Gord Fowler, FCA
Gord Fowler was appointed Chair of the Accounting Standards Board (AcSB) in November 2010 for a term ending in March 2014. He was first appointed a member of the AcSB in 2005 and previously served as the Vice Chair. Gord retired from KPMG LLP in 2010 as the National Partner-in-Charge for Accounting Standards. In this role, he focused on significant accounting and securities practice issues facing the firm's clients, including major public company clients. Gord has extensive experience in the areas of International Financial Reporting (IFRSs) and was a member of the KPMG International IFRS Panel. He was also Co-Chair of the Securities Regulations Advisory Group and Chair of the AcSBs Foreign Currency Translation Task Force. Gord qualified as a Chartered Accountant in Alberta in 1973. He started his accounting career with KPMG in 1971 in Calgary, and has been in the Toronto, New York and National Offices of KPMG. In 2000, Gord was elected a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Ontario.

Peter Martin, CA
Peter Martin has served as the CICAs Accounting Standards Director since 2004. He has been a member of the AcSBs staff since 1990. Peter heads up the AcSBs staff team of 15 people, located in Toronto, which carries out research, communication and other activities in support of the AcSBs mission. As Director, Peter is responsible for assisting the AcSB in strategic and operational planning and in carrying out its programs for improving Canadian financial reporting through the adoption of IFRSs and developing separate sets of standards for private enterprises and private sector not-for-profit organizations. Prior to becoming Director, Peter was involved in a number of standard setting projects on consolidations, financial instruments, segment reporting, interim reporting, securitizations and asset retirement obligations. He also served as Secretary of the Emerging Issues Committee. Peter began his accounting career with Clarkson Gordon & Co. (now Ernst & Young) in Vancouver in 1972, and also worked in the firms National and Toronto offices. He subsequently worked for Placer Dome Inc., an international public mining company.

Rebecca Villmann, CA
Rebecca has been a Principal with the AcSB for the last eight years. To support the adoption and application of IFRSs in Canada, she is responsible for monitoring the IASBs activities for the AcSB and for the projects on insurance, investment companies, consolidation, fair value measurement and liabilities. She contributes to the development of IFRSs by soliciting views of Canadians and developing well-reasoned comment letters and proposals. Rebecca also has assisted as staff on the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB) and Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) project to develop of an improved conceptual framework. Specifically, she worked on revising the qualitative characteristics of financial information and developing improved element definitions. Prior to joining the AcSB staff, Rebecca was responsible for financial reporting of a public company and was an auditor with PricewaterhouseCoopers.