The Board of Directors of Brookfield Business Corporation Limited, our general partner, is responsible for conducting, directing and managing all activities of Brookfield Business Corporation. The current board comprises ten directors, seven of whom are independent.
Brookfield Business Corporation’s corporate governance practices are not materially different than those required of domestic issuers under the New York Stock Exchange's listing standards.
Cyrus Madon
Mr. Madon is a Managing Partner of Brookfield Asset Management Ltd. and Executive Chairman of Brookfield’s Private Equity Group. In this role, he is responsible for developing strategy and providing investment oversight, review and approval, alongside the CEO, while supporting the broader private equity team in executing our growth initiatives. Since joining Brookfield in 1998, Mr. Madon has held a number of senior roles across the organization, including CEO of Brookfield's Private Equity business. Mr. Madon holds a Bachelor of Commerce degree from Queen’s University. He is also on the board of the C.D. Howe Institute.
Jeffrey Blidner
Mr. Blidner is Vice Chair of Brookfield and former Chief Executive Officer of Brookfield’s Private Funds Group. Mr. Blidner is also Chair of Brookfield Renewable Partners and a director of Brookfield Asset Management and Brookfield Infrastructure Partners. Before joining Brookfield in 2000, Mr. Blidner was a senior partner at a Canadian law firm. Mr. Blidner received his LLB from Osgoode Hall Law School and was called to the Bar in Ontario as a Gold Medalist.
Stephen Girsky
Mr. Girsky is Managing Partner of VectoIQ LLC, an independent advisory firm based in New York. Mr. Girsky previously served as President and CEO at Nikola Motor Company, a publicly traded company that designs and manufactures electric components, drivetrains and vehicles. He consulted for Brookfield on its acquisition of Clarios, a leading automotive battery company, and serves on the Board and is Chair of the Risk Management Committee for Clarios. Mr. Girsky served on the General Motors Board of Directors from 2009 until 2016 and in a number of capacities at General Motors, including Vice Chairman. He also served as President of Centerbridge Industrial Partners, Managing Director at Morgan Stanley, Senior Analyst of the Morgan Stanley Global Automotive and Auto Parts Research Team and Managing Director of PaineWebber's Automotive Group.
David Hamill
Member of the Audit Committee
Member of the Governance & Nominating Committee
Dr. Hamill is a professional company director who has served on the boards of various public and private companies as well as not-for-profit and charitable organizations and statutory authorities. He was Treasurer of the State of Queensland in Australia from 1998 to 2001, Minister for Education from 1995 to 1996, and Minister for Transport and Minister Assisting the Premier on Economic and Trade Development from 1989 to 1995. Dr. Hamill retired from the Queensland Parliament in February 2001. He is a fellow of the Chartered Institute of Transport and the Australian Institute of Company Directors.
Anne Ruth Herkes
Member of the Governance and Nominating Committee
Ms. Herkes is a senior advisor at ELC-Euringer Leadership Consulting, an executive search and leadership consulting company. She previously was Deputy Chair of the board of directors of Merck Finck Privatbankiers AG, an asset and wealth management bank based in Munich. She previously served on the board of directors of Quintet (S.A.) Europe Private Bank in Luxembourg, where she is also a member of the remuneration and nomination and audit committees, and the asset management forum. She is on the board of Asia House, an independent think tank and advisory service in London. Ms. Herkes previously served as State Secretary at the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs, and as Ambassador to Qatar.
John Lacey
Chair of the Governance and Nominating Committee
Mr. Lacey is the Chairman of Doncaster Consolidated Ltd. and Doncaster Foundation. Mr. Lacey was previously the Chairman of the board of directors of Alderwoods Group, Inc., an organization operating funeral cemeteries within North America. Mr. Lacey is the former President and Chief Executive Officer of The Oshawa Group (now part of Sobeys Inc.) and a former director of Loblaw Companies Limited, George Weston Ltd., Wittington Investments Ltd. and TELUS Corporation.
Don Mackenzie
Member of the Audit Committee
Mr. Mackenzie is the Chairman and Owner of New Venture Holdings, a well-established privately-owned holding company with operating company and real estate investments in Bermuda and Canada. Mr. Mackenzie acquired his first business in 1995, and New Venture Holdings was formed in 2000 to consolidate a number of operating investments under a holding company umbrella. Mr. Mackenzie has a Bachelor of Commerce from Queen's University and a Master of Business Administration from Schulich School of Business of York University.
Patricia Zuccotti
Chair and Designated Financial Expert of the Audit Committee
Ms. Zuccotti was formerly Senior Vice President, Chief Accounting Officer and Controller of Expedia, Inc. from 2005 to 2011. Prior to joining Expedia, Ms. Zuccotti was the Director, Enterprise Risk Services of Deloitte & Touche LLP from 2003 until 2005. Ms. Zuccotti is also a director of Brookfield Renewable Partners where she is Chair of the Audit Committee.
David Court
Member of the Governance and Nominating Committee
Mr. Court is a Director Emeritus at McKinsey & Co. Mr. Court was previously McKinsey’s Global Director of Technology, Digitization and Communications, led their global practice in harnessing digital data and advanced analytics from 2011 to 2015, and was a member of the firm’s Board of Directors and its Global Operating Committee. Mr. Court is a director of Canadian Tire Corporation, Public Service Pension Investments, National Geographic Ventures and the Queen’s University Board of Trustees and chairs the advisory board of Georgian Partners.
Michael Warren
Mr. Warren is a Partner of Albright Stonebridge Group and a founding member of the DGA Group. Mr. Warren serves on the board of trustees and the risk & audit committees at Commonfund, and on the boards of Walker & Dunlop, Inc. and MAXIMUS. He serves as a trustee of Yale University and is a member of the Yale Corporation Investment Committee. Mr. Warren formerly served on the boards of Brookfield Property Partners, the United States Overseas Private Investment Corporation and as a trustee of the District of Columbia Retirement Board. Mr. Warren served in various capacities in the Obama Administration, including as senior advisor in the White House Presidential Personnel Office and as co-lead for the Treasury and Federal Reserve agency review teams of the Obama-Biden Presidential Transition. He also served as Managing Principal at Albright Stonebridge Group from 2013 to 2017 and as Principal from 2009 to 2013. He previously served as the Chief Operating Officer and Chief Financial Officer of Stonebridge International. Mr. Warren received degrees from Yale University and Oxford University where he was a Rhodes Scholar.
