Ms. Johanne Brossard, MBA, ICD.D, is an accomplished senior executive and corporate director with more than 30 years in the financial services industry in Canada, Europe and Japan. Ms. Brossard is currently a Corporate Director at Currency Exchange International where she is the Chair of the Governance Committee and Peoples Group. Previously, Ms. Brossard served on the boards of Infrastructure Ontario and Equitable Bank.
Her most recent role was President and CEO of Bank West, a subsidiary of Desjardins, from 2013 to 2014 and as Desjardins’ Senior Vice-President of National Online Banking Development where she was instrumental in setting and implementing the turnaround plan for Bank West and relaunched as Zag Bank. Prior to that, she served three years as President and Chief Executive Officer of ResMor Trust/Ally Canada Company, a federally regulated trust company and a wholly owned subsidiary of Ally Financial Inc. USA.
In 1996 Ms. Brossard joined ING Direct where she served in various senior level positions over a 14-year period in Amsterdam, Japan and France, and where she held the position of President and CEO of ING Bank of Canada (ING Direct Canada and its subsidiaries) from 2003 to 2008. At ING, she played a key role in the in establishing the global ING Direct digital banking model, setting a new strategic direction for retail banks in Canada, launching ING Direct France and leading the transformational plan at ING Direct Japan. Ms. Brossard received her Master of Business Administration degree from the Richard Ivey School of Business at the University of Western Ontario and has a General Management Certificate from INSEAD in Fontainebleau, France.