Rashid Wasti
Group Chief Leadership Officer, Landmark Group
Rashid Wasti is a C-suite executive with a passion for the intersection of talent and business, and deep expertise in what brings leadership to life in complex, large-scale environments, built over 35 years across multiple blue chip organizations.
As of August 2025, he is Group Chief Leadership Officer of Landmark Group, a leading omnichannel retail and hospitality conglomerate with 2,200+ stores in 11 countries and presence across the Middle East, Africa, India and Southeast Asia.
From 2013 to 2025 he was EVP & Chief Talent Officer for the Weston Group of companies, focused on talent, succession, culture, DEI, learning & development, management team effectiveness, coaching and recruiting. Weston Group is Canada’s largest private employer with over 220,000 employees, 2,500 retail locations, 68 million sq ft of leasable real estate, $60 billion+ in revenues, with leading businesses in grocery retail, pharmacy, fast fashion, real estate and consumer financial services.
After an early career in marketing at Procter & Gamble and strategy consulting at Boston Consulting Group, spread across Europe, Middle East and North America, he built on that deep grounding in business to build a global practice in talent management and recruiting over more than a decade at Egon Zehnder International, advising some of the largest corporations in the world before joining the Weston Group.
Rashid has a Bachelors and Masters degrees in Economics from Cambridge University in England, and an MBA from the Ivey School of Business at Western University. He was the founding Chair of the Equity-Diversity-Inclusion Council at Ivey (2020-2025), and since 2019 has been a member of the Advisory Council of the Ian O. Ihnatowycz Institute for Leadership at the Ivey School of Business. Since 2024 he has been a board member of the Ronald McDonald House Charities – Toronto, joining the HR & Compensation Committee as well as the Governance and Nominations Committee.