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Janice Fukakusa
Janice Fukakusa is RBC's Chief Financial Officer. As a member of RBC's Group Executive, she is one of eight executives responsible for setting the overall strategic direction of RBC.
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Prior to her current role, Ms. Fukakusa was Executive Vice-President, Finance. Ms. Fukakusa joined RBC in 1985 and has held positions in retail and business banking, corporate banking, account management, corporate finance, treasury, strategic development and corporate functions.
Ms. Fukakusa's various roles and responsibilities included Vice-President, Portfolio Management, Senior Vice-President, Multinational Banking, Chief Internal Auditor, and Executive Vice-President, Specialized Services, RBC Banking.
Ms. Fukakusa is a director of various RBC subsidiaries, including RBC Dominion Securities Inc., RBC Europe Limited, RBC Dexia Trust and shareholder representative of Moneris Solutions Corp. In addition, she is a member of and has served on various professional and charitable organizations including Ryerson University and the United Way.
Prior to joining the bank, Ms. Fukakusa worked at PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP where she obtained the professional designations of chartered accountant and chartered business valuator.
Ms. Fukakusa obtained her Bachelor of Arts from University of Toronto and holds a Master of Business Administration from Schulich School.
Jamie Anderson
R. Jamie Anderson is a deputy chairman of RBC Capital Markets and a member of the Canadian GIB Management Committee with responsibility for senior account coverage and execution of advisory assignments.
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From 1995 to 2002, he was a Managing Director and Co-Head of the Mergers and Acquisitions Department. Jamie has had extensive experience in investment banking with RBC Capital Markets and Morgan Stanley in Toronto and New York. He has provided financial and merger and acquisition advice to a wide range of companies including Agrium, Alcan, Barrick Gold, Canadian Pacific Limited, EnCana (PanCanadian), Inco and MDS.
Jamie has a B.Comm from the University of Toronto and an MBA with Distinction from the Harvard Business School (1980). He is a director of Mancal Corporation, a member of the Board of Trustees of the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health Foundation (previously Chair of the Board of CAMH), Chair of the CAMH Transforming Lives Campaign, Honorary Secretary of the Toronto Club, member of the Global Advisory Council of Outward Bound International and a Continuing Senior Fellow of Massey College.
James (Jim) Balsillie
Since 1992, Jim Balsillie has been co-CEO at Research In Motion (RIM) maker of the world reknowned BlackBerry wireless handheld system.
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Mr. Balsillie is a graduate of the University of Toronto and the Harvard School of Business. He is a chartered accountant and a fellow of the Ontario Institute of Chartered Accountants. He also holds numerous honourary doctorate degrees.
In 2002, Mr. Balsillie founded and endowed the Centre for International Governance Innovation. CIGI, an independent, non-partisan think tank that addresses international governance challenges, is Canada's largest international affairs think tank. In 2007, he founded The Balsillie School of International Affairs. He also founded and chairs the Canadian International Council, Canada's council on foreign relations.
Dan Chornous
Dan Chornous is Chief Investment Officer of RBC Asset Management, Canada's largest single mutual fund family, with over $94 billion in domestic and global equity and fixed income mandates, including the Royal Mutual Funds group of products.
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Effective May 1, 2008, Dan was also named Chief Investment Officer, Phillips, Hager & North following its merger with RBC AM, a combination that boosted total assets under management to $160 billion. Dan is responsible for the overall direction of investment policy and fund management. In addition, he chairs the RBC Investment Strategy Committee, the group responsible for global asset mix recommendations and global fixed income and equity portfolio construction for use in RBC Investments' key client groups including RBC Funds, International Wealth Management, RBC Dominion Securities and RBC Private Counsel. Dan serves on the Board of Directors of the Canadian Coalition for Good Governance and is also chair of its Public Policy Committee.
Prior to joining RBC Asset Management in November 2002, Dan was Managing Director, Capital Markets Research and Chief Investment Strategist at RBC Capital Markets. In that role, he was responsible for developing the firm's outlook for global and domestic economies and capital markets as well as managing the firm's global economics, technical and quantitative research teams.
Dan was born and raised in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. He graduated from the University of Manitoba with a Bachelor of Commerce (Honours) in 1980 and holds a Chartered Financial Analyst designation (1985).
Chris Crosby
Chris Crosby is the Head of Enterprise Strategy for the RBC Financial Group.
