TORONTO — Following its annual members’ meeting, the Canada Media Fund (CMF) today announced the appointment of Jason Badal, Sanae Takahashi and Chantale Coulombe to its board of directors.
Badal is currently director of the multinational merchants segment at Shopify and prior to that was head of business affairs and development at Rogers Media (before it was called Rogers Sports and Media) and Sportsnet. Before that, he was director of business and legal affairs at Score Media, before it was acquired by Rogers Media.
Now retired, Takahashi is an experienced strategic planner and marketing professional with 20 years of executive experience in the Canadian broadcasting and telecom industries. Most recently, from 2016 until her retirement last fall, she served as senior vice-president of planning, insights and business models at Shaw Communications, after holding various senior leadership roles at the company. Prior to Shaw, Takahashi was vice-president of consumer marketing at Rogers Wireless.
Coulombe is a lawyer by training and practised intellectual property for almost 20 years at Norton Rose Fullbright, where she was a partner. After that, she was vice-president of corporate and legal affairs of the ComediHa! Group, a creator of audiovisual content in Quebec. Currently, Coulombe is president and CEO of the College of Corporate Directors at Laval University. She previously sat on the board of directors of the Table de concertation de l’industrie cinématographique et télévisuelle de Québec, and is currently a member of the board of directors of Arsenal Media and of the Ethics and Governance Committee of the Office du tourisme de Québec.
Badal and Coulombe were nominated to the CMF board by the federal government’s Department of Canadian Heritage, while Takahashi was nominated by the Canadian Coalition for Cultural Expression (CCCE), which represents Canada’s cable, satellite and IPTV distributors.
Current board directors Alain Cousineau, Barry Chapman, Alison Clayton, Guy Fournier and Gary Pizante were renominated by the CCCE, and Michael Schmalz was renominated by Canadian Heritage.
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