Our People

Russ Girling has been President and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) since July 1, 2010. He has led TransCanada Corporation through a period of unprecedented growth, including the development of its Liquids Pipelines business, expansion of its power generation portfolio and the successful US$13 billion acquisition of Columbia Pipeline Group in July 2016.

Previously, Mr. Girling held the positions of Chief Operating Officer; President, Pipelines; Executive Vice-President, Corporate Development; Chief Financial Officer; and Executive Vice-President, Power.

Karl Johannson assumed the position of Executive Vice-President & President, Canadian and Mexico Gas Pipelines and Energy on May 1, 2017. Prior to this, he was Executive Vice-President & President, Natural Gas Pipelines, responsible for overseeing TransCanada Corporation’s natural gas pipeline network through Canada, the United States and Mexico.

Prior to serving as President, Natural Gas Pipelines, Mr. Johannson was Senior Vice-President, Canada and US Northeast Pipeline, where he had overall responsibility for natural gas pipelines in Canada and the northeast United States.

As Executive Vice-President and President of US Natural Gas Pipelines, Mr. Chapman is responsible for all pipeline operations and commercial activities across TransCanada’s FERC-regulated transmission and storage assets as well as its unregulated midstream business. He was named to his current position in April 2017, and prior to that he served as TransCanada’s Senior Vice President and General Manager of its FERC-regulated US natural gas pipeline business.

Prior to joining TransCanada in July 2016 as part of the Columbia Pipeline Group acquisition, Mr. Chapman served as Columbia’s Executive Vice-President and Chief Commercial Officer. Before joining Columbia Pipeline Group in December 2011, Mr. Chapman held various positions of increasing responsibility with El Paso Corp and Tenneco Energy and was responsible for various marketing and commercial operations, as well as supply, regulatory, business development and optimization activities. Mr. Chapman is a member of the Board of Directors for the Interstate Natural Gas Association of America, a current member and past executive committee member of the Society of Gas Lighters, and a member of the International Association for Energy Economics.

Mr. Chapman holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Economics from Texas A&M University as well as a Master of Business Administration degree with a specialization in Finance from the University of St. Thomas. He resides in Houston, Texas with his wife where they raised their four children.

As Executive Vice-President and President, Liquids Pipelines, Paul Miller is responsible for TransCanada Corporation’s Liquids transportation business.

Prior to his current appointment, Mr. Miller was Senior Vice-President, Oil Pipelines, accountable for the profitability and commercial management of TransCanada’s oil pipelines.

As Executive Vice-President and Chief Financial Officer, Don Marchand is responsible for financial reporting, taxation, finance, treasury, risk management and investor relations for TransCanada Corporation.

He was named Chief Financial Officer in July 2010 and, prior to his appointment as CFO, he was Vice-President, Finance and Treasurer overseeing the company’s finance, treasury, trading and financial risk and pension asset management functions.

As Executive Vice-President, Stakeholder and Technical Services and General Counsel, Kristine has overall responsibility for the management of TransCanada’s Legal, Internal Audit, Indigenous Relations, Government Relations, Communications, and Community Engagement functions as well as the Technical Centre. She also serves as Chief Compliance Officer for the company.

Since joining the company in June 1995, Ms. Delkus has held a variety of progressively senior roles with the organization. Other roles at TransCanada have included Senior Vice- President, Pipelines Law and Regulatory Affairs; Vice-President, Gas Transmission Law; Vice- President, Power and Regulatory Law; Vice-President, Law, Trading & Business Development; Associate General Counsel, U.S. Regulatory Law and North American Pipeline Ventures; and Senior Legal Counsel, U.S. Regulatory Law.

As Executive Vice-President, Corporate Services, Wendy Hanrahan provides strategic and functional leadership for human resources, business process integration, information systems, supply chain management, aviation, and facilities services.

Since joining the Company in 1995, Ms. Hanrahan has held a variety of key leadership roles in finance and accounting, corporate strategy, human resources, and in the gas transmission business. She also served as Vice-President, TC PipeLines, LP.

As Executive Vice-President, Strategy and Corporate Development, Francois Poirier provides leadership in the development of TransCanada’s long-term strategy, as well as all corporate development activities. He also oversees performance optimization initiatives across the corporation.

Prior to this appointment, Mr. Poirier served as President, Energy East Pipeline – a project that would have extended approximately 4,600 km (2,800 miles) from receipt points in Alberta and Saskatchewan to provide Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin and Bakken crude oil access to refineries in Eastern Canada and to export markets.

Dean Patry has responsibility for the operations, commercial management and growth of TransCanada's Liquids Pipelines business.

In addition to his role as Senior Vice-President, Liquids Pipelines, Mr. Patry was appointed as a member of TransCanada's Executive Leadership Team in November, 2017. Prior to this, Mr. Patry led TransCanada’s Business Transformation program for 18 months. In his preceding 19 years with the company, he held various commercial and business development related roles, including Vice-President, Major Project Development, President, Prince Rupert Gas Transmission and Alaska LNG, Vice-President, U.S. Pipelines Central, Vice-President, Corporate Financial Planning, and various commercial positions within TransCanada’s Energy (power generation) business, including most recently the position of Vice-President, Acquisitions for five years.

Tracy Robinson has overall accountability for all commercial, business development, project, regulatory and operating functions for the Canada Gas business unit. This includes the NGTL system, the largest natural gas gathering and transportation system for the Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin (WCSB), and the Canadian Mainline, a historic pipeline that has transported supply from the WCSB across Canada to Ontario and Québec to deliver gas to downstream Canadian and U.S. markets for six decades.

In addition to her role as Senior Vice-President and General Manager, Canadian Natural Gas Pipelines, Tracy was appointed as a member of TransCanada’s Executive Leadership Team in November, 2017. Tracy joined TransCanada in 2014 as Vice-President, Transportation for the Liquid Pipelines business unit, before moving on to serve as Vice-President, Supply Chain in 2015. Prior to joining TransCanada, Tracy spent 27 years at Canadian Pacific, serving in executive roles spanning Operations, Finance and Commercial.