About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 24. Chapters: Jim Balsillie, Jay Firestone, Sergio Marchionne, Vernor Smith, Mike Del Grande, Frederick John Mitchell, Alfonso Gagliano, Bruce Crozier, Yasmin Ratansi, Tim Uppal, David Stupich, Jean-Maurice Simard, Colin Strang, Philip Orsino, Elizabeth Marshall, Richard Haskayne, Norman Betts, Sheila Fraser, Paul Beeston, Kenneth Farmer, K. Rai Sahi, Bill Clarke, Gregory Charles Wilkins, Earl Orser, Howard Irwin Ross, Rod Anderson, Alan DeSousa, Irvine Barrow, Armand Cloutier, L. Denis Desautels, Roger Lindsay, Peter G. Christie, Carl Zehr, Alan Gray Martin, Francis Badgley, Fernand Leblanc, Joseph Pennachetti, Deepak Chopra, Alistair Stewart, Romuald Rodrigue, Vern Krishna, Joseph-Armand Landry, Auguste Maltais, Leonard Stick, Karim Jamal, J. Spencer Lanthier, Alex Shepherd, David Drybrough, Dale Gislason, Erik Peters. Excerpt: James Laurence "Jim" Balsillie (born February 3, 1961) is a Canadian businessman and co-CEO of the Canadian company Research In Motion. He is a member of the Trilateral Commission, a private political organization. With an estimated net worth of $US 1.8 billion (as of March 2011), Balsillie was ranked by Forbes as the 20th wealthiest Canadian and 692nd in the world. Balsillie is a noted athlete and passionate fitness advocate. He was named Athlete of the Year at Trinity College, University of Toronto, plays hockey and golf at competitive levels, and coaches his son's soccer and basketball teams. He currently trains and competes in Men's Long Course Triathlons. Balsillie is also the Honorary Chair of the Peterborough YMCA's Building New Memories Campaign and on March 2, 2007 that same YMCA announced that the new facility they opened the previous month will forever be known as the Balsillie Family YMCA. Balsillie was born in Seaforth, Ontario, and raised in Peterborough, Ontario, where his family relocated...
