Board of Directors
Glenn Morley
President
Glenn Morley is a Toronto-based composer, conductor, and musical director with an extensive background in music for theatre, live media events, film and television. He is also active in concert music, having had his works performed by orchestras across Canada. He is a founding member and past President of the Guild of Canadian Film Composers, a Director of SOCAN and a member of the Faculty of Fine Arts Advisory Council at York University.
Stephen Posen
Vice President
Stephen Posen is a Senior Partner at Minden, Gross LLP in Toronto, having been managing partner for a number of years. He has been a contributor and member of the editorial committee of two legal texts (Shopping Centre Leases Vol. I and II) and has contributed articles to a number of legal texts. He was Glenn Gould’s lawyer from 1971 until his untimely death in 1982, and continues to serve as Executor of Glenn Gould’s Estate.
Robert S. Williams, Ph.D.
Secretary
Robert Williams, who has Masters degrees in Social Work and Fine Arts and a Ph.D. in Bioethics, has worked as a bioethicist, social worker, archaeologist, dance historian, dance bookseller and the publisher of several books on dance. His great-grandfather was the distinguished founder of “R.S. Williams & Sons, Co. Ltd.”, a Toronto company founded in 1849 that made and sold musical instruments. His grandfather donated an important collection of historical musical instruments to the Royal Ontario Museum. Carrying on the family tradition, Bob collects instruments associated with his family’s company and has loaned a number of string instruments to promising young musicians. He has also initiated scholarships at the Royal Conservatory of Music and supports its chamber music program for burgeoning professional musicians.
Paul M. Hoffert, C.M.
Chair, Prize Committee
Mr. Hoffert is CEO of Noank Media, Chair of the Bell Broadcast and New Media Fund, Chair of the Guild of Canadian Film and Television Composers, Fine Arts Professor at York University, and a Director of the SOCAN Foundation. He is former a Faculty Fellow at Harvard Law School, President of the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television, Chair of the Ontario Arts Council, and Director of the United Nations World Summit on Information Societies. An established jazz recording artist, television performer, off-Broadway musical author, and film composer, he has parallel achievements in science and technology, has authored several best-selling books and has received many awards for his contributions to music and media.
Jim B. Gelcer
Chair, Fundraising
Jim Gelcer has careers in both technology and the arts. An expert in Internet and social media, he has managed cross-functional teams for Apple, IBM, Cisco, SGI, and Open Text. As Chief Operating Officer of Harvard digital media startup Noank Media, he was responsible for driving business development, strategic alliances, content license acquisition, and major label deals. Jim is an award-winning and acclaimed composer, producer, recording artist, and founding partner of a successful film, television, and advertising music production house whose clients included CBC, MuchMusic, Warner, Virgin, Bell, and Labatt. He has served as Director for arts boards including Toronto Summer Music, Via Salzburg Chamber Orchestra, and Mariposa In The Schools.
Louise Levitt
Chair, Nominating Committee
Louise Levitt is an Executive Member and Chair of the Nominating Committee and is an active member of several other boards. She has been a Director of The Acapella Foundation, which aims to improve the quality of life of children in Toronto, through music, education and health. When not volunteering, she travels from Timboctou, Mali to the Osa Peninsula of Costa Rica.
Gary Goldberg
Gary Goldberg is President of Gadango Inc., a private investment company and is President of Galin Foundation. He is also a director of the Gairdner Foundation, Nature Conservancy of Canada (Ontario Region) and The Barbara Turnbull Foundation for Spinal Cord Research. He is National President of the Canadian Technion Society and is a Member of The Quadrangle Society of Massey College.
Gary Hanson
Gary Hanson was appointed as the eighth Executive Director of The Cleveland Orchestra in March 2004. Born in Toronto, Gary studied music at the University of Western Ontario and completing his studies in double bass performance at the Robert Schumann Conservatory in Düsseldorf, Germany. He serves on many arts and culture boards, is the recipient of The Cleveland Orchestra's Distinguished Service Award and is an industry leader in the area of orchestral electronic media.
