Fall 2009 Toronto Chapter Newsletter - FEI Canada

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( ) OCTOBER 2009 ISSUE financial executives international toronto chapter newsletter Program by Patrick Doig, Chair, Program Committee The Program Committee is responsible for providing educational content to the FEI Canada, Toronto Chapter membership, mainly through scheduling speakers for our monthly lunch/dinner meetings. 2009-2010 Program Dinner and lunch events for the fall of 2009 have now been confirmed. Thanks to the program committee members and our chapter administrator Liz Bowell for arranging these events. Our first event, held on September 21 at the National Club, was very successful and included a presentation Discovering a Golden Touch in Turbulent Times from Canada’s CFO of the Year for 2009, David Garofalo, Senior Vice President, Finance & Chief Financial Officer of Agnico-Eagle Mines Limited. In addition to the events sponsored by FEI Canada, the Toronto Chapter’s plans for the fall and winter program are well underway. See the Career Services section for additional events. For the fall of 2009, we will be presenting the following events: October 14, 2009 – Dinner meeting at The National Club. Speaker Bernie Wilson, former Vice Chairman, PricewaterhouseCoopers, CFOs and Audit Committees...friends, foes or...something in between? December 8, 2009 – 2010 Economic Outlook lunch meeting at Le Meridien King Edward presented by Dr. Sherry Cooper, Executive Vice-President, Global Economic Strategist, BMO Financial Group; Chief Economist, BMO Capital Markets Other potential topics we are pursuing for the remainder of the program year include: Artificial Intelligence and the future of computing; Deloitte’s 50 Best program and leading in adversity. Other Upcoming Chapter Events: October 22, 2009 - 2nd Annual SME Conference - Growing Your SME in a Changing Economy, Mississauga Convention Centre November 20 & 21, 2009 – 4th Annual Best in Class Invitational Case Competition, Ted Rogers School of Management November 24, 2009 – 15th Annual November Social Evening, Wines of Prince Edward County, Vaughan Estate, The Estates of Sunnybrook Committee Members All of the Chapter committees are run by member volunteers – it is a great way to make new contacts and to get the most from your membership. The Program Committee welcomes new volunteers to the committee or ideas you might have about speakers and topics. Please contact us if you would like to help out. Current committee members are as follows: Patrick Doig, Chair patrick.doig@marsh.com Jonathan Brindley, Vice Chair Cliff Truax, Vice Chair Ron Duke Greg Guyatt Nikhil Sathe OCTOBER 2009 ISSUE financial executives international toronto chapter newsletter
( ) OCTOBER 2009 ISSUE financial executives international toronto chapter newsletter Toronto Chapter RSVP Policy The Toronto Chapter encourages Chapter members to take advantage of all the benefits and privileges that come with FEI Canada membership, especially the numerous no or low-cost professional development events offered throughout the year. From September through May, Toronto Chapter holds approximately eight lunch or dinner events and six career services workshops, all of which are free for any FEI Canada member to attend. We simply ask that if you RSVP to attend one of these excellent meetings that you keep us informed should you no longer wish to attend. We are required to report numbers for food and seating arrangements to our venue in advance, and pay for food based on this guarantee number. In order for us to keep costs down and continue to offer a high level of programming, we require your cooperation and assistance in accurately managing and reporting our attendance numbers. Career Services FEI Canada, Toronto Chapter’s Career Committee is open to being contacted by any member wanting to network or in transition or thinking of making a change. In addition to organizing and presenting the career workshops, our committee believes “in transition” to really mean “between successes”. For 2009/2010 we are focusing our presentations this fall to be of most help to those in transition. We will set the theme for the Spring 2010 program based on the strength of the job market, and the interests of our members. Members of the Toronto Chapter Career Ser vices Committee Chair – Leslie N. Markow, CA, CPA (Illinois) – Director and Audit Committee Chair, Jemtec Inc; Director of Client Service - Resources Global Professionals 416 682-3372 leslie.markow@hotmail.com Vice Chair – George Chiarucci, CA – former CFO, Atlantis Systems Inc. - in transition 647-282-5536 gchiarucci@cogeco.ca David Farmer. MBA – VP & Underwriter Corporate Finance Loan Syndications, BMO 416 643-4216 david.farmer@bmo.com David Minas, CA – former CFO of a public company currently in transition dminas@sympatico.ca Kriss Bush, CPA, CFP – Assistant Branch Manager – RBC Dominion Securities Inc. 905-277-6013 Kriss_Bush@rbc.com Alysia Carter, CA, CMA – CFO, Ainsworth Inc. 416 750-6811 alysia_carter@ainsworth.com New member - Michael Busuttil, MBA, CFA, CMA – former Global Finance and Operations VP in transition mbusuttil@rogers.com OCTOBER 2009 ISSUE financial executives international toronto chapter newsletter
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