6:30 pm, FRIDAY APRIL 21, 2006 (Purchase tickets asap!! Some still available.)
This will be a wonderful evening - an elegant dinner in an elegant setting,socializing with the movers and shakers and old friends, two incredibly interesting speakers, and the award winning Rosario Arce, Latin American singer of renown, to warm up the party!
Do join us!! There is a special price for a table of 8; there will be door prizes, and the location is right next door to the Radisson Hotel Toronto East so you don't have to drive after the party is over
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:
DR. JAYSON MYERS, Senior Vice President and Chief Economist Canadian Manufacturers & Exporters "Manufacturing 20/20: The future of manufacturing in Ontario." Dr. Myers will be speaking on the current conditions affecting manufacturing, as well as the challenges and changes reshaping the industry in Ontario. He will also talk about what manufacturers and communities have to do to compete in the future and what the priority issues are in Ontario.
Jayson Myers is the Senior Vice President and Chief Economist of Canadian Manufacturers & Exporters (CME) and is in charge of CME’s national policy office in Ottawa. He is also the President of his own economics consulting firm. Dr. Myers is a well-known economic commentator, and is widely published in the fields of Canadian and international economics, technological and industrial change. He has been recognized by consulting firm Watson Wyatt as the most accurate economic forecaster in Canada.
Dr. Myers is a director on the Board of Materials and Manufacturing Ontario and the Canadian European Roundtable for Business. He sits on special advisory councils to the Minister for International Trade, the Minister of Industry, and the Bank of Canada. Dr. Myers chairs the Business Coalition on Cost Recovery and the Canadian Services Coalition. He is also a regional director of the Canadian Forces Liaison Council and Project Leader of CME’s Manufacturing 20/20 initiative, a cross-country discussion about the future of manufacturing in Canada.
Dr. Myers studied at Queen's University, Kingston and the University of British Columbia in Canada, and at the London School of Economics and Oxford University in the United Kingdom. He has held appointments as a research fellow at Nuffield College, Oxford and a lecturer in international studies at Warwick University, also in the U.K. He is currently the analyst for Canadian affairs for Oxford Analytica, an international consulting group based at Oxford University.
STEVE RODGERS, Magna Vice-President, Marketing and Business Development - Asia Pacific, Chair Automotive Parts Manufacturers Associatiion "The Successes of Magna and Strategies for Sustainable Growth."
Steve Rodgers joined the Magna Corporate Office in August 2003 as Vice-President, Marketing and was appointed to his current position in May 2005. Steve was recently appointed the Chairman of the Automotive Parts Manufacturers Association (APMA). Steve is a member of the CCBC Board of Directors and chairs the APMA Annual General Conference Committee.
Prior to his appointment to the Magna Corporate Office, Mr. Rodgers served as Senior Vice-President, Marketing of Intier Automotive. Other previous positions within the Magna Group of Companies included Vice-President, Sales and Marketing for Atoma and Vice President, Sales and Marketing at Tesma. He also served as the Assistant General Manager at Karmax Heavy Stamping within the Cosma Group. Prior to joining Magna, Mr. Rodgers served as a Sales Representative and Manager, Strategic Planning & Information Systems with General Motors of Canada. Mr. Rodgers holds a B.M.E. from the GMI Engineering & Management Institute in Flint, Michigan.
ROSARIO ARCE
Rosario has been designated as the Bolivian Musical Ambassador for Canada, as well she was awarded the Canadian Latin American award. She has performed all over the world including Bolivia, Chile, Miami, Montreal. In Toronto she has performed at Ontario Place Forum, Roy Thompson Hall, De Maurier Theatre, Living Arts Centre. She is currently in the process of making her second CD.
