Board of Governors

Helen Antoniou is an executive coach for corporate leaders and their teams, as well as family business owners and their successors.  She is the author of the Globe and Mail bestseller, Back to Beer... and Hockey:  The Story of Eric Molson, a business biography of her father-in-law and past chairman of Molson Coors Beverage Company.  Helen also lectures at institutions such as the MIT Sloan of Management and the ICD-Rotman Directors Education Program.

Starting as a corporate commercial lawyer 30 years ago, Helen transitioned to management consulting and later assumed leadership roles within organizations such as Bombardier and the McGill University Health Center.  She now uses her experience to help coaching clients maximize their impact and reach their goals.

Helen holds Civil and Common Law degrees from McGill University, a Masters in Law from Université de Paris II, and a Masters in Public Health from Harvard University.  Her community involvement focuses on health education.

After immigrating from Iran in 1979, Gina earned a master’s and a doctorate in building engineering from Concordia University, making her Canada’s first woman PhD in the discipline.

She spent more than 30 years in the private sector as an engineer, corporate executive and principal shareholder of a national engineering firm. Under her tenure, her firm was recognized as one of Canada’s Best Managed Companies, and Profit Magazine named her one of Canada’s Top Women Entrepreneurs.

Gina is one of the few women to chair a TSX 60 company – the Canadian Apartment Properties REIT. She also chairs the European Residential REIT and serves on several other corporate boards.

Her frequent public speaking engagements centre on the value of education and on equity, diversity and inclusion, especially for women and immigrants in the STEM fields.

Gina is a member of the Order of Montreal, a member of the Order of Canada, and an honorary Lieutenant-Colonel of the 34 Combat Engineer Regiment (CER) of the Canadian Armed Forces.