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In this capacity, Mr. Crosby works closely with Barbara Stymiest, Chief Operating Officer, to facilitate and support Gord Nixon and GE in matters relating to the enterprise's strategic direction. Chris is responsible for creating RBC's enterprise strategy framework in partnership with the heads of RBC's businesses, functional heads, business strategists, and the Transformation Management Office (TMO). He is a member of the Global Functions Operating Committee as well as of the US & International Banking Operating Committee.
Mr. Crosby has held a variety of senior strategic positions at RBC, including Head of Strategy and Business Development for the US & I Personal and Business banking segment, Chief Strategy Officer for RBC Investments, as well as Senior Vice President, Director of Corporate Strategy and Marketing for RBC Dain Rauscher. He has been with the company since 1999.
Morten Friis
As Chief Risk Officer RBC, Mr. Friis oversees the strategic management of risk on an enterprise-wide basis.
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Mr. Friis brings many years of experience to his role. Prior to this position, Mr. Friis was Executive Vice-President and Chief Credit Officer for RBC. Mr. Friis joined RBC's Group Risk Management in 1997 as a Senior Vice-President with primary responsibility for credit and counterparty risk issues.
Mr. Friis has been with RBC since 1979 and has held various positions of increasing responsibility, with banking assignments that took him to Calgary, Montreal, Ottawa, Toronto and London, England.
Mr. Friis is on the board of the Harvard Business School Club of Toronto and Tafelmusik. He is also on the advisory board for the Centre for Research and Education on Women and Work at Carleton University.
Mr. Friis has a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics from Queen's University and an MBA from the Harvard Business School. Mr. Friis and his wife, Janice, have two children.
Katrina Garnett
Katrina was the Founder, Chairman and President/CEO of Crossworlds Software Inc. from inception in 1996 to its public offering on Nasdaq (CWLD) in 2000 and ultimate merger with IBM in 2001.
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Her pioneering Crossworld's vision led to the establishment of a new software industry segment around the concept of Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) and in the process she built up a global public company that had annual revenues of over $100m and 450 employees.
As a private company, Garnett raised over $ 80 m in startup funding for Crossworlds from leading technology giants such as Intel, SAP, Compaq, Ernst & Young, JD Edwards and Manugistics as well as key financial investors such as Michael Dell, Dave Duffield, Soros Technology Partners, Deutsche Bank and Amerindo. As a software industry luminary, Ms. Garnett was featured twice on the cover of Forbes magazine, selected by Fortune magazine as CEO of one of their 25 top startup technology companies in 1997 and regularly interviewed by leading TV shows such as CNBC and CNN.
Prior to founding CrossWorlds, Ms. Garnett served as Vice President and GM of Sybase's $150 m Distributed, Objects and Connectivity Division (1990-1996), where she managed a 300-person development team. In this capacity she was responsible for the Company's next generation Object Database, Replication Server for global trading systems and Messaging Middleware products like Open Client and Open Server. Other products included the Massively Parallel Processing offering for high-end decision support systems by Sybase on the NCR 3600 clusters and 3700 platforms. Prior to Sybase, Ms. Garnett worked at Oracle (1986-1990) when it grew from $75 m to over $1B in sales, where she served in technical management positions in the area of Unix porting, workflow (Oracle Calendar & Scheduler) and workgroup (Oracle Mail) applications.
Katrina holds software patents including, Inventor of Patent No. 5,913, 061 for 'Modular Application Collaboration' and Patent No. 6,094,688 for 'Modular Application Collaboration Including Filtering at the Source and Proxy Execution of Compensating Transactions to Conserve Server Resources'. She has a B.S. degree in Industrial Engineering from the State University of New York and an MBA from Webster University in Switzerland. Ms. Garnett is married to Terry Garnett and has 3 children and her hobby is competitive Hunter/Jumper horse riding.
Ms. Garnett is an active technology startup investor and her prior early seed investments include Siebel Software (public company acquired by Oracle) and Salesforce.com (public company) and her current internet and mobile investments include Adchemy and Tapulous.
Robert E. Grady
Robert E. Grady serves as Chairman of Carlyle's U.S. venture and growth capital group, Carlyle Venture Partners ("CVP"), which has $1.5 billion under management. He serves on the investment committees of CVP, Carlyle Asia Growth Partners ("CAGP") and Carlyle Europe Technology Partners ("CETP").
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He is based in San Francisco.
