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Member Highlight

Mr. John MacAulay

Regional President of Prairies Central, BMO

John MacAulay is the Regional President of Prairies Central with BMO Bank of Montreal. He is responsible for Personal Banking services across the Northwest Territories, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, and Northwestern Ontario. John joined the Bank of Montreal in 1992 and throughout his tenure has held various senior leadership positions including District Vice President for Manitoba and Northwestern Ontario and District Vice President for the Greater Toronto West area. In 2013, he relocated to Winnipeg in […]

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Member Highlight

Mr. John MacAulay

Regional President of Prairies Central, BMO

John MacAulay is the Regional President of Prairies Central with BMO Bank of Montreal. He is responsible for Personal Banking services across the Northwest Territories, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, and Northwestern Ontario.


John joined the Bank of Montreal in 1992 and throughout his tenure has held various senior leadership positions including District Vice President for Manitoba and Northwestern Ontario and District Vice President for the Greater Toronto West area. In 2013, he relocated to Winnipeg in the role of Senior Vice President and Division Head of Prairies Central Canada. In 2015, he was appointed as the acting Head of the Commercial Banking Business, a position he held for nine months. In the summer of 2018, John relocated to Calgary to assume his current role.

John is a member of the Business Council of Manitoba, a unique group of Chief Executive Officers of leading Manitoba companies who demonstrate a commitment to Manitoba’s economic growth and community development.


He lends his experience to several charitable causes including as a volunteer with the Winnipeg Art Gallery’s leadership team since 2015; in 2017 he joined the Capital Campaign Executive for the Inuit Art Centre as Chair of Leadership Gifts. He’s also served as a Campaign Cabinet Member for the Manitoba Museum’s Bringing Our Stories Forward Capital Campaign.

John currently serves on the Boards of Heritage Park Society, Theatre Calgary, where he co-chairs the Development Committee, and Friends of the Canadian Museum for Human Rights. He also sits as a Director on the Manitoba Health Sciences Centre Foundation Board and as an Honorary Campaign Member of Manitoba Opera..


John has a Bachelor of Arts (Economics) degree and Master of Business Administration in International Business from the University of Manitoba.

About BMO Financial Group 

Serving customers for 200 years and counting, BMO is a highly diversified financial services provider – the 8th largest bank, by assets, in North America. With total assets of $974 billion as of July 31, 2020, and a team of diverse and highly engaged employees, BMO provides a broad range of personal and commercial banking, wealth management and investment banking products and services to more than 12 million customers and conducts business through three operating groups: Personal and Commercial Banking, BMO Wealth Management and BMO Capital Markets.

FROM THE CHAIR

Welcome to the Business Council of Manitoba.

I am honoured to take on the role of Chair of the Board at the Business Council of Manitoba. Following the many past successful chairs, I look forward to bringing the same passion and dedication to advocating for Manitoba’s best interests.

The Council comprises Manitoba’s leading CEOs with shared vision and belief in our province. Since our founding in 1998, the Council has remained committed to collaborating with key stakeholders in Manitoba to lead, promote, and drive innovation and success. This joint effort between political, business, and community leaders has been instrumental in crafting policies that align with our mission of a stronger Manitoba.

We remain dedicated to non-partisan policy advocacy to all three levels of government regarding issues and advancements that affect our community’s success and well-being.

As incoming Chair of the Board, I am proud to lead the Council through this next chapter and look forward to being apart of making Manitoba a preferred place to live, work, and invest.

As a Council we recognize that our office is located on Treaty One lands, the original territories of the Anishinaabeg, Cree, Oji-Cree, Dakota, Lakota, Dene peoples, and the homeland of the Metis Nation and wish to recognize and honour all Treaties.  The Business Council is proud of the many relationships it has formed, and we dedicate ourselves to moving forward in partnership with Indigenous communities in a spirit of reconciliation and collaboration.

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Mike Pyle

Chair

FROM THE PRESIDENT

I am very honored to have been entrusted to be only the third President and CEO in the history of the Business Council of Manitoba.

The Council, established in 1998, is proud of its record of accomplishments, offering a constructive, non-partisan voice on major challenges and opportunities for Manitoba and Canada. I look forward to working with our members and our key stakeholders in building on our past successes and continuing to contribute towards realizing the full potential of our great province.

Our membership, through private sector investments and working in partnership with various levels of government, is focused on sustainable long-term growth, jobs and prosperity for all Manitobans present and future.

We welcome inquiries from readers who are interested in the work we do and the opinions we hold. We recognize the value in building support for positive change to make our province more competitive as we look forward to future opportunities and challenges.

Our goal is simple, to provide fact based and innovative input into major policy issues focused on making Manitoba a place where all can live, work and invest in vibrant and healthy communities.

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Bram Strain

President & CEO