Karim Kanji
Karim N. Kanji is president and chief executive officer of Sutter Hill Investment Corporation, a real estate investment, development and property management company founded in Toronto. A noted philanthropist, Mr. Kanji sits on the boards or has been involved with several arts and charitable organizations, including the Bayview Glen Foundation, Junior Achievement of Central Ontario, MacIdeas, Princess Margaret Hospital Foundation, Royal Conservatory of Music, Seventh Stage Theatrical Productions, and The Honourable Company of Freemen of the City of London of North America, and most recently Sistema Toronto and The Glenn Gould Foundation.
John D. McKellar C.M., Q.C.
John McKellar, a lawyer with WeirFoulds LLP, has long been an active volunteer, director, officer and advisor with various music and theatre groups in Toronto and across Canada. He is a past President of the Arts and Letters Club of Toronto and a former board member of the Canada Council for the Arts and is now Vice Chair of the Ontario Arts Foundation and the Ontario Cultural Attractions Fund and Chairman of the Young Centre for the Performing Arts and The Toronto Arts Council. He was appointed a member of the Order of Canada in 1996.
Juli Morrow
Juli Morrow has been a partner at Goodmans since 1985. A large part of her practice involves financing and refinancing of real estate assets, including mortgage transactions, private placements and public offerings. She was named one of the top 25 women lawyers in Canada by Lexpert. Juli brings her passion for preserving and improving music education to The Glenn Gould Foundation.
Costa Pilavachi
Born in London, England Costa Pilavachi spent his childhood in London, Athens, Cairo and Washington, D.C. before moving to Ottawa where he completed degrees in Political Science and Public Administration at Carleton University and an MBA in Arts Administration from York University in Toronto. President of the Dutch record label Philips Classics Production when it merged with The Decca Records Company, he was instrumental in the creation of the new Decca Music Group. He was also president of EMI Classics, the world’s oldest record label, and has enjoyed an international career in the music industry, working with many prestigious orchestras and legendary performers.
John P.L. Roberts, O.C., M.A., D.F.A, LLD
John Roberts was the Founding President of The Glenn Gould Foundation. He was a close friend and colleague of Gould for more than twenty seven years. Roberts was Head of Music for CBC Radio and commissioned numerous recitals from the great pianist as well as radio documentaries and a historic concert for the European Broadcasting Union which was heard in many countries around the world. Roberts is considered an international authority on Gould and has produced two books on him as well as countless articles for national and international publications. He appears in the most recent documentary film on Gould made by White Pine Rictures and recently premiered at the the Toronto International Film Festival.
Ray Roberts
Ray Roberts's long association with Glenn Gould started in the early 1970s when Lorne Tulk, a schoolmate of Ray's, injured himself and needed help moving recording equipment for a Gould recording session. From then until Gould's death, Ray gradually became a key figure in Gould's day-to-day life. Since Gould's death, Ray has been closely associated with the Glenn Gould Estate and is a director of The Glenn Gould Foundation.
Sir David Tang, KBE, OBE, Chevalier de L'ordre des Arts et Lettres
Sir David Tang, KBE, OBE, Chevalier de L'ordre des Arts et Lettres, was born in Hong Kong, studied in both Hong Kong and Britain and graduated with a philosophy honours degree before going to Law College. He is the founder of Shanghai Tang, the China Club, China Tang and Island Tang, and is the exclusive distributor of all Cuban brands of cigars for Asia, Australia and Canada. Active as an advisor and director for many prestigious companies and charities, he is a great admirer of Glenn Gould.
David Visentin
David Visentin is widely known as a performer (violin and viola), pedagogue and administrator whose leadership and creative experience in the performing arts has successfully advanced classical and contemporary music from coast to coast in Canada. A former dean and associate dean at The Glenn Gould School and Young Artists Performance Academy of The Royal Conservatory of Music, he led the school through its historic transition to becoming one of the world's leading professional training programs. He actively performs in Toronto and is the Executive Director/Artistic Director of the newly established music education program, Sistema Toronto.
Will Molson, CA, CPA
Treasurer, Non-Director Officer
Will Molson is a licensed public accountant and Executive Member of the Canadian and US foundations and has expertise in not-for-profit organizations and governance. He is a member of the Institute of Corporate Directors and the CD Howe Institute. Will is Chair of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Ontario Applications Committee, and a director of Home Ownership Alternatives.
