Biography
He served as Chairman of the University of Toronto's fundraising program Campaign for the University of Toronto (1995–2004), as Chairperson of the University of Toronto's Governing Council (circa 1995-1998) and as Vice-Chair of St. Michael's Hospital in Toronto.
He attended De La Salle College (Toronto) and received a B.A. in English from the St. Michael's College, Toronto in 1966. He joined the Bank of Montreal as a management trainee afterwards. In 1990, he became President and Chief Operating Officer. He was promoted to Chairman and Chief Executive Officer in 1999 after the departure of Matthew Barrett. As part of a corporate governance trend in 2004, he gave up the title of Chairman of the Board in favor of a non-management director. He has spent four decades at BMO.
Together with his wife, Elizabeth Comper, he founded FAST – Fighting Antisemitism Together, a Canadian group which opposes anti-Semitism and which describes itself as "a coalition of non-Jewish Canadian community and business leaders dedicated to speaking out against humanity's oldest hatred."
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