Neville Gilfoy
President and Publisher
Progress Media Group
Halifax, Nova Scotia
Neville Gilfoy has been in the publishing industry for more than 30 years and has been an entrepreneur for 25 of those years.
Over the past several years, he has been the Chair of the Board of the Atlantic Provinces Chambers of Commerce, Chair of the Board of the Greater Halifax Partnership, Chair of the Capital Campaign for the Dartmouth General Hospital and the Chair of APCC’s Atlantica Council.
He is on the International Committee of the Rotary Club of Dartmouth and is actively involved in building schools, wells and health clinics in Niger in Central West Africa and Burkina Faso in West Africa.
He is the Honourary Consul of France for Nova Scotia and works closely with senior officials of the French government in Canada.
Recently, Neville received an honourary doctorate in Civil Law from Saint Mary’s University.
In 2009, he was the recipient of the first Atlantica Champions of Excellence Visionary Award presented by the Cross Border Initiatives Society in Maine.
A year prior, Neville was awarded a Rotary International Paul Harris Fellow for his humanitarian work in West Africa.
Neville was also presented with the Outstanding Achievement Award in 2006, the highest honour bestowed upon publishing professionals by the National Magazine Awards Foundation.
He is the President and Publisher of Progress Media Group, a regional company which publishes print and digital magazines, and which produces business events and websites.
Neville is married to Ann Janega and together they have two sons, Jamie & Peter.
