Board of Directors

The role of the Board is to provide governance and stewardship to George Weston Limited. Its role is to review corporate strategy, assign responsibility to management for achievement of that strategy, establish limitations on the authority delegated to management, and monitor performance against approved objectives. In fulfilling this role, the Board regularly reviews management’s strategic plans so that they continue to be responsive to the changing business environment in which the company operates.

The Board oversees Weston’s approach to corporate governance, succession planning, risk management activities, internal control over financial reporting, disclosure controls and procedures, and information systems to ensure that we accurately and fairly report information to shareholders, other stakeholders and the public.

In addition, the Board is required to appoint corporate officers, and ensure the integrity, ethical and legal conduct of senior management and the company as a whole.

W. Galen Weston, O.C., B.A., LL.D. ^1*

Executive Chairman of the Corporation; former Chairman, Loblaw Companies Limited; Chairman, Holt, Renfrew & Co., Limited, Brown Thomas Group Limited and Selfridges & Co. Ltd.; President, The W. Garfield Weston Foundation; Director, Associated British Foods plc; Member, Advisory Board of Columbia University.

Pavi Binning

President and former Chief Financial Officer of the Corporation; former director of Loblaw Companies Limited; former Chief Restructuring Officer and Chief Financial Officer of Nortel Networks; former Chief Financial Officer and Director of Hanson plc and Marconi Corporation plc.

A. Charles Baillie, O.C., B.A., M.B.A., LL.D.^2*,3

Corporate Director; Chair, Alberta Investment Management Company; Retired Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Toronto Dominion Bank; Director, Canadian National Railway Company and TELUS Corporation; Chancellor Emeritus, Queen’s University; Chair, Art Gallery of Ontario’s Board of Trustees; former Chair of the Canadian Council of Chief Executives.

Warren Bryant, B.S., M.B.A.^2,5*

Corporate Director; former Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer of Longs Drug Stores; former Executive of Kroger Co.; Member of the Executive Advisory Committee, Portland State University Food Industry Leadership Center; former Chairman of the Board of Directors and former member of the Board Executive Committee, National Association of Chain Drug Stores (NACDS); former member of the Board of Directors, California Governor’s Council on Physical Fitness and Sports.

Peter B.M. Eby, B.Comm., M.B.A.¹

Corporate Director; Former Vice-Chairman and Director, Nesbitt Burns Inc.; former Executive, Nesbitt Burns Inc. and its predecessor companies; former Chairman, Olympic Trust; Director, Leon’s Furniture Limited, Sixty Split Corporation, R. Split II Corporation and TD Asset Management USA Funds Inc.

Darren Entwistle ²

President and Chief Executive Officer, TELUS Corporation; Board Member, Canadian Council of Chief Executives; Member of the Board, McGill University; former Director, TD Bank Financial Group, Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, Leading Edge Endowment Fund; former Chair, Royal Conservatory of Music’s Capital Campaign.

Anthony R. Graham, LL.D.^1,3,4*

President and Director, Wittington Investments, Limited; President and Chief Executive Officer, Sumarria Inc.; former Vice-Chairman and Director, National Bank Financial; Chairman and Director, President’s Choice Bank; Director, Loblaw Companies Limited, Brown Thomas Group Limited, Graymont Limited, Holt, Renfrew & Co., Limited, Power Corporation of Canada, Power Financial Corporation, Selfridges & Co. Ltd., De Bijenkorf B.V. Grupo Calidra, S.A. de C.V. and Victoria Square Ventures Inc.; Director, Art Gallery of Ontario, Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, Ontario Arts Foundation, St. Michael’s Hospital and Luminato; Chairman, Shaw Festival Theatre Endowment Foundation andThe Branksome Hall Foundation.

John S. Lacey, B.A.

Consultant to the Chairman of the Board; Chairman of the Advisory Board, Brookfield Special Situations Funds; former President and Chief Executive Officer of The Oshawa Group (now part of Sobeys Inc.); Director, Loblaw Companies Limited, TELUS Corporation and Ainsworth Lumber Co. Ltd.

Isabelle Marcoux, B.A., LL.B.⁵

Vice-Chair, Board of Directors and Vice-President, Corporate Development, Transcontinental Inc.; Director, Rogers Communications Inc.; Board Member Power Corporation of Canada, The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Board of Trade of Metropolitan Montreal; Chair Tel-jeunes’ capital campaign.

J. Robert S. Prichard, O.C., O.Ont., LL.B., M.B.A., LL.M., LL.D.^1,3*,4

Chair, Torys LLP; Chairman, former President and Chief Executive Officer, Metrolinx; Past President and Chief Executive Officer and former Director, Torstar Corporation; President Emeritus, University of Toronto; Director, Bank of Montreal, Onex Corporation and Toronto Community Foundation; Chairman, the Visiting Committee for Harvard Law School; Vice-Chair, Canada’s Science Technology and Innovation Council; Trustee, Hospital for Sick Children.

Thomas F. Rahilly, B.A., M.A., LL.B. ^2,4,5

Corporate Director; Retired Vice-Chairman, RBC Capital Markets.

Barbara Stymiest ^2,4

Group Head, RBC; former Chief Executive Officer, TSX Group Inc.; Director, Symcor Inc., the Canadian Bankers Association, Research in Motion Limited, Canadian Institute for Advanced Research, Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto Rehabilitation Institute; active with CICA’s Accounting Oversight Committee, United Way Campaign, and Hincks-Dellcrest Children’s Centre.