Barry Gorman and William Hewitt are the recipients of the Financial Executives International Canada’s (FEI Canada), 2010 Frank S. Capon Distinguished Service Award.

FEI Canada is a professional membership association for senior financial executives. The award honours Frank Capon, who was an outstanding FEI Canada member for 57 years, and is credited with bringing FEI to Canada in 1948.

Gorman and Hewitt will be recognized for their long standing contributions to FEI Canada and the financial community at large, at FEI Canada’s Annual Conference, which will be held in Victoria from June 9-11.

“We are very pleased to recognize the distinguished contributions of these two outstanding professionals,” says Michael Conway, chief executive and national president, FEI Canada. “FEI Canada is grateful for both their long term and ongoing dedication and commitment to our organization and their profession at large.”

Gorman, a member of FEI Canada’s Atlantic Provinces Chapter, has been a professor of accounting and taxation at Saint Mary’s University since 1979. During this time, he has held other faculty positions including Acting Associate Dean of Commerce during the 2001-2002 academic year and past chairman of the Department of Accounting. Gorman has authored two books which include Real Estate Taxation in Canada and Canadian Income Taxation: Policy and Practice, is well published in academic journals, and has presented numerous accounting and taxation papers across North America, Europe and China. He has also written pre-budget submissions and appeared before the Senate and House of Commons Finance Committees and the Nova Scotia Law Amendments Committee on behalf of a number of professional organizations.

Prior to joining Saint Mary’s, he was engaged in private practice for eleven years, focusing primarily on accounting and taxation issues for small and medium-sized businesses.

Gorman is currently chair of the board of trustees of the Canadian Financial Executives Research Foundation (CFERF), a member of the board of directors of FEI Canada, vice chairman of FEI Canada’s Issues and Policies Advisory Committee, and chairman of FEI Canada’s Tax Policy and Competitiveness Committee. Additionally, he is also secretary of the Atlantic Branch of the Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners and is the long-time coordinator of the Atlantic Tax Conference.

Hewitt, a member of FEI Canada’s Toronto Chapter, now retired, has held several influential positions throughout his career and remains an active member of the financial community.

He was previously chief investment officer of Scotia Cassels Investment Counsel Limited, principal officer and vice president for investments at Sun Life Assurance Company of Canada, and secretary/treasurer for Imperial Trustees. He has also served on both public and private company boards, including Extendicare Limited, Alcora Explorations Limited, Helix Investments Limited, Health Care Ventures LP, and Dynacare Health Services Inc.

Hewitt is FEI Canada’s current IPAC chair, a member of the Pensions and Capital Markets sub-committees, is on FEI Canada’s Best in Class MBA case competition organizing committee, and has been a CFERF trustee since the Foundation’s establishment four years ago. He is past chapter president in Hamilton (now Southern Golden Horseshoe) and served as founding chapter president in London (now South Western Ontario).

His extensive volunteer work also includes service as a member of the Editorial Advisory Board at Financial Executives Magazine, director with University of the Toronto Asset Management Corporation, an Investment Committee member at the University of Western Ontario, director at Albert and Temmy Latner Family Foundation, past chairman of the George R. Gardiner Museum of Ceramic Art, trustee of the Rehabilitation Institute of Toronto, and a trustee of Eglinton St. George’s United Church in Toronto.

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