Just hours after being appointed the 14th Commissioner of the CFL, Randy Ambrosie chatted with the Waggle’s James Cybulski about his journey from player, to successful businessman to now the head man at the Canadian Football League.



Ambrosie won the 81st Grey Cup in 1993 as an offensive lineman with the Edmonton Eskimos, after also playing for the Toronto Argonauts and Calgary Stampeders during a CFL career that spanned nine seasons. It was the Stamps who made him the second overall pick in the 1985 CFL Draft out of the University of Manitoba, where he earned All-Canadian honours and a Bachelor of Commerce degree.

He served two years as secretary of the Canadian Football League Players’ Association before working as a Managing Director at CIBC Wood Gundy, a District Manager with Merrill Lynch Canada, and a Manager and Financial Advisor at Midland Walwyn.

In 2004 Randy joined AGF Funds Inc. and went on to become the President of AGF Funds in 2007. During his tenure AGF became the fastest growing independent fund company in Canada.

In 2012, Ambrosie joined MacDougall, MacDougall and MacTier, where he helped re-energize Canada’s oldest investment company as its President and Chief Executive Officer. The firm was successfully sold last year.

In addition to attending the University of Manitoba, he has studied executive finance at the Columbia University School of Executive Education, management at the University of Michigan Business School’s Executive Education Centre, and leadership development at the Wharton School of Business.