Dame Moya Marguerite Greene
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DBE (born 10 June 1954) is a Canadian businesswoman who was the chief executive officer (CEO) of the
Royal Mail
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until 2018, having previously been CEO of
Canada Post
Canada Post Corporation (french: Société canadienne des postes), trading as Canada Post (french: Postes Canada), is a Crown corporation that functions as the primary postal operator in Canada. Originally known as Royal Mail Canada (the opera ...
.
Early life and education
Moya Marguerite Greene was born on 10 June 1954,
in
St John's,
Newfoundland
Newfoundland and Labrador (; french: Terre-Neuve-et-Labrador; frequently abbreviated as NL) is the easternmost province of Canada, in the country's Atlantic region. The province comprises the island of Newfoundland and the continental region ...
,
the daughter of Austin Greene,
a DIY shop owner and Angela ( Cooke) Greene,
[ a special education teacher,] of Coley's Point.[ She graduated from ]Memorial University of Newfoundland
Memorial University of Newfoundland, also known as Memorial University or MUN (), is a public university in the province of Newfoundland and Labrador, based in St. John's, with satellite campuses in Corner Brook, elsewhere in Newfoundland and ...
with a Bachelor of Arts
Bachelor of arts (BA or AB; from the Latin ', ', or ') is a bachelor's degree awarded for an undergraduate program in the arts, or, in some cases, other disciplines. A Bachelor of Arts degree course is generally completed in three or four years ...
in 1974, and then attended Osgoode Hall Law School
Osgoode Hall Law School, commonly shortened to Osgoode, is the law school of York University in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
The law school is home to the Law Commission of Ontario, the Journal of Law and Social Policy, and the ''Osgoode Hall La ...
.
Career
On graduation in 1979, she joined the Public Service of Canada
The Public Service of Canada (known as the Civil Service of Canada prior to 1967) is the civilian workforce of the Government of Canada's departments, agencies, and other public bodies.
While the Government of Canada has employed civil servants ...
in Ottawa
Ottawa (, ; Canadian French: ) is the capital city of Canada. It is located at the confluence of the Ottawa River and the Rideau River in the southern portion of the province of Ontario. Ottawa borders Gatineau, Quebec, and forms the core ...
as an immigration adjudicator, later taking positions in the Department of Labour
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and the Privy Council Office.[ In the later position as Assistant Deputy Minister for Transport Canada,][ she was responsible for transport, overseeing the privatisation of ]Canadian National Railway
The Canadian National Railway Company (french: Compagnie des chemins de fer nationaux du Canada) is a Canadian Class I freight railway headquartered in Montreal, Quebec, which serves Canada and the Midwestern and Southern United States.
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and the deregulation of the Canadian airline industry.[
In 1996, she joined ]TD Securities
TD Securities is a Canadian investment bank and financial services provider that offers advisory and capital market services to corporate, government, and institutional clients worldwide. The firm provides services in corporate and investment ban ...
as managing director of infrastructure finance and public private partnership
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. In 2000 she joined the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce
The Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce (CIBC; french: Banque canadienne impériale de commerce) is a Canadian multinational banking and financial services corporation headquartered at CIBC Square in the Financial District of Toronto, Ontario. ...
as senior vice president and chief administrative officer, retail products. In 2003 she joined Bombardier as senior vice president, operational effectiveness,[ under CEO ]Paul Tellier
Paul Mathias Tellier, (born 1939) is a Canadian businessman and former public servant and lawyer.
Biography
Born in Joliette, Quebec, Tellier earned his undergraduate degree from the University of Ottawa and his law degree from the University ...
.[ That same year she was named among the 100 most influential women in Canada by the '']National Post
The ''National Post'' is a Canadian English-language broadsheet newspaper available in several cities in central and western Canada. The paper is the flagship publication of Postmedia Network and is published Mondays through Saturdays, with ...
'',[ and in 2004 as one of the Top 40 female corporate executives in Canada by the ]Ivey School of Business
Ivey Business School is a constituent unit of the University of Western Ontario, located in London, Ontario, Canada. Ivey offers full-time undergraduate (HBA), MBA, MSc, MFE and PhD programs and also maintains two teaching facilities in Toronto ...
