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, built over 35 years across 4 blue chip organizations. From 2013 to 2025 he was 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 built on that deep grounding in business to build a global practice in talent management and recruiting over more than a decade at Egon Zehnder International, advising some of the largest corporations in the world. This was followed by nearly 12 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 was the founding Chair of the Equity-Diversity-Inclusion Council at Ivey (2020-2025), and since 2019 has been a member of the Advisory Council of the Ian O. Ihnatowycz Institute for Leadership at the Ivey School of Business. Since 2024 he has been a board member of the Ronald McDonald House Charities – Toronto, joining the HR & Compensation Committee as well as the Governance and Nominations Committee.