Director
Dr. Gina Parvaneh Cody has over 30 years experience as a professional engineer, corporate executive and principal shareholder of a national engineering firm, providing services to some of Canada’s largest REITs, financial institutions, builders and developers.
Dr. Cody serves as the Chair on the Board of Trustees for TSX-listed Canadian Apartment Properties REIT and as a member of the Board of Trustees for European Residential REIT. Dr. Cody is also the benefactor and namesake of the Gina Cody School of Engineering and Computer Science at Concordia University in Montreal, the first engineering facility in Canada, and one of the first internationally, to be named after a woman.
Previously, Dr. Cody was the Executive Chair of CCI Group Inc (‘CCI”). Under her tenor, CCI was recognized as one of Canada’s Best Managed Companies, through Canada’s leading business awards program and, in 2010 and 2011, Dr. Cody was named one of Canada’s Top Women Entrepreneurs by Profit Magazine.
Dr. Cody is a member of the Order of Montreal and the Order of Canada and was named one of the Top 25 Women of Influence in Canada in 2020.
Dr. Cody holds a Masters and a PhD in Building Engineering from Concordia University. She is the first woman awarded a PhD in Building Engineering in Canada. Dr. Cody was awarded an honorary doctorate in engineering in 2022 by University of Sherbrooke.