Mr. Don T. Di Salle

Vice-President, Corporate Services

In February 2006, Mr. Don Di Salle was appointed the National Research Council's Vice-President, Corporate Services. Mr. Di Salle brings extensive experience to all areas of activity of the Corporate Services portfolio.

His career at NRC has spanned some 20 years, during which time he has held a variety of increasingly senior positions where he gained extensive, relevant knowledge and experience of NRC's programs, its challenges, its emerging culture and its opportunities to play a leadership role in putting science to work for Canada.

As Director General of the NRC Corporate Strategy and Development Branch (formerly Corporate Services Branch) Mr. Di Salle led his team in providing professional, strategic value-added management and relationship development in support of NRC's business priorities

Mr. Di Salle played a pivotal role in establishing and implementing NRC's community-based innovation strategy for Atlantic Canada, and later expanding its reach across Canada. He has built strategic partnerships and collaborations with industry, academia, provincial governments, and other federal regional development agencies and departments. Mr. Di Salle is further supporting the development of this priority activity for NRC through the development of NRC's Technology Cluster Secretariat.

As Director of NRC-ASPM's Administrative Services, he gained direct experience managing IT and IM projects and the impacts they have on an organization's culture and business processes as a member of the largest NRC Enterprise-Wide Management Information System implementation effort – SIGMA. 

He has been a member of NRC's key strategic and operational committees, and has been leading NRC's participation in the Canada-U.S. Enhanced Representation Initiative (ERI), a significant program targeted at enhancing Canada's advocacy, trade and S&T roles in the United States.