Michael Lee-Chin
The Honourable Michael Lee-Chin, OJ (born 1951) is a Jamaican business magnate, investor, and philanthropist. He is the founder and Chairman of Portland Holdings Inc., a privately held investment company which owns a collection of diversified operating companies in sectors that include media, tourism, health care telecommunications and financial services. Among other positions, he is currently Executive Chairman of AIC Limited (a Canadian mutual fund), and the National Commercial Bank of Jamaica. Canadian Business has named him as one of the richest people in Canada and one of the richest Jamaicans and estimates his wealth to be over CAD$2.0 billion. Lee-Chin is a philanthropist. In 2003, he made headlines when he donated $30 million to the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM). He also provided a $10 million gift to the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto. The gift established the Michael Lee-Chin Family Institute for Corporate Citizenship at the Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto. The Lee-Chin Institute's purpose is to help current and future business leaders integrate corporate citizenship into business strategy and practices. (http://www.rotman.utoronto.ca/lee-chininstitute) Lee-Chin also currently sits as chancellor of Wilfrid Laurier University. In September 2014, Lee-Chin and his family donated $10 million dollars to Joseph Brant Hospital Foundation.