Advisory Board

David Kassie

Chairman and CEO of Genuity Capital Markets

David is the Chairman and CEO of Genuity Capital Markets. Genuity provides a full range of investment banking, institutional sales and trading, and equity research resources to corporate and institutional clients. David is the former Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of CIBC World Markets and the Vice Chairman of CIBC. Extensive experience as an advisor, underwriter and principal. He sits on a number of corporate boards. Mr. Kassie is on the Boards of the Shoah Foundation, the Hospital for Sick Children and the Ivey School of Business. He is a past board member of Women in Capital Markets; he was Chairman of the University of Guelph Campaign; and was the Patrons’ Council Chair for An Evening with Rudolph Giuliani in November, 2002.

Dr. Marciano Reis

Chief of Clinical Pathology, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre and Women’s College Hospital.

Dr. Marciano Reis graduated in medicine in Curitiba, Brazil, in 1976 and came to Canada in 1980 for postgraduate training. Trained in Hematology and Hematological Pathology, he is currently an Associate Professor, departments of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology and Medicine, U. of Toronto, Chief, departments of Clinical Pathology, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre and Women’s College Hospital, and acting Medical Director, Department of Laboratory Hematology, University Health Network.

Dr. Reis is the Chair of the Examination Board, Specialty of Hematological Pathology, Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada. Further to his clinical and administrative duties, he continues to participate in collaborative research in leukemia and lymphoma and has a special interest in molecular diagnosis.Chief at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre Department of Clinical PathologyChair of the Examination Board, Specialty of Hematological Pathology, Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada Chief of Clinical Pathology, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre and Women’s College Hospital.

Tony Melman

Chairman & CEO of Nevele Partners Inc.

Previously, Tony was a managing director of Onex Corporation until January 2006, having joined the company in 1984. Tony was senior vice president of the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce, in charge of worldwide merchant banking, project financing, acquisitions and other specialized financing activities from 1977 to 1984. Prior to emigrating to Canada in 1977, he had extensive merchant banking experience in South Africa and the U.K.

Tony is chairman of The Baycrest Centre for Geriatric Care, one of the world’s premier academic health sciences centers focused on aging. He has also served on the boards of other leading companies such as Celestica Inc., Skychefs Inc. and the University of Toronto Asset Management Corp.

Tony holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Chemical Engineering from The University of The Witwatersrand, a Master of Business Administration (gold medallist) from the University of Cape Town and a Ph.D. in Finance from The University of The Witwatersrand.

Vinay Sarin

Mr. Sarin presently served as Senior Vice President, Financial Projects at BMO Financial Group. Mr. Sarin has held several other positions since he joined BMO in 1982, including Senior Vice President, Financial Strategy; Senior Vice President and Corporate Controller; Vice President, Capital Funding; and Manager, Capital Funding.

Prior to joining BMO, from 1975 to 1982, Mr. Sarin held several positions at the Canadian National Railway Co., ultimately serving as Senior Manager, Financial Analysis. Mr. Sarin also lectured in the part-time M.B.A. Program at McGill University in the disciplines of statistics, finance, and operations research from 1974 through 1982.

Between 1996 and 2001, Mr. Sarin served as an alternate director of Grupo Financiero Bancomer, S.A. de C.V., in which BMO had invested. Since 1999, he has served on the Board of Trustees and/or on the Business and Audit Committee of Bloorview Kids Rehab, including two years as Chair. He also serves on the Board of Junior Undiscovered math Prodigies (JUMP) and on the Toronto Committee of Human Rights Watch.

Mr. Sarin recently retired from BMO and entered the University of Toronto Law School to obtain a law degree with a view to pursuing personal interests in international human rights causes.

Mr. Sarin received his M.B.A. from McGill University in 1975 and his B.A. with Honours in Mathematics from Cambridge University in 1971.