Rocky Mountaineer recognized as Canada’s Best Private Board of 2024 in the Best Fiduciary Board — Family-Owned category
Rocky Mountaineer has won the inaugural award for Canada’s Best Private Board in the Best Fiduciary Board - Family-Owned category.
These awards recognize the impact of great governance on the performance of private companies. Also known as “The Boardies,” Canada’s Best Private Boards celebrates how advisory or fiduciary governance has driven growth in mid-market family businesses, investor-backed companies, and employee-owned or partnership firms.
“We are honoured to have our incredibly valued Board of Directors acknowledged in the inaugural year of these awards,” said Tristan Armstrong, CEO for Rocky Mountaineer. “Our Board has been a consistent guiding force for the business from the initial start-up challenges in the early years, through our high-growth phase, and especially during the pandemic-related challenges as we navigated the unknowns and rebuilt the business. Our Board is a collective of inspirational, professional, experienced leaders with a true passion to supporting our business to grow and succeed.”
“Governance is a top priority for Armstrong Hospitality Group Ltd (DBA Rocky Mountaineer) and this is an excellent story,” said Jennifer Mondoux, managing partner and CEO of MondouxRollins Partners and founder of Canada’s Best Private Boards. “Our independent committee felt Armstrong Hospitality Group has built an engaged and strategic board, which has been invaluable in guiding the organization through very challenging years in the hospitality sector. Having independents, including an independent chair, while running best practices in governance in a family business, were highlighted by the voting committee as exemplary. Well done to Tristan Armstrong and the Armstrong Hospitality Group board!”
Rocky Mountaineer’s Board of Directors is comprised of business leaders from tourism, finance, health care, sport, and other sectors. More information can be found here.
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About Rocky Mountaineer:
Rocky Mountaineer offers luxury train journeys that showcase some of the most spectacular scenery North America has to offer. Rocky Mountaineer offers four rail routes: three that connect Vancouver to the Canadian Rockies towns of Banff, Lake Louise and Jasper in Western Canada; and a fourth route that travels between Denver, Colorado and Moab, Utah in the Southwest United States. It is a must-do travel experience that offers unparalleled journeys in its spacious glass-domed train coaches thanks to the incredible scenery, delicious cuisine, friendly service, and social atmosphere. Since it was founded in 1990, Rocky Mountaineer has welcomed more than 2.3 million guests and become the largest privately-owned tourist train in the world. www.rockymountaineer.com
About Canada’s Best Private Boards:
Canada’s Best Private Boards is a new annual awards program and summit – the first of its kind in Canada – that recognizes the impact of great governance on the performance of private companies. Also known as “The Boardies”, Canada’s Best Private Boards celebrates how advisory or fiduciary governance has driven growth in mid-market family businesses, investor-backed companies and employee-owned or partnership firms. The vision for Canada’s Best Private Boards is to create a national culture of best practice sharing so that other leaders of private companies can learn the transformational value of governance and how they can build a great board themselves. MondouxRollins Partners Inc., a human capital advisory and leadership talent solutions firm for mid-market private companies, is the founder of the program.
About MondouxRollins Partners Inc., the Founders of Canada’s Best Private Boards:
MondouxRollins Partners Inc. is a human capital advisory and leadership talent solutions firm. We are a group of specialists, equipped with decades of experience providing talent solutions for private companies. We are risk-mitigators, trusted advisors and relationship-builders, and we are your one-stop-shop through the entire talent lifecycle - for your team, or for your board. We are also the founders of the Canada’s Best Private Boards program, a first-of-its kind national and annual awards program that recognizes the impact of governance on the performance of private companies.
