Michael Sabia

Michael Sabia
Born	Michael John Sabia 1953 St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada
Nationality	Canada
Alma mater	University of Toronto Yale University
Occupation	CEO of Caisse de dépôt et placement
Spouse	Hilary Pearson

Michael John Sabia,(born 1953 in St. Catharines, Ontario) is a Canadian businessman. He is the current CEO of the Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec.^[1] Sabia formerly served as CEO of Bell Canada from 2002 through 2008.^[2]

Personal life

Sabia is the son of Michael Joseph Sabia and Laura Sabia. He is married to Hilary Pearson. Sabia has his undergraduate education from the University of Toronto and earned his graduate degrees from Yale University.

Career

Sabia held a number of senior positions in Canada's federal public service during the 1980s and early 1990s, including Deputy Secretary to the Cabinet of the Privy Council Office.

Sabia's supervisor, Clerk of the Privy Council Paul Tellier, left the public service to assume the presidency of Crown corporation Canadian National Railway in the early 1990s and subsequently persuaded Sabia to follow him to help in privatizing the company. Sabia held a number of executive positions at Canadian National Railway during the 1990, including the position of chief financial officer.

Sabia left Canadian National to join Bell Canada Enterprises in 1999, and became chief executive in 2002. In 2007, his board accepted an offer from the Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan to privatize the telecommunications company. Later that year, Sabia said he would leave Bell after the privatization deal was finalized.^[3] Sabia left Bell in July 2008. By December 2008, following the collapse of the debt market, the privatization deal fell apart.

Sabia was named chief executive of the Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec on March 13, 2009 to succeed Fernand Perrault.

References

1. ^ "Canada’s Caisse de Depot Names Sabia Chief Executive". Bloomberg.
2. ^ "Michael J. Sabia". The Learning Partnership. 2007. Archived from the original on 2007-09-28. http://web.archive.org/web/20070928035946/http://www.thelearningpartnership.ca/bio/M_Sabia_TD2003.html. Retrieved 2007-09-21. 
3. ^ "Michael Sabia leaving as boss of BCE after privatization, shareholders told". The Canadian Press. 2007. http://canadianpress.google.com/article/ALeqM5hF0qKJSePHb9UPb5a1SMyPQd-6kA. Retrieved 2007-09-21. 

External links

• Official website

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Name	Sabia, Michael
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Date of birth	1953
Place of birth	St. Catharines, Ontario
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