I. David Marshall, President and Chief Executive Officer, Workplace Safety and Insurance Board
The WSIB: An Historic Transformation
Mr. David Marshall is currently President and CEO of the Workplace Safety and Insurance Board of Ontario. He was appointed to the position in January 2010. The WSIB, a provincial agency, administers no-fault workplace insurance for employers and provides disability benefits, monitors the quality of health care and assists in the early and safe return to work for injured and ill workers.
Mr. Marshall is a Fellow of the Certified General Accountants Association of Canada.
He has divided his time between appointments in public service and in the private sector.
He served from 1977 to 1993 in several senior executive roles in the Government of Canada, consecutively as Assistant Auditor General for Canada; Assistant Deputy Minister at Revenue Canada, and Assistant Deputy Minister at Employment and Immigration Canada.
Joining the private sector from 1993 to 2003, Mr. Marshall served in senior positions in the telecommunications and banking industries. He has worked on Wall Street as a Managing Director of a leading investment bank and, more recently, he served as Vice Chairman of CIBC for three years before rejoining the Government as Deputy Minister of Public Works and Government Services from 2003 to2007. Prior to joining the WSIB, Mr. Marshall was appointed by the Prime Minister as High Commissioner (Ambassador) to Barbados and the Eastern Caribbean where he served for two years.
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