MICHAEL WILSON, O.C. (Task Force Member, August 2005 to February 2006)
Mr. Allen has been involved in advising numerous corporations on their corporate
affairs, on corporate governance and on reorganizations and has been involved
over many years in a variety of major transactions such as mergers,
acquisitions and dispositions and related party transactions. With respect to
public and private financings, Mr. Allen has advised domestic and foreign
underwriters and a number of emerging and well-established issuers in
connection with these financings.
With respect to alternative dispute resolution, Mr. Allen has acted as counsel
to arbitrating parties on a number of occasions, including foreign utilities
and has acted as an arbitrator and mediator in commercial disputes involving
domestic and international parties. These arbitration matters have included
acting as Chairman of the panel, a member of the panel and as sole arbitrator
in a number of significant commercial disputes conducted ad hoc and through the
auspices of the International Chamber of Commerce and the LCIA. Mr. Allen has
acted as mediator of many commercial disputes.
Mr. Allen's broad experience in corporate and securities law, together with his
background encompassing many years as a senior officer of a major Canadian
investment dealer and merchant bank, and current position as Chairman of a
Canadian investment banker, make him uniquely qualified to act as an arbitrator
in international arbitrations which are either commercial in nature or involve
the financial services industry.
Throughout his career in law, and in the investment banking industry, Mr. Allen
has had a leading role in policy formulation.
Professional Involvement
Mr. Allen is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (London,
England). He is also past Chairman of the Accounting Standards Oversight
council of Canada and a former member of the Advisory Board of the Office of
the Superintendent of Financial Institutions of Canada and part Chairman of the
Corporate Finance Committee of the IDA, a former public director of the IDA,
and a former member of the IDA's Executive Committee.
Mr. Allen has been a frequent speaker at conferences held by many organizations
on topics relevant to the investment industry.
Mr. Allen was Chairman of the Allen Committee formed by The Toronto Stock
Exchange to consider the timeliness and adequacy of corporate disclosure in
Canada and to consider whether additional remedies, such as civil liability,
should be available to participants in secondary markets who are damaged by
faulty disclosure. He was also a member of the Zimmerman Committee appointed by
the IDA to review certain aspects of the law governing take-over bids in
Canada.
Mr. Allen was a member of the "Wise Persons' Committee" formed by the Canadian
Minister of Finance to examine the structure of regulation in Canada's
securities industry and is currently Chairman of the Task Force to Modernize
Securities Legislation in Canada.
Mr. Allen is a member of the Board of Directors of a number of public
corporations including Bema Gold Corporation, Geac Computer Corporation
Limited, YM BioSciences Inc. and Middlefield Bancorp Limited. He is also a past
member of the Board of Directors of Mount Sinai Hospital in Toronto.
Education
LL.B. (University of Western Ontario, 1963)
B.A. (University of Western Ontario, 1960)
Brian E. Bayley is President and Chief Executive Officer of Quest Capital Corp.
("Quest"). Quest trades on the Toronto Stock Exchange under the symbol QC.
Quest is a merchant banking organization that focuses on providing bridge and
mortgage financing, and corporate finance services. Quest's primary expertise
is providing asset-backed commercial loans to companies operating in industries
such as mining, oil and gas, manufacturing and real estate.
Don Black is Deputy Chair & Chief Executive Officer of Greystone Capital
Management Inc .
Don was born, raised and educated in Regina, where he has spent the entirety of
what has been a successful, distinguished and varied career in business and
community.
He began his business career with Houston Willoughby (now part of RBC Dominion
Securities) in 1966, rising through the ranks to become President & Chief
Operating Officer at the age of 32. In January 1983, just a month before his 36
th birthday, he moved to the public sector, spending nearly three years as
President & CEO of Saskatchewan Government Insurance .
In 1985, Don returned to the private sector to become Chief Executive Officer of
Pioneer Life Assurance Company . Following the sale of Pioneer Life in 1990,
Don 's love for automobiles prompted him to purchase an automobile dealership,
which he sold in 1992.
