Chris Loreto is currently the 1st Vice President of the Ontario Progressive Conservative Party. For more than 30 years, Chris has worked shoulder-to-shoulder with Conservatives across Ontario to build a stronger grassroots movement—training activists, uniting youth, modernizing tools, and promoting a professional, respectful Party culture.

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As 1st Vice President, Chris founded the PC Activist Academy, training thousands of members, riding executives, candidates, CFOs, and youth activists. He led the 2019 merger of the youth wings into the Ontario Young PCs, secured increased Party funding for youth recruitment and training, supported user consultations that informed the Party’s PC Hub data system, and helped pass the Ontario PC Members’ Code of Conduct. Chris is proud to support the leadership of Premier Doug Ford and the PC Caucus and to back that leadership with real grassroots capacity.

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Chris’s Party roots run deep. He ran as the Ontario PC candidate in 1999 under Premier Mike Harris in Trinity–Spadina, served as 6th Vice President of the Ontario PC Party (2000–02), GTA Organizer for the Tom Long leadership campaign (2000), and President of the Ontario PC Campus Association (1999–2000). He has contributed to Party policy development, including co-chairing the Transportation & Infrastructure Policy Advisory Committee (2017–18) and contributing to the Million Jobs Plan (2013–14) and Changebook (2010–11).

 

On the campaign trail, Chris has repeatedly answered the call as Election Day Chair in competitive races: Natalia Kusendova (Mississauga Centre, 2018), Brad Butt (Mississauga–Streetsville, 2011 & 2015), and Amarjeet Gill (Mississauga–Brampton South, 2011 & 2014). He also sought the PC nomination in Mississauga–Streetsville (2010).

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Professionally, Chris is Managing Principal at StrategyCorp Inc., where he leads the firm’s Management Consulting Practice. He advises public, not for profit, and private sector clients on public policy and program design, governance, strategic and business planning, organizational/operational redesign, and stakeholder engagement. Previously, he was Vice President & Director with Deloitte & Touche LLP in infrastructure advisory and project finance. Before consulting, Chris spent nine years in the Ontario Public Service in progressively senior roles, beginning with serving as Chief of Staff to the Attorney General and Minister Responsible for Native Affairs. 

 

Chris is also active in community leadership. He is Chair of the Humber Meadows Long-Term Care Home and serves on the Board of Directors of the William Osler Health System and the board of Hospice Mississauga. His past community roles include President, ArtsBuild Ontario; Director, Royal Society of Canada (Council); Director, Vic Johnston Community Centre & Arena; and more than a decade of minor hockey coaching and leadership in Streetsville and across Peel.

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