Kenneth Woods

Ken Woods is a pillar of Canada’s investment community and a generous philanthropist.

After a remarkable career that began at Touche Ross, the accountancy firm that later became Deloitte & Touche, and culminated at T.A.L. Global Asset Management, he has focused his energies on non-profit work and philanthropy for more than two decades.

Woods established the renowned Kenneth Woods Portfolio Management Program at Concordia’s John Molson School of Business in 2000. For a quarter-century, the program has enabled students to invest a real-life portfolio in real time, becoming a model of experiential business education. Woods has given hundreds of hours of his time to mentor students and help guide the portfolio management program.

Through his family’s foundation, Woods supports hospitals and organizations focused on the arts, youth programs and education, mainly in his home city of Vancouver. He has established endowments for Arts Umbrella, University of British Columbia (UBC) Athletics, University of Victoria, St. Paul’s Hospital Sinus Centre and Vancouver General Hospital, where he and his wife Anne also funded the Skin Care Centre’s Photomedicine Institute and a stroke rehabilitation and research facility. Woods chaired three golf events, raising more than $10 million for children’s hospitals.

With a BSc from UBC, Woods completed his MBA at Concordia in 1975, becoming a member of its first graduating MBA class. He earned his diploma in accountancy at McGill University and his CA designation in 1977. He was named a fellow of the Canadian Institute of Chartered Accountants in 2006.

Woods received an honorary doctorate from Concordia (2017), an Award of Distinction from the John Molson School of Business (2001), as well as a Big Block Award and Alumni Builder Award from UBC. In 2024, he was inducted into the UBC Sports Hall Of Fame.

He received the Concordia University Alumni Association's Humberto Santos Award of Merit and Service in 2025.