Beth Budd Bandler
Career Synopsis
1997-2006 and 2010 to date—Beth Bandler Professional Corporation; private corporate law practice providing a variety of corporate legal services to corporations primarily in the aerospace, manufacturing, environmental, high tech, rough and polished diamond marketing and luxury diamond jewelry retail sectors, including corporate governance and assistance in disclosure controls and internal control over financial reporting.
2006 to December 2010—Senior Vice President and General Counsel, Legal and Human Resources, Harry Winston Diamond Corporation. Harry Winston Diamond Corporation (TSX: HW; NYSE: HWD) is a specialist diamond enterprise with assets in the mining and retail segments of the diamond industry. The company supplies rough diamonds to the global market from its 40% interest in the Diavik Diamond Mine, located in Canada's Northwest Territories. The company's retail division, Harry Winston Inc., is a premier jewelry and timepiece retailer with a watch manufacturing facility in Geneva, Switzerland, and jewelry atelier in New York and salons in key locations including New York, Paris, London, Beijing, Tokyo, Hong Kong, and Beverly Hills. .
1981-1999—an executive at Hawker Siddeley Canada Inc. ("HSC"), a publicly traded, multi-national Canadian company. From 1994 to 1999 Vice-President, General Counsel and Secretary and from 1993 to 1996 served as a member of the Board of Directors.
1991-2006—administrative consultant, including accounting, financial and tax issues relevant to high tech small businesses.
Listed in "Women in the Lead"; a national directory of Canadian women whose professional expertise and experience recommend them as candidates for corporate board appointment, supported by HSBC Bank Canada and Ivey School of Business at The University of Western Ontario as part of their commitment to the advancement of women.
