Sheila O’Brien

Sheila O’Brien, President of Belvedere1 Investments, is a corporate director and business consultant specializing in workforce and leadership capacity with over 30 years of experience in the oil and gas, pipeline and petrochemical sectors in Canada, USA, South America and Europe. She has held executive positions in the areas of human resources, investor relations, public affairs and government relations with Amoco International, Petro-Canada and NOVA Corporation. She created and implemented an innovative workforce restructuring program, based on the dignity of the employee, which was designated a Worldwide Best Practice by Watson Wyatt International Consultancy.

Ms. O’Brien has been active in the not-for-profit sector, having served on over 25 Boards of Directors dealing primarily with human rights, women’s rights and giving voice to marginalized members of society. She is the founder of several enduring community events celebrating the accomplishments of women and she has received numerous awards for her work in the advancement of women. In 1998 she was invested in the Order of Canada.

Ms. O’Brien currently serves on the Boards of Directors of Gildan, a publicly traded, vertically-integrated marketer and apparel manufacturer based in Montreal; Advantage Oil and Gas Company, a Calgary-based, publicly traded corporation; is a member of the Board of Governors of Alberta College of Art and Design in Calgary; serves on the board of directors of The Canadian Women’s Foundation in Toronto; and is Executive in Residence at Canada West Foundation in Calgary where she co-authored, “An Extraordinary West: A Narrative Exploration of Western Canada’s Future”, published in November 2010.