After graduating from Trinity College School in 1966, Jim attended Princeton University, where he obtained his degree in engineering science and played on Princeton’s varsity ice hockey team. He then went on to obtain his M.B.A. from the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania.

Jim’s professional career began in the general management consulting business in New York. After seven years of constant travel, Jim joined Champion International, the major U.S. paper and wood products producer, and owner of Weldwood of Canada, where he became vice president, planning, of their wood products operations. In 1981 he joined Combustion Engineering, a major industrial manufacturing firm headquartered in Stamford, Connecticut, as its first corporate vice president for strategic development. Two years later, he became president and chief operating officer of CE’s process engineering operations. In late 1987 he formed his own privately held merchant banking operation, named Trinity Capital Corporation.

In 1992 Jim joined one of Trinity’s holdings, Memry Corporation, where he remained for the next 14 years, building this start-up technology company into one of the leading medical device component manufacturers in the U.S. He retired from Memry in January 2006, and in February 2007 became a managing director and senior operating partner with Lincolnshire Management, Inc., a leading private equity firm headquartered in New York City. In July of 2020, Jim became a senior advisor to Lincolnshire Management, while also becoming CEO of Q-Tran Inc., an architectural LED lighting manufacturing company based in Milford, CT.

Jim started his post-graduation involvement with TCS in 1974 when he became an officer of the TCS Fund Inc., the School’s American fundraising arm, which he later led for a decade. Jim became head of the investment committee of the TCS Board of Governors in 1991. In 2000 Jim was elected vice-chair of the TCS board. Jim was an initial member of the TCS board’s governance committee until 2015. Today, Jim sits on both the governance and investment committees of the TCS Foundation.

In his spare time, Jim served as Commodore of the Cruising Club of America from 2016 to 2018, races bi-annually to Bermuda aboard his new 38-foot sailboat, plays every game he can think of, and joins his wife Suzie for terrific trips around the world, the latter clearly on hold until the COVID-19 pandemic is solved!

After graduating from Trinity College School in 1988, Kevin earned a bachelor of commerce degree at Dalhousie University, he has completed his C.F.A. level 2, Harvard University’s “High Potentials Leadership” education and a FinTech “Future Commerce” certificate from MIT.

Kevin had a long capital markets career as a managing director at Scotiabank from 1995 to 2016, where he held several leadership positions, including: head corporate bond trader, head of credit trading, head of debt syndication & private placements, global head of sales & research, member of the fixed income management group, member of the fixed income underwriting committee and senior relationship manager. Kevin is currently focused on investments in and support for early-stage financial technology companies.

Kevin’s volunteer activities have included being a past chair of the Toronto Bond Traders Association and a member of the board of directors of Candeal and CanPX. He recently completed a term as a director on the board of Cinchy. He is currently the chair of the TCS Foundation investment committee, and a member of the TCS Foundation board. Kevin is a trustee of the Havergal Foundation board and a member of the Heart & Stroke Canada Foundation investment sub-committee. Kevin’s fundraising efforts have supported the United Way, Hospital for Sick Children and the Heart & Stroke Foundation.

Kevin and his wife Beth live in Toronto with their two children, Jack and Grace.

After graduating from Trinity College School and Queen’s University, John 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 chair the following year.

He also sat on the Ontario District Council of the IDA (now IIROC). In 1987 he moved to London as an institutional salesman with James Capel, London (part of 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 2000 to join his original colleagues and friends at ScotiaMcLeod, and every year since he has been inducted into the President’s Council for the top-performing investment advisors at ScotiaMcLeod. John is director and portfolio manager (CIM) at ScotiaMcLeod, running a high net worth, family office wealth management practice.

John has sat on various charitable boards, including Ballet Jorgen Canada, and was president of the North Rosedale Ratepayers Association, where he chaired a district heritage study. John served as a TCS governor from 2007-2015, past chair of the advancement committee and past president of the TCS Parents’ Association. John was elected as a TCS trustee in 2016 and has been a foundation director since 2017, and currently sits on the investment committee of the TCS Foundation.

John’s daughter, Lauren ’08, was the third generation to attend TCS.

Brian graduated from Trinity College School in 1978, and Trinity College, University of Toronto (Bachelor of Arts) in 1983, followed by the Canadian Institute of Chartered Accountants in 1985.

In 1983 Brian joined the audit practice of Touche Ross & Co. (now Deloitte). In 1988, he moved to Brookfield Asset Management Inc. where he is currently a vice-chair.

Brian served as a member of the TCS Board of Governors from 1998 to 2003. He is a member of the TCS Foundation board and serves on the Foundation finance committee. Brian also served as chair of the TCS Foundation from 2014 to 2018. He is currently a member of the Governing Council of the University of Toronto and a director of Community Food Centres Canada.

Brian and his wife, Joannah, live in Toronto and have three children, Tristan, Alexander and Gillian.

Maria is president of M.E. Phipps & Associates Inc., an information and knowledge management consultancy which she founded in 1980. For the past 35 years her firm has provided information management solutions to corporations and organizations across Canada.

Maria graduated from Lakehead University in 1970, University of Guelph in 1978 (psychology), and holds a Masters of Information and Library Science (1979) from the University of Western Ontario.

Maria’s personal involvement with Trinity College School started in 1993 when her son, Geoff ’98, attended the School, following in the footsteps of his father, David ’62, as well as his grandfather and great uncle, both of whom graduated in the early 1920s. The attendance of her daughter, Elizabeth ’03, at the School ensured further commitment.

During the last 28 years she has served on the TCS Board of Governors twice, served on the campus concepts committee, the library & archives renovation task force and the headmaster’s search committee. She also served on the School’s infrastructure committee and IT sub-committee, was appointed a trustee in the fall of 2005, and was involved in the School’s strategic planning workshop in 2006. Maria was the chair of the School’s 150th history book committee, who were responsible for the creation of the celebratory book, Hearts & Minds: 150 years of Trinity College School. She was awarded the Colin T. Brown Medal in the fall of 2015.

She is a TCS Foundation director and was chair of the governance committee of the TCS Foundation prior to becoming its chair in 2019.

Maria’s passion for Lake Superior and Northwestern Ontario is exhibited in many ways. The family property on Nicol Island, Rossport, Ontario is an integral part of her life. Until recently she was a director of The Friends of Battle Island Lighthouse, Lake Superior, which provides stewardship to this national historic site.

Maria has served twice on the board of governors of St. John’s-Kilmarnock School and remains a member of the corporation. She was a member of the Lakehead University’s board of governors for nine years where she was chair of the external relations committee was a member of the presidential and chancellor search committees.

Maria continues to reside in Aberfoyle, where she and her husband, the late David ’62 (2017) made their home in the 1990s. Her two children, Geoff ’98 and Elizabeth ’03, their spouses and grandchildren reside in Toronto.