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CCCA_V6No3_Col-News-FIN_CCCA 9/19/12 10:57 AM Page 48 CCCA News Meet Grant Borbridge The new CCCA chair on leadership, volunteering and CCCA’s 25 years of in-house excellence. CCA’s new chair, Grant Borbridge, “Since I wanted to be as involved in the Value of Volunteering Chas a global view of the in-house business side as the legal side, I needed to Borbridge, who was appointed a Q.C. in counsel profession. enhance what I could offer from a skill-set 2011, has spent a lot of time and energy As executive vice-president,investments point of view,” he said of his decision to building his skill set — and not just in & chief counsel at Calgary-based Emergo earn an MBA at Pennsylvania State school and in the workplace. Group of Companies, he is responsible for University. Adding financial skills to his “In large part it’s really the activities the group’s worldwide legal and compli- legal tool box put Borbridge on the lead- outside of work that make a person tick ance activities, a member of its Global ing edge of a new trend. and invigorates them to do more,” says Portfolio Investment Committee and co- The financial capital of the United Borbridge,who’s an active volunteer in his leader of its Transactions Team. States was his next stop: he spent the bet- professional associations and also in his “I think the in-house counsel communi- ter part of three years as vice-president and community. ty within the legal profession maybe hasn’t senior equity analyst for Prudential Equity Named Volunteer of the Year in 2007 received as much attention as it probably Group in New York (Oil & Gas Services by the AlbertaVolunteer Lawyers’ Service, should have over the years,” he says of the and Equipment), which he calls a dynam- Borbridge is an ongoing volunteer in the growing in-house bar. “It’s now gaining a ic place to do business. He also spent part legal profession, nationally and provincial- lot more attention because of the size and of that time working in Menlo Park,Calif. ly. Since 2006, he’s served on the sophistication of legal departments.” In 2004, with a solid background in Executive Committee of the Alberta Borbridge was called to the bar in 1990 both the legal and financial fields, Corporate Counsel Section of the CBA. after completing a BA from University of Borbridge headed home to what he calls In 2011, he became a member of the Alberta and an LLB from Dalhousie his “dream job” at Emergo, a former client CCCA National Executive Committee MARNIE BURKHART, JAZHART STUDIOS University Law School.He practised corpo- from his private practice days.Together, he and the Association’s vice-chair. rate and securities law in Calgary for close and Emergo created Borbridge’s unique Outside of the legal profession, he’s a to a decade before returning to university. dual legal/financial position. member of the board of the Fort Calgary 48 CCCA Canadian Corporate Counsel Association FALL 2012