W. Edmund Clark

William Edmund "Ed" Clark, CM (born October 10, 1947) is the former president and chief executive officer of TD Bank Group. Clark was appointed to this role on December 20, 2002. Prior to this appointment, he was president and chief operating officer of TD Bank Group, a role he held since July 2000. On April 3, 2013, Clark announced his intention to retire as president and CEO effective November 1, 2014 at age 67, after 12 years as CEO. After his retirement, Clark worked as an adviser for Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne and helped introduce beer and wines into grocery stores and partially privatize the electricity distribution company Hydro One. Currently Clark is Chair of the Vector Institute in Toronto, one of the top AI Institutes in the world which he helped to start. Clark is a major philanthropist who has used his philanthropy combined with his organizations skills to advance social causes such as working with Habitat for Humanity to build homes for those who cannot afford them , Friends of Ruby to help Queer teenagers , Homeward Bound to help single mothers in shelters to have a career plus a number of another initiatives. Provided by Wikipedia