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TORONTO, April 16, 2001 -- Two new administrative appointments were announced today at the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management. These appointments are part of a continuing restructuring, growth and enhancement of the Rotman MBA program.

Brendan Calder, an accomplished business leader and entrepreneur with 30 years of experience in the f inancial services industry, has accepted a position as Executive Director of the Rotman MBA Program. In his new role, he will oversee all administrative aspects of the MBA program including career center and student recruitment activities, as well as lead a project to enhance the program’s overall service to the Rotman community, particularly our service responsiveness to existing and potential students. Mr. Calder’s distinguished career is characterized by successive achievements in the areas of customer service, loyalty and retention; organizational change; and innovation. He holds a Bachelor of Mathematics degree from the University of Waterloo and attended Harvard’s Advanced Management Program. Most recently he was Chairman, President and CEO of CIBC Mortgages Inc., and he is a director of several firms including FirstService Corporation and FiLogix Inc. He is also chair of WirelessMoney Inc., serves on the board of Canada’s Top 40 Under 40, and is Deputy Chairman of the Peter F. Drucker Canadian Foundation. He is also a director and past chair of the Toronto International Film Festival, among other activities.

Glen Whyte, professor of organizational behaviour, returns to the Rotman administrative team in the newly created position, Associate Dean, Curriculum. He will oversee the transformation of the curricula of all Rotman programs as the School aims to reinvent business education, which includes continuing to develop the best, most innovative and integrative MBA curriculum in the business school fraternity. Prof. Whyte, has taught at U of T since 1989, and served as the director of the MBA program from 1995 to 1998.

He is also a lawyer, an award-winning teacher and researcher, and the former holder of the Simon Reisman Chair at the Treasury Board of Canada. Prof. Whyte holds an MBA from the University of Toronto and MA, MPhil, and PhD degrees in organizational behaviour from the School of Management, Yale University. He is an expert in negotiation, decision-making, dispute resolution, and risk management and has extensive consulting experience in both private and public sector organizations.

“This is an exciting time for the Rotman School,” says Dean Roger Martin. “I believe that with these appointments, we have taken another step in putting in place a faculty, administrative and staff team that has the talent, the energy, the drive, and the ability to begin the next phase of the School’s growth.”

Recently ranked by Business Week in the top tier of business schools in the world, the University of Toronto’s Rotman School offers leading-edge research and undergraduate and graduate degree programs, including the prestigious Rotman MBA, the newly redesigned Part-Time MBA, the Executive MBA, a first-rate Doctoral Program, the distinctive Master of Management & Professional Accounting program, combined programs with the University of Toronto faculties of Law, Engineering and Nursing, and an innovative series of Executive Programs tailored to the current needs of businesses and individual managers.

Ken McGuffin
Media Relations Officer
Rotman School of Management
Voice: (416) 946-3818
E-mail: mcguffin@rotman.utoronto.ca

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