Mr. McBurney has conducted numerous board and executive search assignments throughout Canada and the United States across a variety of sectors, including industrial products and processing, consumer goods and professional services.

He has led assignments for both public and private sector organizations, and has worked closely and advised client companies and their boards of directors in the identification, attraction and evaluation of board and senior management talent. The majority of search assignments led by Mr. McBurney over the past 20 years have focused on “C” searches—chief executives, chief operating officers, chief financial officers and chief information officers.

Prior to joining Korn/Ferry in 1999, Mr. McBurney served as a senior partner at a leading Canadian search firm and grew its practice on the West Coast of North America.

Mr. McBurney currently sits on the British Columbia  board of the Nature Conservancy of Canada, and the Board of Governors of the British Columbia Business Council. He recently sat as a board member of GTS Energy Inc.,  and as well was co-chair of the Ovarian Cancer Campaign jointly sponsored by the VGH & UBC Hospital Foundation and the BC Cancer Foundation. He has been a governor and executive committee member of the Vancouver Symphony (Canada’s third largest arts organization), a former governor of Ballet, British Columbia.

Mr. McBurney holds a bachelor’s degree in history and political science from the University of Auckland in New Zealand.