Headquarters:
Surrey, BC, Canada
Year founded:
1980
Number of employees:
2,200
Phone:
416 733 5600
Email:
marco@tulip.com
Website:
westlandinsurance.ca
LinkedIn:
linkedin.com/company/westlandinsurance
"We are constantly living by our core values: integrity, impact and teamwork"
Julie Giraldi,
CAAT Pension Plan
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WESTLAND INSURANCE
Keri Fraser
Chief People Officer
Laila Lee
Director, People and Performance Operations
Caroline Rumel
Director, People and Performance
Leadership
Keri Fraser is responsible for all people-related aspects of Westland. She develops and oversees programs that ensure the company attracts, develops and engage its talented employees. A Certified Professional in Human Resources, Keri brings over 20 years of experience in high-growth organizations. She values Westland’s kind and entrepreneurial culture, and is excited about implementing innovative technologies to support great employee experiences, satisfaction and engagement.
Chief People Officer
Keri Fraser
Laila Lee is the director of people and performance operations at Westland Insurance. She leads a team of over 10 human resource professionals in payroll, benefits, compensation, HRIS sustainment and M&A. In addition, she is continually evaluating, developing and implementing solutions that meet HR’s strategic and operational objectives. She brings over 15 years of experience and is a Certified Professional in Human Resources and a Certified Employee Benefits Specialist. Outside of work, she’s a mother to four small children and has a passion for long-distance running.
Director, People and Performance Operations
Laila Lee
Caroline Rumel oversees Westland’s talent acquisition, learning and development, and HR business partner teams. Over the course of her career, she has held progressively more senior roles across a variety of industries. She leads the development of people programs and practices that contribute to Westland’s unique culture. Caroline holds CPHR and SHRM-SCP designations. Outside of the office, she enjoys spending time in the great outdoors.
Director, People and Performance
Caroline Rumel
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WESTLAND INSURANCE
Jane Nugent
Senior Vice President, Merchandising
Laila Lee
Director, People and Performance Operations
Keri Fraser
Chief People Officer
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Headquarters:
Surrey, BC, Canada
Year founded:
1980
Number of employees:
2,200
Phone:
1 800 899 3093
Email:
marco@tulip.com
Website:
westlandinsurance.ca
LinkedIn:
linkedin.com/company/westlandinsurance
Keri Fraser is responsible for all people-related aspects of Westland. She develops and oversees programs that ensure the company attracts, develops and engage its talented employees. A Certified Professional in Human Resources, Keri brings over 20 years of experience in high-growth organizations. She values Westland’s kind and entrepreneurial culture, and is excited about implementing innovative technologies to support great employee experiences, satisfaction and engagement.
Chief People Officer
Keri Fraser
Laila Lee is the director of people and performance operations at Westland Insurance. She leads a team of over 10 human resource professionals in payroll, benefits, compensation, HRIS sustainment and M&A. In addition, she is continually evaluating, developing and implementing solutions that meet HR’s strategic and operational objectives. She brings over 15 years of experience and is a Certified Professional in Human Resources and a Certified Employee Benefits Specialist. Outside of work, she’s a mother to four small children and has a passion for long-distance running.
Director, People and Performance Operations
Laila Lee
An accomplished, visionary executive, Jane Nugent has a track record of building high-performing teams and global brands in the prestige beauty industry. Her strategic insight and talent for identifying beauty innovations and trends has helped build Sephora Canada’s competitive advantage and unprecedented brand growth.
After graduating from the University of Western Ontario, Jane started a career path that led her from banking to beauty. She held leadership positions at powerful brands such as MAC Cosmetics, Telus, Living Proof and Benefit, and has global experience in all channels of beauty retail.
Jane has a passion for wellness and nutrition, is a certified health coach from the Institute for Integrative Nutrition and is a certified Pilates instructor. She loves adventurous travel, a good athletic challenge and hiking in the woods. She is also known for her big laugh and fun-loving personality.
Senior Vice President, Merchandising
Jane Nugent
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For the second year running, Shielded Insurance Brokers has claimed the number-one spot among IB’s Top Brokerages. In 2020, it was record-setting growth that drove the company’s impressive success. This year, says managing director Stuart Brady, the key ingredient behind the win is the Shielded culture. Brady is proud of the shared vision for constant improvement across all aspects of the business. “We are thrilled to take out the win again, and it’s hats off to the team for their hard work over the past year,” he says.
