In her position with The Regional Municipality of York, Tina Gardiner oversees all insurance and risk related issues in a region with a population of over one million people in nine municipalities with many separate business units including Transit, Roads, Environmental Services, Public Health, EMS, Police, Community Services and Housing. Prior to this position, Gardiner worked as a risk manager for Thrifty Canada LTD and later Hertz Canada Limited. She was instrumental in creating the inter-company working group known as the Car Rental Anti-Fraud Coalition, an industry specific anti-fraud coalition that worked to combat insurance claim fraud.

Since joining York Region, Gardiner has streamlined the claims and certificate processes and redeveloped interdepartmental relationships and protocols. She and her team have implemented and led York’s Risk Aware program that focuses on staff training, claims and risk management feedback to all major departments. She also provides insurance and risk advice and guidance for capital projects.  

“In accepting this award, I am reminded of and deeply humbled by its namesake who embodied the values of the risk management community,” says Tina Gardiner, CRM, CIP, manager, insurance and risk, The Regional Municipality of York. “It is individuals like Don Stuart, and the members of the terrific team I am so fortunate to lead, that make our industry great. They mentor one another, they give back to their community and they do stellar work. I look forward to many more years working alongside such an impressive and altruistic group of people.”

Also presented during the conference was the Fred H. Bossons Award, which each year honors the risk management professional who earns the highest marks on the three courses required to receive the Canadian Risk Management designation. This year the winner is Walter J. Scodeller, senior vice president of Marsh Canada.

For more information about the honorees please contact Amy Benson at (212) 655-6059 or abenson@rims.org.