Board of Directors
FirstService Board of Directors provides strategic and management oversight as well as global business perspective, while upholding rigorous governing principles on behalf of the company`s shareholders
David R. Beatty, O.B.E.
Director
Member of:
Audit Committee
Executive Compensation Committee
Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee
Biography
Brendan Calder, ICD.D
Director
Member of:
Executive Compensation Committee
Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee
Biography
Peter F. Cohen
Director
Chairman of the Board
Member of:
Audit Committee
Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee
Biography
Bernard I. Ghert
Director
Member of:
Audit Committee
Sarbanes Oxley Committee
Biography
Michael D. Harris, ICD.D
Director
Member of:
Executive Compensation Committee
Biography
Jay S. Hennick
Director
Founder & Chief Executive Officer
Biography
Steve S. Rogers
Director
Biography
David R. Beatty, O.B.E.
Director
Chairman - Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee
Member - Executive Compensation Committee
Member - Audit Committee
Mr. Beatty is currently the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Beatinvest Limited (an investment company), is Chairman of Inmet Mining Corporation, Director of Walter Energy, 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. He was previously the founding Managing Director of the Canadian Coalition for Good Governance, founding Chairman of Orogen Minerals Limited, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Old Canada Investment Corporation Limited and President of Weston Foods. Mr. Beatty is Honorary Consul to Canada for the Government of Papua New Guinea and in 1993 was awarded the O.B.E. In 2013 he was awarded a Queens' Jubilee medal for his contributions to the mining industry. A graduate in economics from the University of Toronto (Trinity College), he was a Nuffield Scholar at the University of Cambridge (Queens' College) where he obtained an M.A. in Economics. Mr. Beatty has served on the boards of many public and private companies in Canada, Australia, Mexico and the USA. In addition to the Corporation, Mr. Beatty also serves on the boards of a number of private companies.
Brendan Calder, ICD.D
Director
Chairman - Executive Compensation Committee
Member - Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee
Mr. Calder has been the Entrepreneur in Residence & an Adjunct Professor at the Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto since 2001. He is Chair of Rotman's Desautels Centre for Integrative Thinking and was the founding Chair of the Rotman International Centre for Pension Management. Mr. Calder was with CIBC Mortgages, Inc. and served as that company's Chair, President and CEO. Mr. Calder is also past Chair of the Peter F. Drucker Canadian Foundation and is currently a director of EllisDon Construction and the WSIB. He holds a Bachelor of Mathematics degree from the University of Waterloo and attended the Advance Management Program at Harvard University.
Peter F. Cohen
Director - Chairman of the Board
Member - Audit Committee
Member - Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee
Mr. Cohen is a Chartered Accountant and a former partner in an audit practice of a public accounting firm. He is currently the Chair 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 Mr. Cohen and his family. Mr. Cohen 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. Mr. Cohen is Chairman of the Resources Committee, Member of the Board of Directors and Treasurer of Mount Sinai Hospital.
Bernard I. Ghert
Director
Chairman - Audit Committee
Member - Sarbanes Oxley Committee
Mr. 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. Mr. Ghert 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. Mr. Ghert has served as Director of the Managers of several Middlefield Funds, President of the Canadian Institute of Public Real Estate Companies and was a former member of the Advisory Board of the Office of the Superintendent of Financial Institutions. He currently is Chairman of the Independent Review Committee of Middlefield Limited, President of the B.I. Ghert Family Foundation, President of Coppi Holdings Ltd. and past Chair of the Mount Sinai Hospital Board of Directors.
Michael D. Harris, ICD.D
Director
Executive Compensation Committee
Mr. 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, Mr. Harris joined the law firm of Goodmans LLP as Senior Business Advisor until February 28, 2010. On March 1, 2010, he joined Cassels Brock & Blackwell LP as Senior Business Advisor. Mr. Harris is President of his own consulting firm, Steane Consulting Ltd., and, in this capacity, acts as a consultant to various Canadian Companies. Mr. Harris also serves as a director on several corporate public company boards, including Canaccord Financial, Chartwell Seniors Housing, Element Financial and Route1 Inc., as well as the Board of the Tim Horton Children's Foundation. He is past Chairman of Magna International. He is the Honorary Chair of the North Bay District Hospital Capital Campaign and the Nipissing University and Canadore College Capital Campaign. Mr. Harris is also a Senior Fellow with the Fraser Institute, a leading Canadian economic, social research and education organization, and an Institute of Corporate Directors certified director (ICD.D).
Jay S. Hennick
Director
Founder & Chief Executive Officer
Jay Hennick, is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of the Corporation. Jay 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 and in 2011, Jay also received an honorary Doctorate of Laws from York University. Jay currently serves as the Chairman of Mount Sinai Hospital, in Toronto and is the immediate past Chair of The Mount Sinai Hospital Foundation Board of Directors. In addition, he has endowed the Jay S. Hennick JD-MBA Program at the Faculty of Law and School of Management at the University of Ottawa Law School, his alma mater, and The Hennick Centre for Business and Law, a joint program of the Osgoode Hall Law School and the Schulich School of Business at York University.
Steven S. Rogers
Director
Steve Rogers is currently a private investor who most recently served as President and Chief Executive Officer of The Franchise Company Inc., a subsidiary of the Corporation since 1992. Under his leadership, Steve oversaw tremendous growth including system wide sales having grown from $29 million in 1992 to over $1.3 billion in 2010 and the number of franchisees to more than 1,800 units.
Steve was previously President of College Pro Painters Ltd., a subsidiary of The Franchise Company.
Steve is currently a member of the World Presidents' Organization (WPO) and has previously served on the Board of Directors of the International Franchise Association (IFA).