Vivien Godfrey

An experienced business executive, Vivien Godfrey served eight years as the manager of various consulting teams with the London and Toronto offices of the multinational management advisory firm McKinsey & Company. Over the course of her 32-year career, Vivien Godfrey has also held multiple administrative posts with a number of major food companies and directed food-industry marketing programs.

Since 2001, Vivien Godfrey has sat on the board of directors of Bluewater Books & Charts, a 30-year-old company that supplies nautical charts and software to leisure mariners.

Ms. Godfrey also currently serves as the chairman of the board of the Edward Stanford Group Limited, a well-established publisher that deals in maps and travel books. Founded in 1853, this business previously employed both her father and her grandfather. Since assuming board leadership in 2005, she has made Edward Stanford profitable again by hiring a new management team and developing new company strategies and operational procedures.