Rashid Wasti

 Rashid Wasti is a C-suite executive with a passion for the intersection of talent and business, and deep expertise in what brings leadership to life in complex, large-scale environments. Since 2013 he has been EVP & Chief Talent Officer for the Weston Group of companies, Canada’s largest private employer with over 220,000 employees, $60 billion+ in revenues, with leading businesses in grocery retail, pharmacy, fast fashion, real estate and consumer financial services. 

After an early career in marketing at Procter & Gamble and strategy consulting at Boston Consulting Group, spread across Europe, Middle East and North America, he has built on that deep grounding in business with a global practice in talent management and recruiting at Egon Zehnder followed by the last 11 years at the Weston Group focused on talent, succession, culture, DEI, learning & development, management team effectiveness, coaching and recruiting. 

Rashid has a Bachelors and Masters degrees in Economics from Cambridge University in England, and an MBA from the Ivey School of Business at Western University. He is the founding Chair of the Equity-Diversity-Inclusion Council at Ivey since it was created in 2020, and is also a member of the Advisory Council of the Ian O. Ihnatowycz Institute for Leadership at the Ivey School of business. He is a board member and co-chair of the HR & Compensation Committee of the Ronald McDonald House Charities – Toronto.