Governance
The Governing Body is comprised of the TCS Board of Governors and the TCS Body of Trustees. The board is responsible for managing the affairs of the School and oversees the School's finances and has the power to enter into contracts and make by-laws, rules and regulations with regard to the control, management and government of the School. The Head of School is appointed by and is accountable to the board. Trustees encourage and recognize outstanding contributions to the mission of TCS and to provide advice on the achievement of strategic objectives, business affairs, and the financial health and stability of the School. For more information on the criteria for becoming a member of the governing body or a full description of responsibilities, select from the right hand menu.
Board of Governors 2008-2009
Colin is a member of the class of 1975, and enjoyed an active role during his five years at Trinity College School. Following TCS, he graduated with a B.A. from Queen’s University and an M.A. from the University of Western Ontario.
Colin is the principal of The Wealth Advisory, a life insurance and estate planning partnership in Toronto. He is the volunteer chairman of the National Citizens Coalition, director of the Canadian Robert T. Jones Jr. Scholarship Foundation, a trustee of Bishop Strachan School, and former board member of The Sterling Hall School. Since joining the TCS board of governors in 1988, Colin has chaired the TCS committee of convocation, served on the co-education steering group and the search committee for the new headmaster. He was appointed a life governor in 1997, serves as a trustee and was appointed vice chair of the board this year.
Colin and his wife, Jennifer, are proud parents of three children. Their sons, Devin and Alex graduated from TCS in 2006 and their daughter, Molly, attends a school in Toronto.
Eleanor graduated from the University of Toronto with an Honours B. A. in English literature and from Toronto Teachers' College. She obtained English Specialist and Library Specialist credentials at OISE (Ontario Institute for Studies in Education).
During her career she taught elementary school for five years, was a liaison/consultant with the Durham District School Board's gifted programme for two years and taught secondary school within Durham Region for 25 years. She has served on professional committees within schools and the Durham District School Board, and has been involved in numerous projects such as curriculum writing, as a committee member on student attrition (encouraging students to remain in school), as liaison between the local Rotary Club and students, as department head in the school library, and as chair of the commencement committee. After retiring in 2001, she was approached by Daemen College in Amherst, New York to be a supervisor/evaluator for the Canadian contingent of students doing their teaching practicum (36 students to date) in Durham Region.
Eleanor was a member of the TCS Parents' Guild for five years, chaired the silent auction for Bear Fair for two years, and chaired the silent auction for the TCS Gala. She is a current member of the TCS advancement committee. Eleanor is married and has two sons, Scott and Cameron '05. She is an avid reader and enjoys spending time with family and friends and travelling with her husband.
Mike graduated from Trinity College School in 1993 after enjoying six years as a boarder. While at TCS, Mike participated in football, hockey, rugby, jazz band and other School associations including the Trinity Environmental Action Committee. During these years, Mike was lucky to be part of the co-education evolution.
After graduating TCS, Mike studied English/cultural studies and environmental studies at McGill University (B.A. 1997) where he was a photographer for the McGill Tribune newspaper, and hosted the sports segment for McGill Television. Over the past eight years Mike has been driving business for his creative Internet applications firm WebRelay, which has published over to 200 Web sites and built many custom software applications for corporate clients in private and public markets in both Canada and the United States.
Mike is a co-founder of the Kellsie Memorial Hockey Day, a charitable event now in its fourth year of raising money for the Safe Communities Foundation. He also enjoys golf, skiing, and cottage life during his free time. In addition to his role as president of the TCS Alumni Association and ex officio member of the TCS Governing Body, Mike is also a member of the School’s Toronto Branch executive and the TCS board’s information technology sub-committee.
Rick graduated from Trinity College School in 1978 and took his undergraduate degree at Trinity College, University of Toronto, receiving his B. Comm. in 1982.
From 1983 to 1987, Rick worked at KPMG where he received his Chartered Accountant designation. In 1987, he moved to Ottawa to work in the Office of Finance Minister Michael Wilson, returning to Toronto in 1991 to join BMO Nesbitt Burns where he was Managing Director and head of Government Investment Banking. In January, 2008, Rick left BMO to join Borealis Infrastructure as Executive Vice President. Borealis is the infrastructure investment division of the OMERS Pension Plan.
Rick is currently a member of the governance committee, and a former long term member of the School's finance committee.
Rick and his wife Margot reside in Oakville and have three sons Adrian ('08), Peter ('10) and Cameron ('12).
Eric holds a B.A. Honours in political studies from Queen's University (1986) and an M.B.A. from The European School of Management in Paris, France (1996).
