Industry & Services >> CEO Interviews >> March 22, 1999
GERALD W. SCHWARTZ is Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer of
Onex Corporation. Mr. Schwartz, a native of Winnipeg, Canada, received
his B.A. and LL.B. degrees from the University of Manitoba and his
M.B.A. degree from Harvard University. He founded Onex in 1983 and its
predecessor in 1977. Prior to that, he worked in mergers and
acquisitions on Wall Street for seven years and practiced law in Canada
before that. Mr. Schwartz is Vice-Chairman and Member of the Executive
Committee of Mount Sinai Hospital and is a Director, Governor, or
Trustee of a number of other organizations, including Junior
Achievement, Canadian Council of Christians and Jews and The Starlight
Foundation. Profile
TWST: Give us a brief overview of Onex, your history, your variousactivities, your customers, those kinds of things?
Mr. Schwartz: Onex is a company I started in 1983. We are