David R. Beatty, OBE
Director
Chairman - Corporate Governance Committee
Member - Executive Compensation Committee
Member - Audit Committee
David Beatty is currently the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Beatinvest Limited (an investment company), and the founding Managing Director of the Canadian Coalition for Good Governance (he retired in June, 2008). He is also Professor of Strategy and the Director of the Clarkson Centre for Business Ethics and Board Effectiveness and Professor of Strategic Management at The Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto. David was previously founding Chairman of Orogen Minerals Limited, Chairman and CEO of Old Canada Investment Corporation Limited and President of Weston Foods. Over the years, David has served on the boards of many public and private companies in Canada, Australia, Mexico and the USA. In addition to the Corporation, he also serves on the boards of the Bank of Montreal, Inmet Mining Corporation, and a number of private companies.
Brendan Calder
Director
Chairman - Executive Compensation Committee
Member - Corporate Governance Committee
Brendan Calder has been the Effective Executive in Residence & Adjunct Professor of Strategic Management at the Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto, since 2001. Between 1995 and 2000, Brendan was President, CEO and Chair of the Board of CIBC Mortgages, Inc. He is also past Chair of the Peter F. Drucker Canadian Foundation and is on the boards of ClearPoint Business Resources, Inc, Coventree Inc, EllisDon Corporation and the Toronto International Film Festival Group.
Peter Cohen
Director - Chairman of the Board
Member - Audit Committee
Member - Executive Compensation Committee
Member - Corporate Governance Committee
Peter Cohen is currently the Chairman of the Board of the Corporation and President and Chief Executive Officer of the Dawsco Group, a private real estate and investment company owned by Peter Cohen and his family. Peter was a co-founder and Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Centrefund Realty Corporation, a publicly traded shopping center investment company until August 2000 when control of the company was sold. Peter is a Chartered Accountant and a former partner in an audit practice of a public accounting firm. He is also a member of the boards of a number of private companies and charities.
Bernard I. Ghert
Director
Chairman - Audit Committee
Member - Corporate Governance Committee
Member - Sarbanes Oxley Committee
Bernard Ghert was previously President and Chief Executive Officer of The Cadillac Fairview Corporation Limited from 1981 to 1987 and President of Stelworth Investments Inc. from 1987 to 1992. Bernard has been a director of many organizations in the private and public sectors, including Cadillac Fairview, Stelworth, CT Financial and Canada Trust, Wellington Insurance, Canada Deposit Insurance Corporation, and has served as President of the Canadian Institute of Public Real Estate Companies. He is currently Chairman of the Independent Review Committee of the Middlefield Group and is a former member of the Advisory Board of the Office of the Superintendent of Financial Institutions. Bernard currently serves as President of the B.I. Ghert Family Foundation and as the Immediate Past Chair of the Mount Sinai Hospital Board of Directors.
Michael D. Harris, ICD.D
Director
Michael Harris was elected the twenty-second Premier of the Province of Ontario on June 8, 1995 and then re-elected in 1999, making him the first Ontario Premier in over 30 years to form a second consecutive majority government. After leaving office in April 2002, Michael joined the law firm of Goodmans LLP as a Senior Business Advisor. Michael serves as a director on several corporate boards, including Magna International Inc., Chartwell Senior Housing REIT, EnGlobe Corporation, ENMAX Corporation and Canaccord Capital Inc. He also serves on a number of charitable and corporate Advisory Boards and is a Senior Fellow with the Fraser Institute, a leading Canadian economic, social research and education organization.
Jay S. Hennick
Director
Founder & Chief Executive Officer
Jay Hennick, is the founder and Chief Executive Officer of the Corporation. Jay is a lawyer and was a partner with the law firm Fogler, Rubinoff LLP prior to taking up his full-time position with the Corporation in 1995. In 1998, Jay was awarded Canada's Entrepreneur of the Year and named Canada's CEO of the Year in 2001 by Canadian Business Magazine. Jay is the treasurer and a director of The Mount Sinai Hospital. In addition, he has endowed the Jay S. Hennick LL.B. MBA Program at the Faculty of Law and School of Management at the University of Ottawa Law School, his alma mater.
Steve S. Rogers
Director
Steve Rogers has served as President and Chief Executive Officer of The Franchise Company Inc., a Subsidiary of the Corporation since 1992. As President and Chief Executive Officer, system wide sales have grown from $29 million in 1992 to over $1 billion in 2007. The number of franchisees in The Franchise Company currently exceeds 1,800 unites.
Steve was previously President of College Pro Painters Ltd., a subsidiary of The Franchise Company.
Steve is currently a member of the Young Presidents' Organization (YPO) and has previously served on the Board of Directors of the International Franchise Association (IFA).
