Senate

Lawrence Bailey is a proud alumnus of the University of Calgary, holding a BA in International Relations. He is a local businessman, as a CFP professional and a partner in a wealth management and estate planning practice. He is a born and raised fourth generation Calgarian who is actively involved in the community both on and off campus. In addition to his role on the University of Calgary Senate, Lawrence is a Board Member with the University of Calgary Alumni Association, an active volunteer in junior high schools with Junior Achievement, and is also involved with the Children's Wish Foundation, the Association for the Rehabilitation of the Brain Injured, and many others.

In 1983 Bell was invited to the University of Calgary to teach voice and form an Opera Workshop. His previous position was at the University of Ottawa where he had first established a voice studio and later founded an Opera Workshop, which continues to the present.

Bell has a long history in the singing world, having established his international career with a Wigmore Hall recital and followed that with an operatic debut in Bayreuth Germany under the patronage of Wieland Wagner.

His career took him to 23 countries and included many international events, such as the opening of Lincoln Center under the baton of Leonard Bernstein, the American President John F, Kennedy's wife was in attendance; several royal appearances in London (UK) with the Queen Mother in attendance, and one in Cleveland Ohio, with Prince Charles attending, recordings with Joseph Krips, Leonard Bernstein, George Szell, etc. In later years he toured Australia and New Zealand with Sir Peter Maxwell Davis singing his "Mad King" composition across the continents.

Bell's teaching at the University of Calgary has included successful Opera Workshop productions, which united the departments of drama and music in a cooperative effort. (This was a first.) His researches include a vibrato onset study with Dr. Michael Dobrovolsky formerly of the Linguistics Department, and a voice MRI study with Dr. Richard Frayne of the Seaman Institute. Last year he received the Van L. Lawrence Fellowship from the Voice Foundation in Philadelphia for his technology in teaching voice.

This is Bell's fifth year on the Senate, having completed three years, and then with a year's interim, he rejoined as a community member/representative. He enjoys the challenges of promoting student's efforts to the Alberta community.

Paul Farion acts for major Canadian utilities, oil and gas companies, underwriters, and independent businesses. He has vast experience in the areas of public debt and equity offerings, private placements, mergers and acquisitions, corporate reorganizations, debt restructuring, project financing, international financing and commercial transactions, asset and share acquisitions and dispositions, and independent business transactions. 

Paul speaks on financing and securities issues, swaps and other derivatives, and electronic data interchange. He also serves as a director or advisor to several non-profit organizations.

Dr. Anwar Haq's educational background includes MSc, PhD in Molecular Biology and an MBA. Dr Haq's over thirteen years of multidisciplinary experience in multinationals and academia has involved technical marketing, strategic business planning, managing major research projects and performing academic/medical research.

Currently Dr Haq is serving one of the largest research institutes, the Snyder Institute of Infection, Immunity and Inflammation, at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Calgary (http://www.iii.ucalgary.ca). As an Executive Director, he provides strategic direction and facilitation to senior leadership on key strategic and tactical initiatives related to the Institute. Besides performing day-to-day operations Dr Haq provides a full spectrum support services to all the members of the Institute. He also sits on the Executive Council, Infrastructure and Finance Committees and the Strategic Advisory Board for the Institute.

Dr Haq is an avid supporter and educator of the Technology Transfer AND Project Management in Bio-Medical Research. For that, Dr Haq has also been organizing and delivering courses like, Fundamentals of Bio-business, Value Based Research and Project Management for science and business students.

Dr Haq is a member of Canadian Association for Management Consultants (CAMC), and National Business Incubation Association, USA (NBIA). Through NBIA, he has recently completed his certification in Incubator Management. With a special interest in strategy analysis, its building execution, turn-around tactics, IP evaluation and technology commercialization he also runs a management consulting company ‘BioShelf'.

As a proud and active member of the Senate, University of Calgary Dr Haq is also member of the Faculty of Science Council, Community Engagement, and Fund Development Committees. Dr Haq is married to Rukhsana Anwar and both have two teen age sons Aneeq and Tamour and a four year old daughter Alisha.

Mr. McKinnon is Vice President and General Counsel for Critical Mass Inc. He is a senior executive skilled at providing finance, strategic and legal services in the public and private market place. He has successfully worked with small management teams and entrepreneurs to grow organizations into significant businesses, and he provides a well-rounded business solution approach to problem solving.  As a director his skills in corporate governance, business strategy and financial insight have assisted various management teams in substantial high growth environments. He serves on various boards including Petrobank Energy and Resources Ltd., PetroBakken Energy Ltd., Petrominerales Ltd. ,Board of Governors of the University of Calgary and Alberta Innovative Technology Futures (AITF). Ken is the current President of the University of Calgary Alumni Association and sits on the Management Advisory Committee of Haskyane School of Business. Ken is the recipient of the 2007 Management Alumni Excellence (MAX) Award from the University of Calgary - Haskayne School of Business.

Frank leads Shell's Campus Ambassador Program (CAP) team for the University of Calgary. He is Shell Canada's General Manager, Groundbirch & BC responsible for development and operations of our natural gas assets in NEBC.  Prior to that he was the Director of Technology for Shell Canada Limited. He has spent over 35 years with Shell in a variety of technical, operations and business roles.

Frank graduated in Mechanical Engineering from the University of British Columbia in 1976 and completed his Master of Business Administration degree at the University of Calgary in 1980.

Carolyn has over 30 years of experience in business management.  She has worked internationally in both tourism and marketing for firms such as American Express, Holland America Cruise Lines and Westours.  She has been an owner of Riley and McCormick Western Stores, an instructor of marketing at the Haskayne School of Business and a managing partner of a marketing consulting firm- all at the same time!  She is an experienced board director having served on boards both public and private and she is active with many non-profit organizations.