H. Sanford Riley

H. Sanford ("Sandy") Riley CM OM (born 15 March 1951) is a Canadian lawyer and business leader who has sat as a director on numerous boards and was the Chancellor of the University of Winnipeg.[1]

From 2001 to 2003 Riley was Chairman of the Board for Investors Group. He is the CEO and president of Richardson Financial Group, a company he founded in 2003 with James Richardson & Sons, which is a one-third owner of a family wealth management firm of over twenty-seven billion dollars in assets. Some of the organizations he is a director of include the Fraser Institute, the Canada West Foundation and Allstream Inc.[1] Additionally, he was Chairman of the Board for the 1999 Pan American Games held in Winnipeg.[2]

The University of Winnipeg granted Riley, who served as its sixth chancellor from 2000 to 2009 and established a fellowship for lectures in Canadian history there, an honorary doctor of laws in 2016.[3] He was appointed to the Order of Canada in 2002 and the Order of Manitoba in 2013.[2] In 2016 Riley became a member of the Advisory Council to the Order of Canada.[4]

  1. ^ a b "H. Sanford Riley CM, OM, LLD, J.D.: Executive Profile & Biography - Businessweek". Bloomberg News.
  2. ^ a b "H. Sanford Riley - Canada West Foundation". October 2015.
  3. ^ "H. Sanford Riley - Awards and Distinctions, The University of Winnipeg".
  4. ^ General, The Office of the Secretary to the Governor. "The Governor General of Canada".