It was a stroke of good fortune that permitted his return to the financial
services industry. Coincident with the sale of the automobile dealership,
Greystone Capital was looking for a new leader. Don was appointed President
& Chief Executive Officer of Greystone in March of 1992. Under his
leadership, Greystone revenues have grown more than 15 times and assets under
management have multiplied more that 6 times to $25 billion, placing the
company as Canada's 9 th largest manager of pension fund assets.
Don Black has served as a director of a number of public and private companies,
industry associations and charitable organizations. He currently serves as: a
trustee of TGS North American REIT ; a director of Investment Saskatchewan Inc
.; Chair of the board of the Canadian Scholarship Trust Foundation ; and, a
public director of the Investment Dealers Association of Canada .
He remains active in community endeavors as: Vice-Chair of the board of trustees
of the Government House Foundation of Saskatchewan ; the Saskatchewan Chair of
the CNIB 'That All May Read' National Capital Campaign ; a director of the RCMP
National Heritage Centre; Honorary Chair of the United Way of Regina Leadership
Giving campaign; Honorary Co-Chair of the Tomorrow Fund; and, Chair of the
Sponsorship Committee for the Lieutenant Governor's Centennial Gala.
Don was appointed a Member of the Order of Canada in 2002; and, in 2003 was
awarded the Queen Elizabeth II Golden Jubilee Medal and, in 2005 was awarded
the Saskatchewan Centennial Medal and received a Saskatchewan Distinguished
Service Award.
Professor John C. Coffee, Jr. is the Adolf A. Berle Professor of Law at Columbia
University Law School and Director of its Center on Corporate Governance. He is
a Fellow at the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and has been repeatedly
listed by the National Law Journal as among its A 100 Most Influential Lawyers
in America."
Professor Coffee has been a member of the Legal Advisory Board to the New York
Stock Exchange, the Legal Advisory Board of the NASD, the Market Regulation
Committee of the NASD, and the Economic Advisory Board to Nasdaq. He served as
a Reporter to the American Law Institute for its PRINCIPLES OF CORPORATE
GOVERNANCE: Analysis and Recommendations, was a member of the SEC's Advisory
Committee on the Capital Formation and Regulatory Processes, and served as
chairperson of the Section on Business Associations of the Association of
American Law Schools.
Professor Coffee is the author or editor of several widely used casebooks on
corporations, securities regulation, takeovers, and business organization and
finance, including Coffee and Seligman, Cases and Materials on Securities
Regulation (9 th ed. 2000), Choper, Coffee and Gilson, Case and Materials on
Corporations (6 th ed. 2004), Klein and Coffee, Business Organization and
Finance (9 th ed. 2004), and Coffee, Lowenstein, and Rose-Ackerman, Knights,
Raiders and Targets: The Impact of the Hostile Takeover (Oxford University
Press 1988). Professor Coffee has also been a visiting professor of law at
Harvard, Stanford, Michigan and Virginia law schools and at several foreign law
schools and began his teaching career at Georgetown University Law Center.
According to a recent survey of law review citations, Professor Coffee is the
most cited law professor in law reviews in the combined corporate, commercial,
and business law field. Before entering academia, he practiced corporate law as
an associate with the firm of Cravath, Swaine & Moore in New York City. He
is a graduate of the Yale Law School and Amherst College.
In 2005, a popular internet law and journalism website - www.lawdragon.com -
also published its list of the 500 most important lawyers in the United States
and listed Professor Coffee.
Jill Denham was recently the Vice Chair, CIBC Retail Markets (2001-2005), an
organization of more than 19,000 employees who together provide financial
services to approximately nine million retail and 470,000 small business
clients in Canada.
Ms. Denham joined Wood Gundy in 1983 as an Assistant Vice-President in Corporate
Finance and was promoted to Vice-President in 1986 and Director in 1987. Jill
became Vice-President and Director of the Merchant Banking division of CIBC
Wood Gundy Capital in 1990, and became President of that division in 1992.
