Philanthropic Leadership

List of 10 items.

• Elliot Johnson ’94, President

  Elliot has served as a trustee since 2016 and was formerly a member of the UCC Foundation Investment Committee. He is Chief Investment Officer and Chief Operating Officer of Evolve Funds, an investment firm specializing in exchange traded mutual funds. He has previously held senior roles at a number of large Canadian asset management, wealth management and capital markets firms.

   

  From 2016 - 2020 Elliot was also a trustee of Trinity College at the University of Toronto where he chaired the Committee on Investments.
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• Raymond Shiu

  Raymond has been a trustee since 2020. He is Director, Private Capital - Consumer & Retail at Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan (OTPP). Raymond joined OTPP in 2005 from RBC Capital Markets. He has been involved in a number of direct investments across the consumer sector and currently sits on several boards of private companies within the OTPP portfolio.
   
  Raymond earned a B.Comm. from the University of Alberta and an MBA from the Richard Ivey School of Business at Western University.
   
  Raymond is the father of Tyler ’27 and Nathaniel ’29.
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• Jessica Chutter

  Jessica has been a trustee since 2013. She is Managing Director and Chairman of Biotechnology Investment Banking at Morgan Stanley. During Jessica’s 30-year career of building Morgan Stanley’s biotechnology franchise, she has been responsible for $30 billion of capital raising and $65B of strategic transactions..

   

  Jessica has a Bachelor of Arts in Commerce and Honours Economics from McGill University and an MBA from Harvard Business School. She serves on the Board of Directors of MaRS Innovation.

   

  She and her husband, Derek '79, have three children, Andrew ’14, Jennifer and Kevin ’19.
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• Tanya Covassin

  Tanya has been a trustee since 2018. She serves as a director of various private and public companies. In addition to her global board work, Tanya has a background in both investment banking and private equity. She has originated, structured, executed and managed large-scale private and public investments and financings. 

  
  Tanya earned her Honours B.E.S. from the University of Waterloo and her MBA from the University of Toronto. She also has an ICD.D certification from the Institute of Corporate Directors.
  
  

  Tanya is the mother of Massimo ’29.

   
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• Matt Farb ’96

  Matt has served as a Trustee since 2016 and was formerly a member of the UCC Foundation Investment Committee. He is President and Chief Investment Officer of Better Capital Corp., which he founded in 2015. He’s also served as President and CIO of Coldstream Capital Management Inc. and President of East West Investment Management Corporation.
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• Matthew Flynn ’96

  Matt was appointed President of UCC’s Association Council in 2018. He works in the financial services industry in Toronto. He graduated from Osgoode School of Law and the Schulich School of Business in 2005. Prior to that he completed a BA in history from Cornell University. Matt is active in the community, serving on the Board of LOFT Community Services and Opera on the Avalon among others.
  
  He is married to Raili and they have three young children, Elizabeth, Michael and Billy.
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• Jim Garner ’77

  Jim Garner ’77 was appointed as a Trustee of the Upper Canada College Foundation in November 2019. Recently retired, Jim is an experienced senior executive with broad experience in finance, healthcare/life sciences and the education sector. He has extensive board experience as a director and executive with public company, broader public sector, not-for-profit and organizations.
  
  He served as Vice-Principal, Advancement and Strategy of Upper Canada College from 2014 until 2019, and is a former Association Council President (2012-2014) and member of the Board of Governors (2012-2014).  He has held several executive positions in private and public sectors, including Executive Vice-President, Corporate Services of the Hospital for Sick Children, where he oversaw the planning of the $400-million Peter Gilgan Centre for Research and Learning. 

   

  Jim holds a Bachelor of Commerce degree from Queen's University and an MBA from the Institute of Management Development in Switzerland. Jim is a CPA/CA and a Chartered Business Valuator and earned his ICD.D designation from the Institute of Corporate Directors. He and his wife Sally share two daughters Jillian and Kate.

   
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• Niral Merchant ’93

  Niral has served as a trustee since 2018. He is a Principal of Augmentram Capital Corp., a private merchant bank which provides capital and strategic insight to growing businesses. Niral has held senior financial leadership roles in a number of operating companies.

  
  He has an MBA from INSEAD and is a Chartered Professional Accountant and CFA designation holder. He is an active volunteer sitting on the board of a number of philanthropic and community-based organizations.
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• Lara Zink

  Lara has served as a Trustee since 2014. She is a Managing Director in Global Institutional Equity Sales at RBC Capital Markets. She has senior coverage responsibility for over 30 institutional equity investors including pension plans and mutual funds located in Toronto and Montreal. Prior to joining RBC Capital Markets, Lara was an Account Manager in Financial Institutions at the Royal Bank. Lara joined the Royal Bank in 1995 as a Business Banking Account Manager Trainee.

   

  Lara has an MBA from the Rotman School of Management and a BA, Honours from Western University. She is an active volunteer for the Special Olympics, Women in Capital Markets, and sits on board of the UCC Foundation.

   

  Lara is the mother of Robbie ’20 and Christina.
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• Staff:

  Brendan Dellandrea '01, Executive Director
  Patti MacNicol, Treasurer