We are delighted to announce that Mark Standish will be our Guest of Honor and will receive our 2008 Maple Leaf Award of Distinction at the Maple Leaf Ball.

Mark Standish

We are pleased to honor Mark Standish of RBC Capital Markets with the Maple Leaf Award of Distinction recognizing a career of excellence, both in his professional accomplishments and also through RBC Capital Markets’ continued support of the Canadian Association of New York.

Mark Standish is President and Co-CEO of RBC Capital Markets. He is Co-Group Head of the Capital Markets Division and is a member of the Group Executive of RBC. Mr. Standish's tenure with RBC began in 1995 as head of proprietary and structured trading within the Global Equity Derivatives group of RBC Dominion Securities. From 1993 until 1995, Mr. Standish was a managing director at Kidder Peabody & Company. Preceding Kidder Peabody, Mr. Standish was with Lehman Brothers in New York responsible for equity derivatives, commodity derivatives and commodity financing.

During the 1980's, he was with Bankers Trust in London involved with fixed income derivatives and proprietary arbitrage trading. He started his career in retail banking with National Westminster Bank in 1977. He studied banking and finance at Croydon College in England. He is also actively involved with numerous charities in both New York and New Jersey, including being on the board of The Bachmann-Strauss Dystonia and Parkinson Foundation, Inc.

Previous honourees at the annual Maple Leaf Ball include:

THE ARTS AND LETTERS AWARD

Many of the above honourees were also awarded the Arts and Letters Award. The Canadian Association of New York has awarded its Arts and Letters Award to prominent Canadians who have contributed greatly to the development of one of the areas of Arts and Letters in both Canada and the United States. Past recipients have made contributions through the stage, screen, television, music, photography and writing.