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Jay Hennick

Net worth $2.6B

Real estate finance · Canada

Born
Jan 20, 1957
Age
69
Source
Real estate finance
Residence
Toronto, Ontario
Citizenship
Canada
Marital status
Married
Children
3
Education
LLB, University of Ottawa; Bachelor of Arts/Economics, York University

Net worth over time

Biography

  • Jay Hennick is the CEO and largest shareholder of Toronto-based real estate investment firm Colliers International.
  • He got his start in 1972 as a teenager, when he started a small company that managed a commercial swimming pool, with an initial $1,000 loan from his dad.
  • In 1989, he turned that firm into real estate services outfit FirstService and took it public on the Toronto Stock Exchange four years later.
  • He merged FirstService with Colliers in 2010; five years later, he spun Colliers out as a publicly traded firm on the NASDAQ.
  • Hennick's family investment firm, Hennick & Co., owns stakes in Canada's Haventree Bank and BV Realty.
  • Hennick's first job was a summer lifeguard at an apartment complex at age 15; it gave him the idea for his first company.

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