A familiar face throughout the CFL community, Dennis enters his third season as the club’s 29th president following a four-year stint as president and CEO of Canwest Publishing where he oversaw the company’s print and online assets.

An integral part of the Lions organization since 2003, Skulsky was a part of a group led by the club’s late president and CEO Bob Ackles that founded the Waterboys, a collective of British Columbia business leaders who are committed to promoting the Lions brand in the corporate community.  

In addition to his duties as chairman of the Waterboys and prior to his appointment as CEO and president, Skulsky spearheaded the very successful 2005 Grey Cup Committee whose Party on the Pacific festival was one of the most profitable and entertaining CFL championships prior to 2011’s Raise the Roof festival.  

A veteran media executive in the newspaper industry, Skulsky began his career nearly three decades ago as circulation district manager for The Edmonton Journal, followed by several senior leadership positions with Southam Inc., Hollinger and Canwest.

Prior to his appointment as president and CEO of Canwest Publishing, Skulsky served as president and publisher for the Pacific Newspaper Group and group publisher, western region.  In this role, Dennis oversaw all of Canwest MediaWorks’ western daily newspapers, including The Vancouver Sun, The Province, The Times Colonist, The Calgary Herald, The Edmonton Journal, The Leader-Post, The Star-Phoenix and 12 community newspapers throughout the lower mainland.

An Edmonton native, Dennis and his wife Marlene have two daughters, Jodi (Adam) and Kimberly and a granddaughter.  Dennis has family ties to British Columbia as his parents currently reside in White Rock.