Patricia Phillips

Patricia Phillips is CEO and Chair of The PBA Group of Companies, a diversified real estate company headquartered in Calgary. Since her appointment in 2005—when fewer than 1 in 50 Canadian CEOs were women—Patricia has led PBA’s transformation from one of the city’s leading landowners and property managers. As CEO, she has presided over a period of robust growth in a challenging market, a transformative expansion of the team, and the adoption of a new strategic direction that promises to take the company well beyond its roots. She has led over $2.0 billion in accretive transactions. Before PBA, Patricia established a stellar 28-year track record in business that began on Wall Street where she became one of the first female Financial Analysts.

In addition to chairing PBA and The Phillips Foundation (which she co-founded), Patricia currently sits on several private and non-profit boards, including Jostle, headversity (which she chairs), WITHORG (Women In Tourism And Hospitality), The Glenbow Museum, and Fortress Mountain. Patricia holds an MBA from the McCoombs School of Business at the University of Texas, Austin and also, studied at Sciences Po in Paris.