Career2005-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 | ||
Education1995 - Called to the Ontario Bar 1993 - LLB, Osgoode Hall Law School 1988-1990 - Economics, McMaster University | ||
Athletic Accomplishments7th 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' Council2004-2006 - 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 Committee2006-2007 - 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 | ||