A business leader with a 41-year global career with RBC Royal Bank Canada, Mr. Tim Manning has lent his expertise to many corporate and non-profit causes including the Greater Vancouver Board of Trade.
Professionally, his work spanned the globe, including coordinating the internal audit practice of RBC Royal Bank’s Canadian, U.S., and Caribbean operations, and leading RBC’s Asian business banking in Vancouver. In the final decade of his career, Mr. Manning provided leadership to a team of 14 vice presidents and 250 employees.
Mr. Manning volunteered on many boards — corporate and non-profit. Under his leadership the Greater Vancouver Board of Trade announced the first gender-balanced board of directors in its history, making national headlines as the first major business organization in the country to have a gender-balanced board of directors.
While serving on the board of the Provincial Health Services Authority, he helped deliver six consecutive balanced budgets and provided excellent project oversight on the new $676-million Teck Acute Care Centre at BC Children’s Hospital. While on the board of BC Emergency Health Services, he helped the launch of an innovative Community Paramedicine Program with 80 new full-time employees to enhance emergency response in small rural and remote areas. He also was involved in the launch of a program to address opioid overdoses and provide naloxone training for over 20 fire departments.
He made time to support organizations that touched his heart, such as Junior Achievement of British Columbia (JABC), Variety the Children’s Charity, Canadian Hockey Foundation, Justice Institute of BC Foundation, and the Canadian Athletic Foundation.
As chair of the JABC, he helped secure two gifts of $1 million from the provincial government, allowing educational programs to reach students in all school districts and to increase program delivery to Indigenous students.
He has been recognized as Mississauga Volunteer of the Year and was inducted into the Mississauga Hockey Hall of Fame for his volunteerism in that community before moving to B.C. He was awarded the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal and H.E. Miskiman National Leadership Award from Junior Achievement of Canada. Professionally, Mr. Manning was the winner of the Excellence 91 Sales and Marketing Campaign.
