Harry Bloomfield
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Henry (Harry) Joseph Frederick Bloomfield, Q.C., KJ.ST.J., B.A., LL.B., M.B.A., (born 1944) is a Canadian lawyer and philanthropist.
Born in Montreal, Quebec, the son of Bernard Manfred Bloomfield and Neri Judith Loewry, Bloomfield was educated at Selwyn House School and Lower Canada College. He received a Bachelor of Arts degree from McGill University in 1965, a Bachelor of Civil Law degree from Université de Montréal in 1968, and a Master of Business Administration from the Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration in 1971. He is married to Nancy Carolyn Tolchinsky and has three children: Jonathan, Andrew, and James.
From 1980 to 1984, he was the Progressive Conservative riding association president for Mount Royal. He was the defeated PC candidate in the 1980 election who ran against Pierre Trudeau.
In 1992, he was awarded rank of Knight in the most Venerable Order of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem and was elevated to Knight of Justice in 1993.
From March 1981 to March 1987 he served as a Member of the Commission des Valeurs Mobilieres du Qébec, also then called the Quebec Securities Commission. In 1987 he was named to the Board of Directors of the Federal Business Development Bank, now called the BDC (Business Development Bank of Canada) and served there for 10 years, 7 of which as Chairman of the Audit Committee.
In 1994, in partnership with Bank Julius Baer of Zurich, Switzerland, he formed and was the first Chairman of BJB Global Investments, Ltd., a Canadian wealth-management advisory firm with headquarters in Montreal.
In 1998, he became the President of the Canadian Branch of the International Law Association, leading a Canadian delegation to the London Conference (2000) and the New Delhi Conference (2002), and later spearheaded an invitation for the world 2006 Conference to be held in Toronto, Canada.
Mr. Bloomfield has served on numerous boards, public and private, including Heller Financial Canada (now part of GE Capital); Banco Commercial Portugues, the Canadian subsidiary of Sottomayor Bank of Portugal; British Controlled Oilfields, Genoil Inc., and Balkan Resources Inc. He is President of the Eldee Foundation, a Canadian registered charitable foundation, Chairman of the Humane Society of Canada, and a member of the Financial Advisory Committee of the Jewish Community Foundation, and a Boardmember of the Jewish National Fund of Canada.
In November of 2007, he was awarded the Gold Medal for meritorious philanthropic work, and international social bridge-building, by the Jordanian National Red Crescent Society, Dr. Mohammed Al-Hadid, President and Chairman of the Standing Commission of the Red Cross and Red Crescent. It is the highest award that they offer.
Mr. Bloomfield, as Managing partner of the law firm of Bloomfield & Ass. holds the Martindale-Hubbell Law Directory peer-ranked rating of AV, the "A" representing the very highest category of legal ability; and the "V" the very highest rating given for general ethical standards.
