Jay S. Hennick

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Jay Stewart Hennick CM (born January 20, 1957) is a Canadian billionaire businessman and philanthropist. He is the global chairman, CEO and controlling shareholder of Colliers, and the founder, chairman and largest shareholder of FirstService Corporation. Along with his wife, Barbara, he is the co-founder of The Jay and Barbara Hennick Family Foundation. In 2022, Hennick was named to Forbes' annual list of the world's billionaires. Hennick was born in 1957 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. His first job was a summer lifeguard at an apartment complex at age 15; it gave him the idea for his first company. In 1972, at the age of 17 and while still a teenager in high school, Hennick borrowed $1,000 from his father Sam and founded a commercial swimming pool staffing and management business called Superior Pools, which subsequently employed hundreds of students throughout the Greater Toronto Area. After graduating from high school in 1975, Hennick went on to study economics at York University, earning a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1978. He then received a Bachelor of Laws degree from the University of Ottawa in 1981. Hennick would later be awarded Honorary Doctorates of Laws from both York University and the University of Ottawa.