ستيفن ج. ر. سميث

ستيفن سميث
المدرسة الأمجامعة الملكة
المهنةرجل أعمال
عـُرِف بـالمدير التنفيذي والشريك المؤسس، فيرست ناشونال فايننشال كورپوريشن

ستيفن ج. ر. سميث (Stephen J. R. Smith، و. 2 يونيو 1951)،[1] هو رجل أعمال كندي والرئيس التنفيذي والشريك المؤسس لفيرست ناشونال فايننشال كورپوريشن. اعتباراً من مارس 2026، قُدرت ثروته بنحو 7 بليون دولار كندي.[2]

النشأة والتعليم

Smith was born and raised in Ottawa, Ontario. He attended St. Patrick's College High School in Ottawa East.[1] As a youth, his hobbies included ham radio operating and computer coding, which was an emerging field in the 1960s.[3]

Smith graduated with a degree of Electrical Engineering from Queen's University in 1972[4]. He was briefly a computer coder before deciding to enroll in graduate studies. He moved to the United Kingdom to pursue a Master of Science in Economics from the London School of Economics. He graduated in 1973.[5]

مسيرته المهنية

Smith held various jobs at Hawker Siddeley Canada Inc., including assistant director of the aircraft manufacturer's corporate planning division.[6] In 1980, Smith's outspoken manner got him fired from Hawker Siddeley.[7] Smith started investing in real estate, flipping triplexes.[8] This venture evolved to include the construction of homes. However, a dramatic rise in interest rates slowed the real estate market, and the business collapsed.[8] In 1984, Smith declared personal bankruptcy.[8]

In 1988, he co-founded First National Financial Corporation with Moray Tawse, a manager at Guaranty Trust. In First National's first year, 10 employees generated approximately $200,000. Smith and First National developed the software MERLIN, which assists in mortgage approval.[2] It is one of the largest non-bank lender of mortgages in Canada. اعتبارا من 2015, First National had over $90 billion of mortgage loans under administration.[9]

Smith chairs and co-owns the Canada Guaranty Mortgage Insurance Company.[10] He purchased the company from AIG in 2010.[11] He is chair of Peloton Capital Management, which he formed in 2018 in partnership with two former executives from Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan.[12] Smith chairs and co-owns Duo Bank of Canada, which he bought in April 2019.[13] اعتبارا من 2026, he is the largest shareholder in Equitable Bank.[2] He is a member of the Business Council of Canada.[14]

في 17 مارس 2026، اشترى سميث حصة في الشركة الأم لمجلة الإيكونوميست[15]، والتي كانت تملكها لين فورستر دى روتشيلد، في ثالث تغيير كبير في هيكل الملكية في تاريخها الممتد 183 عاماً. استحوذ سميث وشركته القابضة العائلية، سميث فاينانشال كورپ، التي تمتلك شركات مالية، بما في ذلك ملكية مشتركة لمجموعة الاستشارات المؤثرة في مجال التصويت بالوكالة گلاس لويس، على حصة 26.9% في مجموعة الإيكونوميست مقابل مبلغ لم يُكشف عنه.[16]


الأعمال الخيرية

In 1997, he created the Stephen J.R. Smith Bursary, which rewards the leadership, involvement and creativity of electrical engineering and economics students.[17]

In 2015, he gave to $50 million to Queen's University at Kingston, after which Queen's business school was renamed to Smith School of Business. On 2 November 2023, he paid $100 million for Queen's engineering department to be renamed to the Stephen J. R. Smith Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science.[18]

Stephen Smith is an honorary governor of the Royal Ontario Museum[19] and the longstanding board chair of Historica Canada[20], the country's largest organization devoted to teaching Canada's history and the values of citizenship. In 2014, a $3 million donation from Smith and his wife, Diane Blake, helped found the Myseum of Toronto (now Museum of Toronto). The interactive online museum explores the history of the city of Toronto.[21]

Smith is a director of the independent, non-profit C. D. Howe Institute, an independent non-profit Canadian policy research organization.[20] He is a former vice-chair of Metrolinx Inc., the Ontario crown agency that provides public transit in the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Areas.[22]

تكريمات

المصادر

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