executive appointment

In this role, she will lead Danone Canada's customer and commercial sales organization, helping advance the company's long-term growth ambition while continuing to strengthen trusted relationships with its retail partners across the country.

Henry Spear brings more than two decades of experience across digital, E-commerce, customer experience, and omni-channel retail.

The company had been without a permanent CEO since the departure of Ken Keelor in October 2024.

Prior to her co-founding Honestly Good Chicken Fingers, she held leadership roles with several established restaurant brands, including Recipe Unlimited Corporation, The Burger’s Priest, Fionn MacCool’s and East Side Mario’s.

With annual sales of more than $22 billion, METRO Inc. is a food and pharmacy leader in Québec and Ontario, providing employment to more than 97,000 people.

Singh is a technology executive with more than 25 years of experience leading platform transformation and global engineering organizations.

The appointment comes as AutoCanada continues operating its Canadian dealership and collision repair business while progressing the sale of its U.S. dealership portfolio.