Joseph Rotman is well-regarded for donating his time and financial assistance to numerous philanthropic causes including the arts, education and healthcare.
23 Facts About Joseph Rotman
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Joseph Rotman was married to Sandra Frieberg from 1959 until his death; they had two children: Janis and Kenneth.
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Joseph Rotman began his business career in 1962 and had been involved in establishing a number of private and public companies active in oil trading, petroleum distribution, oil and gas exploration, merchant banking, real estate, and venture capital.
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Joseph Rotman was the chairman of Roy-L Capital Corporation, a private family investment company.
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Joseph Rotman served on corporate boards including those of Bank of Montreal, Barrick Gold, Canada Northwest Energy Ltd.
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Joseph Rotman was involved as a founder of Tarragon Oil and Gas, Geocrude Energy, PanCana Resources, PanCana Minerals and Embassy Resources, as well as a number of other companies.
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Joseph Rotman served as chair of the board of the Art Gallery of Ontario, as a board member and continued, along with his wife, to be a benefactor.
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In July 2008, Joseph Rotman was appointed to a five-year term as chair of the Canada Council for the Arts, the national arts funding agency that provides grants, endowments, prizes and promotion of the arts.
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Joseph Rotman was re-elected as chair in July 2013 for an additional 5 years.
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From 2001 to 2004, Joseph Rotman sat on the Committee for Honorary Degrees, was a governing council member from 1995 to 2003, an executive committee member and was the vice-chair of the University of Toronto's Asset Management Corporation.
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The Joseph Rotman School of Management was named in his honour by the leading gift of his wife and family and is an internationally renowned business education institution that educates globally competitive leaders and maintains the world's leading business faculty.
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Joseph Rotman lent his business experience to the advancement of Canadian life sciences research, Canadian innovation and commercialization capacity, and related public policy at both the federal and provincial levels, including the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, and Chair of the Ontario Genomics Institute, a provincial entity, for Genome Canada.
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Joseph Rotman was a founder and was a member of the board of directors of MaRS Discovery District.
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Joseph Rotman began co-leading the development of a major review and study of the state of brain research in Ontario and Canada in 2008.
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Joseph Rotman chaired both the Ontario BioCouncil Report for the Ontario government and the Expert Panel on Commercialization, called People and Excellence, a report for Industry Canada on commercialization.
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In 1994, Joseph Rotman was awarded an honorary LLD from the University of Toronto.
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In 2009, Joseph Rotman was awarded his second honorary LLD, from Western University, and he was inducted into the Canadian Business Hall of Fame as a Companion and honoured, along with his wife Sandra, with the Outstanding Philanthropists Award by The Association of Fundraising Professionals.
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On November 21,2011, Joseph Rotman was named the twenty-first Chancellor of his alma mater, Western University.
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On February 29,2012, Joseph Rotman was presented with the Lifetime Achievement Award from Life Sciences Ontario.
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In 2013, Joseph Rotman was awarded an honorary LLD from Memorial University.
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Joseph Rotman was the Honouree of The Toronto Club's 2011 Annual Members Dinner.
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Joseph Rotman was active with many other local, national and international organizations.
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Joseph Rotman died on January 27,2015, at Toronto General Hospital, and he was interred at Mount Pleasant Cemetery, Toronto.