Bernard Sherman

Bernard C. Sherman (born 1942), Chairman and CEO of Apotex Inc., is a Canadian businessman. With an estimated net worth of $US 2.9 billion (as of March 2011), Sherman was ranked by Forbes as the 9th wealthiest Canadian and 393rd in the world. Barry Sherman entered the University of Toronto's Engineering Science program at age 16 and was the youngest to do so. He also graduated from Engineering Science with the highest honours in his class and received the university's Governor General's Award for his thesis. He then received a Doctoral degree from MIT. He is Jewish and has donated a recorded amount of 50 million dollars to the United Jewish Appeal. He is well-known throughout Toronto for his considerable charitable donations, having...