"Blake Hutcheson" is President and CEO of Oxford Properties/Oxford Properties Group Inc, a global real estate owner, developer, and property manager. Blake has been called the Warren Buffet of Canadian real estate.

Born in Huntsville Ontario, Blake was educated at Upper Canada College, before getting a BA in Political Science from University of Western Ontario. He then went on to the London School of Economics for an International Relations degree, and a masters of real estate development from Columbia University.

Blake previously worked at CIBC and CB Richard Ellis, and has sat on numerous boards, including Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne’s transit investment strategy advisory panel.

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He's got tremendous senior relationships on Bay Street, he's got tremendous senior relationships across Canada. And we are in the commercial real estate business - a people business.

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He will provide good counsel as to how we run our business, but he will also, I think, open a lot of doors for us across the country - given his relationships. It's really a senior advisory role, advising me, our executive committee, on the whole business, right down to helping us generate business.

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