Nadeem Velani

Nadeem Velani is Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of CPKC.

In his role, Mr. Velani serves as a key member of the CPKC executive leadership team responsible for helping plan the long-term strategic direction of the company with duties including financial planning, investor relations, reporting and accounting systems, as well as procurement, treasury and tax.

Previously, Mr. Velani served as Executive Vice-President and Chief Financial Officer at Canadian Pacific (CP) having earlier served as Vice-President Investor Relations. Prior to CP, Mr. Velani spent 15 years at Canadian National where he worked in a variety of positions in Strategic and Financial Planning, Investor Relations, Sales and Marketing and the Office of the President and CEO.

Mr. Velani holds a Bachelor of Economics degree from Western University and an MBA in Finance/International Business from McGill. In 2022, Mr. Velani completed the Advanced Management Program at Harvard Business School.

Mr. Velani was recognized by Institutional Investor as a member of the All-Canada Executive Team in 2020 and 2022. He was ranked as the top CFO in the Capital Goods/Industrials sector as voted on by buy-side analysts, money managers and sell-side researchers 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024 and 2025. He was also named Canada’s CFO Of The Year in 2020, and recognized as one of the inaugural top 50 2020 Best Executives by the Globe and Mail’s Report on Business. In 2024, he joined the board of directors of the Alberta Children’s Hospital Foundation.