“Now, we have much more frequent recognition awards because we want to celebrate people staying at CAAT and recognize the contributions that they bring to the organization”
Julie Giraldi,
CAAT Pension Plan
“We are constantly living by our core values: integrity, impact and teamwork”
Julie Giraldi,
CAAT Pension Plan
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WESTLAND INSURANCE
Martin St-Pierre
Vice President, Supply Chain
Laila Lee
Director, People and Performance Operations
Keri Fraser
Chief People Officer
Leadership
Headquarters:
Surrey, BC, Canada
Year founded:
1980
Number of employees:
2,200
Phone:
1 800 899 3093
Email:
marco@tulip.com
Website:
westlandinsurance.ca
LinkedIn:
linkedin.com/company/
westlandinsurance
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Keri Fraser is responsible for all people-related aspects of Westland. She develops and oversees programs that ensure the company attracts, develops and engage its talented employees. A Certified Professional in Human Resources, Keri brings over 20 years of experience in high-growth organizations. She values Westland’s kind and entrepreneurial culture, and is excited about implementing innovative technologies to support great employee experiences, satisfaction
and engagement.
Chief People Officer
Keri Fraser
Laila Lee is the director of people and performance operations at Westland Insurance. She leads a team of over 10 human resource professionals in payroll, benefits, compensation, HRIS sustainment and M&A. In addition, she is continually evaluating, developing and implementing solutions that meet HR’s strategic and operational objectives. She brings over 15 years of experience and is a Certified Professional in Human Resources and a Certified Employee Benefits Specialist. Outside of work, she’s a mother to four small children and has a passion for long-distance running.
Director, People and Performance Operations
Laila Lee
An accomplished, visionary executive, Jane Nugent has a track record of building high-performing teams and global brands in the prestige beauty industry. Her strategic insight and talent for identifying beauty innovations and trends has helped build Sephora Canada’s competitive advantage and unprecedented brand growth.
After graduating from the University of Western Ontario, Jane started a career path that led her from banking to beauty. She held leadership positions at powerful brands such as MAC Cosmetics, Telus, Living Proof and Benefit, and has global experience in all channels of beauty retail.
Jane has a passion for wellness and nutrition, is a certified health coach from the Institute for Integrative Nutrition and is a certified Pilates instructor. She loves adventurous travel, a good athletic challenge and hiking in the woods. She is also known for her big laugh and fun-loving personality.
Senior Vice President, Merchandising
Jane Nugent
For the second year running, Shielded Insurance Brokers has claimed the number-one spot among IB’s Top Brokerages. In 2020, it was record-setting growth that drove the company’s impressive success. This year, says managing director Stuart Brady, the key ingredient behind the win is the Shielded culture. Brady is proud of the shared vision for constant improvement across all aspects of the business. “We are thrilled to take out the win again, and it’s hats off to the team for their hard work over the past year,” he says.
Jane Nugent
Senior Vice President, Merchandising
An accomplished, visionary executive, Jane Nugent has a track record of building high-performing teams and global brands in the prestige beauty industry. Her strategic insight and talent for identifying beauty innovations and trends has helped build Sephora Canada’s competitive advantage and unprecedented brand growth.
After graduating from the University of Western Ontario, Jane started a career path that led her from banking to beauty. She held leadership positions at powerful brands such as MAC Cosmetics, Telus, Living Proof and Benefit, and has global experience in all channels of beauty retail.
Jane has a passion for wellness and nutrition, is a certified health coach from the Institute for Integrative Nutrition and is a certified Pilates instructor. She loves adventurous travel, a good athletic challenge and hiking in the woods. She is also known for her big laugh and fun-loving personality.
Senior Vice President, Merchandising
Jane Nugent
Caroline Rumel
Director, People
and Performance
Caroline Rumel oversees Westland’s talent acquisition, learning and development, and HR business partner teams. Over the course of her career, she has held progressively more senior roles across a variety of industries. She leads the development of people programs and practices that contribute to Westland’s unique culture. Caroline holds CPHR and SHRM-SCP designations. Outside of the office, she enjoys spending time in the great outdoors.
Director, People and Performance
Caroline Rumel
Caroline Rumel
Director, People and Performance
Caroline Rumel oversees Westland’s talent acquisition, learning and development, and HR business partner teams. Over the course of her career, she has held progressively more senior roles across a variety of industries. She leads the development of people programs and practices that contribute to Westland’s unique culture. Caroline holds CPHR and SHRM-SCP designations. Outside of the office, she enjoys spending time in the great outdoors.
Director, People and Performance
Caroline Rumel
Martin St-Pierre
Vice President, Supply Chain
Martin St.-Pierre believes that leadership is about taking care of the people actually doing the work. Effective at mobilizing multi-functional teams towards a shared vision and goal, he creates a culture of accountability that ensures operational excellence. Since joining Sephora in 2012, he has led the creation of some of Sephora Canada’s key functions, such as logistics, store operations, loss prevention, and supply chain.