.[
After resigning from Bombardier at the end of 2004, following Tellier's departure, she was appointed president and chief executive officer of ]Canada Post
Canada Post Corporation (french: Société canadienne des postes), trading as Canada Post (french: Postes Canada), is a Crown corporation that functions as the primary postal operator in Canada. Originally known as Royal Mail Canada (the opera ...
on May 12, 2005.[ During her period of tenure, she placed emphasis on cost cutting through cutting absenteeism, increasing automation and improved labour relations. The result was a trebling of Canada Post's profits to C$281 million (£183 million), despite a 5.1 per cent drop in revenues,][ resulting in a two-year extension to her original five-year contract.][ However, in her last year of tenure, the ]Canadian Union of Postal Workers
The Canadian Union of Postal Workers (CUPW; french: Syndicat des travailleurs et travailleuses des postes TTP}) is a public-sector trade union representing postal workers including letter carriers, rural and suburban mail carriers, postal clerk ...
marked her fourth anniversary with a report card, with the CUPW's President Denis Lemelin commenting: "If you compare the four years before Greene with the four years under Greene's management, the numbers show that injuries have gone up 15.4% and grievances have gone up 59.3%."[
On May 27, 2010, Greene was appointed Chief Executive-designate of Britain's ]Royal Mail
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, logo = Royal Mail.svg
, logo_size = 250px
, type = Public limited company
, traded_as =
, foundation =
, founder = Henry VIII
, location = London, England, UK
, key_people = * Keith Williams ...
. Replacing the departed Adam Crozier
Adam Alexander Crozier (born 26 January 1964) is a Scottish businessman, and was formerly the chief executive officer of media company ITV plc, operator of the ITV television network covering most of the United Kingdom.
After a career at Saatch ...
from early July, the first non-Briton and first woman to hold the post, she oversaw the privatisation of Britain's postal service. Greene was the highest paid UK Civil Servant in 2010, with a basic salary of £498,000. Her total compensation for 2012/13 was reported by the Royal Mail as £3.7 million.
Greene is also a member of the board of directors for the coffee shop chain Tim Hortons
Tim Hortons Inc., commonly nicknamed Tim's, or Timmie's is a Canadian multinational coffeehouse and restaurant chain. Based in Toronto, Tim Hortons serves coffee, doughnuts, and other fast-food items. It is Canada's largest quick-service rest ...
.
In February 2013 she was assessed as the 12th most powerful woman in Britain by ''Woman's Hour
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History
Created by Norman Collins and originally presented by A ...
'' on BBC Radio 4
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.
In August 2013 she repaid £250,000 in expenses she had claimed to fund buying a house, after Business Secretary Vince Cable
Sir John Vincent Cable (born 9 May 1943) is a British politician who was Leader of the Liberal Democrats from 2017 to 2019. He was Member of Parliament (MP) for Twickenham from 1997 to 2015 and from 2017 to 2019. He also served in the Cabinet a ...
objected to the payment.
Greene was named as Financial Times Person of the Year
The British business newspaper ''Financial Times'' each year nominates a "Person of the Year" to the person the newspaper has considered has demonstrated considerable influence in a given year. There appear to have been a number of instances (197 ...
in 2014. Judge Luke Johnson said "She did a fantastic job managing the unions, politicians and media and floating the business last year. It was an almost impossible task to reconcile demands from all the competing stakeholders – and sell a declining business such as post and parcel delivery to the stock market – but she pulled it off."
In September 2020, it was announced that Greene had been appointed by the Premier of Newfoundland and Labrador, Andrew Furey
Andrew John Furey (born July 1975) is a Canadian politician and surgeon who has served as the 14th premier of Newfoundland and Labrador since August 19, 2020. A member of the Newfoundland and Labrador Liberal Party, Furey represents Humber-Gros ...
, as chair of the provincial government's newly established "Economic Recovery Team".
Personal life
Greene has an adult daughter from her marriage to Malcolm Rowe
Malcolm H. Rowe (born 1953) is a Puisne Justice of the Supreme Court of Canada. Rowe is the first judge from Newfoundland and Labrador to sit on the Supreme Court.
Early life and education
Rowe was born in 1953 in St. John’s, Newfoundland an ...
, which ended in divorce.[ She wed Roger Springall, a British physician, in June 2014.] She lives in Fulham
Fulham () is an area of the London Borough of Hammersmith & Fulham in West London, England, southwest of Charing Cross. It lies on the north bank of the River Thames, bordering Hammersmith, Kensington and Chelsea. The area faces Wandsworth ...
, London.[
]
References
External links
Moya Greene bio
at Businessweek
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2010 Interview with Karl Moore of the Desautels Faculty of Management, on employee relationship strategy
UK taxpayers to pay up to 1 billion compensation
theguardian.com. Accessed 7 March 2022.
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Living people
York University alumni
Memorial University of Newfoundland alumni
20th-century Canadian civil servants
21st-century Canadian civil servants
Canadian women chief executives
Canadian expatriates in England
Canada Post
Businesspeople from St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador
Royal Mail people
Canadian corporate directors
1954 births
Canadian Dames Commander of the Order of the British Empire
Officers of the Order of Canada
20th-century Canadian women