POSTPONED Luncheon with Dr. Daniel Muzyka, President and Chief Executive Officer with the Conference Board of Canada
Event Sponsors
Date and Time
Tuesday Mar 11, 2014
11:30 AM - 1:30 PM ADT
Location
Saint John Trade & Convention Centre
Description
Distinguished Speaker Series Luncheon
Dr. Daniel Muzyka,
President and Chief Executive Officer
Conference Board of Canada
Presentation title
"A Call to Innovation"
About the Conference Board of Canada/www.conferenceboard.ca
- the foremost independent, evidence-based, not-for-profit applied research organization in Canada;
- an objective, non political and evidence-based organization, which does not lobby for special interests;
- an organization funded exclusively through the fees it charges for services to the private and public sectors;
- a team of experts in the organization of conferences, but also of specialists recognized for the quality of their research, their publications and their dissemination methods;
- a focal point that facilitates networking among business people and other clients in the public sector or elsewhere, while supporting the development of leadership skills and organizational capacities;
- a team of specialists in economic forecasting and analysis as well as in organizational performance and public policy;
- a fully private organization, but often asked to provide services to various levels of government agencies;
- an independent affiliate of the Conference Board Inc., New York, which serves nearly 2,000 companies in 60 countries and has offices in Brussels and Hong Kong
ABOUT DR. DANIEL MUZYKA
Dr. Daniel F. Muzyka is the President and Chief Executive Officer of The Conference Board of Canada and the RBC Financial Group Professor of Entrepreneurship at the University of British Columbia’s Sauder School of Business.
He was previously the Dean at the Sauder School of Business at UBC. Prior to 1999, Dr. Muzyka taught and held senior administrative positions at a number of universities and institutions, including the Harvard Business School, INSEAD, Babson College, Northeastern University, Wharton School (University of Pennsylvania) and Williams College.
Dr. Muzyka has extensive experience in academics, finance, and business, and has participated on a number of boards of companies, venture capital funds, as well as not-for-profit and government organizations. He worked in industry with General Electric in finance and strategy and was a strategy consultant, with Braxton Associates. In addition, he has been a board member and consultant to several other business and not-for-profit organizations, including Vice Chair and a public director of the Investment Industry Regulatory Organization of Canada (IIROC), the Vancouver Board of Trade (Past Chair), Graduate Management Admissions Council (GMAC), New Ventures B.C., and the European Venture Capital Association. Dr. Muzyka chaired NSERC’s Expert Advisory Committee on Partnerships and Innovation.
Dr. Muzyka currently serves or has served on various government councils, including The Natural Sciences & Engineering Research Council (NSERC), the B.C. Competition Council, and the B.C. Premier’s Technology Council, among others.
Dr. Muzyka holds a Doctorate of Business Administration from Harvard University, an MBA with concentration in Strategic Planning from the University of Pennsylvania, and a BA with Honours in Physics and Astronomy from Williams College. He has been awarded the National Order of Merit (Chevalier de l’Ordre National du Merite) by the Government of France.
