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Thank you to all who attended the 2016 Ontario Prayer Breakfast!
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Prem Watsa is Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Fairfax Financial Holdings Limited, a holding company which, through its subsidiaries, is engaged in property and casualty insurance and reinsurance and investment management.
In 1985 Prem took control of Markel Financial which was controlled by the Virginia based Markel family. In 1987 he then re‐organized and renamed it Fairfax Financial Holdings Limited. He has served as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer since its inception. Since 1985, Fairfax has compounded book value by over 21%. Fairfax has total assets of approximately US$43 billion, revenues of approximately US$10 billion and common shareholders’ equity of approximately US$9 billion. The company is listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange.
He holds a Bachelors Degree in Chemical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology in Madras, India and obtained his MBA from the Richard Ivey School of Business at the University of Western Ontario. He is also a Chartered Financial Analyst. He holds an Honorary Doctorate of Laws from the University of Western Ontario,an Honorary Doctorate of Sacred Letters from Wycliff College of the University of Toronto and an Honorary Doctorate of Divinity from Tyndale College. He is a member of the Sick Children’s Hospital Foundation and is Chairman of their Investment Committee, member of the Advisory Board for the Richard Ivey School of Business, member of the Board of Directors of the Royal Ontario Museum Foundation, on the Board of Blackberry and Chairman of the Investment Committee of St. Paul’s Anglican Church in Toronto. He was formerly Chancellor of the University of Waterloo and on the Boards of the Bank of Ireland and of ICICI Bank.
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Ben Heppner is renowned worldwide for his portrayals in the dramatic tenor repertoire. His illustrious career has taken him to opera stages and concert halls around the world. Heppner studied music at the University of British Columbia. He first gained national attention in 1979 as the winner of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation Talent Festival. He is a 1988 winner of the Metropolitan Opera auditions and received Grammy Awards in 1998 for his recording of Die Meistersinger on London/Decca records and in 2001 for his recording of Les Troyens with the London Symphony Orchestra. Ben Heppner is a Companion of the Order of Canada.
Heppner now brings his voice to the airwaves of CBC Radio as the new host of Saturday Afternoon at the Opera and Backstage. In addition he is currently Professor of Voice at McGill University in Montreal. Ben Heppner and his wife, Karen, live in Toronto. He has three grown children.
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