Leadership

Jim Gilligan is the Executive Director of the Catholic Children’s Aid Foundation and has been in this role since May 2022. Prior to joining the Foundation, Jim was President and Chief Executive Officer of Blue Cross Life Insurance Company of Canada from 2000-2016. In this role, he also served on the Board of Directors and was responsible for all executive and operational activities of the company. He was its primary contact for key stakeholders, including shareholders, distributors, clients, regulators and rating agencies. Jim also served on the Life Insurance Industry Advisory Committee for Assuris, the not-for-profit compensation organization which protects Canadian policyholders in the event that their life insurance company should fail. Jim was born and raised in Philadelphia and began his career in the U.S. at the Du Pont Company and, over the years, served in many marketing roles, including as the first marketing leader for PricewaterhouseCoopers in Canada. He also served in the U.S. Navy as a Supply Corps Officer. Jim holds a B.S. in Economics from Villanova University and an MBA from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.