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As President and Chief Executive Officer of Home Capital Group Inc., Gerald M. Soloway, with his team of financial service specialists, transformed a small savings and loan company into Canada's first choice alternative provider of residential first mortgages in Canada. In 2000, he personally spearheaded the move to convert the company's subsidiary, Home Savings & Loan Corporation into Home Trust Company, the first provincial loan corporation in 10 years to be converted to a federal trust company. When Mr. Soloway became President & CEO of Home Capital in 1987, Home Savings had 12 employees, $51 million in assets and $3 million in equity. As at March 31, 2010 Home Trust has over 500 employees, assets of over $7.04 billion and over $627.9 million in equity.
Mr. Soloway is credited with pioneering the provision of first residential mortgages to self-employed people and those with limited credit history, who do not meet the lending criteria of major financial institutions. Prior to his involvement with Home Capital, Mr. Soloway was a lawyer who practiced real estate, mortgage and commercial law in Toronto, gaining experience acting on behalf of major banks and trust companies. He attended school in London, Ontario and obtained a B.A. from the University of Western Ontario in 1958, majoring in Economics. He also obtained his LL.B. at Osgoode Hall in 1961, and was subsequently called to the bar in 1963.
Brian R. Mosko is Chief Operating Officer and Executive Vice President of the Corporation and its subsidiary Home Trust Company. He was appointed to this position on January 1, 2010.
Mr. Mosko joined the Corporation in March 1989 as a Senior Mortgage Underwriter. He assumed increasing responsibilities over time and was appointed Chief Operating Officer and Senior Vice President on January 1, 2008. On January 1, 2010, he was appointed Chief Operating Officer and Executive Vice President. Mr. Mosko is responsible for the overall operation and administration of the Corporation including Information Technology and Credit. Mr. Mosko is an Officer of the Corporation and of its subsidiary Home Trust Company. He has been a director of Home Trust Company since February 2007 and of Payment Services Interactive Gateway (a subsidiary of Home Capital Group Inc.) since October 2007.
Prior to joining the Corporation, Mr. Mosko held positions with the Bank of Montreal, Revenue Canada and Price Waterhouse. He holds a Bachelor of Commerce (Hons) degree from the University of Windsor, is a Fellow of the Institute of Canadian Bankers (FICB) as well as an Accredited Mortgage Professional (AMP) and an ICD.D from the Institute of Corporate Directors at the Rotman School of Management.
Mr. Harry joined the Corporation in March, 2007 in his current position and brought with him over 25 years of experience in real estate finance and banking.
He is responsible for overseeing the development and management of the Corporation's commercial mortgage operations. Prior to joining the Corporation, Mr. Harry was the Vice President, Credit and Risk Management with Equitable Trust Company. Mr. Harry has also held senior management positions with First National Financial Corporation, Adelaide Capital Corporation and Central Guaranty Trust Company.
Mr. Harry holds a B. Comm. from the University of Toronto.
Chris Ahlvik is Senior Vice President, Corporate Counsel of Home Capital Group Inc. and Home Trust Company. He was appointed to this position in March 2010.
Chris joined the Corporation in January 2006 as Vice President, Corporate Counsel and assumed increased responsibilities to his present position. Prior to joining the Corporation, Chris was with Manulife Financial Corporation, where he was Vice-President Corporate Law, Corporate Secretary and Corporate Chief Compliance Officer.
Chris holds an Honours BA (History) from the University of Toronto and an LL.B from Queens University.
Robert J. Blowes, C.A. and C.P.A. (Illinois), is Chief Financial Officer of the Corporation and of its subsidiary Home Trust Company. Mr. Blowes joined the Corporation in November, 2010.
Mr. Blowes was most recently with Ernst & Young LLP, Chartered Accountants. He was a Partner in that Firm for 25 years and was part of the Financial Services Industry Group for over 10 years. Mr. Blowes' client base included banking and trust companies, life, property and casualty insurance carriers, brokerages and other financial services.
Mr. Blowes also served leading technology companies. Mr. Blowes received his Chartered Accountant designation in 1977 and Certified Public Accountant (Illinois) designation in 2004.
