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While most of the golf leaders who gathered in Augusta last week bemoaned the rain and the temperature dropping in the middle of the event, from over 80 degrees to barely 50 degrees, Mary DiPaoli had a different view. I arrived in Georgia from meetings in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, where it was minus 18 degrees. For DePaoli, anything with a plus sign indicates spring. A schedule that includes meetings in Augusta and then a trip to Hilton Head for its own tournament, the RBC Heritage? are you kidding?
Mary DePaoli used to offer a slightly different perspective on things, definitely for golf. As Executive Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer of the Royal Bank of Canada, hosting the Heritage Open this week, she is also a mother of two, a Canadian, and a former wealth manager who often grew up to be the only woman in the room or in a corporate tee-sheet, a woman who oversees a group Global marketing of 420 including sponsorships in not only men’s golf but women’s golf, hockey and competitive computer…