Board Chair Hughes made the following statement on behalf of the Board:
“We received very sad news last week when we were informed of the sudden and untimely passing of Susan Han, one of our Legal Counsel from WeirFoulds, on Sunday April 14th after a brief illness—just a week ago yesterday.
Board members will recall that we last saw Susan at our February 28th meeting. Some of us also saw her at the most recent New Products Committee meeting on March 18th. She has attended many of our meetings.
Susan played an important role in the creation of ONE Investment as the not-for-profit it is today and in the creation of ONE JIB. She supported the vision of prudent investing for municipalities and helped turn that vision into reality. For example, she led the application for the Ontario Securities Commission exemption for ONE JIB and ONE Investment, without which we would not be able to do what we do. She then turned her attention to helping to build ONE JIB. She played a key part in drafting some of the core documents that ONE JIB uses today, including work on the OCIO model we will be discussing today. ONE JIB and all current and future Participating Municipalities will continue to benefit from her contributions far into the future.
Heather Douglas said it well in an email exchange over the weekend: “Susan was key to setting us up for success. We honour her memory by making the ONE OCIO Offering as successful as possible.”
In our professional lives we only see a snapshot of who a person is. The obituary points out that in addition to being an accomplished lawyer and a partner at WeirFoulds, Susan was a dedicated volunteer who served the community and a beloved host and organizer for her family. She was married to her husband Ross Price and has two sons, Gregory and Scott. She has extended family in six countries around the world. She had an undergraduate degree in history and philosophy and, along with many other volunteer activities, served on the fund-raising committee for the Philosophy Department of the University of Toronto.
We will very much miss Susan. Staff have made donations in her memory to the Arirang-Age-Friendly Community Centre and the Women’s Brain Health Initiative on behalf of ONE Investment and ONE JIB.
I ask that we all join in a Moment of Silence in Susan’s memory.”
Following the Moment of Silence, Board Chair Hughes introduced Wayne Egan, WeirFoulds, who would be acting as Legal Counsel for this meeting.