​Jennifer Hayes Starratt

Jennifer grew up in New Brunswick and received her education at Dalhousie University and the Nova Scotia Agricultural College (now the Faculty of Agriculture at Dalhousie).  Jennifer moved to Calgary in 1996 in order to build a career in pipeline integrity.  The last 4 years of this career was as director and president of her consulting company, Hayes Consulting Inc.

 

For the past 8 years,  Jennifer has worked tirelessly on raising and caring for her son Alex, who has a rare genetic condition called spinal muscular atrophy (SMA).  Through this journey of maintaining Alex’s strengths, she came across the Anat Baniel MethodTM .  After seeing the positive effects on Alex’s quality of movement, she decided to pursue the training in the United States to become a practitioner of ABM NeuromovementR to support her son and others with special needs.

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Mark Starratt

After 25 years in the financial services industry, Mark retired from the wealth management industry in December 2018.  Prior to that he had worked as a Partner, Director Wealth Management and Portfolio Manager with Richardson GMP Ltd. and was First Vice President with a major bank-owned brokerage firm for more than a decade.  He and his brother Scott were business partners for more than 21 years. 

 

Outside of his vocation, Mark served on the Board of Governors at the University of Calgary and was Vice Chair of the Investment Committee and member of the Executive Committee.  Mark is a passionate Rotarian and became one of the youngest District Governors in 2008/09 in the Rotary world when he served District 5360, representing Southern Alberta and Western Saskatchewan.   

 

Mark recently completed a 4-year term as a Director of the Paralympic Foundation of Canada and currently sits on both the Calgary Rotary Clubs Foundation and the Dean’s Advisory Board at the Cumming School of Medicine. In April 2013, Mark and his wife Jennifer formed The Starratt Family Foundation to advance neuromuscular disease education and research and to help improve accessibility for those with disabilities. Mark serves on several private company boards and led a Single Family Office based in Alberta. 

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