Darrin Canniff

Darrin Canniff (born 1966) is a Canadian politician who has served as current the mayor of Chatham-Kent since 2018. Canniff was born and raised in Chatham, Ontario. He attended elementary school at Winston Churchill School and high school at John McGregor Secondary School, and was educated at Wilfrid Laurier University, where he earned a Bachelor of Business Administration degree and received a Chartered Accountant (CA) designation. He received his CA while working for accounting firm KPMG. Career Early career Prior to entering politics, Canniff worked for Union Gas, where he was the director of planning and forecasting. He has also worked for Transform SSO and Greenfield Specialty Alcohols. He also led a number of charitable campaigns, such as such as the Festival of Giving and the 2006 United Way of Chatham-Kent campaign. He also served as a board chair at Mainstreet Credit Union, and was a board director for the Children's Treatment Centre Foundation of Chatham-Kent, past chair of the Prosperity Roundtable and past chair of Entegrus Inc.