Scholars and Explorers - Trafalgar School for Girls

B u s i n e s sCathy Ferguson Burrows 1975Attended Trafalgar: 1971-1975; Distinguished Alumna Award Recipient 2007Education: BA (Sociology), University of Toronto; MBA (Marketing and International Business), York University’s Schulich SchoolMarketing Professional/VolunteerCathy Ferguson Burrows,an accomplished financialservices senior manager withRBC Royal Bank, is recognized asan innovative thinker and changeagent, a strong leader, negotiator andrelationship builder in the banking,financial services and consumerproduct industries. Her expertise wasinstrumental in RBC’s development ofthe world’s first software applicationused to calculate client value andto build upon that informationto establish and manage clientrelationships. Her roles as speaker andconsultant have taken her around theworld. Before joining RBC FinancialGroup in 1989, Cathy held marketingand sales positions in consumerpackaged goods with Reckitt &Colman Inc. Her understandingof the implications of the NorthAmerican Free Trade Agreementsent her back to school to earn herMBA. In recent years, she has been aregular lecturer in MBA and executiveeducation programs at DukeUniversity’s Fuqua School of Businessin North Carolina. She enjoys givingto the community, serving on the“the embodiment of Trafalgar spirit... and loyalty”Board of Directors and FinanceCommittee of the Emily StoweShelter for Women in Toronto andco-authoring the non-profit board’sproposal and monitoring plan,which gained Ontario Governmentfunding and support for the shelter’sredevelopment project. As one of herclassmates wrote in nominating herfor the 2007 Distinguished AlumnaAward, Cathy is “the embodiment ofTrafalgar spirit” and loyalty. A formerHead Girl, she continues to provideleadership to her former classmatesand to Trafalgar. She is currently theCo-Chair of the 125th AnniversaryCampaign “Open Hearts. Open Doors.Open Minds.” Cathy is married toNigel Burrows, her Traf prom date.For embodying the Trafalgar spirit,for her business acumen and courageand for her passionate caring in allelements of her life, Cathy has beenchosen as one of the 125 Women ofTrafalgar.Janet Lewis 1976Attended Trafalgar: 1972-1976Education: BA (International Relations/Economics), Trinity College, University of Toronto;MA, (Commerce/International Trade Management), Waseda University, TokyoInvestment AnalystJanet Lewis is a businessinvestment analyst whose careerhas focused on Asia. She iscurrently employed by MacquerieCapital Securities in New York, Tokyoand Hong Kong, where she is Headof Industrials Research for Asia,covering regional shipping and theChinese auto sectors. Her career asan analyst began with SG Warburgin Tokyo. She later became Japaneseequity sales desk head for Warburgand later for Lehmann Bros. Early inher career, the Japanese Ministry ofEducation awarded her a scholarshipto attend Waseda University SchoolStephani Risk Kingsmill 1983Attended Trafalgar: 1978-1983Education: BComm, Queen’s UniversityBusiness LeaderStephani Kingsmill is ExecutiveVice-President, HumanResources and Communicationsfor Manulife Financial. She isresponsible for the company’s globalhuman resource organization aswell as branding, communicationsand social responsibility. Stephanijoined Manulife in 1988 and heldincreasingly senior marketing andproduct development positions inManulife’s US and Canadian divisions.She joined Manulife Real Estate in2005 as vice-president responsiblefor the company’s facilities worldwideand was involved in the real estatecomponent of Manulife’s merger“the US rated her as the top analyst for equity researchon Japanese trading houses”of Commerce, where she earnedher MA. In 2009 and 2010, theGreenwich Survey for Europe andthe US rated her as the top analystfor equity research on Japanesetrading houses. Being a womanand a foreigner in Japanese equityresearch was unusual in the earlyyears of her career, as was the factthat she continued to work duringher pregnancy with twins and afterher sons were born. Both her workand her boys have been central towith John Hancock, the largest crossbordermerger in Canadian history.Prior to her appointment as ExecutiveVice-President, Stephani wasSenior Vice-President and GeneralManager, Real Estate, responsiblefor Manulife’s multi-billion-dollarportfolio of prime office and industrialproperties in Canada, the US andAsia. Stephani is a member ofManulife’s executive committee andmanagement committee. She sits onthe University of Toronto’s RotmanSchool of Management FinancialServices Advisory Board and serveson the steering committee of CivicAction for Greater Toronto. Stephaniher life. Now that her sons are older,she has taken on more challengingassignments as she now has theflexibility to travel more. Janet urgesyounger women to, “Do it becauseyou love it. You can have it 'all' to theextent that you will always have timefor the things you care most about.”For her professional fearlessnessand accomplishment and her abilityto find balance and joy in all herpassions, Janet has been chosen asone of the 125 Women of Trafalgar.“she was named one of the100 most influential womenin Canada by the Women’sExecutive Network inboth 2008 and 2009”credits Trafalgar and her parents forinstilling a sense that she could do“whatever I wanted to do in life…fortunate not to be bound or limitedby my own gender stereotypes.”She was named one of the 100 mostinfluential women in Canada by theWomen’s Executive Network in both2008 and 2009. For her outstandingrole as a woman in business, Stephanihas been chosen as one of our 125Women of Trafalgar.125 Women of Trafalgar | 21