Ms. Whittaker spent much of her early business career as director and partner with The Canada Consulting Group, now Boston Consulting Group. From 1989 she was president and chief executive officer of Canadian Satellite Communications (Cancom). She served as the President and Chief Executive Officer at Electronic Data Systems Canada from 1993 to 2001. In 1993, Ms. Whittaker joined Electronic Data Systems of Plano, Texas. She served as Executive Vice-President in Asia Pacific at Electronic Data Systems. Ms. Whittaker then undertook other senior roles globally for Electronic Data Systems, ultimately serving as Managing Director, United Kingdom, Africa and Middle East, until her retirement from EDS in November of 2005. Ms. Whittaker has been an Independent Director of Imperial Oil Ltd. since April 19, 1996; and The Standard Life Assurance Company of Canada since June 2013. She has been an Independent Trustee of CanWest Mediaworks Income Fund since October 13, 2005. She serves as a Director of Canwest Mediaworks (Canada) Inc, General Partner of CanWest Mediaworks Income Fund. She served as a Non-Executive Director of Standard Life plc from September, 2009 to May 14, 2013. She served as Director of The Canada Consulting Group. Ms. Whittaker served as a Director of Canwest Global Communications Corp. since July 1999.

Francis Donaldson (Fellow of the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada (FRAIC)) was born in West Kilbride, Ayrshire, Scotland on July 12, 1921. He attended the Glasgow School of Architecture. Frank served with the Royal Engineers during the Second World War and later moved to London where he met and married Phyllis Clarke in 1947. He became an associate of the Royal Institute of British Architects in 1951 joining Grosvenor Estates London Office. In 1954, with Phyllis and daughter Linda, Frank immigrated to Vancouver to become Grosvenor's lead Architect and Planner for Annacis Island Industrial Park, recognized as a significant design of postwar projects in Canada. Frank designed and supervised construction of the Guildford Shopping Centre in Surrey and four other regional retail centres affiliated with Woodward's in Western Canada. In association with Arthur Erickson he designed the iconic McMillan Bloedel Building in Vancouver which was awarded the Massey Medal in 1970. Other notable projects included the Project 200 office tower and plaza at Granville Square on Vancouver's waterfront and the Canadian Pacific Telecommunications building. Frank and Phyllis moved to Hawaii in 1972, where he designed the Davies Pacific Centre and the Grosvenor Building in Honolulu, the Wailea Beach Hotel Resort in Maui and the Kona Resort in Hawaii. In 1974, he returned to Vancouver as Development Director for Mobil Land Development Corporation, before relocating to San Francisco in 1977 as Senior Vice President, Design and Engineering. In 1983 he was transferred to the New York head office as President, Eastern Division. During his career with Mobil Oil, Frank Donaldson was involved with notable development projects throughout the USA, including master planned communities at Redwood Shores and Bair Island, California; Reston New Town and Colonial Village, Virginia; and Sailfish Point, Florida. Frank retired to Vancouver in 1986 and served on the Board of Trustees for St. Paul's Hospital from 1987 to 1993. He enjoyed an active membership in the Vancouver Chapter of Lambda Alpha International and socially with the Capilano Golf and Country Club. In 1998 Frank was awarded as a Fellow of the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada (FRAIC). In 2003 Frank married Margaret Anderson and designed their residence in Qualicum Beach. He died September 20, 2015 in Vancouver, British Columbia.

Matthew Stankiewicz was born in Wilno, Poland on January 3, 1926. In 1949 he graduated from the School of Architecture,University of Liverpool, England. He later immigrated to Canada to work with the Department of Public Works and the Canadian Government Exhibition Commission.In 1958 he began a private architectural practice in Ottawa. His buildings appear primarily in Ontario and New Brunswick. He became the Ottawa editor for the Canadian Architect magazinein 1959. In 1965 he won a national award for his design of a house. Along with architects R. Robbie and P.Schoeler, Stankiewicz designed the Canadian Government Pavilion for Expo '67 and was Chairman of the jury which selected the design for the Canadian Pavilion at Expo '70 in Osaka, Japan. He died in 1979.

Born in 1929, in England, he moved to Canada in 1952 and practiced his profession in Toronto and Montreal before being elected president of the Quebec order of architects in 1968. As an architect and as a teacher at McGill and Université Laval, Joseph Baker lived and spread the conviction that architecture must be done "in the street," closest to the people whose lives it can transform. He favoured conservation and rehabilitation of neglected, working-class Montreal neighbourhoods that were being threatened with wholesale demolition. His work to save Griffintown was documented in the 1972 National Film Board film, Griffintown. While Baker was director of Université Laval’s architecture school, he initiated the idea of moving the school from its modern building in a Quebec City suburb to a historically-significant but vacant former seminary in Quebec’s old quarter.
Besides being a world traveller, a cyclist and marathon runner, Baker also had a flare for writing. Bumbaru noted that Baker penned many well-written letters in local French- and English-language newspapers, including the Montreal Gazette, about different causes.