Glenda Crisp

Biography

Glenda Crisp is President and CEO of the Vector Institute, the Toronto-based artificial intelligence research institute. She was appointed in April 2025 and took office on 21 April 2025, succeeding Tony Gaffney. She has about 35 years of experience in data strategy, advanced analytics and technology leadership, mostly in financial services.

She spent 17 years in senior technology roles at TD Bank Group, including Chief Data Officer. At National Australia Bank she was Executive, Enterprise Data and Architecture, where she set up enterprise data governance and AI implementation frameworks and created privacy and data ethics functions. She was later Head of Data and Analytics at Thomson Reuters. She is an independent board member of OCAD University and The Globe and Mail.