1. From 1989 to 1991, Jo-Anne Polak served as the general manager of the Ottawa Rough Riders.
2. Her birth year was 1959.
3. In the Canadian Football League, Polak was the league's first female executive.
4. Polak was the first female general manager of a professional sports organisation in North America.
5. From the 1990s until the 2000s, after her time with Rough Riders, Polak worked as vice president of Hill & Knowlton Canada.
6. After joining Canada Post as a manager in 2008, she was named vice president of communications in 2011.