Mark Cohon, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Mark Cohon

Canadian football administrator

Date of Birth: 16-Mar-1966

Place of Birth: Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Profession: athlete

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Pisces

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About Mark Cohon

  • Mark Steven Cohon, (born March 16, 1966) was the 12th commissioner of the Canadian Football League.
  • The son of McDonald's Canada founder George Cohon, he was appointed as commissioner in 2007 succeeding Tom Wright.Cohon was born in Chicago, Illinois, and moved to Toronto, Ontario when he was two years old.
  • He holds both Canadian and US citizenships. He is a graduate of Upper Canada College and Northwestern University with a Bachelor of Science majoring in communication studies and worked at the NBA as head of international marketing and Major League Baseball International as head of corporate development.
  • before becoming President and chief executive officer of AudienceView Ticketing, a company which sells ticketing systems and services to sports, arts and entertainment events. In 2002, Cohon married Suzanne Elizabeth Lucido.In 2003, he was appointed to the Board of Trustees of the Ontario Science Centre and then named Chair in 2006.
  • In 2013, he was made a Member of the Order of Ontario and in 2015, he was awarded the Meritorious Service Medal.Recently he was appointed the Chairman of Caras, the Canadian Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences which oversees the annual Juno Awards for the Canadian Music Industry.
  • Given his success at transforming the CFL, the Caras board wanted to bring in an experienced executive outside the music industry to transform the future of the Juno Awards. Mark is also Chair of Toronto Global, an organization funded by three levels of government charged with promoting the Toronto region around the world and attracting foreign direct investment.
  • The Toronto Global team led the RFP process for Amazon HQ2, making it to the short list of 20 North American cities and the only Canadian city on that list.
  • Their Amazon HQ2 bid book was widely praised as a document that truly captured the excitement and growth that is happening in the Toronto region. On the business front, Georgian Bay Spirit Co shows Mark as Chairman and partner in that company.
  • According to their website, they won best Vodka in the world at the San Francisco Spirits Competition and are producers of the best selling cooler in the LCBO, Georgian Bay Gin Smash.

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