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FBC’s Board of Advisors
Paul Bates, CMA, Chief Executive Officer
Paul Bates has been a leader and educator in the Canadian business community for
more than two decades.
He is currently serving as Dean and Industry Professor in Financial Management
Services at the DeGroote School of Business at McMaster University in Hamilton,
Ontario. Dean Bates also serves as a member of the Board of Governors at McMaster.
As a former Adjunct Professor at the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of
Management, he was awarded the Outstanding Teacher Award in 2003 and again in
2004. Dean Bates has just completed a second edition of his best-selling book, Sales
Force Management in the Financial Services.
Following service on the boards of the Toronto Stock Exchange and the Canadian
Investment Dealers Association, in 2003, Dean Bates was appointed as part-time
commissioner to the Ontario Securities Commission. Dean Bates has held the
president’s office at four major brokerage and investment firms, most recently at the
helm of Charles Schwab Canada (later acquired by Bank of Nova Scotia). In 2000, his
peers recognized him; Investment Executive Magazine selected him as the Most
Influential Broker of the Year.
In 2002, Dean Bates was awarded the Queen’s Jubilee Medal for community service.
The commemorative medal is awarded to Canadians who, over the past 50 years, have
helped create the Canada of today. He is the past board chair at the Canadian
Psychiatric Research Foundation and lends time to Evangel Hall, a Toronto shelter for
homeless and working poor.
Peter Vilks, P.Eng, Chairman of the Board
Peter Vilks has extensive industry experience from entry level technical to Chair of the
Board. He has particular functional expertise in business-to-business sales and
marketing, new product selection and introduction, technology transfer, acquisition
and divestiture valuation and implementation, utility deregulation, and privatization.
He has experience in industrial, aerospace, and utility segments. He has served on
corporate strategic planning task forces and chaired strategic review teams of large
corporate divisions as well as on sales force redeployment. He has held executive
positions on acquired companies and sat on Boards of utility service organizations.
Peter Vilks is a Professional Engineer, and has held memberships in various marketing
associations. He was a member of the Industry Advisory Council for McMaster’s
Engineering and Management Program including the position of chair.
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