From 1987 to 2000, Eric held marketing and operations oriented positions in the publishing, broadcasting, data-communications and Internet industry sectors and lived in Kingston, Ottawa, Montreal, Paris and Toronto. In 2000 Eric returned to his home city of Kingston to become an active partner in the formation of a property development company, Leighton Lands Ltd., along with his father, Michael Davies'55, and another partner, John Armitage. In 2003, Eric and John Armitage formed a custom home building business called Llynlea Fine Homes. Eric is president of Leighton Lands Ltd. and vice-president of Llynlea Fine Homes.
Outside of his professional activities, Eric has been involved with TCS as a past governor prior to the reorganization of the governance structure and has served as a member of the infrastructure committee since 2003. Eric has two nephews currently attending the School, Sam Davies'08 and Jack Davies'10.
In his leisure time Eric enjoys travelling and participating in numerous physical activities such as biking, running, tennis, golf, hockey, skiing and snowboarding. Eric is a member of the Cataraqui Golf and Country Club and is married to Anita Davies.
Following graduation from Trinity College School in 1994, an undergrad in International Development at King's College (1997) and an International MBA from Thunderbird, the Garvin School of Management in 2001, Aynsley began applying her skills to the world of marketing and retail strategy. With roles ranging from Canadian Tire to various advertising agencies, she honed her expertise in creating actionable strategies for some of Canada’s top businesses and products. In late 2008 she left the corporate world to test her entrepreneurial spirit and focus on the business she and her husband started at www.parkingspots.com while also building up a marketing consultancy practice.
When she's not working on her two businesses, Aynsley finds time to hold a committee chair role with the St. Michael’s Hospital Young Leaders, St. John's Rehab Hospital and is President of the Toronto Branch Executive for TCS.
Aynsley is also a frequent traveler, avid tennis player, private pilot and loves relaxing with her husband, their German Shepherd (Kingston) and friends over long dinners with lots of laughs.
Allison graduated from Queen’s University with an Honours B.A. in 1982. She obtained her certificate of Risk Management from the University of Toronto in 1998. Allison was an instructor at Durham College from 1994 to 1996 for the Insurance Institute. She is a self- employed insurance broker and risk manager.
Allison has been the membership chair of the TCS Parents’ Guild for two years and is now the secretary of the Guild. She was the chair of Parent Communications for two years for the Parents’ Association and now holds the position of President.
Allison currently has two children at the School, Ross ’08 and Meredith ’10. She lives in Bowmanville, Ontario and enjoys skiing, cycling, reading and travelling.
David Hackett graduated from Trinity College School in 1983 and went on to study economics at Queen’s University. He joined Ernst & Young and attained his Chartered Accountant (CA) designation. He also holds an M.B.A. from the Richard Ivey School of Business at the University of Western Ontario (graduating on the Dean’s Honour List).
David is an entrepreneurial, senior executive providing strategic, operational and financial direction to create corporate value, currently as the chief financial officer and corporate secretary of Diversinet Corp., a public company that is a leading provider of secured wireless and identity management solutions and professional services. David was previously the co-founder, CFO and corporate secretary of Aucxis Corp., a world leader in trading systems for agri-business, and EveryWare Development Inc., a public company specializing in cross platform Web based database conductivity applications.
David has been active within TCS as part of the finance committee since 1995 and as its chair since 2004, as a governor from 1998 to 2003 and 2004 to present, on the strategic planning task force from 2000-2002, and on the task force on governance restructuring in 2003. David was also the chair of the School’s foundation task force and founding chair of the newly established Trinity College School Foundation, and is now an ex officio director of the foundation.
After graduating from Trinity College School and Queen's University, John Hogarth achieved his FCSI (Fellowship of Canadian Securities Institute) in 1986. That same year he was elected president of the Toronto Society of the Investment Dealers Association (IDA) and became chairman the following year. He also sat on the Ontario District Council of the IDA. In 1987 he moved to London as an institutional salesman with James Capel, London (owned by HSBC) where he was head of the Emerging Markets Department. John was president of the U.K. branch of TCS alumni for many years.
He returned to Canada in 1999 to join his original colleagues and friends at ScotiaMcLeod, where he was invited into ScotiaMcLeod's Executive Council for top performing new employees, winning new employee of the year in 2002. Every year since, he has been inducted into the President's Council for the top performing investment advisors at ScotiaMcLeod. John is Assoc Director and Portfolio Manager (CIM) at ScotiaMcLeod running a High Net Worth, Wealth Management practice.
John sits on various boards, including Ballet Jorgen Canada and was president of the North Rosedale Ratepayers Association, where he spearheaded a district heritage study, as well as the investment committee of the TCS Foundation. John's daughter Lauren '08 was the third generation to attend TCS. John is past president of the TCS Parents' Association.
