Mark Cohon
| Canadian Football League | |
Mark Cohon at a Toronto Argonauts game in 2009
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| Date of birth | March 16, 1966 |
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| Place of birth | Chicago, Illinois, US |
| Career information | |
| Position(s) | Commissioner |
| College | Northwestern University |
| High school | Upper Canada College |
| Career history | |
| As administrator | |
| 2006–2012 | Ontario Science Centre (Chair) |
| 2007–2015 | Canadian Football League (Comm.) |
Mark Steven Cohon, OOnt MSM (born March 16, 1966) was the 12th commissioner of the Canadian Football League. The son of McDonald's Canada founder George Cohon, he was appointed as commissioner in 2007 succeeding Tom Wright.
Cohon was born in Chicago, Illinois, and moved to Toronto, Ontario when he was two years old. He holds both Canadian and US citizenships.
He is a graduate of Upper Canada College and Northwestern University with a Bachelor of Science majoring in communication studies and worked at the NBA as head of international marketing and Major League Baseball International as head of corporate development. before becoming President and chief executive officer of AudienceView Ticketing, a company which sells ticketing systems and services to sports, arts and entertainment events.
In 2002, Cohon married Suzanne Elizabeth Lucido.
In 2003, he was appointed to the Board of Trustees of the Ontario Science Centre and then named Chair in 2006. In 2013, he was made a Member of the Order of Ontario and in 2015, he was awarded the Meritorious Service Medal.
Recently he was appointed the Chairman of Caras, the Canadian Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences which oversees the annual Juno Awards for the Canadian Music Industry. Given his success at transforming the CFL, the Caras board wanted to bring in an experienced executive outside the music industry to transform the future of the Juno Awards.
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