Career

    2005-present - Partner, Beard Winter LLP

    2000-2005 - Counsel, Estates and Trusts Group, McCarthy Tetrault

    1998-2000 - Manager, Corporate Trust, Bank of Montreal

    1995-1998 - Associate, Business Law and Estates and Trusts, McCarthy Tetrault

Education

    1995 - Called to the Ontario Bar

    1993 - LLB, Osgoode Hall Law School

    1988-1990 - Economics, McMaster University

Athletic Accomplishments

    7th Place Team - 2010 Alltech FEI World Equestrian Games

    36th Place Individual - 2010 Alltech FEI World Equestrian Games

    1988-2011 - Listed Athlete for Canadian Dressage Team for 20 of 23 years

    4 time Canadian World Cup League Finalist

    Top Canadian Rider - 1998 World Equestrian Games

    Bronze Medalist - 1997 North American Championships

    Individual Bronze Medalist - 1995 Pan American Games

    Team Bronze Medalist - 1995 Pan American Games

    1987-1990 4 time Ontario team member at North American Young Rider Championships winning Team Silver (1988), Individual Bronze (1988), and Team Bronze (1989)

Sport Administrative Experience

Canadian Olympic Committee:

 Athletes' Council

    2004-2006 - Chair, Canadian Olympic Committee Athletes' Council

    2001-2006 - Executive Member, Canadian Olympic Committee Athletes' Council

    1998-present - Member, Canadian Olympic Committee Athletes' Council

 Canadian Olympic Committee

    2006-2007 - Member, Canadian Olympic Committee Governance Review Committee

    2003-2006 - Executive Board Member, Canadian Olympic Committee

    2001-2006 - Board Member, Canadian Olympic Committee

    2003-2009 - Member, Canadian Olympic Committee By-Law Committee

    2009 - present - Member, Canadian Olympic Committee Audit Committee

Dressage Canada (and its predecessors):

    2009 - Member, Own The Podium Task Force

    2008-present - Chair, Dressage Canada Athletes' Council

    1996-2005 - Athlete Representative, Dressage Canada Board (previously Dressage Canada Management Committee)

    2003 - Chef d'Equipe, Dressage Team, Pan American Games

    1988-2008 - Executive Member, Canadian International Dressage Riders' Association

Equine Canada:

    2008 - Member, Long Term Equestrian Development Committee

    2007 - present - Member, Equine Canada AthletesÕ Council

Toronto Pan American Games Organizing Committee:

    2009 - present - Board Member, Toronto 2015 Pan American Games Corporation

Toronto 2015 Pan American Games Bid:

    2009 - Board Member, Toronto 2015 Pan American Games Bid Corporation

Toronto 2008 Olympic Bid:

    2001 - Member of Toronto 2008 Bid Team at Presentation to IOC in Moscow, Russia

    2000 - Member of Toronto 2008 Bid Team attending 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney, Australia

    1999-2001 - Member of Team 2008, Athlete Advisory Group to Toronto 2008 Olympic Bid

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