NFP Canada Group Benefits Luncheon
Where: Sheraton Toronto Airport Hotel
801 Dixon Road, Toronto, ON, M9W 1J5
Date: April 23, 2015
Time: 10 am to 1:30pm
Lunch will be served
Limited Spaces Available
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AGENDA:
9:45am:
Registration
10:00am: Welcome and Introduction
Marty Shaw, CEO, NFP Canada
10:10am: Topic: Drug Management - The benefit landscape and how to reduce
your drug spending
Speaker: Sureshwaran Moorthy, Sales Manager, Express Scripts
11:00am: Break and discussion
11:10am: Topic: Workplace Wellness – How improving employee health can
improve your bottom line
Speaker: Kevin Brady, Managing Director, NFP Canada SWO
12:00pm: Lunch
Topic: TBD
Speaker: Dr. Hanif Jamal, BSc, MD, CCFP, Executive Health Physician at
Cleveland Clinic Canada
12:30pm: Topic: GET BACK TO WORK! The Practical Do’s and Don’ts of
Accommodation
Speaker: John Hyde, Partner, Levitt & Grosman LLP
Speakers:
Suresh Moorthy | Sales Manager, Express Scripts, Ontario/Atlantic Canada
Suresh Moorthy, MBA, GBA is a Sales Manager at Express Scripts
Canada (ESC) involved with promoting ESC products and services geared
towards changing member behavior. His role involves assisting client
advisors to build a business case to help plan sponsors create sustainable
drug benefit plans into the future. Prior to his Sales role, he was
responsible for building and maintaining predictive pricing models using
client data at ESC. As a result, he is heavily implicated in Express Scripts
Canada’s business development activities through the last three years.
Prior to joining Express Scripts Canada, Suresh gained valuable insight
into the group insurance industry during his tenure at Desjardins Financial Security where he was a
Senior Group Underwriter.
Kevin Brady | Managing Director, NFP Canada, South Western Ontario
Kevin Brady is a personable leader and entrepreneur with extensive
experience in the financial services industry. By 1998, he had an enviable
track record of more than 13 years in management with London Life
Insurance. During his time at London Life, Kevin headed up multiple
employee benefits offices as regional and senior management in Southern
Ontario. In 1999, Kevin decided to open his own company, providing
employee benefits for corporations, which he grew into one of the largest
and most reputable independent financial service companies in Southern
Ontario. Kevin strongly believes in health and wellness and has
implemented many successful health programs that have led to long term
savings for his clients.
Dr. Hanif Jamal, BSc, MD, CCFP | Executive Health Physician, Cleveland Clinic
Canada
Hanif Jamal, BSc, MD, CCFP, is an Executive Health physician at
Cleveland Clinic Canada with a keen interest in preventative health,
hospitalist medicine and healthcare innovation. He has extensive
experience in primary and acute care, as well as post-operative pediatric
and adult surgery, pediatric and adult psychiatry, physical rehabilitation
medicine and complex continuing care.
Born in Toronto and raised in Markham, Dr. Jamal obtained his Doctor of
Medicine from McMaster University in Hamilton, where he also completed
his Residency in Family Medicine. He went on to pursue further training in
Leadership in Healthcare Innovation at the Harvard Macy Institute, a
Harvard School of Business and Harvard Medical School Joint Program. He currently holds a Clinical
Professorship of Medicine at McMaster University.
John Hyde | Partner, Levitt & Grosman LLP
John Hyde is a management-side lawyer and a partner at the firm of Levitt
& Grosman LLP, nationally recognized as one of Canada’s pre-eminent
Boutique Labour and Employment Law Firms. John advises management
on all aspects of employment and labour law, including representation
before administrative tribunals, collective agreement negotiation,
arbitrations, wrongful dismissal defense and human rights. He also
assists clients in providing strategic legal and human resources advice on
labour and employment matters arising out of complex mergers,
acquisitions and the sale of businesses. John’s pre-law background is in
operations and human resources management in the transportation
industry. This experience provides him with the unique opportunity to
assist clients in the formulation of practical legal solutions, specifically tailored to their needs.
John is one of only 24 lawyers in Ontario certified as a Specialist in Labour Law by the Law Society of
Upper Canada. He is the author of a number of articles in various labour and employment
publications, and has presented numerous seminars on labour and employment law matters.