Jim Kabrajee:  

After North Albion Collegiate I attended University of Toronto and graduated in 1978. An executive MBA, completed in 1984, rounded out the academics. I started my working career with Gulf Oil Canada, first in Finance (it was a mistake) and later in Marketing. In 1982 I joined an international advertising agency, McCann Ericson and a few years later joined Bates advertising. Those were fun years and while not exactly like the show "Mad Men" there were many similarities. After a short time as a partner in an acrchitectural interior firm, I went out on my own and formed a marketing consultancy firm which I ran and grew for nine years until I came accross an opportunity to purchase my current company, Marshall Fenn Communications, which I completed in 1993. Our firm today is a successful enterprise with offices in the U.S. and here in Toronto and I can admit that I am still having a ton of fun and I truly enjoy my life.(ok, there are moments when I might have a slightly different perspecive, but they pass quickly) I met Kathryn at Gulf in 1978 on my first day of work and six years later (nothing like being absolutely sure) we married in 1984. Having spent the next twelve years of marriage, blissful in the decision not to have kids, Kath and I had a change of hea...Expand for more