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Robert Fung a well regarded financier currently chairs the Toronto Waterfront Revitalization Corporation on behalf of the Government of Canada the Province of Ontario and the City of Toronto. He has recently issued his report detailing a strategic business plan for the $12 billion revitalization development and financing of Toronto's waterfront.
From 1980 to 1997 he was Vice-Chairman and a Director of Gordon Capital Corporation. He was a senior member of the team that built that company into one of Canada’s most innovative independent investment dealers at the time participating in many of Canada's largest corporate transactions. Much of his efforts focused in corporate finance in the natural resources sector particularly in acquisitions in the oil and gas industry. Upon leaving Gordon Capital he joined Capital West where he was a Senior Partner.
From 1967 to 1978 he was Vice-President and a Director of Dominion Securities Limited with responsibilities for its investment activities in Asia and the Middle East. He began his career in the investment industry in 1964 with Wood Gundy.
Mr. Fung is a member of the Board of Directors of a number of private public and charitable organizations. He is Chairman of Crystallex International Corporation SMART Toronto Deputy Chairman of Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada as well as a Director of Mount Sinai Hospital Simon Lunenfeld Research Institute Canada's Export Development Corporation (Chairman of the Audit Committee) GLOBE Foundation of Canada and a member of the Province of Ontario’s BioCouncil. He was a member of the Prime Minister of Canada's Advisory Committee on Asia Pacific Economic Corporation as well as a member of the Government of Canada's Department of Industry International Trade and Agriculture Team Canada Inc. Advisory Board which provided advice to the Government of Canada in setting strategic direction and performance objectives for Canada's International Business Development. | 