Current as of January 25, 2012
The Glenn Gould Foundation Inc. Board of Directors
Paul M. Hoffert, C.M.
President
Mr. Hoffert is CEO of Noank Media, Chair of the Bell Broadcast and New Media Fund, Chair of the Guild of Canadian Film and Television Composers, Fine Arts Professor at York University, and a Director of the SOCAN Foundation. He is former a Faculty Fellow at Harvard Law School, President of the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television, Chair of the Ontario Arts Council, and Director of the United Nations World Summit on Information Societies. An established jazz recording artist, television performer, off-Broadway musical author, and film composer, he has parallel achievements in science and technology, has authored several best-selling books and has received many awards for his contributions to music and media.
Gary Hanson
Secretary
Gary Hanson was appointed as the eighth Executive Director of The Cleveland Orchestra in March 2004. Born in Toronto, Gary studied music at the University of Western Ontario and completing his studies in double bass performance at the Robert Schumann Conservatory in Düsseldorf, Germany. He serves on many arts and culture boards, is the recipient of The Cleveland Orchestra's Distinguished Service Award and is an industry leader in the area of orchestral electronic media.
Porter Bibb
Porter Bibb has more than 40 years experience as a senior investment banker, specializing in media, technology, telecom and life sciences. Mr. Bibb is a former White House Correspondent for Newsweek magazine; the first Publisher of Rolling Stone Magazine, the producer of many films, including “Gimme Shelter” (with the Rolling Stones). He is former Corporate Development Director for The New York Times Company and the author of several books, including the best- selling biography of Ted Turner (Random House, 1997). Mr. Bibb is a member of the board of trustees of George Eastman House in Rochester, NY, as well as trustee emeritus of the New York State Council for the Humanities; The Theatre Development Foundation; and Muse Film & Television.
Frank O. Gehry
Raised in Toronto, Canada, Frank Gehry received his Bachelor of Architecture degree from the University of Southern California and studied City Planning at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design. Frank has built an architectural career that spans five decades and has produced public and private buildings worldwide. His work has earned him several of the most significant and prestigious awards in the architectural field.
Moshe Safdie
Moshe Safdie is a leading architect, urban planner, educator, theorist, and author. Embracing a comprehensive and humane design philosophy, Safdie has been a visionary force in architecture and urban planning and design for over forty years. Completing a wide range of projects, such as cultural, educational, and civic institutions; neighborhoods and public parks; mixed-use urban centers and airports; and master plans for existing communities and entirely new cities, Safdie has made lasting contributions to the quality of life in cities and neighborhoods around the world. Safdie has been the recipient of numerous awards, honorary degrees, and civil honors, including the Companion Order of Canada and the Gold Medal of the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada.
Dory Vanderhoof
A Senior Partner for Genovese, Vanderhoof & Associates since 1989, Dory Vanderhoof has assisted more than 200 arts, culture and heritage institutions across North America to build GV&A into one of the leading arts/cultural management consulting firms. GV&A has an unparalleled record of success in assisting their clients in executive search, effective planning, capital campaigns, successful facility development, and dramatic improvement to contributed and earned revenue.
Richard Saul Wurman
Spurred by the dance between his curiosity and ignorance, Richard Saul Wurman has sought ways to make the complex clear. He has now written, designed and published 82 books on topics ranging from football to health care to city guides, but he likes to say that they all spring from the same place – his ignorance. Wurman created the TED conference in 1984, bringing together many of America!s clearest thinkers in the fields of technology, entertainment and design. He continues to co-chair the annual TEDMED meetings.
Will Molson, CA, CPA
Treasurer, Non-Director Officer
Will Molson is a licensed public accountant and Executive Member of the Canadian and US foundations and has expertise in not-for-profit organizations and governance. He is a member of the Institute of Corporate Directors and the CD Howe Institute. Will is Chair of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Ontario Applications Committee, and a director of Home Ownership Alternatives.
Current as of September 27, 2011