Advisory Board

CHAIR

Peter
Sharpe

Peter retired from the Cadillac Fairview Corporation after a 26 year career, including 11 years as President and CEO, during which time he expanded the real estate investment platform beyond North America into the United Kingdom and South America. Under his leadership, CF’s assets under management grew from $6 billion to over $20 billion. Peter also served as the Global Chairman of the International Council of Shopping Centers. In 2010, he was the recipient of the Building Owners and Managers Association Canada Chairman’s Award and, in 2014, was awarded the prestigious Lifetime Achievement Award by NAIOP.

Chair, Mortgage Fund

Dr. Sidney Zucker

Since 2015, Dr. Sidney Zucker has been the Chairman of the Clifton Blake Mortgage Fund. Prior to that, he owned and operated one of the largest and most successful dental practices in Canada, which he started in 1979. He is an energetic entrepreneur and accomplished real estate investor and private lender. His portfolio includes both residential and commercial properties, with a specialization in apartment buildings, along with mortgage investments. Sidney manages his real estate portfolio through his own property management company.

Patrick Brigham

Patrick was previously the President of Sunquest Vacations which he founded in 1972. Sunquest became Canada’s leading tour operator, launching countless international destinations for Canadians. He also launched Sunquest Incentive Travel, to cater to the fast growing corporate incentive travel market. In 1995, Sunquest was sold to Airtours, one of Britain’s largest wholesale travel companies. Patrick is on the Boards of Club Link Corporation and the Cambridge Group of Clubs, and is a former Director of the Greater Toronto Airport Authority.

Byron
Messier

Byron was President and CEO of Continental Insurance Company in the early 1990s when the company was acquired by Fairfax Financial Holdings and renamed Lombard General Insurance Company. He continued to serve as President and CEO of Lombard Insurance until 2003. At that time, he successfully completed an IPO consolidating Fairfax’s four Canadian insurance companies under a new publicly traded holding company, Northbridge Financial Corp, where he remained CEO until his retirement in 2005. Today, Byron is also Managing Partner of Forstar Capital Ltd., a Toronto based private equity company.