CAC -- BIO - Mary Van Buren

Mary Van Buren, Vice-President Marketing and IT, Canadian Real Estate Association

Mary Van Buren, is Vice-President Marketing and IT with the Canadian Real Estate Association. A results-driven Executive, her over 20 year career has spanned financial services, economic development and healthcare, at leading organizations in Canada. Her career began at American Express and she assumed increasingly senior roles at Petro-Canada, Ottawa Tourism, Export Development Canada and MD Management. Mary’s keen interest in tackling new challenges has led to broad knowledge of the private, public and not-for-profit sector, including member-based associations. She has won several prestigious marketing awards from IABC and the Canadian Marketing Association.

Her ability to create value based on client insight led to double digit growth of Canada’s leading real estate website, REALTOR.ca and previously, the launch of two innovative clinical online services, Asklepios a social networking site for physicians and mydoctor.ca, Canada’s first physician-patient health portal.

Mary holds an M.B.A. in International Business from McGill and is fluently bilingual. In addition to raising a family, Mary has made the time to volunteer on the Boards of the American Marketing Association, Ottawa; IABC Ottawa; Alpine Ontario, National Capital Division; OCRI- Health IT Programming Committee and as an alpine skiing crew member at the Vancouver Olympics and Lake Louise World Cup.