Corporate Governance

Mr. Schwartz, 80, of Toronto, Ontario, is the Founder, Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of Onex. Mr. Schwartz was inducted into the Canadian Business Hall of Fame in 2004 and was appointed as an Officer of the Order of Canada in 2006. He is a director of Indigo Books & Music Inc. and an honorary director of The Bank of Nova Scotia. Mr. Schwartz is Vice Chairman of Mount Sinai Hospital and serves as a director, governor or trustee of a number of other non-profit organizations.

He holds a Bachelor of Commerce degree and a Bachelor of Laws degree from the University of Manitoba, a Master of Business Administration degree from the Harvard University Graduate School of Business Administration and Honorary Doctorate degrees from six other universities.

Mr. Etherington, 80, of Toronto, Ontario, retired as Chair of board and director of Celestica Inc. in January 2020, where he had served as a director since 2001. He was the Chairman of the Board of the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce until February 2009 and Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer of IBM World Trade Corporation until 2001.

Mr. Etherington holds an Honorary Doctor of Laws degree and Bachelor of Electrical Engineering Science from the University of Western Ontario.

Mr. Goldhar, 60, of Toronto, Ontario, is Executive Chairman of the Board of SmartREIT. In 1994, Mr. Goldhar founded SmartCentres and developed 265 shopping centres, many of which were anchored by Walmart. Mr. Goldhar is President and CEO of Penguin Investments Inc., a director of Indigo Books & Music Inc., a Director Emeritus with the SickKids Foundation, is on the Advisory Board for the Canadian Sports Concussion Project and is owner of the Maccabi Tel Aviv Football Club.

Mr. Goldhar holds a Bachelor of Political Science degree from York University and has been an adjunct professor with the Joseph L. Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto for 15 years.

Mr. Heersink, 71, of Oakville, Ontario, is a Vice Chair of the Corporation and has been an executive of Onex since 1983. He served as Onex’ Chief Financial Officer through 2008 and has also served as a director of several of Onex’ operating companies.

Mr. Heersink is a former Member of the Advisory Council of the Queen’s School of Business. He holds a Bachelor of Honours Business Administration degree from the Ivey Business School at the University of Western Ontario and a Master of Business Administration degree from Queen’s University. Mr. Heersink is also a Chartered Accountant.

Ms. Huffington, 71, of New York, New York, is the founder and Chief Executive Officer of Thrive Global, a corporate and consumer well-being and productivity business and is the founder of The Huffington Post Media Group. In May 2005, Ms. Huffington launched The Huffington Post, which won a Pulitzer Prize for national reporting in 2012. She was named to the Forbes Most Powerful Women list in 2013 and was named to the Time 100, Time Magazine’s list of the world’s 100 most influential people, in each of 2006 and 2011. Ms. Huffington serves on the board of EL PAÍS, a major Spanish language newspaper.

Ms. Huffington holds a Master of Arts in Economics from Cambridge University.

Mr. McCoy, 78, of Columbus, Ohio, retired as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Banc One Corporation in December 1999, where he had been Chief Executive Officer since 1984 and Chairman since 1998. Mr. McCoy joined Banc One Corporation in 1970. Mr. McCoy is a director of a number of non-profit institutions.

Mr. McCoy holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in History from Williams College and a Master of Business Administration degree in Finance from Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business.

Senator Marwah, 70, of Toronto, Ontario is a member of the Senate of Canada and a director at George Weston Ltd. and Cineplex Inc. He is the former Vice Chair and Chief Operating Officer of Scotiabank, retiring in 2014 after 35 years with Scotiabank where he began his career as a financial analyst. He is a Founding Member of the Sikh Foundation of Canada and has been recognized with several awards including the Sewa Award from the Sikh Centennial Foundation and the Queen’s Golden and Diamond Jubilee Awards. He has also served on the boards of the C.D. Howe Institute, the Board of Trustees of the Hospital for Sick Children, Telus Corp., the Toronto International Film Festival, Torstar Corporation, the Humber River Regional Hospital as well as a member of the selection committee for the Rhodes Scholarship.

Senator Marwah holds a Bachelor of Economics (Honours) from the University of Calcutta, a Master of Economics from the University of Delhi and a Master of Business Administration (Finance) from the University of California, Los Angeles.

Mr. Prichard, 73, of Toronto, Ontario, is non-executive Chairman of Torys LLP. He is a director of George Weston Ltd., Alamos Gold Inc. and the Chair of the Hospital for Sick Children. Mr. Prichard was the Chairman of Bank of Montreal until May 2020. Previously, Mr. Prichard served as President and Chief Executive Officer of Metrolinx and Torstar Corporation as well as President of the University of Toronto from 1990 to 2000.

Mr. Prichard studied economics at Swarthmore College and holds a Master of Business Administration degree from the University of Chicago, a Bachelor of Laws degree from the University of Toronto and a Master of Laws degree from Yale University. He is also an Officer of the Order of Canada, a Member of the Order of Ontario and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and a Fellow of the Institute of Corporate Directors.

Ms. Reisman, 73, of Toronto, Ontario, is Chair and Chief Executive Officer of Indigo Books & Music Inc. Prior to co-founding Indigo Books & Music, she held the position of President of Cott Corporation from 1990 to 1992. Ms. Reisman is also a director of Mount Sinai Hospital and a former member of the Bilderberg Meetings Steering Committee. She is a former Governor of the Toronto Stock Exchange and of McGill University.

Ms. Reisman was educated at McGill University.

Mr. Thorsteinson, 73, of Winnipeg, Manitoba, is the President of Shelter Canadian Properties Limited, a private Canadian diversified real estate development and management company beneficially owned by the Thorsteinson family. He is also a trustee of Lanesborough Real Estate Investment Trust, a director of Bird Construction Inc. and a member of the board of advisors of Onex Real Estate Partners. He is the current and Founding Chair of the Friends of the Canadian Museum for Human Rights and a Member of the Order of Manitoba. 

Mr. Thorsteinson holds Bachelor of Commerce (Honours) and Doctor of Laws (Honours) degrees from the University of Manitoba as well as the Chartered Financial Analyst designation.

Ms. Wilkinson, 59, of Washington, DC is the founder of Wilkinson Stekloff LLP, a specialty trial and litigation law firm. Ms. Wilkinson was previously a partner in two major U.S. law firms and served as General Counsel to Federal National Mortgage Association (Fannie Mae) from 2006 to 2008.

Ms. Wilkinson holds a Bachelor of Arts from Princeton University and a law degree from the University of Virginia School of Law.