Previous Recipients
Recipients 1987 – 2009
- 2010, Mac Voisin, Founder and Chairman of the Board
M&M Meat Shops - 2009, Peter Gilgan, President and CEO
Mattamy Homes
- 2008, Jim Balsillie, Co-CEO
Research In Motion Limited
- 2007, Linda Hasenfratz, Chief Executive Officer
Linamar Corporation
- 2006, Annette Verschuren, Division President
Home Depot Canada
- 2005, Christine Magee, President & Co-founder
Sleep Country Canada
- 2004, Claude Lamoureux, President & CEO
Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan
- 2003, David A. Brown, QC, Chairman
Ontario Securities Commission
- 2002, Clive J. Beddoe, Chairman, President & CEO
WestJet Airlines Ltd.
- 2000-2001, Eric P. Newell, Chairman & CEO
Syncrude Canada Ltd.
- 1999, Firoz Rasul, Chairman & CEO
Ballard Power Systems Inc.
- 1998, Kacee Vasudeva, Chairman & CEO
Maxtech Manufacturing Inc., Waterloo
- 1997, Steven K. Hudson, President & CEO
Newcourt Credit Group, Toronto
- 1996, Joan Fisk, President
Tiger Brand Knitting Company, Cambridge
- 1995, Klaus Woerner, President and CEO
ATS Automation Tooling Systems Inc., Cambridge
- 1994, Larry Zepf, President
Zepf Technologies, Waterloo
- 1993, Val O’Donovan, Chairman & CEO
COM DEV Limited, Cambridge
- 1992, James Beingessner, President
B & W Heat Treating Limited, Kitchener
- 1991, Eileen Mercier, Senior Vice-President & Chief Financial Officer
Abitibi-Price Inc., Toronto
- 1990, David M. Gee, President
Havlik Technologies Inc., Cambridge
- 1989, Betty Sims, President
Chicopee Manufacturing Ltd., Kitchener
- 1988, Patrick J. Forde, Chairman & CEO
Finline Communications Inc., Waterloo
- 1987, Hugh Sloan, Vice-President of Automotive
Woodbridge Holdings Inc., Troy Michigan
