Sharon MacLeod
Director since 2021
Ms. MacLeod is a company director. She is a marketing and business leader with over 20 years of experience growing brands and businesses within Unilever, a consumer goods company, where she held the positions of Global Brand Vice-President, North American Vice-President of Personal Care and Vice‑President of Unilever Canada from 1998 to 2019. She is best known for her leadership of the Dove brand and has been recognized by Strategy in Canada as Marketer of the Year in 2019.
Ms. MacLeod is a director of several Power Group companies in North America, including IGM, IG Wealth Management and Mackenzie Inc. since 2017. She is a Strategic Advisor for the Carlyle Group and an Advisor to Sagard Holdings. She previously was a member of the Advertising Standards Canada Council. Catalyst Canada honoured Ms. MacLeod in 2014 as a Business Leader and, in 2013 and 2014, she was named by Women’s Executive Network (WXN) as one of Canada’s Most Powerful Women.
Ms. MacLeod holds a Bachelor of Commerce and Master of Science in Marketing Management from the University of Guelph, and she is a graduate of the Harvard Business School’s Corporate Boards Program and Advanced Corporate Boards Seminar.
Ms. MacLeod is a member of the following committee: