Seymour Schulich
Seymour Schulich (born January 6, 1940) is a Canadian business man and philanthropist.
Born in Montreal, Quebec, he graduated from McGill University with a B.Sc. in 1961 and a M.B.A in 1965. He received a Chartered Financial Analyst degree from the University of Virginia in 1969.
From 1968 to 1990, he worked at Beutel, Goodman & Company Ltd., a pension fund management company which manages in excess of $10.6 billion CAD (as of 2003), becoming president and Vice-Chairman. However, his fortune was made in co-founding Franco-Nevada Mining Corporation and also as the Chairman of Newport Capital Limited.
He is well known for his philanthropic activities such as his endowment for the Schulich School of Business at York University. More recently, Mr. Schulich has endowed the Faculty of Medicine & Dentistry ($25 million) at the University of Western Ontario. The faculty has been renamed the Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry. He had made initial efforts to endow the Faculty of Management at his alma mater McGill University. However, this effort did not come to fruition during the time of Bernard Shapiro's presidency at McGill University. In the summer of 2005, Mr. Schulich donated $25 million to the Faculty of Engineering at the University of Calgary, which was met by an equal donation by the Provincial Government of Alberta. The Faculty was renamed The Schulich School of Engineering in honour of his donation. In the fall of 2005, he made a further $20 million donation to the Faculty of Music at McGill University. As a result, it was renamed The Schulich School of Music.
In 1999, he was made a Member of the Order of Canada.
He is married to Tanna and has two daughters, Deborah and Judith.