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The Hon. William G. Davis, P.C., C.C., Q.C., is Counsel with the firm of Davis Webb LLP in Brampton, Ontario. Mr. Davis was formerly Counsel with the firm of Torys LLP, Toronto. Mr. Davis is the former Premier of Ontario (1971 – 1985). Mr. Davis currently serves as Chair of the Board of REVERA, Inc. (formerly known as Residences Retirement Real Estate Investment Trust), and also serves on the boards of First American Financial Corporation, First American Title Insurance Company, BPO Properties Limited and Magellan Aerospace Corporation.
Mr. Davis attended the University of Toronto and Osgoode Law School and was called to the Bar of Ontario in 1955. Mr. Davis is a member of the Order of Canada, the Order of Ontario and holds honorary degrees from nine universities and from a number of Colleges of Applied Arts & Technology.
Prior to his first election to the Ontario Legislature in 1959, Mr. Davis practiced law in Brampton, Ontario. Mr. Davis also serves as Chair of the Board of Home Trust Company.
William F. Falk currently serves as an Executive Fellow in Residence at the Mowat Centre for Policy Innovation and as an Adjunct Professor at the Rotman School of Management (University of Toronto).
Prior to his appointment at the University of Toronto, Mr. Falk was a senior Executive with Accenture, a leading consultancy/professional services firm. Mr. Falk joined Accenture in 2005 and held several increasingly responsible positions including Managing Partner of Health and Life Science Practice in Canada.
Prior to joining Accenture, Mr. Falk held senior positions with Capgemini Healthcare (acquired by Accenture), CSC Consulting Global Health Solutions and the Government of Ontario.
Mr. Falk frequently speaks and is an advisor in health policy and the use of information technology in improving health care. He currently serves on the Board of Directors of the Institute for Clinical and Evaluative Sciences and the Board of Directors, Children's Aid Foundation and was on the Board of Directors of the Information Technology Association of Canada - Health from 2008 to 2010.
Previous advisory panel appointments include Treasury Board Strategic Review of Health Canada (2008), Ontario Expert Panel on Adoption and Infertility (2008-2009), and advisor to the Prime Minister and Minister of Health during the 2004 First Ministers Meeting. Mr. Falk holds a B.Sc. from the University of Toronto and a Masters of Public and Private Management from Yale University.
John M. Marsh is a retired CEO and a Corporate Director. Mr. Marsh is part owner of the Peace Bridge Duty Free. He has owned and operated companies involved with engineering and energy.
Mr. Marsh is a Registered Professional Engineer (Ontario) and a Registered Chartered Engineer (U.K.).
Robert A. Mitchell is a Chartered Accountant and a former partner of Ernst and Young LLP. At Ernst and Young, Mr. Mitchell acted as auditor and advisor to significant clients in a broad cross-section of industries. He was also Ernst and Young’s Director of Services to the trust company industry.
Mr. Mitchell currently serves on the board of Acuity Funds Ltd. and Orvana Minerals Corporation.
Brian R. Mosko is Chief Operating Officer and Executive Vice President of the Corporation and its subsidiary Home Trust Company. He was appointed to this position on January 1, 2010.
Mr. Mosko joined the Corporation in March 1989 as a Senior Mortgage Underwriter. He assumed increasing responsibilities over time and was appointed Chief Operating Officer and Senior Vice President on January 1, 2008. On January 1, 2010, he was appointed Chief Operating Officer and Executive Vice President. Mr. Mosko is responsible for the overall operation and administration of the Corporation including Information Technology and Credit. Mr. Mosko is an Officer of the Corporation and of its subsidiary Home Trust Company. He has been a director of Home Trust Company since February 2007 and of Payment Services Interactive Gateway (a subsidiary of Home Capital Group Inc.) since October 2007.
Prior to joining the Corporation, Mr. Mosko held positions with the Bank of Montreal, Revenue Canada and Price Waterhouse. He holds a Bachelor of Commerce (Hons) degree from the University of Windsor, is a Fellow of the Institute of Canadian Bankers (FICB) as well as an Accredited Mortgage Professional (AMP) and an ICD.D from the Institute of Corporate Directors at the Rotman School of Management.
