David R. Beatty, O.B.E.
Director
Chairman - 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), Director of the Institute of Corporate Directors, 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. 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 the Bank of Montreal, Inmet Mining Corporation, and a number of private companies.
Brendan Calder, ICD.D
Director
Chairman - Executive Compensation Committee
Member - Corporate Governance Committee
Mr. Calder has been the Effective Executive in Residence & Adjunct Professor of Strategic Management at the Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto since 2001, is Chair of Rotman's Desautels Centre for Integrative Thinking and formerly 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 from 1995 to 2000. Mr. Calder is also past Chair of the Peter F. Drucker Canadian Foundation and is a director of the public entities, Coventree Inc., ClearPoint Business Resources, Inc. and Custom Direct Income Fund, as well a private entity director of EllisDon Corporation and the Toronto International Film Festival Group. He holds a Bachelor of Mathematics degree from the University of Waterloo and attended the Advance Management Program at Harvard University. Mr. Calder is an Institute of Corporate Directors certified director (ICD.D).
Peter Cohen
Director - Chairman of the Board
Member - Audit Committee
Member - 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.
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 Fund Management Limited, President of the B.I. Ghert Family Foundation, President of Coppi Holdings Ltd. and Immediate 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 a Consultant and Senior Business Advisor until March 1, 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 Augen Capital Corp., Canaccord Capital Inc., Chartwell Senior Housing REIT, EnGlobe Corp., Magna International Inc. and Route 1 Inc., as well as the Board of Grant Forest Products, Inc., Tim Horton Children's Foundation and Mount Royal University Foundation. 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 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, and The Hennick Centre for Business and Law at Osgoode Hall Law School and Schulich School of Business, York University.
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 $1.3 billion in 2009. The number of franchisees in The Franchise Company currently exceeds 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 Young Presidents' Organization (YPO) and has previously served on the Board of Directors of the International Franchise Association (IFA).
John (Jack) P. Curtin, Jr.
Director
Jack Curtin is currently an Advisory Director in the Investment Banking Division. He also serves as chairman of Goldman Sachs Canada.
From 1995 to 1999, he was chief executive of Goldman Sachs Canada in Toronto. Prior to this assignment, he was cohead of Global Money markets and chairman of Goldman Sachs Money Markets LP. He moved to Money Markets in 1987 after serving as head of Fixed Income Syndicate/New Issues. Jack joined the firm in 1976 in the Corporate Finance Department and was named partner in 1988 and managing director in 1996. Jack is a member of the Board of Directors of Cadillac Fairview Corporation. He is a trustee of Lakefield College School in Lakefield, Ontario, and the Art Gallery of Ontario Foundation. Mr. Curtin is a former governor of the Toronto Stock Exchange and a former director of Brascan Corporation, Maxxcom Corporation and Investment Dealers Association of Canada. He served as a trustee of Royal St. George's College.
Jack received his MBA from Harvard in 1976 and his BA from Williams College in 1972.
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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.
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