Martin has more than 20 years of experience managing different functions of the supply chain, and has worked for companies such
as Sanofi, Avon, and GENCO Supply Chain Solutions (now FedEx
Supply Chain).
He grew up playing multiple sports and had the privilege of representing Canada in Junior baseball. Martin has a business degree from Concordia University where he spent three years on a hockey scholarship. He loves spending time with his family, including blasting music at home and dancing with his two daughters.
Vice President, Supply Chain
Martin St-Pierre
Martin St-Pierre
Vice President,
Supply Chain
Martin St.-Pierre believes that leadership is about taking care of the people actually doing the work. Effective at mobilizing multi-functional teams towards a shared vision and goal, he creates a culture of accountability that ensures operational excellence. Since joining Sephora in 2012, he has led the creation of some of Sephora Canada’s key functions, such as logistics, store operations, loss prevention, and
supply chain.
Martin has more than 20 years of experience managing different functions of the supply chain,
and has worked for companies such as Sanofi, Avon, and GENCO Supply Chain Solutions (now FedEx Supply Chain).
He grew up playing multiple sports and had the privilege of representing Canada in Junior baseball. Martin has a business degree from Concordia University where he spent three years on a hockey scholarship. He loves spending time with his family, including blasting music at home and dancing with his two daughters.
Vice President, Supply Chain
Martin St-Pierre
Jane Nugent
Senior Vice President, Merchandising
Martin St.-Pierre believes that leadership is about taking care of the people actually doing the work. Effective at mobilizing multi-functional teams towards a shared vision and goal, he creates a culture of accountability that ensures operational excellence. Since joining Sephora in 2012, he has led the creation of some of Sephora Canada’s key functions, such as logistics, store operations, loss prevention, and supply chain.
Martin has more than 20 years of experience managing different functions of the supply chain, and has worked for companies such as Sanofi, Avon, and GENCO Supply Chain Solutions (now FedEx Supply Chain).
He grew up playing multiple sports and had the privilege of representing Canada in Junior baseball. Martin has a business degree from Concordia University where he spent three years on a hockey scholarship. He loves spending time with his family, including blasting music at home and dancing with his two daughters.
Vice President, Supply Chain
Martin St-Pierre
From humble beginnings in 1980 as a single family-owned brokerage in Ladner, BC, Westland has grown to become the largest independent Canadian-owned brokerage in the country. Since then, the company is proud to have grown to a team of over 2,200 employees in more than 190 locations across the country. As Westland has expanded, it has always maintained its focus on its people, client, and communities. As a broker, Westland has many unique strengths that provide added value to its clients. It has access to a variety of markets and programs, underwriting and claims expertise, technologies and tools that set the company apart from the competition.
“Now, we have much more frequent recognition awards because we want to celebrate people staying at CAAT and recognize the contributions that they bring to the organization”
Julie Giraldi,
CAAT Pension Plan
Laura Unger
Vice President/General Manager, .CA
Paul Mayer
Executive Vice President,
Investment Sales
Karen Bannister, CM
Vice President, Marketing
Sarah M Stewart
Associate Vice President,
Leasing and Call Centre Operations
As the leader of Sephora Canada’s strong e-commerce business, Laura Unger focuses her team on driving growth through industry-leading online client experiences.
Laura has worked for Sephora for nearly six years, leading the e-commerce merchandising team for makeup, and has hands-on experience at Sephora inside JC Penney. She is passionate about developing and leading teams and has earned a reputation for driving business results by doing so.
Before joining Sephora, Laura honed her talents at such well-known companies as Google and Gap, as well as e-commerce start-ups Minted and Shop It To Me.
Laura is a graduate of Smith College, and earned an MA from Stanford University and an MBA from UC Berkeley Haas School of Business. She enjoys hiking and being outdoors and loves spending time with her family, especially her four-year-old son. In quiet moments, you might find her reading The New Yorker.
Vice President/General Manager, .CA
Laura Unger
Paul Mayer has over 20 years of sales and marketing experience at the vice president level. He is a graduate of Queen’s University and has an MBA from IESE Business School in Spain. He speaks English, French, and German, and has an understanding of Spanish.
Executive Vice President, Investment Sales
Paul Mayer
Karen Bannister has over 20 years of marketing expertise and has a Chartered Marketer designation from the Canadian Marketing Association. She is a strategic marketing leader with a career record of success in developing and executing effective marketing strategies, growing revenue, and overseeing multi-talented teams. She also holds five certifications for marketing and brand management.
Karen has successfully completed the Mini-MBA, Essentials of Management program at Schulich School of Business, and most recently completed the Communications and Leadership Program at The Ivey Academy.
