Full Name
Gary Smith
Job Title
Executive Vice-President Operations and Technology
Company
Fortis
Speaker Bio
Mr. Smith holds a Bachelor of Engineering (Electrical) from Memorial University. He has completed the Finance for Senior Executives Program at the Harvard Business School.
Mr. Smith currently serves on the Boards of FortisAlberta, FortisOntario, UNS Energy, Caribbean Utilities, FortisTCI, and Fortis Belize, all Fortis utilities. He is also the Chair of the Board of Directors of Wataynikaneyap Power PM, a Fortis subsidiary acting as the project manager for the Wataynikaneyap Power Transmission Project, a partnership with 24 First Nations that built a transmission line to connect 17 First Nations communities in Northwestern Ontario to the power grid.
He is also a member of the Board of Directors of Junior Achievement Canada and Chair of its Canadian Business Hall of Fame Governance Committee,Past Chair of the Board of Directors of the Dr. H. Bliss Murphy Cancer Care Foundation and is a member of the Dean’s Advisory Committee to the Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science at Memorial University of Newfoundland.
Mr. Smith is past Chair of the Board of Directors of Junior Achievement of Newfoundland and Labrador and past member of the Board of Directors of the Canadian Electricity Association.
He was elected as a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering in 2021, is a member of the Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of Newfoundland and Labrador, a member of the Steering Committee on Power Engineering for the Canadian Standards Association.
Mr. Smith currently serves on the Boards of FortisAlberta, FortisOntario, UNS Energy, Caribbean Utilities, FortisTCI, and Fortis Belize, all Fortis utilities. He is also the Chair of the Board of Directors of Wataynikaneyap Power PM, a Fortis subsidiary acting as the project manager for the Wataynikaneyap Power Transmission Project, a partnership with 24 First Nations that built a transmission line to connect 17 First Nations communities in Northwestern Ontario to the power grid.
He is also a member of the Board of Directors of Junior Achievement Canada and Chair of its Canadian Business Hall of Fame Governance Committee,Past Chair of the Board of Directors of the Dr. H. Bliss Murphy Cancer Care Foundation and is a member of the Dean’s Advisory Committee to the Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science at Memorial University of Newfoundland.
Mr. Smith is past Chair of the Board of Directors of Junior Achievement of Newfoundland and Labrador and past member of the Board of Directors of the Canadian Electricity Association.
He was elected as a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering in 2021, is a member of the Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of Newfoundland and Labrador, a member of the Steering Committee on Power Engineering for the Canadian Standards Association.
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