2010 Honourees
Dr. Michael Julius
The goal of Dr. Julius' research is to understand the nature of each immune system
component, and characterize, at a cellular and molecular level, how the interactions
among them lead to normal healthy immune responses and good health.
Dr. Julius is currently Vice-President Research, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre,
Senior Scientist, molecular and cellular biology - Odette cancer research program,
Sunnybrook Research Institute, Professor, department of immunology, University of
Toronto and Professor, department of medical biophysics, University of Toronto.
He is a graduate of McGill University in Canada and Stanford University in the USA.
Dale Lastman
Co-Chair of Goodmans LLP. Practices corporate, commercial and securities law and
provides counsel in connection with public offerings, mergers and acquisitions,
and business restructurings. Dale is a director of Maple Leaf Sports & Entertainment
Ltd. and is an Alternate NHL Governor. Dale also serves on the boards of the Ontario
Lottery and Gaming Corporation and RioCan Real Estate Investment Trust. In addition
to being a director of Canada’s Top 40 Under 40, he was also a recipient of “Canada's
Top 40 Under 40” in 1995 and their “Best of the Best” Canadian Leadership Award
in 2005.
Dale is recognized as a leading practitioner by The Canadian Legal Lexpert Directory
(corporate/M&A) and has been recommended by Chambers Global Guide to the World’s
Leading Lawyers (corporate/M&A), Practical Law Company’s Which Lawyer? (corporate/M&A),
Euromoney’s Guide to the World’s Leading M&A Lawyers, IFLR 1000 (M&A), The Lexpert/ALM
Guide to the Leading 500 Lawyers in Canada (corporate finance) and The Best Lawyers
in Canada (corporate/M&A /securities).
Dale serves as a Member of the Board of Trustees of the Hospital for Sick Children.
He is a lecturer in securities law at Osgoode Hall Law School and was the recipient
of the “Adjunct Faculty Award for Teaching Excellence” in 2005.
Dan Senor - 2010 Keynote Speaker
Dan Senor is an author, geopolitical expert, investor, and adjunct senior fellow
for Middle East studies at the Council on Foreign Relations.
He has long been involved in policymaking, politics, and business in the Middle
East. Senor was one of the longest-serving civilian officials in Iraq, where he
served in 2003 and 2004 as a Senior Adviser and the Chief Spokesperson for the U.S.-led
Coalition. For his service, he was awarded the highest civilian honor by the Pentagon.
Senor also served as a Pentagon adviser to Central Command in Qatar and as a foreign
policy and communications adviser in the U.S. Senate. He has studied in Israel,
completed his MBA at Harvard Business School, and has traveled extensively throughout
the Arab world. In his business career, he has invested in a number of Israeli and
American start-ups, and today is with a New York–based global investment fund.
Senor’s analytical pieces are frequently published by the Wall Street Journal; he
has also written for the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Weekly Standard,
and TIME.
Senor is the co-author of a new book, called Start-Up Nation: The Story of Israel’s
Economic Miracle. It will be published in November by TwelveBooks. Tom Brokaw called
Start-Up Nation “a playbook for every CEO who wants to develop the next generation
of leaders.”
An accomplished speaker—Senor gave more than a hundred press briefings while serving
in Iraq—Senor comes to the podium to discuss the current, ever-changing global political
situation. Because of Senor’s international policy expertise, specifically on Iraq
and Iran, the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, America’s renewed engagement with Europe
and the tension between Russia and the new Ukraine, he is uniquely positioned to
speak to America’s strategy and role in the world for the next four years and how
the international community will react.
Senor lives in New York City with his wife and two sons.