Suzanne Hathaway

Suzanne Hathaway is currently the Interim Chief Legal Officer and Corporate Secretary at Canada Packers where she leads the company’s legal, governance, and corporate affairs functions. She assumed this position after completing the successful spin-off of Canada Packers from Maple Leaf Foods, where she guided the complex transaction that established Canada Packers as an independent public company.

Prior to spin-off, Suzanne served as Maple Leaf Foods’ Senior Vice President, General Counsel, Communications and Corporate Secretary where she was responsible for all legal, governance, and stakeholder communications matters during a period of significant transformation. Before joining Maple Leaf Foods, Suzanne was a senior executive with a leading Canadian energy infrastructure company where she had broad ranging responsibilities in areas including law, governance, sustainability and community engagement. During this time she was recognized as a finalist in the “Tomorrow’s Leader” category of the Canadian General Counsel Awards for her work.

In a career that spans three decades, Suzanne has continued to weave her interest in social and environmental issues into her work.  In addition to sitting on the Board of the Maple Leaf Centre for Food Security, she is Chair of Maple Leaf Foods’ Diversity and Inclusion Council. In addition, Suzanne is a member of the Independent Review Committee of Alberta Treasury Branches Investment Management, and previously served on the Board of Governors of Bow Valley College.

Earlier in her career, Suzanne spent over 10 years in communications and government relations, working with municipal, provincial and federal levels of government. She also authored the history book “Serving Martha and Henry:  Rural Municipal Government in Alberta, 1983 – 1998” which was published by the Alberta Association of Municipal Districts and Counties (now the Rural Municipalities Association).

Born in Lethbridge, Alberta, Suzanne studied at the University of Calgary where she earned a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science, a Bachelor of Laws and a Master of Communications Studies. She is a Member of the Law Society of Alberta and the Law Society of Ontario.