Preceded by Donald Paterson Role Politician | Name Remo Mancini | |
Occupation Executive and Professional Corporate Director | ||
Remo Mancini (born May 26, 1951) is a businessman and former politician in Ontario, Canada. He was a Liberal member of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1975 to 1993, and served as a cabinet minister in the government of David Peterson.
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Background
Mancini was born in Pescara, Italy. A gold medal gymnast, he received athletic scholarships to both U.S and Canadian Universities. Injuries ended Mancini's athletic career and formal education.
Mancini received an ICD.D certification from the Corporate Governance College at the Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto. The program is a joint initiative by Rotman and the Institute of Corporate Directors.
Politics
In 1972, Mancini was elected to the local municipal council of Anderdon township. In December 1974, Mancini was elected deputy reeve and Essex County councillor at the age of 23.
Mancini was elected to the provincial legislature the following year in the Ontario general election of 1975, defeating Progressive Conservative Frank Klees by just over 2,000 votes in Essex South. He defeated Klees again by a wider margin in the 1977 Ontario election, and easily retained his seat in the elections of 1981, 1985 and 1987.
The Liberal Party was able to form a minority government under David Peterson following the 1985 provincial election, after 42 years in opposition. Mancini was named as the Premier's parliamentary assistant from 1985 to 1987. He was promoted to minister without portfolio responsible for disabled persons on September 29, 1987, and finally to Minister of Revenue on August 2, 1989.
The Liberals were defeated by the New Democratic Party in the 1990 Ontario election. Mancini was the only Liberal MPP elected in the Windsor to London region.
Remo Mancini was elected to House Leader by the Liberal Caucus in a formal process which he served until February 1992. While in opposition Mancini was chairman of the Public Accounts Committee. He endorsed Steve Mahoney's bid to lead the Liberal Party in 1991. Mancini retired from the legislature on April 30, 1993.
Corporate Life
In February 1994, Mancini was appointed as director of corporate affairs for the Canadian Transit Company which operates the Canadian portion of the Ambassador Bridge linking Windsor, Ontario and Detroit, Michigan. Four months later, he was promoted to vice-president. He stayed in that position for 10 years until he resigned in September 2004.
In 2006 he was appointed to the Board of Advisors of Watts Energy, a Michigan-based energy company focused on renewable wind energy. He also served on the US-based National Association of Corporate Directors (NACD) and the Canadian-based Institute of Corporate Directors (ICD).
In 2007, Mancini was elected Chairman of the Board of the Windsor-Essex Development Commission (WEDC), a not-for-profit corporation that seeks to "maximize economic diversity, growth and prosperity" in Windsor and Essex. In March 2008, Mancini was appointed Acting Interim Executive Officer, making Mancini the WEDC's fifth CEO in five years. Mancini resigned, along with the entire WEDC Board of Directors in March 2009 due to political interference after publicly stating such interference was contrary the principles under which the Dev. Com. was established.