Bonnie Brooks: once edited Flare now on the Rogers board

A former editor of Flare magazine who moved from publishing in 1996 into retailing and most recently wound up as CEO of Hudson's Bay Company is being appointed to the Rogers Communications Inc. board (which ultimately owns Flare) to replace Toronto mayor John Tory. 

Brooks, who was the first woman CEO at HBC, was editor of Flare from 1994-96 before becoming an executive with Holt Renfrew. Then she was president of the Lane Crawford Joyce Group in Hong Kong in 2003 and then joined The Bay in 2008. She's currently chair of the Royal Ontario Museum Board and sits on the boards of Empire Company Ltd. (Sobey's), RioCan Real Estate Investment Trust and Abercrombie and Fitch.