Ronald Osborne

Ronald W. Osborne BA, FCA (1946 – April 9, 2013) was an English-born Canadian executive, who was involved mainly with media organizations.

Life and career

Born in Ashington, Sussex, England and graduated from Cambridge University in 1968, majoring in modern languages. Osborne was initially an accountant in his early career after becoming a chartered accountant in 1972.[1] Osborne left Britain to work for Arthur Young, Clarkson Gordon in Toronto and later in Rio de Janeiro in 1976.[2]

From 1981 to 1994 he was with Maclean Hunter becoming the head of the media company in 1986. Osborne left after Rogers Communications acquired Maclean Hunter. In 1995 Osborne went to BCE Inc as COO and then with Bell Canada as president and CEO.[3] In 1997 he left the private sector to join Ontario Hydro and later as president and CEO of Ontario Power Generation after the breakup of Ontario Hydro.[4]

In his later years he was with Postmedia as chair in 2010 and was director of various other companies.[3]

Osborne died in his home in Florida at age 66 and is buried in Mt. Pleasant cemetery, Toronto.[1]

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gollark: It's not, because your code needs to have an ugly mess of inits and requires at the top.
gollark: r/w/h/whatever other stupidly named stuff should just be required, as needed, by k.lua.
gollark: I still think that you should just be able to require k.lua and have it require the rest itself like a sensible dependency-using thing.
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References
  1. http://ca.finance.yahoo.com/news/postmedia-chairman-tim-hortons-board-member-ronald-osborne-180753701.html
  2. "BCE Appoints Ronald W. Osborne as President. - Free Online Library". www.TheFreeLibrary.com. Retrieved 12 January 2018.
  3. "Postmedia chairman Ron Osborne, 66, passes suddenly". FinancialPost.com. 9 April 2013. Retrieved 12 January 2018.
  4. https://www.forbes.com/profile/ronald-osborne-1/
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