Adam is chief executive of J.P. Morgan Canada Inc., a Canadian registered financial institution whose principal activities include investment banking, securities sales and trading, commercial lending and investment management. He assumed his current role in 1999. He has worked for J.P. Morgan for 23 years, in London, New York, Hong Kong and Singapore, in a variety of client and market related activities.
He was a member of the board of Trinity College School from 2000-2003 and during that time was a member of the finance committee and the governance task force. His son Devon is in Brent House, and is a member of the class of 2008. As well, Adam is a member of the board and executive committee of the World Wildlife Fund of Canada, and a member of the campaign cabinet for The United Way of Greater Toronto. He is a graduate of TCS (1976) and has an undergraduate degree in economics from Queen's University.
Edan Howell graduated from Trinity College School in 1994. He obtained an honours degree in English from Queen's University (1998) and a law degree from the Faculty of Law at the University of Toronto (2001).
He worked for a prominent Toronto law firm before going in-house at one of the bank-owned broker dealers. He is currently one of the directors of Scotiabank's international wealth management business.
Edan is a current member of the School's advancement committee and has served on that committee for the past six years.
He has three siblings who all graduated from TCS: Trent '96; Casey '98; and Bethany '01. His father, Walter, is a former member of the TCS Board of Governors. Edan lives in Toronto with his wife, Esther, and son Jackson.
Will Kennedy is a graduate of the class of '72 and Queens '76. He is brother of Jonathon '82 and father of Matthew '02.
Will is Global Head of Data Services for S&P Portfolio and Index Services based in New York City. He has over 25 years experience in information technology and services. He previously held executive positions domestically as well in the US and UK with Investment Technology Group, Quartet Service Corporation, and Reuters Limited as well as operated his own consulting practice.
Will is currently Chair of the IT Sub-Committee, member of the Infrastructure Committee, and New York Branch Executive. Prior roles include Toronto Branch President, governor, and investment committee. He is a past Chairman of the Russel House School in Otford, England.
Will resides in Cos Cob, Ct. with his wife Nancy and they have three children Matthew, Gregor, and Devon.
Stuart is originally from Vancouver, B.C., where he attended St. George's School and was a member of the graduating class of 1971. He went on to earn a B.Sc. at the University of British Columbia (1975) and an M.B.A. from the University of Western Ontario (1979).
Since graduation, Stuart has worked in the Canadian financial markets in a number of capacities ranging from initial experiences in corporate and commercial lending and investment banking to serving in senior corporate positions in public companies, both at the company and board of director levels. Since 1996, Stuart has been operating MacGregor Equities, a private investment management firm managing both private and public equity investments.
From 1996-2001 he was a governor of Kingsway College School, and from 1998-2000 served as the board chair. Stuart lives in Toronto, is married to Colleen Campbell and has three sons: Brandon '08, Blake and Ben.
Dr. Elspeth Murray is an associate professor of strategy and new ventures at the Queen's School of Business. She holds a B.Sc. in computer science and mathematics and an M.B.A. degree from Queen's University. Her Ph.D. was completed at the Ivey School of Business at the University of Western Ontario.
Prior to joining Queen's in 1996, Elspeth spent several years in business. Her first job as a software developer for Canada Systems Group was followed by several years as a systems engineer and marketing representative for IBM Canada. More recently, she was also a co-owner and operator of three successive and successful Canadian Tire dealerships.
Elspeth has spent much of her time at Queen's School of Business building the school's slate of new venture related courses and programmes. In 2006 she created the first university based, student led venture capital fund in Canada, the Tricolour Venture Fund. She also launched the school's entrepreneurship centre, the Queen's Centre for Business Venturing of which she is currently the director. Her goal through these activities is to “improve the odds of success” for Canadian entrepreneurs. In 2005 she was awarded a Teaching Fellowship in Entrepreneurship from CIBC in recognition of her work in the new ventures area.
From a research perspective, and as an integral part of her work in the strategy and new venture fields, Elspeth also specializes in the management of change. In 2002, she co-authored a book, Fast Forward: Organizational Change in 100 Days (Oxford University Press) with Dr. Peter Richardson. It has enjoyed several years on the Canadian Business list of top 10 business books.
In addition to her teaching and research activities, Dr. Murray is an active consultant for both private and public sector organizations, and across many industries. She has worked extensively with clients as diverse as the Auditor General for Canada, BMW Canada, Glaxo-Smith-Kline and the Winnipeg Commodity Exchange.
