1. Mark Pathy was born on July 1969 and is a Canadian businessman, philanthropist and commercial astronaut.
11 Facts About Mark Pathy
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Mark Pathy is the CEO of Mavrik, a privately owned Canadian investment company.
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Mark Pathy is the chairman of Stingray Group and the former co-CEO of Fednav, a private shipping company co-founded by his great-uncle, Ernest Pathy, who was an immigrant from Hungary.
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Mark Pathy's mother Constance was born in the Netherlands while his father, Laurence Pathy, was born in Egypt to Hungarian parents and is a close friend and former business partner of Paul Martin.
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Mark Pathy's father is a cousin of Mariette Pathy Allen.
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Mark Pathy grew up in Montreal and attended Selwyn House School, where he was classmates with politician Greg Fergus and businessmen Vincenzo Guzzo and Michael Penner.
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Mark Pathy has an undergraduate degree from the University of Toronto and an MBA from INSEAD.
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In January 2021, it was announced that Mark Pathy paid for a seat on board SpaceX Axiom Space-1 as a mission specialist alongside Larry Connor, Eytan Stibbe and Michael Lopez-Alegria.
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Mark Pathy received his astronaut pin during the welcoming ceremony at the ISS, 584th space traveller in the world.
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Mark Pathy became the third Canadian private citizen, after Guy Laliberte and William Shatner, and 12th Canadian overall in space.
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The Ax-1 mission saw Mark Pathy take part in over a dozen research projects on board involving Canadian universities as well as the Montreal Children's Hospital Research Institute.