Robert “Bob” Gillespie, Retired, Chairman and CEO of General Electric Canada Inc. was the catalyst that started the development of the area that is now commonly known as “Pill Hill” in the north-west Meadowvale quadrant of the city. In the early 1980’s, he was able to convince his peers at General Electric that the Canadian head office for the company should be located in these farmer’s fields because of its strategic location. The rest as they say is history as a large number of other fortune 500 companies followed suit. Mr. Gillespie is the epitome of how a socially responsible CEO should operate his organization and the City of Mississauga is a better place because of these characteristics.
