013 and serves on the school’s advisory board. He has been awarded honorary Doctorate degrees by his alma mater, University of Windsor and Trent University, was Chair of United Way Toronto’s record-breaking 2013 campaign, and received the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Medal for his work on Bell Let’s Talk. In addition, Mr. Cope sits on the board of directors of Maple Leaf Sports & Entertainment Ltd. (MLSE) and the Brain Canada Foundation. He was appointed a Member of the Order of Canada in 2014 and was inducted into the Canadian Business Hall of Fame in 2018. Mr. Cope is a graduate of the Ivey School of Business at Western University.