Ms. Garden has been a director of Dexterra since May 2016 and has over 30 years of executive leadership experience in business, including commercial real estate, multi-family residential real estate, seniors housing, institutional investment, and hospitality.
Ms. Garden is the principal at Mary Garden & Associates, an advisory firm working with select global clients, government and C-Suite leaders in strategic consulting, executive coaching, mentoring and workplace wellbeing. Over the course of her career, Ms. Garden has worked in executive-level positions with BCI, PwC, Delta Hotels, PKF, Holiday Inn, Radisson Hotels, Pan Capital and Keg Restaurants. From 2008 to 2015, Ms. Garden led investment teams at the British Columbia Investment Management Corporation (BCI), managing Canadian and international multi-billion-dollar, private equity real estate portfolios for institutional pension plan clients. Ms. Garden has served on the boards of Bentall Kennedy, Parkbridge Lifestyle Communities, Delta Hotels, SilverBirch Hotels & Resorts, Habitat for Humanity Canada, and was the former Chair of the University of Victoria Foundation board ($500M AUM). She is also actively engaged with numerous non-profit organizations in her community.
Ms. Garden has a BA and MBA from the University of British Columbia and holds the ICD.D, GCB.D and CCB.D designations.