Dr. Murray currently serves on several boards. She is the vice chair of the Ontario Research and Innovation Council, set up by the Premier in 2006 to provide advice on the Innovation Strategy for Ontario that was launched in May 2008. She is a director for PARTEQ Innovations, the commercialization organization for Queen's University. She sits on several private sector boards, including Lawtons Drugs, a Sobeys subsidiary. She currently lives in Kingston, Ontario and has two children: Stephanie Kelley, who graduated TCS in June 2008, and Patrick Kelley, who is in the class of 2010.
Hope Rennie was one of the first girls to attend Trinity College School, entering in grade 12 and graduating the following year in 1993. After graduating, she attended Queen’s University in Kingston and completed an Honours degree in health science and psychology.
Hope continued her interest in the health science industry before joining AstraZeneca Canada Inc. in 1999, where she has spent the past eight years working in marketing and sales. Concurrently, Hope completed her Masters degree in health management at the University of Toronto, which included a three-month internship at Baycrest Centre for Geriatric Care, working alongside the executive team. Hope lives in Toronto and is a director of her condominium corporation. When she is not working, she loves to travel, golf and ski.
Beate received a B.A. (Honours) from the University of Western Ontario. A long time resident of Durham Region, she formerly spent six years as part of a management team for social housing in that region, as a housing conference facilitator and consultant. Beate is currently the co-owner of Detox Environmental, a waste management company based in Bowmanville, Ontario. She has served a two-year term as a board member of Durham Family Court Clinic, an organization providing multi-service response to troubled youth in Durham Region.
Beate has been an active member of the TCS Parents' Guild for many years, including serving as guild president for two years, during which time she was also an ex officio member of the TCS Parents' Association. She was involved in the School's 140th birthday gala committee and in 2007 chaired the science gala committee.
Beate, her husband Brian, and their three children, Jessica '03, Katelyn '05 and Spencer '12, enjoy travelling and cottage life at Lake of Bays.
Steve graduated from Trinity College School in 1978 and from Cornell University (B.S., hotel administration) in 1982. He joined Four Seasons Hotels in 1982 working in Toronto from 1982 to 1984, San Francisco from 1984 to 1986 and Newport Beach 1986 to 1987. He then returned to Bermuda in 1987 joining the Elbow Beach Hotel as a senior manager. In 1987, Steve opened Just Shirts Dry Cleaners, and went on to acquire Coral Cleaners in 1994, Quality Cleaners in 1996, and Paget Cleaners and Hamilton Val Cleaners in 1997. In addition to his dry cleaning businesses, Steve opened Mailboxes Unlimited in 1990 and continues to serve there as president. Mailboxes Unlimited has now expanded to three stores across the island.
Steve is a director of Bermuda Press Holdings and C-Travel Ltd. and is vice president of the Bermuda Amateur Swimming Association. He also sits on the executive committee and is a founding member of the Warwick Academy Alumni Association. He has two teenage sons, Nick and Kenny, and continues to live and work in Bermuda.
After graduating from TCS in 1994, Isabel received a B.A. from Princeton University in 1998. After spending two years in New York City, she returned to Toronto and joined the strategic planning team at McDonald’s Restaurants of Canada for four years. Isabel completed her M.B.A. at HEC Montreal in 2006 and now leads the marketing operations team at eBay Canada in Toronto.
She is engaged to be married in the summer of 2008, and continues to enjoy training for triathlons.
Isabel has been a member of the TCS board since 2003.
Linda Whetung is a lawyer and has practiced in the city of Peterborough since 1985. She has a solicitors practice with an emphasis on corporate/commercial, real estate, wills, estates and trust law. She has served on and provided legal services to various boards of directors, including both private corporations and non-share capital corporations and charities.
She is a member of Curve Lake First Nation north of Peterborough and has an extensive practice in native law. One of her most ambitious charitable works was convincing the provincial government of the need for the first cardiac catheterization lab in east central Ontario. In addition to successfully obtaining government approval of the project, she was also co-chair of the campaign which raised over $2.6 million to develop this $10 million dollar facility. She is currently assisting the Peterborough YMCA with its capital campaign.
Linda is married to Tim, a Justice of the Ontario Court, and they have two sons: Cliff ’07 and Clayton ’09.
Stuart Grainger, Headmaster
Jeffrey Prince, Secretary
Standing Committees of the Board
- Finance Committee - responsible for overseeing the School's finances.
- Governance Committee - responsible for the nomination, training, and evaluation of governors and trustees and for ensuring that the governance policies and practices of the School are consistent with its mission.
- Advancement Committee - responsible for overseeing fundraising operations, Alumni and Parents' Associations, TCS Parents' Guild and Admissions.
- Infrastructure Committee - responsible for the School's physical plant and equipment, and information technology.
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