Keith has been the CFO of some of Canada’s leading industrial companies and has led the budgeting and planning processes of several significant businesses. His input with Kensington’s Advisory Board has been focused on strategy.
Keith Wettlaufer is the former Chief Financial Officer and Executive Vice President of Commercial Services of Bruce Power LLP. Prior to joining Bruce Power, Keith served as Chief Financial Officer and Vice President of Strategic Development for Linamar Corporation.
Keith sits on several corporate boards including the Canadian Nuclear Laboratories; RDM Corporation, a TSX listed technology company based in Waterloo; LTGE, an alternative investment fund (AIF) in Luxembourg; EnerMotion, a green technology start-up entity. In addition, Keith represents Kensington on the board of directors for CGL Manufacturing, a private precision machining company and Prodomax, a supplier of automotive manufacturing systems and processes.
From 1996 through 2000, Keith served as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, President and Chief Operation Officer, and as President and Chief Executive Officer for A.G. Simpson Co. Limited, a major metal fabrication company in the automotive industry.
Previously, Keith served as Senior Vice President & CFO of InterTAN Inc., which owned and operated 3,000 Radio Shack retail stores across Canada, Australia, United Kingdom, Belgium, France and Holland. Keith spent seven years with Magna International as Treasurer and as Executive Vice President, Finance & Administration for Cosma International, a unit of Magna that focused on automotive body systems. Keith was Director of Internal Audit at The Oshawa Group and prior to that, he spent six years with Price Waterhouse Chartered Accountants.
Keith holds an undergraduate degree in Economics and Accounting from Wilfrid Laurier University and obtained his Chartered Accountant designation in 1976.