Ronan McGrath is Executive Vice President and Chief Information Officer of Rogers Communications Inc., Canada's largest Wireless carrier, and largest provider of Cable services, and which has a significant presence in Home Phone, Magazine publishing, Internet access provision and Multimedia.

Reports to the CEO, he is accountable for the overall direction of Information Technology at Rogers and is currently working on a major initiative to build the next generation of customer service technology for the company.

He was previously CIO of Canadian National Railways, and was responsible for rebuilding CN's IT capability, the workforce downsizing of one third of CN's personnel, and the initial strategic review of the company's future that led to CN’s privatization. He was also responsible for the Controllership, Real Estate and Consulting activities of CN.

He has served in the past on the advisory boards of a number of technology companies, and is currently a member of the Cross Industries Board of Advisors of Hewlett-Packard, the Global Advisory Board of Amdocs, Former Chair of the Information Technology Association of Canada, and has been a member of the Federal Government On Line Advisory Panel.

Mr. McGrath is a graduate in Business Administration at Trinity College, Dublin, and is also a Chartered Account.