During the 1990s, Jill ran CIBC Wood Gundy's Bank Business in London, England
& the Commercial Banking Business in Cda.
The Financial Post has named her one of the Top 50 Most Influential Women in
Canada for the past three years. In 2004 US Banker named her the eighth most
influential female banking executive in North America. Jill is a Director of
the SickKids Foundation Board and the Prostate Cancer Research Foundation.
Ms. Denham holds an HBA from the University of Western Ontario School of
Business Administration and an MBA (Baker Scholar) from the Harvard Business
School.
Ms. Denham is married and has three children.
Pascale Elharrar is Managing Director & Associate General Counsel, Legal Department, at BMO Capital Markets / BMO Nesbitt Burns ("BMO"), one of the country's leading investment firms. She leads the BMO Legal team within Quebec, and is principally responsible for civil and regulatory securities litigation. Prior to joining BMO in 2001, she practiced commercial and securities litigation at the law firm of Bélanger Sauvé. Ms. Elharrar is a speaker at conferences on legal and compliance matters of interest to the investment industry.
Ms. Elharrar holds a B.A.(Distinction) from Concordia University, and a LL.B (Martineau Award) from Université de Montréal. She sits on the Board of Directors of the Lord Reading Law Society.
Stanley H. Hartt, O.C BACK
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(Task Force Member, April 2006 to September 2006)
Stanley Hartt is the Chairman of Citigroup Global Markets Canada Inc. based in
Toronto. Prior to joining Citigroup, he was Chairman, President and Chief
Executive Officer of Campeau Corporation (later O&Y Properties Corporation)
from 1990 to 1996. From 1989 to 1990 he was Chief of Staff, Office of the Prime
Minister. During the period 1985-1988 he was Deputy Minister, Department of
Finance. From 1965-85 he was a partner with the law firm of Stikeman Elliott.
Born in Montreal, he earned an Honors B.A. degree in 1958, an M.A. degree in
1961 and a B.C.L. degree in 1963 all from McGill University.
He currently sits on the Board of Directors for Citibank Canada and Citigroup
Global Markets Canada Inc.
Thomas Edward (Tom) Kierans is the Chairman of CSI Global Education Inc. the
Canadian Journalism Foundation. He is past Chairman of the Canadian Institute
for Advanced Research, Canada's "research university without walls," and
conducts basic research programs in the social and natural sciences.
Tom's long career began at Nesbitt, Thomson and Company (1963-1974), where he
rose to become vice president, director, and principal contributor of capital
with responsibility for all research, trading, sales, and syndicating
operations. From 1974 to 1979, at Pitfield, Mackay, Ross and Company, he served
as senior vice president, director, and principal contributor of capital,
specializing in public- and private-sector utility finance and in government
finance. At McLeod Young Weir (later Scotia McLeod), he served as president
(1979-1989); he then served as president and chief executive officer of the
C.D. Howe Institute, Canada's leading independent, nonpartisan public-policy
research institute from 1989 to 1999.
Tom serves as a director of Manulife Financial Corporation, Mount Sinai Hospital
Foundation of Toronto, Mount Sinai Hospital Research, Teleglobe, Telesat
Canada, Lazard Canada Corporation, Petro-Canada (where he also served as
chairman, 1996-Janunary 2000), and IPSCO (where he has twice served as
chairman). He was a member of the advisory board of Westwind Partners and BCE,
the former chairman of the Toronto International Leadership Centre for
Financial Sector Supervision. Additionally, he has served on the board of
directors of several other privately owned Canadian companies.
Tom has been a member of such diverse organizations as the Business Council on
National Issues, the (Canadian) Citizens' Forum on Canada's Future (a Royal
Commission), the Toronto Stock Exchange Committee on Corporate Governance, the
York University Faculty of Administrative Studies Advisory Council, the Ontario
Hospital Association Governance Leadership Council, and the Social Sciences and
Humanities Research Council. He has served as chairman of the Royal Ontario
Museum, the Energy Options Advisory Committee for the Federal Government of
Canada, the Ontario Economic Council, and United Way of Greater Toronto, and as
director of the Institute for Research on Public Policy and the Writers'
Development Trust. He has taught at the School for Policy Studies, Queen's
University, and is a frequent contributor to Canadian public-policy journals.
