Pauline and Kirk
Profile
Skilled financial manager and corporate officer with progressive experience in public and private companies.
Combines financial and administrative experience with a business (MBA) and technical (engineering) education to solve a wide variety of problems that arise when businesses are starting up, expanding, restructuring, diversifying and downsizing.
Strong supervisory and motivational skills.
Excellent analytical and communication skills.
Current Positions and memberships
Vice President, Finance & Administration, St. Lawrence Starch Co. Ltd. and the corporation's main operating division, St Lawrence Grains (grain elevator)
Director, St. Lawrence Farm Supply Ltd. (a wholly owned crop inputs company)
President, Board of Directors, PCC 280, Kingsmere-on-the-Park (condominium)
Senior Member, Port Credit Yacht Club, recently served on Debenture Committee
Past President, Trillium Miata Club ("Circle of Excellence" award)
Member, Fitness Institute, Mississauga (squash house league)
Member, Professional Engineers Ontario (PEO)
Previous Experience
Project Manager, H.H. Bush & Associates (consulting professional engineers)
Branch Manager, Stoney Creek, ITT Grinnell (distributor of pipe, valves & fittings)
Manager of Operations Analysis, Corporate Head Office, ITT Grinnell
Branch Finance Manager, Toronto, Stoney Creek and Sarnia branches, ITT Grinnell
Financial Analyst, Controller's Office, Oakville Assembly Plant, Ford Motor Company
Computer/Technical Skills
Windows XP, Microsoft Office including Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Outlook, Microsoft FrontPage (web design), various accounting software including ACCPAC and Agris.
Education and courses
Bachelor of (Mechanical) Engineering (B. Eng.), McGill University, 1971
Master of Business Administration (MBA), McGill University, 1973
Continuing education courses at Sheridan College and by remote learning
Courses and seminars including Mergers & Acquisitions, Environmental Regulatory Landscape, Canadian Condominium Institute Director's Course
High performance driving courses by BMW, Mercedes, Bridgestone and Powell
Marital Status
Happily married to Pauline. Celebrated our 25th wedding anniversary in June 2005. Occasionally referred to as "dinks" (dual income, no kids).
E-mail
kbenson@starch.ca
(business)
knosneb@hotmail.com
(personal)