Angela Clayton

2025 Outstanding Leader Winner & 2022 WIN Awards Judge

With more than 25 years’ experience in the Canadian infrastructure industry, Angela’s leadership has benefitted both the private and public sectors. Throughout her career, Angela has brought her tenacity, expertise and pragmatism to leading complex infrastructure projects to completion in unpredictable and changing markets.

In her current capacity as the Interim President and Chief Executive Officer of IO, as well as her prior role as IO’s President, Project Delivery, the organization has completed 13 hospitals, 9 transit/transportation, seven justice facilities and five public works projects across the province. Throughout this work, Angela has championed innovative approaches, including the use of a wide variety of procurement models and approaches to deliver critical and complex projects for the people of Ontario, while navigating unprecedented challenges.

Angela has expertly navigated the most complex challenges facing IO and the infrastructure sector at large. Upon her return to IO in April 2021 as President of Project Delivery, Angela led her team through the unprecedented challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic while spearheading the most ambitious infrastructure investment program in Canada. Her leadership has been instrumental in adapting IO’s project delivery program to meet the demands of a rapidly changing market and increasingly complex projects.

During the intervening years, from 2015 to 2021, she was Group Head, Buildings Division with Plenary Group, overseeing the design, construction, operations, and maintenance of all Plenary building projects in North America. She spent her early career in property and asset management, working for Brookfield LePage Johnson Controls for nine years where she managed outsourced facility management contracts for national clients.

Angela has been a key member of the influential industry organization, the Future of Infrastructure Group, advising the Minister of Infrastructure on various industry issues, including Infrastructure Ontario’s evolution. A passionate advocate for diversity in the construction industry, she has also served as a member of the Women’s Infrastructure Network for the past eight years. She currently is a member of the Toronto chapter steering committee.