William R. Ferguson

William R. Ferguson, CMA, is a private investor and serves as a director on many corporate boards. Mr. Ferguson has had a long and distinguished career working for the late Howard Webster at The R. Howard Webster Foundation as a trustee and Vice President.

Prior to his retirement in 1993 as Chief Executive Officer of the Imperial Trust Company, he oversaw the management and control of several U.S. and Canadian companies for 25 years. Those companies involved real estate, security investments, newspaper holdings, professional sport teams and a cattle breeding ranch. Mr. Ferguson was involved in many venture capital businesses, including as Chairman of ECI Medical Technologies Inc. and as Chairman of Danesco Inc.

He is an active trustee of the Québec Labrador Foundation and Charlottetown Confederation Centre of the Arts. He was a director of Benvest from 1993 until the conversion of the company into an income fund.