Mr. Grady is a Director of AuthenTec, Inc. (Nasdaq: "AUTH") and a former Director of Blackboard (Nasdaq: "BBBB") and Ingenio (acquired by AT&T (NYSE: "T"). He currently serves on the Board of Directors of privately-held Carlyle portfolio companies, eScreen, The Health Central Network, Panasas, Secure Elements, and Verari Systems. Mr. Grady is a former director and served as Chairman in 2006-2007 of the National Venture Capital Association (NVCA).
Prior to joining Carlyle, Mr. Grady was a Managing Director and member of the Management Committee at Robertson Stephens, the San Francisco-based technology investment bank. At Robertson Stephens, he served as lead investment banker on over 150 public market financings and M&A transactions, and was an active venture capital investor.
Mr. Grady served from 1994 to 2004 on the faculty of the Stanford Graduate School of Business, where he taught a course on "Investing in Highly Regulated Industries."
Mr. Grady served in the White House from 1989-1993, as Deputy Assistant to President George H.W. Bush and as Executive Associate Director of the Office of Management and Budget (1991-1993) and as Associate Director of OMB for Natural Resources, Energy and Science (1989-1991). He previously served as Chief Speechwriter and Senior Advisor for the successful 1988 Bush/Quayle Presidential Campaign (1988); Director of Communications for New Jersey Governor Thomas H. Kean (1983-1986); and Legislative Assistant and then Chief of Staff to U.S. Congresswoman Millicent Fenwick (1979-1983).
Mr. Grady serves on the boards of directors of the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF), the Pardee RAND Graduate School, TechNet, the Asia America Multi-Industry Association (AAMA), and on the National Commission on Energy Policy. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
Mr. Grady is an honors graduate of Harvard College and received an M.B.A. from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.
Dr. Josh Lerner
Josh Lerner is the Jacob H. Schiff Professor of Investment Banking at Harvard Business School, with a joint appointment in the Finance and Entrepreneurial Management Units.
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He graduated from Yale College with a Special Divisional Major that combined physics with the history of technology. He worked for several years on issues concerning technological innovation and public policy, at the Brookings Institution, for a public-private task force in Chicago, and on Capitol Hill. He then obtained a Ph.D. from Harvard's Economics Department.
Much of his research focuses on the structure and role of venture capital and private equity organizations. (This research is collected in two books, The Venture Capital Cycle and The Money of Invention.) He also examines policies towards intellectual property protection, particularly patents, and how they impact firm strategies in high-technology industries. (The research is discussed in the Innovation and Its Discontents.) He founded, raised funding for, and organizes two groups at the National Bureau of Economic Research: Entrepreneurship and
Innovation Policy and the Economy. He is a member of a number of other NBER groups and serves as co-editor of their publication, Innovation Policy and the Economy. His work has been published in a variety of top academic journals.
In the 1993-94 academic year, he introduced an elective course for second-year MBAs on private equity finance. In recent years, "Venture Capital and Private Equity" has consistently been one of the largest elective courses at Harvard Business School. (The course materials are collected in Venture Capital and Private Equity: A Casebook, now in its third edition (Wiley, 2004).) He also teaches a doctoral course on entrepreneurship and organizes an annual executive course on private equity. He serves as the School's representative on Harvard University Patent, Trademark and Copyright Committee and on the Provost's Committee on Technology Transfer.
Bruce Macdonald
Bruce Macdonald, Executive Vice President, RBC and President, RBC Dominion Securities Inc. has more than 25 years experience in the investment banking industry, and currently heads RBC's Wholesale Global Technology and Operations.
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Mr. Macdonald began his career in investment banking in 1979 in the equity trading department of Vancouver-based Pemberton Securities Inc. During his tenure, he assumed roles of increasing responsibility and was managing the firm's Canadian equity derivatives business in 1989 when RBC Dominion Securities, the corporate and investment banking arm of RBC Financial Group, acquired Pemberton.
Mr. Macdonald continued to work in the equity business at RBC until 1995 when he was asked to spearhead the launch of the Global Equity Derivatives group based in New York. The success of this global initiative resulted in Mr. Macdonald being promoted to President and Chief Executive Officer of RBC Dominion Securities Corporation in 1999. In 2001, he was appointed Chief Operating Officer for the global operations of RBC Capital Markets.
Mr. Macdonald sits on the following outside Boards. Mr. Macdonald is currently Chair, Board of Directors, Canadian Capital Markets Association. Director of CDS Board of Directors and a member of the CDS Finance Committee. Mr. Macdonald is on the Crescent School Board of Governors and the Crescent School Finance Committee.