Tom was born in Halifax, Nova Scotia, received an honors Bachelor of Arts degree
from McGill University in economics and political science in 1961. In 1963 he
received a Masters of Business Administration degree from the University of
Chicago. He also received an honorary doctorate in law from the Royal Roads
Military College and was appointed an officer of the Order of Canada in 2000.
Tom is married to the journalist Mary Louise Janigan and is the father of Renata
Anne and Julia Alexandra. In his leisure time Tom enjoys literature, history,
scuba diving, bicycling, backpacking, and trekking.
L. Jacques Ménard is Chairman of BMO Nesbitt Burns, one of the country's leading
investment firms. He is also President of BMO Financial Group, Quebec. As such,
he oversees the activities of BMO Bank of Montreal, its subsidiaries, and its
more than 170 branches and 5,000 employees in the province.
The list of organizations that have drawn on Mr. Ménard's abilities as a
director is impressive. He is currently a director at Bowater Incorporated, at
the Canadian Public Accountability Board (CPAB), at the Montreal Heart
Institute, at the Montreal Symphony Orchestra and with the Montreal Alouettes.
A past Chairman of the Board of Hydro-Quebec (1996-2001), the Montreal Exchange,
Trans-Canada Options Corporation and the Investment Dealers Association, Mr.
Ménard has also been a board member of Gaz Métro, Rona inc. and several other
industry organizations during his more than 30-year career in the investment
banking industry. He is currently a member of the Advisory Board of the
Institute of Corporate Directors (Quebec chapter) and a Board Associate of
Canadian Policy Research Networks Inc.
Over the years, Mr. Ménard has also been active in various economic and civic
organizations. Presently a Governor of the Conseil du patronat du Québec, he
has also served as Chairman and President of the Board of Trade of Metropolitan
Montreal (1989-1991) and a member of the Economic Council of Canada.
Known for his community involvement, Mr. Ménard is currently Co-chair of the
Growing up healthy fundraising campaign of the Sainte-Justine Hospital
Foundation and Honorary Chairman of EPOC MONTREAL, an organization that gives
underprivileged youth access to the training they need in order to integrate
into the community. He also holds a seat on the International Advisory Board of
HEC Montréal and the Board of Directors of the Macdonald Stewart Foundation.
Mr. Ménard was a Director of Centraide of Greater Montreal for several years
and Co-chairman of its fundraising campaign in 1992. He was also President of
the Ordre des jeux du Québec in 1994.
In 1993, in recognition of his deep social commitment, Concordia University's
Faculty of Commerce and Administration presented him with its Award of
Distinction for his professional accomplishments and outstanding service to the
community. In February 2002, he received the McGill University Faculty of
Management Achievement Award in acknowledgement of these same qualities. In May
1995, the Canadian Friends of Hebrew University in Jerusalem bestowed its
Scopus Award on Mr. Ménard in recognition of his leadership involvement in the
community, the world of education and of business. In June 2001, Université de
Sherbrooke's Faculty of Administration awarded him an honorary doctorate. In
April 2005, the Federation of Québec Chambers of Commerce, underscored Mr.
Ménard social commitments by presenting him with its Award of Merit in
philanthropy.
Mr. Ménard is an Officer of the Order of Canada.
President and Chief Executive Officer
Colleen Moorehead is President and Chief Executive Officer of Nexient Learning
Inc. Ms. Moorehead is a recognized leader whose vision and operational
expertise will be invaluable as the Company capitalizes on its dominence in
Corporate Skills Training with a focus on top line growth and bottom line
results for its shareholders. Under Ms. Moorehead's leadership, the Company
serves its clients' broad spectrum of needs with award-winning learning assets
delivered across Canada.