Kevin P.D. Smith currently serves as President and CEO of St. Joseph's Health System a large multi-site Academic Health Science Centre which includes services spanning community-based to tertiary acute-care. Dr. Smith is also an Associate Professor in the Department of Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, McMaster University and is a frequent advisor to the Ontario government. In this latter capacity he has served as ministerial supervisor and investigator on behalf of the Government and has led a number of corporate projects including the Emergency Room Alternate Level of Care (ALC) initiative currently underway.
Dr. Smith also participates in a number of provincial and national government bodies including the Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI) a $5 Billion independent organization funded by the Government of Canada to fund research infrastructure, the Association of Canadian Academic Health Care Organizations, the Council of Academic Hospitals of Ontario, and the Change Foundation.
Dr. Smith is also the Vice Chair of the Ontario Hospital Association (OHA), an organization representing all 158 hospitals in the Province of Ontario.
As President and Chief Executive Officer of Home Capital Group Inc., Gerald M. Soloway, with his team of financial service specialists, transformed a small savings and loan company into Canada's first choice alternative provider of residential first mortgages in Canada. In 2000, he personally spearheaded the move to convert the company's subsidiary, Home Savings & Loan Corporation into Home Trust Company, the first provincial loan corporation in 10 years to be converted to a federal trust company. When Mr. Soloway became President & CEO of Home Capital in 1987, Home Savings had 12 employees, $51 million in assets and $3 million in equity. As at March 31, 2010 Home Trust has over 500 employees, assets of over $7.04 billion and over $627.9 million in equity.
Mr. Soloway is credited with pioneering the provision of first residential mortgages to self-employed people and those with limited credit history, who do not meet the lending criteria of major financial institutions. Prior to his involvement with Home Capital, Mr. Soloway was a lawyer who practiced real estate, mortgage and commercial law in Toronto, gaining experience acting on behalf of major banks and trust companies. He attended school in London, Ontario and obtained a B.A. from the University of Western Ontario in 1958, majoring in Economics. He also obtained his LL.B. at Osgoode Hall in 1961, and was subsequently called to the bar in 1963.
Bonita Then currently serves as President and Chief Executive Officer of Specialty Foods Group, Inc., a U.S. based food company. Prior to joining Specialty Foods Group, Inc., Ms. Then was Chair of the Board and interim Chief Executive Officer for Humpty Dumpty Snack Foods Inc. Prior to 2006, Ms. Then held several senior finance roles with companies such as Altamira Investment Services Inc., National Trustco Inc., Scott's Hospitality Inc., Central Guaranty Trustco Inc. and Shell Canada Limited.
Ms. Then holds a bachelor's degree in economics and an MBA in Finance from the University of Toronto and is a fellow of the Canadian Securities Institute. She is also a director of UTAM (University of Toronto Asset Management), and is on the Investment Advisory Committee for Nunavut Trust and CHSRF.
Prior to 2005 Ms. Then served on the Board of the Earlscourt Family Centre, GeniSystems.ca Services Inc and the Toronto Victoria Order of Nurses and was a member of the Ontario Premier's Technology Council.
Leslie Thompson currently serves as President of LESRISK, Debt and Risk Management Inc. Prior to founding LESRISK in 1995, Ms. Thompson held senior finance roles with Union Bank of Switzerland, Chase Manhattan Bank, JP Morgan Bank, Dominion Securities and was the founding Director of Capital Markets of the Ontario Financing Authority.
Ms. Thompson holds a BA (Hon.) from York University, an MBA from the University of Western Ontario, is a Fellow of the Canadian Securities Institute, a Certified Management Consultant and a graduate from the Directors Education Program at the Rotman School of Management and Institute of Corporate Directors' designation holder.
Ms. Thompson serves on the Board of the Deposit Insurance Corporation of Ontario, Ontario Municipal Employees Retirement System and is Chair of the Investment Advisory Committee and Sinking Fund Trustee, City of Toronto.
Home Trust is a federally regulated trust company and a wholly owned subsidiary of Home Capital Group Inc., a publicly held company that trades on the TSX under the symbol HCG.
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