Aboriginals, women ready to serve on corporate boards – Waterloo Record

A former Wall Street lawyer, she now runs a Canadian not-for-profit group. Rosemary McCarney and others get a boost from new rules requiring more women on corporate boards and a listing on the Diversity 50.

Rosemary McCarney a former Wall Street lawyer with an MBA, runs a $500-million-a-year Canadian not-for-profit organization with more than 200 full-time employees.

Yet, the president and chief executive officer of Plan Canada, which helps children living in poverty around the world, had never considered putting her name forward as a director of a major corporate board.

Until now.

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