Colleen's career spans 25 years in the Canadian capital markets. Prior to
joining Nexient Learning as CEO in April 2006, she was the Past President
E*TRADE Canada and Past Vice President and General Manager E*Trade Financial
Global Corporate Services. As the President of E*TRADE Canada, Ms. Moorehead
led the organization from a start-up to becoming the largest independent
on-line investment firm in Canada serving both retail and sophisticated
institutional investors. Prior to joining E*TRADE, Ms. Moorehead was the Vice
President and Managing Director of CIBC World Markets. She also has held
progressive management positions at industry- leading brokerages including Wood
Gundy, Merrill Lynch and Moss Lawson.
Ms. Moorehead is a co-founder of The Judy Project, an Enlightened Leadership
Forum for Executive Women at the Joseph Rotman School of Management, University
of Toronto, and currently serves as its Business Director. She also serves, and
has served, on many professional and community boards including, The Task Force
to Modernize Securities Legislation in Canada, Canadian Scholarship Trust
Foundation, Canadian e-Business Initiative, Covenant House of Toronto, TSX
Policy Committee, Investment Dealers Association, and Stratford Summer Music.
Robert J. Pritchard has been a Director of Taylor Gas Liquids Ltd., the general
partner of Taylor NGL Limited Partnership, since December 2000, and is also
currently President and Chief Executive Officer.
Mr. Pritchard was previously Vice President Business Development for Solex
Energy Inc., the predecessor to Taylor. He joined Solex in 1995 in the capacity
of Manager of Business Development. During Mr. Pritchard's tenure, Solex
purchased the Younger Extraction Plant located in Taylor, British Columbia and
subsequently took the asset public in 1996 as the Taylor Gas Liquids Fund, the
predecessor of Taylor NGL Limited Partnership.
Since 1996 Solex invested over $70 million in plant expansions and improvements
as part of an active business development strategy. In addition to operating
the Younger Plant, Solex also actively acquired and sold oil and gas assets
totalling $145 million. These assets were owned and operated by Solex and
included the Kakwa oil field, the Nipisi oil field, natural gas gathering
pipelines and infrastructure at the Pass Creek area and a natural gas pipeline
in the Windfall area.
Prior to joining Solex, Mr. Pritchard was employed by Amoco Canada Petroleum
Company in Whitecourt, Alberta as the Superintendent, West Whitecourt Area
responsible for the operation of the West Whitecourt Plant, the Windfall and
Pine Creek gas fields. The West Whitecourt Plant is one of the largest sour gas
processing facilities in Alberta with a licensed inlet capacity of over 400
mmscf per day.
Over his 15 year career with Amoco, Mr. Pritchard held several management
positions in Calgary including Resource Manager, West Whitecourt Area and
various Engineering Group Supervisor assignments in operations and reservoir
engineering. Mr. Pritchard has also held positions at Amoco's research facility
in Tulsa, Oklahoma and worked in the Edmonton and Elk Point, Alberta field
offices with a focus on heavy oil production and reservoir engineering.
Michael Wilson
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(Task Force Member, August 2005 to February 2006)
Michael Wilson, until his February 2006 appointment as Canadian Ambassador to
the United States, was Task Force member and Chairman of UBS Canada, with
oversight of this major global financial institution's investment bank, pension
fund management, and wealth management businesses in Canada. Prior to joining
UBS in July 2001, Michael Wilson was responsible for RBC Financial Group's
institutional asset management business. He has also served as a Vice Chairman
of RBC Dominion Securities, responsible for senior client relationships and
advice to both Canadian and international companies and governments. He has
held senior federal cabinet posts in Finance; and Industry, Science &
Technology & International Trade in the Government of Canada. Mr. Wilson is
a Director of BP p.l.c. and Manulife Financial. He has also been active in a
number of community organizations in Canada and the United States and is the
Chair of the Canadian Council for Public-Private Partnerships and the Canadian
Coalition for Good Governance. Mr. Wilson is an Officer of the Order of Canada.
