Our Board of Trustees

Liza has been on the AGO Board of Trustees for 10 years where she has served as a Vice-President, has Chaired its Advancement Committee and the Education and Programming Committee. Liza assisted in founding the department of Global Africa in 2020 and has proudly co-chaired its acquisition committee. In addition, Liza sits on the Executive, Governance and Nominating, and Collections committees of the AGO.

Prior to this work, she also served 7 years on the board of The Power Plant, two of those years as vice chair. Liza is also a founding member and past President of Partners in Art (PIA), a Canadian not-for-profit that funds and champions contemporary visual art through philanthropy and Arts education. 

In New York, she is a Trustee of the New Museum and served on the North American Tate Acquisitions Committee for 5 years. Currently, Liza is on the Advisory for the Delfina Foundation, an organization dedicated to artists’ exchange and development, and she is also a VP of the Vega Foundation.

Liza has an MA in English literature from the University of Toronto and an MBA from the Rotman School of Business and is a trained life coach. She previously worked at Sick Kids Hospital Foundation and Kraft General Foods.

Beth Horowitz is Former President & CEO, Amex Bank of Canada and Amex Canada, Inc. and current Co-President of the AGO Board of Trustees.

Beth has a long-standing relationship with the AGO, having served as Trustee, Chair of the Finance Committee, Chair of the Corporate Working Committee, Member of the American Friends of the AGO Board, Co-Chair of the AGO Galas in 2007 (Shadow Ball) and 2024 (Art Bash) and a Member of several Board Committees including the Executive, Advancement, and the former Merchandising Committee.

Since leaving Amex, she has devoted her time to not-for-profit and corporate board service. Beth was appointed to the board of Northland Properties in January 2022. She also serves on the Advisory Board of the US-based Women’s Venture Capital Fund. Prior corporate board service includes HSBC Bank Canada from 2009 to 2022, Aimia Inc. from 2012 to 2017, and People Corporation from 2019 until the successful board-initiated sale to Goldman Sachs Merchant Banking in 2021. 

Beth’s current not-for-profit board roles include Trustee, Art Gallery of Ontario; President, TSCC 1435 Condo Corp.; Advisor, Catalyst Canada; and Director, Harvard Business School Club of Toronto. In 2013, Beth was named of the 100 Most Powerful Women in Canada, in the Corporate Board category. She received a B.A. degree in European History from Cornell University, and an M.B.A. degree from Harvard Business School.