Honouring Amit Goyal
Senior Vice President & Chief Financial Officer, State Bank of India, Canada
Chief Guest · 2026 Best Teacher Award Presentations
A senior finance executive whose record outside the bank — community service and mentoring — is what brought him to the CIC 2026 stage.
Mr. Amit Goyal is Chief Financial Officer of State Bank of India, Canada, with more than two decades of senior leadership across four international banks.
He has long supported community nonprofits across the Greater Toronto Area, and has mentored younger finance and accounting professionals throughout his career. Mentoring, he has said, is his passion.
That record explains his presence at the CIC 2026 Award Ceremony in Brampton on May 30, where he personally presented the 2026 Best Teacher Awards to the ten honourees who took the stage.
A CFO of his standing did not have to be there in person. He was.
Mentoring has been my passion for many years. The thesis of his leadership
From a Boardroom, to a Classroom
CKSTEM presented Mr. Goyal with its Plaque of Appreciation — recognition for an executive whose career has built and audited institutions across three jurisdictions, and who chose to spend the day standing beside the educators who quietly do the same work, classroom by classroom.
Twenty years of finance leadership — treasury, compliance, operations, audit — teaches an executive how patient capital becomes a school, a hospital, a community. The teachers honoured this year build that same patient capital in a different ledger: a year of preparation, a year of feedback, a year of belief. Amit's presence on the stage was not a courtesy. It was a recognition of the work in its own currency.
Thirteen Educators
Of the thirteen 2026 Best Teacher honourees, ten took the stage at CIC 2026 — Mr. Goyal personally placed each plaque in their hand.
Rosemary Bianchi
Swati Babbar
Jennifer Varden
Stephanie Do (Wong)
Manal El-Azmi Khairat
Nundall Gungadin
Michael Plesko
Shikha Sharma
Hanrui Zou
Mentoring has been my passion for many years.
— Amit Goyal, on his leadership philosophy
Every medal, every recipient
Gold, Silver, Bronze, and Honor recipients across art, computing, math, public speaking, science, and writing — the full 2026 results.
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