Jay S. Hennick

Jay S. Hennick has been appointed the chairman and chief executive officer of Colliers International. He will replace the company's current CEO Douglas Frye, who resigned. Jay, who founded FirstService Corporation, the former parent company of Colliers International, in 1989, and served as its CEO until earlier this month when he led the separation of FirstService into two publicly traded companies, will provide a seamless transition in the key CEO position at Colliers International. Jay holds a bachelor’s degree from York University in Toronto and a doctorate of laws from the University of Ottawa. Also, he endowed the Jay S. Hennick JD-MBA Program at the Faculty of Law and School of Management at the University of Ottawa Law School, and The Hennick Centre for Business and Law, a joint program of the Osgoode Hall Law School and the Schulich School of Business at York University.