new Board Members
Sam Duboc
Michael Donnelly
Jane Freund
Sam Duboc’s career is marked by his passion for entrepreneurship, his ingenuity and corporate and community leadership. As President, Managing Partner and Founder of EdgeStone Capital Partners, Sam has successfully built one of Canada’s leading private equity firms and as President and COO, he founded Canada’s leading loyalty programme, Air Miles.
Michael Donnelly, class of '88, will be joining the Board of Governors of Crescent School.
Jane joins the Board as Co-Chair of the Centennial Celebration Committee. She has served on the CFC Executive for the past three years as the Middle School Liaison.
As a dedicated and active member of the community, Sam co-founded and is Chairman of Pathways to Education Canada, a non-profit organization focused on improving the lives of disadvantaged youth and their communities through educational attainment. In 2002 Sam was recognized as one of Canada's Top 40 Under 40™ and in 2005 was chosen as one of the “most influential” alumni of the programme. In addition to his ongoing work with Pathways to Education Canada, Sam is a member of the Young Presidents’ Organization (YPO), CAMH Foundation, Toronto City Summit Alliance Steering Committee and United Way Major Giving Cabinet. Sam holds a bachelor of science degree in chemical engineering from Tufts University magna cum laude and Tau Beta Pi and an MBA from Harvard Business School. A family man, Sam, his wife Claire and their four children (Natalie, 14, Madeleine, 13, Kendall, 11 and Jack in grade 4 at Crescent), enjoy travelling and all kinds of sports and culture. n
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After leaving Crescent in 1988 Michael graduated from Queen's University with a BAH (political studies) in 1992. After that he began his professional career at Goldman Sachs Canada and in 1994 he joined the Fixed Income Trading Department in Toronto. Michael joined TD Securities in 1998 where he has held progressively more senior roles in trading and he now is Managing Director and Head of the Domestic Interest Rate Trading and Sales area. Michael has remained active in the Crescent Community since graduation. He has been the rep for the class of '88 and more recently chaired the mentoring committee of the Alumni Association which has made significant strides in providing Crescent grads with a strong tie to the School. Most of you will know his mother Margaret who recently retired after 28 years as the School's librarian. Michael and his wife Kitty have two children, Emily who attends St. Clement's School, and Matthew in grade 5 at Crescent. n
Jane graduated as a speech-language pathologist from Cape Town University, South Africa and then travelled in Europe and Asia before settling in Canada. For 15 years she has worked as a speech –language pathologist in private practice, providing community-based speech pathology services to school age clients with language-based learning disabilities and acquired brain injury. Her areas of particular interest are reading competency and written language. Jane’s prior board experience includes The York School in Toronto and the Community Head Injury Resource Services of Toronto and Region. Jane and her husband, Michael, have three boys at Crescent: Nicholas (grade 11), Robbie (grade 9) and Thomas (grade 8). As a family they enjoy travelling, skiing and spending as much time as possible at their farm north of the city. n