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Highly respected as a business and community leader, Sean Jackson is Meridian Credit Union’s first President and Chief Executive Officer. Meridian is Ontario’s largest and Canada’s third largest credit union with 220,000 members, $4 billion in assets and a network of 44 branches.

Sean is focused on building Meridian into a financial institution that will become Ontario’s dominant leader in outstanding relationship service. A lawyer by profession, Sean dedicated the past 20 years of his career to strengthening the credit union system provincially and nationally. Sean is on the Boards of Credit Union Central of Canada and Credit Union Central of Ontario. Sean was recognized as the 2007 Alan Marentette Manager of the Year Award and the 2005 Business Leader of the Year by the St. Catharines Chamber of Commerce.

Sean is actively involved in his community and was honoured to receive the Gary Gillam Award for Social Responsibility. As Past Board Chair of Hotel Dieu Shaver Hospital in St. Catharines, Ontario, Sean steered the organization through a period of dynamic changes in the Niagara health care system. Sean is also a founding Director of the Niagara Community Foundation and an Advisory Council member for Brock University’s Faculty of Business. Sean is currently the Co-Chair Leadership Giving of the United Way Campaign.

A member of the Canadian Bar Association, Sean earned his law degree at the University of Toronto. He graduated as “Outstanding MBA Student” from Niagara University, New York, and received a Gold Medal with his BA (Honours) from McGill University.