STAFF PROFILES
Royal BC Museum welcomes new members to the Board of Directors and Executive By Erik Lambertson, Corporate Communications Officer
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n the past few months the Royal BC Museum has welcomed two new directors to its Board and two new members to its executive team. The new directors are Mark PalmerEdgecumbe and Raymond Protti. We anticipate their respective backgrounds in technology and diversity, and finance and government, will strengthen an already formidable set of skills at the board table.
Mark Palmer-Edgecumbe
Raymond Protti
Royal BC Museum Board Director
Royal BC Museum Board Director
Dr Scott Cooper
Peter Ord
Vice President of Exhibitions Innovation
Vice President of Archives, Collections & Knowledge
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Mr Palmer-Edgecumbe is the Head of Diversity at Google for Europe, Middle East & Africa. Prior to joining Google, he was the Global Head of Diversity at Barclays Group. He has also held roles in management consulting at Arthur Andersen and Ernst & Young. Mr PalmerEdgecumbe is regarded as one of the world’s leading authorities on global diversity and inclusion issues. He is a former Governor of the Museum of London and the former Chairman of the Museum of Docklands London. He was ranked among the top 25 most influential LGBT people globally by the 2013 and 2012 World Pride Power List. Raymond Protti was President and CEO of the Canadian Bankers Association from 1996 to 2007. Before that, he spent more than 25