FAIR Canada is pleased to announce changes to its Board of Directors. Stanley Beck, the Chair of FAIR Canada welcomed the newest addition Ellen Roseman to the FAIR Canada Board. “Ellen brings her many years of retail investor experience” and will help reinforce our understanding of retail investor concerns.
Ellen is a personal finance and consumer affairs columnist with the Toronto Star’s business section. She was the Star’s business editor before moving to full-time columnist in 1999. She previously spent two decades at the Globe and Mail as a columnist on consumer affairs, personal finance and mutual funds, and associate managing editor of the Report on Business.
As many of you know, FAIR Canada lost a very valuable member of our Board, Whipple Steinkrauss. We will be holding an event in her name in the Fall with the Consumers Council of Canada. Watch for further details.
Ed Waitzer, one of our founding Directors, has stepped down in his capacity as a director. Mr. Beck noted that ”at the time the Foundation was created, Ed agreed to assist with the start up of FAIR even though potential conflicts might arise from Ed being a senior partner at Stikeman Elliott which put him in an akward position. Ed is a well-known very public spirited individual and his expertise has been invaluable in setting up FAIR Canada. We thank Ed for his dedicated efforts and support and look forward to continuing to work with him in an advisory capacity as the Jarislowsky Dimma Mooney Chair in Corporate Governance and Executive Director of the Hennick Centre for Business and Law at Osgoode Hall Law School and the Schulich School of Business at York University.”
Mr. Beck stated that “we are in the process of identifying additional potential directors who will increase the diversity of our Board and enhance the representation from different parts of the country to ensure that FAIR Canada is a truly national organization.”
2009-10 Board of Directors
Stanley Beck, Q.C. (Chairman)
Ermanno Pascutto (Executive Director)