Vice President, Marketing
Karen Bannister, CM
Sarah M Stewart has more than 15 years of strategic leasing and customer care experience in residential property management. She is responsible for overseeing all aspects of Centurion’s national leasing platforms, residential lead generation, and overall customer experience excellence through operation of the company’s internal customer service department.
Associate Vice President, Leasing and Call Centre Operations
Sarah M Stewart
Laura Unger
Vice President/
General Manager, .CA
Sarah M Stewart
Associate Vice President, Leasing and Call Centre Operations
Karen Bannister, CM
Vice President, Marketing
Paul Mayer
Executive
Vice President, Investment Sales
As the leader of Sephora Canada’s strong e-commerce business, Laura Unger focuses her team on driving growth through industry-leading online client experiences.
Laura has worked for Sephora for nearly six years, leading the e-commerce merchandising team for makeup, and has hands-on experience at Sephora inside JC Penney. She is passionate about developing and leading teams and has earned a reputation for driving business results by doing so.
Before joining Sephora, Laura honed her talents at such well-known companies as Google and Gap, as well as e-commerce start-ups Minted and Shop It
To Me.
Laura is a graduate of Smith College, and earned an MA from Stanford University and an MBA from UC Berkeley Haas School of Business. She enjoys hiking and being outdoors and loves spending time with her family, especially her four-year-old son. In quiet moments, you might find her reading The New Yorker.
Vice President/General Manager, .CA
Laura Unger
Paul Mayer has over 20 years of sales and marketing experience at the vice president level. He is a graduate of Queen’s University and has an MBA from IESE Business School in Spain. He speaks English, French, and German, and has an understanding of Spanish.
Executive Vice President, Investment Sales
Paul Mayer
Karen Bannister has over 20 years of marketing expertise and has a Chartered Marketer designation from the Canadian Marketing Association. She is a strategic marketing leader with a career record of success in developing and executing effective marketing strategies, growing revenue, and overseeing multi-talented teams. She also holds five certifications for marketing and brand management.
Karen has successfully completed the Mini-MBA, Essentials of Management program at Schulich
School of Business, and most recently completed the Communications and Leadership Program at
The Ivey Academy.
Vice President, Marketing
Karen Bannister, CM
Sarah M Stewart has more than 15 years of strategic leasing and customer care experience in residential property management. She is responsible for overseeing all aspects of Centurion’s national leasing platforms, residential lead generation, and overall customer experience excellence through operation of the company’s internal customer service department.
Associate Vice President, Leasing and
Call Centre Operations
Sarah M Stewart
Laura Unger
Vice President/
General Manager, .CA
Karen Bannister, CM
Vice President, Marketing
Paul Mayer
Executive
Vice President, Investment Sales
Sarah M Stewart
Associate
Vice President, Leasing and Call Centre Operations
As the leader of Sephora Canada’s strong e-commerce business, Laura Unger focuses her team on driving growth through industry-leading online client experiences.
Laura has worked for Sephora for nearly six years, leading the e-commerce merchandising team for makeup, and has hands-on experience at Sephora inside JC Penney. She is passionate about developing and leading teams and has earned a reputation for driving business results by doing so.
Before joining Sephora, Laura honed her talents at such well-known companies as Google and Gap, as well as e-commerce start-ups Minted and Shop It To Me.
Laura is a graduate of Smith College, and earned an MA from Stanford University and an MBA from UC Berkeley Haas School of Business. She enjoys hiking and being outdoors and loves spending time with her family, especially her four-year-old son. In quiet moments, you might find her reading The New Yorker.
Vice President/General Manager, .CA
Laura Unger
Paul Mayer has over 20 years of sales and marketing experience at the vice president level. He is a graduate of Queen’s University and has an MBA from IESE Business School in Spain. He speaks English, French, and German, and has an understanding of Spanish.
Executive Vice President,
Investment Sales
Paul Mayer
Karen Bannister has over 20 years of marketing expertise and has a Chartered Marketer designation from the Canadian Marketing Association. She is a strategic marketing leader with a career record of success in developing and executing effective marketing strategies, growing revenue, and overseeing multi-talented teams. She also holds five certifications for marketing and brand management.
Karen has successfully completed the
Mini-MBA, Essentials of Management program at Schulich School of Business, and most recently completed the Communications and Leadership Program at The Ivey Academy.
Vice President, Marketing
Karen Bannister, CM
Sarah M Stewart has more than 15 years
of strategic leasing and customer care experience in residential property management. She is responsible for overseeing all aspects of Centurion’s national leasing platforms, residential lead generation, and overall customer experience excellence through operation
of the company’s internal customer
service department.
Associate Vice President,
Leasing and Call Centre Operations
Sarah M Stewart