Social Capital Partners is proud to have on its advisory board:
- Robert Bradshaw, Chairman and CEO of Contor Industries Limited
- Richard W. Ivey, Ivest Properties Limited
- Roger L. Martin, dean and professor at the Joseph L. Rotman School of Management
- Susan Pigott, Chief Executive Officer of St. Christopher House
- Walter Ross, President of the Laidlaw Foundation
- Michael Wenban, President of The Monitor Institute
- Rochelle Stenzler, Corporate Director
Robert Bradshaw
Robert J. Bradshaw, as Chairman and CEO, is the owner of Contor Industries Limited. Contor Industries was formed for the purpose of acquiring mature manufacturing companies requiring significant turn-around activities. Contor companies and their products range from nuclear and aerospace to hydro electric; gold mining; food processing; aircraft leasing and waste disposal. The companies employ 2,100 people. In addition to this chairmanship of Contor Industries and Contor's affiliates, Mr. Bradshaw is on the Board of several other publicly-traded companies.
Richard W. Ivey
Richard W. Ivey is Chairman of Ivest Properties Limited, a real estate development and management company, and The Canadian Institute for Advanced Research. Mr. Ivey currently serves as a Trustee of Newport Partners Income Fund and on the Boards of Canada Colors and Chemicals Limited, University Health Network, the Toronto Community Foundation, the Ivey Foundation, Pearson College of the Pacific Foundation and the MaRS Discovery District. He also serves on the Advisory Boards of Social Capital Partners and the Richard Ivey School of Business.
He was appointed a Member of the Order of Canada in February 2006. Mr. Ivey practiced law at Torys until 1982.
Roger L. Martin
Roger L. Martin is the dean of the Joseph L. Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto and holds the Premier’s Research Chair in Productivity and Competitiveness. He was appointed to a seven-year term as the dean that commenced on September 1, 1998 and was reappointed to a second five-year term that commenced on July 1, 2005. He is also the Director of the AIC Institute for Corporate Citizenship. A Canadian from Wallenstein, Ontario, Roger Martin was formerly a Director of Monitor Company, a global strategy consulting firm based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. During his 13 years with Monitor Company, he founded and Chaired Monitor University, the firm’s educational arm, served as co-head of the firm for two years, and founded the Canadian office.
His research interests lie in the areas of global competitiveness, integrative thinking, business design and corporate citizenship. He has written five Harvard Business Review articles and published his first book, The Responsibility Virus (Basic Books, New York), in 2002. He writes extensively on Canadian competitiveness policy in the Globe and Mail, National Post and Time Magazine. He is a regular columnist for Business Week Online’s Innovation and Design Channel. He currently is Chair of the Ontario Task Force on Competitiveness, Productivity and Economic Progress. In 2004 he won the Marshall McLuhan Visionary Leadership Award winner and in 2005 was named one of Business Week’s seven “Innovation Gurus”.
He received his AB from Harvard College, with a concentration in economics, in 1979 and his MBA from the Harvard Business School in 1981. Roger Martin is the Chair of Workbrain, Inc., serves on the Boards of The Thomson Corporation, Tennis Canada, the Canadian Credit Management Foundation and the Skoll Foundation and is a Trustee of the Hospital for Sick Children. He also is on the Advisory Boards of Butterfield & Robinson, Social Capital Partners and Jefferson Partners and is a Founder of E-magine.
Susan Pigott
Susan Pigott is the Vice President, Communications and Community Engagement at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH). Trained as a nurse and a social worker, Susan has worked in the non-profit human services field in Toronto for over 25 years. For nine years, Susan was the Chief Executive Officer of St. Christopher House, a community-based multi-service agency that operates in the west end of Toronto. Prior to that she spent seven years at United Way of Greater Toronto, first as Allocations Director and then as Vice President of Fundraising. In 2006/7 took a leave of absence from St. Christopher House to serve as the Executive Lead for Citizen Engagement, supporting the Ontario Citizens' Assembly on Electoral Reform.
Susan is an active volunteer, currently serving as a Board member of the Toronto City Summit Alliance, Social Enterprise and Development Innovation, Tides Canada and Soul Pepper Theatre Company. She also co-chaired the Task Force on Modernizing Income Security for Working Age Adults with the Toronto City Summit Alliance.
Walter Ross
Walter is the Co-Chair and a founding director of the Temagami Community Foundation and a director of Trimin Capital Corp, a TSX listed company. He is a Chartered Accountant and a retired partner of Ernst & Young. Walter is the Past President of the Laidlaw Foundation, a public interest foundation based in Toronto and Past President of the Family Service Association of Toronto. He is interested in exploring the social and environmental dimensions of economic activity, and in our ability to respond and to act collectively in the public interest.
Michael Wenban
Michael Wenban is the President of The Monitor Institute. The Monitor Institute is the Monitor Group enterprise dedicated to developing specialized content and leveraging the Group's and others' assets relevant to the ongoing and accelerated development and success of public good intermediaries - such as nonprofits, social enterprises, governmental style agencies, etc.: Monitor's investment in and partnership with New Profit inc. is one such example. Michael Wenban is also a senior partner of Monitor Group, a Director of Monitor Canada, and a Global Account Manager in the firm's core consulting operations. Michael joined Monitor in 1989 and began formal involvement with Monitor Institute in 1996. Prior to joining Monitor, Michael was an M&A and securities lawyer in London and New York, and a business development executive with a multinational corporation.
Michael has degrees from Cambridge University, The University of Toronto and The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.
Rochelle Stenzler
Rochelle Stenzler has extensive experience as a senior operating executive in retailing and consumer packaged goods. Prior to establishing Rochelle Stenzler Consulting in 2004, she was President and Chief Executive Officer of Touchlogic Corporation. Previously, as President, International Operations for TLC Laser Eye Centers Inc., she served as co-COO of a $300 million laser vision correction business. In 1997, Rochelle was named President of Revlon Canada Inc. where she played a key role in the company’s restructuring. Between 1976 & 1988 Rochelle held increasingly more responsible & senior positions in the pharmacy sector rising to Senior Vice President Operations at Pharma Plus Drugmarts Ltd. In 1992 she was named President and General Manager of Pharma Plus, a position she held until 1997.
Rochelle is currently a Director of Cannasat Therapeutics Inc. serving on both its Audit and Corporate Governance Committees, as well as a member of the Advisory Boards of PCA (Patient Care Automation) Services Inc. and NicoWipe Inc. She is the former Chair of Enwave Energy Corporation; and Chairman, Executive Committee member of the Canadian Association of Chain Drug Stores. Her community involvement includes roles as a Member of the Advisory Board of the B’nai Brith Foundation and a long standing Director/Executive Committee role with YPO/WPO (Young Presidents’ Organization/World Presidents’ Organization), where she is currently Chairman of WPO Ontario.
Rochelle is a graduate of the University of Toronto with a BSc.Phm. and the Rotman School of Management, Institute of Corporate Directors, with an ICD.D.