Corus Entertainment has announced that Heather Shaw will retire from her position as Executive Chair on May 31. She’ll remain on the company’s Board of Directors as a non-executive chair. Shaw has served as Executive Chair since the company’s inception in September 1999. Read more here.
Imaan Sheikh has taken on the role of Managing Editor at Daily Hive. Sheikh first joined the publication in 2021 as Toronto City Editor and more recently had been helming the publication’s first National & Trending Desk
Shirley Vercruysse is retiring from the National Film Board of Canada (NFB) after 11 years as Executive Producer of the NFB’s Western Documentary Unit. A Vancouver-based producer, Vercruysse will remain with NFB to complete her ongoing projects, before retiring at the end of September. She first joined NFB in 2014, taking over for Tracey Friesen as Executive Producer of what was then known as the BC & Yukon Studio.
Kevin Johnson, CEO, GroupM Canada and President of WPP in Canada, and Nora Felder, Emmy-winning and Grammy-nominated Music Supervisor, have joined the Banff World Media Festival (BANFF) Board of Directors. Johnson oversees the teams that lead advertising, media investment, creative and marketing strategy at GroupM and WPP in Canada. Felder has worked with artists like Paul Simon, Sinead O’Connor, Malcolm McLaren, Cyndi Lauper, Joan Jett and Iggy Pop and has led music supervision on Stranger Things, What We Do In the Shadows, Better Things, Ray Donovan, Californication and Yellowjackets.
