The traditional Lowes Fund Breakfast will have a special speaker for its 20th anniversary – the head of Toronto’s Pan-Am Games organizing committee, Ian Troop.
“Ian Troop, CEO of the TORONTO 2015 Pan Am/Parapan Am Games Organizing Committee, will be speaking about how the Greater Toronto Area (GTA) is preparing for ‘a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity,’” said release from the Insurance Institute. “The Insurance Institute of Ontario is pleased that Ian Troop will be speaking at the 20th anniversary of the Lowes Fund Breakfast.”
Troop has spent 20 years running businesses in Mexico, Europe and North America at Procter & Gamble. He later moved to ConAgra Foods, where he served as president of their international division. He has also managed a $42-billion pension fund at OMERS in 2009, when he was named CEO of TORONTO 2015.
The Lowes Fund Breakfast 2013 will be held at The National Club in Toronto on October 30.
TORONTO 2015 is responsible for planning, managing and delivering the 2015 Games. Featuring 48 sports, the Pan American Games will take place on July 10−26 and the Parapan American Games on August 7–14.
A native of Georgetown, Ont., Troop has served on the advisory board of the National Hockey League Players Association, co-founded a community hockey program in Poland, and coached youth hockey in Cincinnati, Ohio. In 1981 he was drafted by the CFL's Hamilton Tiger-Cats. (continued.)
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Proceeds of the breakfast seminar will go to the John E. Lowes Insurance Education Fund. The fund has awarded more than $30,000 in financial assistance since 1993 to students completing a post-secondary education, including property and casualty insurance studies.
The fund is named after John E. Lowes, a founding partner of Irwin, Sargent & Lowes Insurance Brokers in Peterborough, Ont. Lowes was a Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Insurance Institute of Canada, a President of the Insurance Brokers Association of Ontario and a President of the Insurance Institute of Ontario. This foundation is named in his honour as a tribute to his continuing dedication to professionalism in the property & casualty insurance industry.