David McKay
David McKay is Group Head, Canadian Banking, responsible for RBC's Personal Financial Services and Business Financial Services businesses, as well as RBC's Canadian sales and branch distribution.
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Mr. McKay's previous role was Executive Vice President of Personal Financial Services at RBC, where he was responsible for the personal retail business including Consumer Lending, Home Equity, Deposits, Branch Investments and online investing in Canada. Mr. McKay held this role from October 2005 to April 2008, prior to which he was Senior Vice-President of Financing Products of RBC's domestic retail bank.
Mr. McKay has spent more than 20 years with RBC in many different areas including senior management of retail banking, retail banking field roles, commercial account management, group risk management and corporate banking in Canada and Japan. Mr. McKay is also a Director of Visa Inc., the newly created public global payments company.
Mr. McKay holds an MBA from the Richard Ivey School of Business at University of Western Ontario and a Bachelor of Mathematics from the University of Waterloo.
Dean Metcalf
Dean Metcalf, Vice President, Canadian Investments, Teachers' Private Capital, manages Canadian private equity investments for Teachers' Private Capital and has held increasingly senior positions since his arrival in 1991.
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Previously, he worked in commercial and corporate lending, providing acquisition financing for leveraged buyouts.
Dean has been involved in many high-profile acquisitions by Teachers', including Maple Leaf Sports and Entertainment Ltd., Shoppers Drug Mart Inc., Yellow Pages Group and Doane Pet Care Co.
Dean received a BA and an MBA from York University and is a graduate of the ICD Corporate Governance College.
Shankar Ramamurthy
Shanker Ramamurthy, Global Managing Partner, Banking & Financial Markets, IBM is the global leader of IBM's Banking & Financial Markets Industry consulting practice. He is also one of the lead authors of the Component Business Modelling (CBM) method and is the global leader for IBM's CBM initiative.
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Shanker is a qualified accountant with an undergraduate degree in mathematics. He also has an MBA in Finance from the Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad and a Masters in Information Science from the University of New South Wales in Australia.
He has over twenty years of consulting experience and has consulted widely to Fortune 100 financial institutions in North America, Europe and the Asia Pacific region.
He is a widely quoted thought leader and speaker and has authored several papers by leveraging his experience in transforming large enterprises including: Simplify to Succeed, The Specialized Enterprise and Component Business Models: Making Specialization Real.
In 2005 he was ranked as one of the 50 most influential financial services consultants worldwide by Euromoney magazine (Euromoney Financial Services Consultants & Advisors Guide 2005).
Stephen M. Sammut
Mr. Sammut is Senior Fellow, Wharton Entrepreneurial Programs and Health Care Systems, and Venture Partner, Burrill & Company, a San Francisco based life science merchant bank.
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At the Wharton School he teaches venture capital management, corporate development, mergers and acquisitions, biotechnology entrepreneurship, intellectual property strategy, and private equity in emerging markets, and a special seminar on private sector participation in international health. He works actively with a student-alumni organization called the Wharton Health International Volunteer Program. At Burrill & Company, Mr. Sammut focuses on Asia –Pacific venture activity, with a special focus on global health venturing.
Mr. Sammut has been involved in the creation or funding of nearly 40 biotechnology, Internet, and information technology companies globally. He is on numerous Boards of Directors and Advisory Boards including Doctors of the World, Mitsubishi Corporation, the Royal Bank of Canada Technology Venture Fund, the Cornell University Research Foundation, Combinent BioMedical Systems, Dynamis Pharmaceuticals, Gentis, Biowizard.com, Doctors of the World, the International Finance Corporation Bioethics Advisory Board (World Bank), the Center for Medicine in the Public Interest, Red Diamond Capital (a mid-market buyout fund) Zad (an Arabian crescent venture fund), The Asia-Alpha Venture Fund, and several other organizations. He is also on the editorial board of the European Venture Capital Association Publications and the Private Equity Review.
Mr. Sammut previously held the positions of Vice President of Development of Teleflex Incorporated where he created and managed acquisitions and alliances, and at S.R. One, Ltd., GlaxoSmithKline's venture capital fund. He was also Managing Director of Access Partners, a venture fund focused on formation of companies around university technologies and capitalized by corporate strategic investors.
Mr. Sammut is also Founder and Chair of the International Institute for Biotechnology Entrepreneurship, a non-profit organization offering intensive training programs throughout the world for managers of biotechnology companies, He actively conducts research on the indigenous capability of emerging market countries to participate in the biotechnology and pharmaceutical industries.
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