Director and Chair, Awareness and Relationship Building Committee
Blake C. Goldring is the Executive Chairman of AGF Management Limited. He first joined AGF in 1987 and held a series of senior positions before being appointed to his current role in 2018.
Kevin Hanson is the President and Publisher of Simon & Schuster Canada. He joined the company as President in 2005 and in 2013 was also named the company’s first Canadian publisher.
Ronald Cohen, CM, MBE, is a confessed bibliophile; he has assembled bibliographically significant collections of the works of Lucy Maud Montgomery and Sir Winston Churchill.
Rory Capern has spent more than 20 years at the intersection of Canada’s Technology, Media and Communications industries, working with some of the fastest companies in the world.
Marlene Jennings PC is a former Canadian parliamentarian. She was a member of the Liberal Party of Canada in the House of Commons of Canada, and represented the riding of Notre-Dame-de-Grâce—Lachine from 1997 to 2011.
Mike DeGagné helps indigenous students find, and achieve, their life purpose in his role as President and CEO of Indspire, Canada’s largest indigenous charity.