Crombie Real Estate Investment Trust announced that Clinton Keay is joining the company as Chief Financial Officer and Secretary, effective May 15, 2019. Mr. Keay is currently Executive Vice President IT and Transformation for Sobeys Inc., where he oversees company efforts to restructure the way it does business. Mr. Keay is a Chartered Professional Accountant (CPA) who joined Sobeys in 1989 and held a number of progressively senior finance roles before being appointed Senior Vice President & Chief Information Officer in 2002, Executive Vice President Finance for Empire Company Limited in 2014, and Interim Chief Financial Officer at Sobeys Inc. (July 2016-April 2017), before assuming his current role.

Mr. Keay is a Business Administration graduate of St. Francis Xavier University with an Honours in Accounting. Mr. Keay fills the position currently held by Glenn Hynes, FCPA, who was appointed Crombie's Executive Vice President (EVP) and Chief Operating Officer (COO) in November 2018, as part of Crombie's leadership renewal.