| 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.
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 Toronto Community Foundation. 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 recently 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 Chief Executive Officer of St. Christopher House,
a community-based multi-service agency in the downtown west end
of Toronto. Prior to this, Susan spent seven years at United Way
of Greater Toronto, first as Allocations Director and more recently
as Vice President of Fundraising. Susan's professional training
is as a nurse and a social worker. She has worked in the nonprofit
human services field for the past twenty-five years.
Susan is an active volunteer, currently serving on the Board of
Trustees of the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto as well as
the Board of SEDI and Tides Canada.
For the time period September 2006 to May 2007 Susan is taking
a leave of absence to work as Executive Lead on Citizen Engagement
for Ontario Citizens Assembly on Electoral Reform.
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.
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