SPONSORS & DONORS Founding Partners  |  Current Donors  |  Current Sponsors  |  Government Funding Agencies  |  Other Partners Founding Partners The Design Exchange was the product of collaboration between a number of individuals who were passionate about the important legacy of Canadian design. The role that design played in the Canadian economy was an important one, yet the feeling was that the public was not aware of the contribution made by design. The group worked with designers, industry and government to develop the concept of the Design Exchange as a museum, as an educational and research centre and as an organization that understood the contribution that design makes to business's competitive edge. The following is a list of the Founding Board, and Founding Partners and Associates without whose generous support the Design Exchange could not have been created. Founding Board of Directors Alison Hymas Alison I. Parsons Bradley A. Dalgleish Dr. Earl H. Berger Dr. Brian Segal Edmund C. Bovey, Q.C. George F. Plummer Keith N. Muller Lee Gary Jacobson Linda Lewis Founding President Robert G. Jekyll Tiit Telmet Vincent M. Tovel Virginia M. Wright Founding Partners Apple Canada Inc. William and Nona Heaslip Founding Patrons Bell Canada Cadillac Fairview Corporation Limited Canon Canada Inc. Clarice Chalmers Cott Corporation Gardiner, Roberts Gordon Capital Corporation Inco Limited King Products Limited Northern Telecom Limited Steelcase Canada Ltd. Steelcase Design Partnership Teknion Furniture Systems Limited The Toronto Dominion Bank Founding Associates Dover Corporation (Canada) Inc. Hussey Seating Company (Canada) Inc. The Jackman Foundation The Henry White Kinnear Foundation The McLean Foundation Founding Supporters ALF ARIDO Audi Thomas Bjarnason Bombardier Inc Bunting Warburg Inc Camco Inc Colour Your World Electrohome Engle Canada First Canada Securities International Limtied Global Upholstery Co Inc Harry Rosen Inc Interior Dimensions Keilhauer Kraft General Foods Canada Inc Kuwabara Payne McKennaBlumberg Architects Keith Muller Nienkamper Oshawa Foods Price Waterhouse Richardson Greenshields of Canada Limited Roots Canada Sayers :&U Associates Limtied ScotiaMcLeod Inc Spar Aerospace Toronto Life Fashion Transport Canada