Executive Vice President & Chief Financial Officer
Kris Smith is Executive Vice-president and Chief Financial Officer, responsible for finance, internal audit, investor relations, information technology and supply chain functions for the company. Kris is also the company’s executive lead on the Oil Sands Pathways Alliance, which is a consortium of Canadian Oil Sands companies advancing the long term decarbonization of the industry.
Since joining Suncor in 2000, Kris has held a variety of operational and corporate roles throughout the company, including the role of interim President & Chief Executive Officer from 2022 to 2023. Prior to that, Kris was Executive Vice President of Downstream from 2013 to 2022. In that role he was responsible for all of the company’s refining and marketing assets and business in Canada and the United States, as well as Suncor’s supply and trading and renewable energy businesses.
Before taking on leadership of Suncor’s Downstream business in 2013, Kris was Senior Vice President, Supply, Trading & Corporate Development, and prior to that held a number of roles in Suncor’s Oil Sands and U.S. downstream businesses including strategy & business planning, production planning & logistics and power and utility operations.
Kris graduated from the University of Alberta in 1992 and received his bachelor of laws from Dalhousie University in 1995. Kris has also completed the advanced management program at Harvard Business School.