Mark Pathy

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Mark Pathy
BornJuly 1969
Space career
Axiom Space space tourist
MissionsSpaceX Ax1

Mark Pathy (born July 1969[1]) is a Canadian businessman and philanthropist. He is the CEO of Mavrik, a privately owned Canadian investment company. He is also the chairman of Stingray Group[2] and the former co-CEO of Fednav,[3] a private shipping company co-founded by his great-uncle, Ernest Pathy, who was an immigrant from Hungary.[4][5][6]

Biography[]

His mother Constance was born in the Netherlands while his father, Laurence Pathy, was born in Egypt to Hungarian parents and is a close friend and former business partner of Paul Martin.[7][8] His father is also a cousin of Mariette Pathy Allen.[9]

He grew up in Montreal and attended Selwyn House School,[10] where he was classmates with politician Greg Fergus and businessmen Vincenzo Guzzo and Michael Penner.[11] He has an undergraduate degree from the University of Toronto and an MBA from INSEAD.[12]

The Pathy Family Foundation, which he serves as secretary, had more than $252 million CAD in assets as of 2018.[13] Mark Pathy and his wife Jessica recently contributed to a fundraising campaign for the Montreal Jewish General Hospital (JGH) Foundation which raised $5.5 million to date and saw the recently created Centre of Excellence in Infectious Diseases named in their honour[14]. The JGH’s Jess and Mark Pathy Centre of Excellence in Infectious Diseases focusses on advancing knowledge of antibiotics and vaccines; preventing infections; developing rapid diagnostics and mapping the molecular structure of infections[14].

In January 2021, it was announced that Pathy was due to fly on board SpaceX Axiom Space-1 as a mission specialist alongside Larry Connor, Eytan Stibbe and Michael López-Alegría.[15] The mission is now slated to launch March 31, 2022[16]. Mark Pathy is paying $50 million USD for the trip[17]. He will become the second Canadian private astronaut, after Guy Laliberté, and 12th Canadian overall in space.[18] The Ax-1 mission will see Pathy take part in over a dozen research projects on board involving Canadian universities as well as the Montreal Children's Hospital Research Institute[19].

See also[]

  • Canadian astronauts
SpaceX Axiom Space-1 spacetravellers

References[]

  1. ^ ltd, company check. "MR MARK LAURENCE PATHY director information. Free director information. Director id 913094478". Company Check.
  2. ^ "Montreal businessman Mark Pathy to be part of first fully private human spaceflight mission to the International Space Station" – via The Globe and Mail.
  3. ^ "Fednav Limited announces leadership changes | Fednav". www.fednav.com.
  4. ^ "Fednav celebrates its 75th anniversary". 23 October 2019.
  5. ^ "Ladislav Pathy, 87, Is Dead; Former Business Executive (Published 1984)". 26 July 1984 – via NYTimes.com.
  6. ^ "The Pathys took long and winding road to Montreal | TradeWinds". TradeWinds | Latest shipping and maritime news.
  7. ^ Mercier, Noémi. "Mécénat incognito". L’actualité.
  8. ^ "Someone to watch over the federal government" – via The Globe and Mail.
  9. ^ "George Pathy, Headed Top Shipping Concern (Published 1981)". 6 September 1981 – via NYTimes.com.
  10. ^ "Old Boy plans trip to Space Station". Selwyn House School. 27 January 2021.
  11. ^ "Selwyn House School Yearbook 1985". Selwyn House School. 1 February 1985 – via Internet Archive.
  12. ^ "Mark L. Pathy". The Wall Street Journal.
  13. ^ Pathy family foundation/fondation de la famille Pathy, charitydata.ca
  14. ^ a b "In The News » JGH Foundation". JGH Foundation. Retrieved 9 February 2022.
  15. ^ "Axiom Space names first private crew to launch to space station". 26 January 2021. Retrieved 26 January 2021.
  16. ^ published, Elizabeth Howell (20 January 2022). "Axiom's 1st private crew launch to space station delayed to March". Space.com. Retrieved 9 February 2022.
  17. ^ Reynolds, Christopher (18 November 2021). "Private Canadian astronaut paying $50M to be 'lab rat' in pain experiments on space station". National Post. Retrieved 9 February 2022.
  18. ^ Robert Z. Pearlman (26 January 2021). "Axiom Space Names First Private Crew to Visit Space Station". Scientific American. SPACE.com.
  19. ^ Reynolds, Christopher (17 November 2021). "Private Canadian astronaut gears up for 'pain' experiments in space". Montreal. Retrieved 9 February 2022.
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