On Sunday, November 10, 2013, Technion Canada held its Annual General meeting at the Park Hyatt Hotel in Toronto. Elections were held for the Technion Canada Board of Directors and 24 Technion supporters were elected to serve as Directors of Technion Canada. The Officers elected for 2013-2014 are: Chair – Doreen Green; President – Marvin Ostin; Vice President – Edward Nagel; Treasurer – Harold Garfinkle; Secretary – Neil Closner; Officers at Large – Julian Brass and Ben Wygodny.
Following completion of the business at hand, the Directors and several other invited guests were treated to an exciting presentation by Technion President, Prof. Peretz Lavie. Prof. Lavie shared some thoughts he had as to what the most memorable moment of his Presidency might be – in Stockholm witnessing the awarding of a Noble Prize to a Technion Professor or in New York at the signing of the Partnership between Technion and Cornell to create the Technion-Cornell Innovation Institute or just recently in Israel, for the signing of a memorandum of understanding between the Technion and Shantou University (STU) to launch TGIT, a new academic facility in Guangdong Province,the most populous of China’s 22 provinces along with a $130,000,000. donation to the Technion by the Li Ka Shing Foundation (LKSF).The gift from LKSF is the largest ever to the Technion and one of the most generous in the history of Israeli higher education. It will be used for strengthening Technion’s Haifa campus, for the benefit of its students and researchers.
