Financial Services >> CEO Interviews >> March 22, 1999
LAWRENCE S. BLOOMBERG is President, Chief Executive Officer and Director
of First Marathon Inc. He graduated from Sir George Williams University
in 1963 with a Bachelor of Commerce degree and in 1965 received his
Master of Business Administration from McGill University. In 1970 he was
awarded the designation, Chartered Financial Analyst. He joined Nesbitt
Thomson and Company in 1965, was appointed Head of Research in 1969, and
subsequently became Vice-President and Director of Institutional Equity
Sales. Mr. Bloomberg accepted the position of Vice-President and
Director, Institutional Equity Sales in 1975 with Pitfield Mackay Ross
Limited. In 1979, he was one of the founders of First Marathon
Securities Limited. As a past member of the YPO, Mr. Bloomberg then
joined the ranks of the XPO and the WPO and is now a member of the Chief
Executives Organization. He is on the Board of Directors and is a member
of the Executive Committee of the Investment Dealers Association of
Canada, a past member of the Board of Governors of The Toronto Stock
Exchange, and serves on the Board of Directors of several Canadian
corporations. Mr. Bloomberg is a member of Canada's Business Council on
National Issues; the C.D. Howe Institute; the Board of Trustees of the
Simon Wiesenthal Center, Inc.; a Director of the Toronto International
Film Festival Group; and a past Director of the Royal Ontario Museum and
its Foundation. A past Governor of Junior Achievement of Canada; a
member of the Board of Directors of the Baycrest Centre for Geriatric
Care; a former chairman of the Toronto United Jewish Appeal; and an
active participant in past United Way campaigns, Mr. Bloomberg was
honoured with a Human Relations Award from the Canadian Council of
Christians and Jews in recognition of his work in the community. Mr.
Bloomberg is a Vice Chairman of Mount Sinai Hospital, a Director of the
Mount Sinai Hospital Foundation of Toronto, and Chairman of Mount
Sinai's The Best Medicine campaign, which seeks to raise $100 million by
the year 2000. Mr. Bloomberg is a founding member of Concordia
University's Faculty of Commerce and Administration Business Advisory
Committee. He also has received an Honourary Doctor of Laws from the
University. Lawrence Bloomberg resides in Toronto, Canada with his wife
Frances. They have three children. He enjoys running and playing golf. Profile
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