Dave Bulmer

Dave Bulmer is the President & Chief Executive Officer of AMAPCEO – Ontario’s Professional Employees Union.

AMAPCEO represents 15,000 professionals in 9 bargaining units across the Province of Ontario and in 10 countries worldwide who work directly as civil servants for the Government (Ontario’s Public Service) or as public servants with arm’s length agencies within the broader public sector.

Prior to his election as President & CEO in 2015, he served a term as Treasurer and Chief Financial Officer and two terms as Board Chair.

Dave is a member of the Ontario Pension Board (OPB) and sits as a member of its Human Resources and Pension Committees, and as Chair of its Governance Committee. He also sits on the Ryerson University, Centre for Labour and Management Relations, Advisory Board. Dave lectures on Industrial Relations and is a frequent panelist at union, human resources, labour relations, academic, and think tank events. Regularly addressing progressive workplace relationships, alternative work arrangements, the impact of artificial intelligence, the value of the public service, and the workplace of the future. He has an Institute of Corporate Directors ICD.D designation from the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management where he is completing his EMBA.

Dave is a long-time employee of the Ontario Ministry of Health, Emergency Health Services, Land & Air Ambulance Program and a former elite level hockey coach and instructor with Hockey Canada. He’s the proud Dad of two adult sons and an ardent supporter of Crohn’s & Colitis Canada, the Yonge Street Men’s Mission, and the 519 Community Centre.