Robin Bienfait

Director at Great-West Lifeco

Ms. Bienfait is Chief Executive Officer of Emnovate, an executive advisory firm delivering enterprise-class services to emerging businesses, a position she has held since 2017, and is the founder of Atlanta Tech Park, a global technology accelerator. She previously served as Executive Vice-President and Chief Enterprise Innovation Officer at Samsung Electronics from 2014 to 2017 and, prior to that, she was Chief Information Officer at BlackBerry from 2007 to 2014. Ms. Bienfait is a director of Canada Life, Empower Retirement and Putnam. She is also a director and Chair of the board of Global Aviation and a director of the Georgia Institute of Technology Industry Board, the Atlanta Chapter of the National Association of Corporate Directors and Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, Inc. She previously served as a member of the Cisco Strategic Advisory Board and the Hewlett-Packard Advisory Board. Ms. Bienfait holds a Masters in Technology Management from the Georgia Institute of Technology and a bachelor’s degree in engineering from Central Missouri State University.

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  • Director

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