Robert Pritchard will be the new chairman of the Bank of Montreal. Mr. Pritchard is at present the head of Metrolinx, the agency that operates GO Transit for the Ontario government He is also a former CEO at Torstar and will take the position after serving as an independent director of BMO since 2000. Mr. Prichard replaces David Galloway who is retiring. In 2009, Torstar gave the departing Mr. Prichard a multi-million-dollar severance package as part of a management shuffle and a host of moves designed to combat slumping fortunes, according to the National Post. .