FAST Directors and Officers

Warren Sawkiw played on the Olympic Baseball team in 1988 at the Seoul Olympics. He was a member of the Canadian National Baseball team from 1998 to 2002. In 1990 he was the only Canadian drafted into professional baseball when he joined the Detroit Tigers organization. He has been actively involved in sport management as a long-standing member of the Board of FAST, the Canadian Olympic Committee Athletes Council and the Baseball Association’s High Performance Committee. Warren is an IT professional involved in a number of businesses, including broadcasting. A sports fan, you’ll find him on the golf course as often as possible, as well as playing football, hockey and squash with family and friends.

Geoffrey Seymour is the Treasurer for FAST. He has worked since 1995 in not-for-profit, mostly health care foundations [Women's College, Sunnybrook & Women’s] after 10 years with a Schedule A financial institution. Geoffrey's legal and financial expertise includes endowments and donor gift agreements, CRA rules for issuing charitable tax receipts and disbursement quotas, and establishing provincial Crown Foundations. He is a reluctant recreational runner.

John Wilkinson, Director and Secretary of FAST, is a partner with the Toronto law firm of WeirFoulds LLP. His practice combines service to both the non-profit and business sectors. John's expertise includes law related to corporate governance, mergers and acquisitions, privacy, risk management, charities, public-private co-operation, sports law, and commercialization of intellectual property. John was volunteer general legal counsel to the Toronto bid for the 2008 Olympic and Paralympic Games.