Jonathan Goldbloom named Hockey Canada board chair as new directors elected
Hockey Canada elected its new board of directors after a vote at the 2023 Hockey Canada Annual Meeting in Montreal this weekend, including a new board chair.
Gillian Apps, Amanda Fowler, Corey Hirsch, Kristi Miller, Krista Outhwaite and Geoffrey Wong are the organization’s new directors. They will join Grant Borbridge, Jonathan Goldbloom and Marian Jacko, who were re-elected after serving on the organization’s transition board of directors.
Nine individuals have been elected to our Board of Directors, led by chair Jonathan Goldbloom. 🇨🇦
Neuf personnes ont été élues à notre conseil d’administration qui sera présidé par Jonathan Goldbloom. 🇨🇦
— Hockey Canada (@HockeyCanada) November 19, 2023
The board appointed Goldbloom as its chair, for which he will serve a three-year term. He was a member of the executive committee for the inaugural Beyond the Boards Summit and led Canada’s recent president and chief executive officer search committee.
“I am very proud of the meaningful progress that our transition board of directors made in leadership renewal, sport safety, good governance and financial transparency and accountability for Hockey Canada,” said Goldbloom.
“We have a strong foundation to build upon and I am eager to work with my new colleagues and Hockey Canada’s leadership team to continue to advance the sport that we love as Canadians.”
Borbridge and Outhwaite will also serve three-year terms. Jacko, Miller and Wong were elected to two-year terms and Apps, Fowler and Hirsch to one-year terms.
“We welcome Jonathan as the new chair of the Hockey Canada Board of Directors and look forward to continuing to work with him to ensure hockey in our country embodies safety, excellence and sport for all,” said Katherine Henderson, president and chief executive officer of Hockey Canada.
A new board chair needed to be named after Hugh L. Fraser announced on Friday that he would not seek re-election, driven by a desire to pursue other projects.
Fraser leaves Hockey Canada while findings of an investigative report into allegations of sexual assault involving members of the 2018 Canadian men’s junior hockey team is under appeal.
Hockey Canada said the in-camera appeal will begin “in the near future.”