Andrew Baker named CEO of Calgary-based Alpine Canada
The 43-year-old former Canadian Olympic Committee executive takes over a federation overseeing roughly 15,000 racers and 5,500 coaches nationwide.
Andrew Baker has been named the next president and CEO of Alpine Canada, replacing Thérèse Brisson, who is departing after six years to lead Skate Canada. Baker, 43 and from Montreal, spent 21 years with the Canadian Olympic Committee, most recently as its chief external affairs officer, and will start his new role in September.
Alpine Canada oversees alpine and Para alpine ski racing and ski cross, encompassing about 15,000 registered racers and 5,500 coaches across 200 clubs, according to the organization's 2025 annual report. Baker takes charge at the start of a new Olympic quadrennial building toward the 2030 Winter Games in the French Alps, and pointed to his COC advocacy work pushing for increased federal funding for national sport organizations.
The appointment follows a mixed run of results for the federation. Canada met its overall medal targets under its 2021-26 strategic plan but was shut out of alpine skiing and ski cross medals at the February Milan Cortina Olympics, ending a streak of ski cross podiums dating to 2010. Para alpine athletes won one silver and four bronze medals in Italy.
Canada no longer hosts World Cup downhill or super-G races after Alpine Canada ended 30 years of men's and women's downhill events at Lake Louise in 2022, citing economics. Whistler and Panorama, B.C., have been floated as possible replacement sites, and Baker said restoring a men's speed race on the West Coast remains a priority, though details are still being worked out.
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