Glenn Frese
Jay Takefman
Terry Savage
John Armstrong
Robin Sears
Kenneth Frankel
Stephen Pincus
Larry Latowsky
Martin Rothstein
Paul Goldman
Kaz Jana
Robert Waite
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ROBERT WAITE
Robert Waite is one of North America’s foremost
experts in the field of executive
communications and stakeholder relations. Mr. Waite
is Managing Director of Waite + Co., a
firm specializing in Board and CEO-level
communications strategy and advice. With offices in
Toronto and Ottawa, Waite + Co. draws on its founder’s 30+ years of
experience working
with six corporate CEO’s; two distinguished United
States Senators; and as a member of the
Executive Branch of the United States. He has led
and transformed communications,
government relations, marketing and investor
relations functions at companies as diverse as
IBM, Ford, CAE, CIBC and Canada Post Corporation.
Earlier in his career Mr. Waite served as Press
Secretary to Senator Edward W. Brooke of
Massachusetts and Senator Bob Dole of Kansas. When
working for Senator Dole he wrote the
speech nominating George H.W. Bush for
vice-president of the United States, delivered at
the
Republican National Convention in Detroit. He also
served on the staff of the 1980 Republican
Platform Committee.
Mr. Waite served as Vice President, Public Affairs
at the Export-Import Bank of the United States
during the Reagan Administration. Prior to entering
government, Mr. Waite was an award-winning
journalist and columnist. He was national political
correspondent for Pacific New Service (PNS),
covering the 1976 Democratic and Republican
presidential primaries and the general election. He
subsequently served as PNS’ East European
correspondent, based in Warsaw, Poland, where he
covered the rising influence of trade unions and the
Catholic church as counterweights to
communist regimes.
Mr. Waite continues to write and publish on topics
of business leadership, politics and also
delivers speeches and lectures to academic and
general audiences. He is currently researching a
book on critical success factors for
new-to-the-position CEOs.
Mr. Waite is currently Chair of the Canadian Stamp
Advisory Committee; a member of the
Program Committee of the Canadian Journalism
Foundation; serves on the Board of the Killay-
Meany Foundation; is an Honorary Fellow of the Royal
Geographic Society; a PR Seminar
Seminarian; and a member of the Union Club of
Boston.
He is past Chair of the Ottawa Liaison Committee of
the Canadian Chamber of Commerce; the
CIBC YouthVision Scholarship Committee; two United
Way of Greater Toronto campaign
cabinets (1993 and 2002); a past Trustee of Hebron
Academy; a past Board member of the
Canadian Council for Aboriginal Business; past
member of the Senate Press Secretaries
Association; and served as Employer Representative
at the International Labor Organization
(ILO) in Geneva, Switzerland (1982).
Born in Boston, Massachusetts, Waite received his
undergraduate education at the University of
Wisconsin in Madison, where he majored in European
social history. He holds certificates in
Corporate Social Responsibility (University of
Toronto, 2009); Theory and Practice of Investor
Relations (University of Michigan, 1995); and
Marketing High Tech Products (Haas School of
Business, University of California at Berkeley,
1989). He is also a 1982 graduate of IBM’s
Advanced Management School at the Thomas Watson
Center in Armonk, New York.
Mr. Waite moved to Canada in 1986 on assignment with
Ford Motor Company and is a dual
Canadian – U.S. citizen. He and his family live in
Rockcliffe, Ontario.
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