May Mentoring Session: Wes Hall...Early Mornings, Late Evenings - The Keys to Surviving Bay Street
UFSC Toronto Group Mentoring Session with WES HALL, Kingsdale Shareholder Services and Kingsdale Communications.
The mentoring sessions are an opportunity to interact with some of the top elite executives that have partnered with UFSC. The sessions are held with small groups of 10 to 15 members to enable an intimate and interactive setting. The mentors will share their experience and insight and answer any questions pertaining to a specific profession or career strategy in general. Members have found these sessions to be extremely valuable where they learn wisdom they don’t teach you in university classes.
Wes has over 15 years experience in Corporate Governance and Shareholder Communications. Wes started Kingsdale Shareholder Services Inc. in 2003 and Kingsdale Communications Inc. in 2009 to provide clients with a best-in-class mechanism for communicating with shareholders and managing IR communications.
Prior to forming Kingsdale, Wes was Vice President, National Sales for Georgeson Shareholder Communications Canada, Inc. and prior thereto, Senior Manager of CIBC Mellon Trust Company. Wes also brings forward his experience from his work as Assistant Corporate Secretary at CanWest Global Communications Corp.
Wes is a founding board member of the Canadian Society of Corporate Secretaries (CSCS) and was the CSCS’ longest serving President. Wes remains committed to his involvement in and support of the CSCS, and other corporate governance and investor relations organizations such as the Limited Market Dealers Association of Canada where he acts as a Director. Wes also acts as Director on the Board of Metallic Ventures Gold Inc.
Gathering an expert team of senior professionals, Wes leads the Kingsdale team and guides his clients through takeover bids (hostile and friendly), proxy fights, routine shareholder meetings and is an industry expert in proxy solicitation, depositary, corporate governance and other shareholder related initiatives. Wes has been sought out to lead some of the highest profile deals in North America including Petro Canada’s $19 billion merger with Suncor Energy, Xstrata PLC’s $19 billion bid for Falconbridge, Companhia Vale do Rio Doce’s $19 billion bid for Inco Limited, Barrick Gold’s $9 billion acquisition of Placer Dome Inc., Goldcorp Inc.’s $2.4 billion merger with Wheaton River Minerals Ltd., among many others. Kingsdale is also highly involved in consulting for contested shareholder meetings and has worked on the majority of Canadian proxy contests in recent years, including 19 of the 23 contested shareholder meetings in 2008.
Wes Hall is an Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year 2009 award recipient in Ontario.
Date & Time: Wednesday, May 05, 2010 at 6:00 pm
Cost: FREE for UFSC Members, NOTE: This event is open to UFSC Members only. Not a 2010 member but interested in joining or renewing your membership – just go to http://www.ufsc-toronto.org/membership/main for details!
Location: Session will be location downtown in the financial district - venue details will be provided to those who RSVP for this event.
Other Info: Light food and refreshments will be provided. A draw for a book selected by Wes Hall will take place at the end of the session. Please remember to bring a business card for the draw.
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