Ian Troop
Chief Executive Officer
Toronto 2015 Pan/Parapan American Games Organizing Committee
Ian Troop is the chief executive officer of TO2015, the Organizing Committee charged with putting on the Pan/Parapan American Games. Named one of the Top CEOs of the Future by the Financial Post, Troop will be leading the charge to create Canada’s largest ever, world-class sport competition and cultural festival in Toronto during the summer of 2015.
Troop spent 20 years running businesses in Mexico, Europe and North America at Procter & Gamble where he learned a thing or two about planning and building brands.
He later moved to ConAgra Foods where he was president of their International Division, building it into a $1.5 billion business, and then moved onto OMERS where he managed a $42 billion pension fund.
An accomplished sportsman, Troop was an all-star varsity football player inducted into the Laurier Hall of Fame (1978) and drafted by the Canadian Football League’s Hamilton Tiger Cats in 1981. He was also named Wilfrid Laurier University’s 2009 Alumni of the Year.
