Joe leads Deloitte’s Sustainability & Climate Change practice in Eastern Canada and is based in the Toronto office. He brings over twenty-seven years of experience working across sectors to help his clients identify, measure, assess, and disclose ESG-related risks and opportunities. He has advised many large organizations regarding ESG strategies and most notably climate change given the heightened focus on this topic. Joe works with his clients to determine financial implications, implement performance improvement programs and integrate ESG risks and opportunities into corporate financial analysis, governance, enterprise risk management and external disclosure.

Dr. Randall Huffman is Chief Food Safety and Sustainability Officer at Maple Leaf Foods. This role encompasses leadership of Food Safety and Quality, Occupational Health, Safety and Security, Environmental Sustainability and Compliance, Animal Care and Corporate Engineering. His team is responsible for executing world class strategies to deliver on Maple Leaf Foods’ commitments to produce safe, great tasting food produced in a safe work environment and to become the most sustainable protein company on earth.
Prior to joining Maple Leaf Foods, Dr. Huffman served as President of the American Meat Institute (AMI) Foundation, as well as Senior Vice President Scientific Affairs for 9 years at AMI. Earlier in his career he held senior positions related to food safety, quality assurance and product development in North America’s food industry.
Dr. Huffman holds a Ph.D. and Master of Science degree in Meat and Animal Science from the University of Florida, as well as a Bachelor of Science degree from Auburn University. He is a member of the Board of Directors for North American Meat Institute, an active member and past president of the American Meat Science Association and a member of the International Association of Food Protection and the Institute of Food Technologists.

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Susan O’Brien is the Chief Brand & Customer Officer at Canadian Tire Corporation (CTC). She oversees all aspects of CTC’s brand, aligning the curation of the entire customer experience across all channels and Marketing programs, as well as leading the long-term strategy around customer insights. She is also responsible for CTC’s Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) strategy and roadmap.

Susan is an expert in all things branding, positioning and customer engagement and has played an integral role in the reinvention of the Canadian Tire brand through award-winning programs like We All Play for Canada and Tested for Life in Canada. Susan spearheaded the launch of Triangle Rewards – Canada’s fastest growing loyalty program – and one of the most strategically important initiatives in the history of CTC, linking the entire family of companies under one loyalty and credit card program. Her work has contributed to the Company’s Marketer of the Year Award in 2013 from Marketing Magazine, being named Canada’s Most Admired Brand by Leger in 2019 and One of Canada’s Strongest Retail Brands by Brand Finance in 2019.

Since joining the Company in 2008, Susan has held a number of progressively senior roles. Most recently she served as Senior Vice-President, Marketing; prior to that she was Senior Vice-President, Marketing & Corporate Affairs and Vice-President of Marketing for Canadian Tire.

Susan sits on the Boards of the Canadian Marketing Association and Enactus Canada. She holds an MBA in General Management from the Richard Ivey School of Business at the University of Western Ontario, and a Bachelor of Commerce (Marketing) from Dalhousie University. In 2002, she was nominated for Marketing Magazine’s Top 30 under 30 award, was named one of Toronto’s Brand Stars by Ad Week in 2018, and recently was awarded as one of Canada’s Marketers of the Year by Strategy Magazine.