A leading Canadian philanthropist and entrepreneur, Seymour Schulich, BSc’61, MBA’65, is co-founder of Franco-Nevada Mining Corporation and Chairman of Newmont Capital Limited. McGill’s music faculty was recently rechristened the Schulich School of Music in honour of his landmark $20 million gift, the highest to any music school in Canada.

McGill University professor Henry Mintzberg, BEng'61, is an acclaimed management thinker, prolific author and iconoclast, who has advised some of the world's largest corporations. He was made an Officer of the Order of Canada in 1997.

Former chair and CEO, Royal Bank Financial Group, John Cleghorn, BCom'62, is one of Canada's most respected corporate philanthropic leaders, known for his outstanding commitment to higher education. In 2001, he was made an Officer of the Order of Canada.

Livio DeSimone, BEng'57, DSc'94, is the former chair and CEO of 3M.

Ronald Meade, BA'61, is the founder of Altamira Capital Corp.

Philanthropist, activist and entrepreneur Edgar Bronfman, BA'51, is the President of the World Jewish Congress and the former Chair of the Seagram Company. In 1999, he was presented with the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the United States' highest civilian honour.

Lorne Trottier, BEng'70, MEng'73, is co-founder and president of Matrox Electronic Systems Ltd., a global innovator in the fields of graphics, video editing, image processing and new business media. His $10 million gift in 2000 helped build a state-of-the-art centre for information technology at McGill.

Rhodes Scholar John MacBain, BA'81, founded Trader Classified Media and served as its President and CEO until early in 2006. Under his leadership, it has become one of the world's largest classified advertising companies.

Darren Entwistle, MBA’88, is President and Chief Executive Officer of TELUS.

Alain Bellemare, MBA’93, became President of Pratt & Whitney Canada Corp. in 2002.

Paul Desmarais, Jr., Bcom’77, is currently the chairman and Co-Chief Executive Officer of Power Corporation of Canada.

Jean-Michel Arès, BEng’86, MEng’88, MBA’92, has been Senior Vice-President and Chief Information Officer of The Coca-Cola Company since 2002.