User:Allenfaguymackenzie

Allen F.(Faguy) Mackenzie was born and raised in Quebec City, Quebec, Canada. He is a perfectly bilingual and experienced communicator and administrator with strong organizational and analytical skills and an extensive personal and business network. He has a Bachelors degree in Philosophy from Maharishi University of Management (Iowa) and a DEC (college) degree in Business Administration from Champlain Regional College. He is a founder, organizer and spokesperson for various social, political and humanitarian organizations such as: Candidate of the Conservative Party of Canada (2004, 2006), Campaign to Ban Genetically Engineered Foods, Natural Law Party (Canada, Quebec) and the Société de dévelopement Lac a la loutre. He is a speaker of the Transcendental Meditation Program and Vedic Science programs. For the past 20 years he has worked as an Executive Agency Director for Knowledge First Financial (formerly USC Educaton Savings Plan) and is a member of the Autorité des Marchés Financiers and a member of its Disciplinary Committee. He has founded a number of business ventures including a retail chain of home furnishing stores (Nu-Age Inc.), an import company(Lin-fini), a consulting and communications firm for municipal and federal government relations(Mackenzie & Assoc.), retirement homes, childcare facilities and a board game for the sport of tennis (World Tennis Championships, WTC). As well, Mr. Mackenzie is structuring a major development project for the benefit all Montrealers as Director of the Société de dévelopement Lac a la Loutre (www.lacalaloutre.org) which proposes the creation of a 5 km square parkway in downtown Montreal. The park will restore a natural lake formation and will be surrounded by recreational facilities such as an amphitheatre, museums, marina, bicycle, tramway and pedestrian paths as well as bio-tech and university residence center.