Biography

Anne Marie O’Donovan, FCPA, FCA, ICD is a corporate director and the President of O’Donovan Advisory Services. She has served as the Executive Vice President and Chief Administrative Officer, Global Banking and Markets at Scotiabank from 2009 to 2014. Prior to that, she was the Senior Vice President and Chief Auditor of Scotiabank from 2005 to 2009. Ms. O’Donovan is also a former partner at Ernst & Young LLP. She is the chair of the board of Aviva Canada Inc., chair of the audit committee of Cadillac Fairview Corp. and serves on the board and chairs the investment committee of CMA Impact Inc., a subsidiary of the Canadian Medical Association. She is a past director, chair of the audit committee and chair of the compensation committee of Indigo Books & Music, Inc. and director and chair of the audit committee of MDC Partners Inc. She has received a leadership award from Women in Capital Markets and recognized as one of Top 100 Most Powerful Women in Canada by the Women Executive Network. Ms. O’Donovan is a Chartered Professional Accountant (1984) and holds a Bachelor of Arts in Business administration from Western University.