Cogeco Inc. and Cogeco Communications Inc. announced the appointment of Linda Gillespie to the position of Senior Vice President and Chief Human Resources Officer, effective April 4, 2022. She will be based at the company's head office in Montréal. Ms. Gillespie is a senior human resources professional with more than two decades of experience in various industries including telecommunications.

Until recently, she was Senior Vice President Human Resources and Communications at Weston Foods for over seven years, where she was a member of the senior executive team and acted as the overall Senior Executive Lead of the Weston Foods Business Transformation Program. Before that she worked as Human Resources Lead at Dupont and previously at Nortel in various marketing and corporate functions. In her role at Cogeco, Ms. Gillespie will lead the human resources team in empowering colleagues across the organization and foster a highly collaborative, engaging and inclusive work environment.