Member of the Environment & Safety Committee and Corporate Governance, Responsibility & Nominating Committee.
Ms. Butcher is the Chief Operations Officer of Ontario Power Generation (OPG), where she has held a wide range of roles with increasing responsibility over the past 22 years including Senior Vice President, Renewable Generation and Power Markets (2020 – 2022), and Senior Vice President, Corporate Business Development and Strategy (2019-2020). She is the Chair of the Board of both Eagle Creek Renewable Energy (OPG’s US hydro subsidiary) and Atura Power (OPG’s fleet of combined cycle gas plants) and serves as a member of the MaRS-Advanced Energy Centre Advisory Board of Directors. In 2021, Ms. Butcher was named one of Canada’s Top 100 Most Powerful Women and named Women of the Year by WIRE (Women in Renewable Energy) and APPRO (Association of Power Producers of Ontario).
She holds a BBA (Finance) from Brock University and an MBA (Finance) from McGill University, is a Chartered Business Valuator, and has earned an ICD.D designation from the Institute of Corporate Directors.