Gilgan’s charitable contributions are intensive, including a historic reward of $100 million to The Hospital for Sick Children. It is the most important single present ever to SickKids, and together with donations made to other hospitals and well being-care organizations to date, it makes Gilgan and the Peter Gilgan Foundation the most important benefactor to health care in Canada. Other donations embrace $10 million to St. Joseph’s Health Centre in 2017; $30 million to St. Michael’s Hospital for a new patient care tower; $10 million in the direction of the constructing of the new Oakville Trafalgar Memorial Hospital; and $forty million in 2012 to SickKids. In the training sector, his historic $15 million gift to Ryerson University supported the event of the Mattamy Athletic Centre on the site of the previous Maple Leaf Gardens. He was awarded one of the nation’s highest civilian honours in 2013 when he was appointed to the Order of Canada, as well as the Order of Ontario in 2012, for his business leadership and philanthropic initiatives.
Jack Lawrence has been a number one government in Canada’s securities trade, guiding his agency via the industries’ most vital restructuring in history. Throughout his profession, Jack has been best known as a proponent of the bond market. Mr. Lawrence joined Fry & Co. in 1962 where he rose to the position of President & CEO in 1967. He grew to become President & CEO of Fry Mills Spence in 1971. After the merger with Burns Brothers, he was … Read More
A past recipient of Canada’s Top forty Under forty Award, Mr. Cope serves as 2013 United Way Toronto Campaign Chair, as a Director of the Bank of Montreal, and on the Advisory Board of the Ivey Business School. A 1984 Ivey HBA graduate, Mr. Cope was a member of the Western Mustangs varsity basketball staff and received a Doctor of Laws, honoris causa diploma on the 2012 Ivey Convocation. The Ivey Business Leader Award shall be presented at a black-tie dinner at Toronto’s Ritz Carlton Hotel. Proceeds from the annual occasion have supported the Ivey Alumni Association Toronto Chapter HBA and MBA Scholarships established to attract prime college students to the School and the Toronto Alumni Professorship in Business Leadership, and can now help the new Ivey Building.