Annual Report 2015

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MARANT FOR MANKIND
Ride to Conquer Cancer Team
Honorary Chair helps
motivate Ride teams to
‘double up’
Tim Hockey is President and CEO of TD
Canada Trust and a huge fan of cycling.
For the past several years he has cycled
over 9,000 km annually. This year he also
volunteered as the Honorary Chair of the
2015 Enbridge Ride to Conquer Cancer and
hopes to make the 2015 Ride—the 8th
annual—the best yet.
Tim generously made a personal donation
to help give the participants in the 2015
Ride some motivation to get started
building up their teams and thinking about
their fundraising. Each of the first 10 teams
to double their team size, was awarded
$5,000 to put towards their fundraising goal.
The first 10 teams to
double up were:
Arch Attack, Team
Autoliv, Paramedics
for a Cure, Team
CIBC, Team Lindsay,
Deloitte Green Dot
Riders, TD Peloton,
CPPIB Domestiques,
Team RBC, and
Doc’s Choice.
“The Ride is an awesome
triumph”
Gino Vettoretto is the captain of
MARANT for MANKIND, a team that has
raised over $1.1 million participating
for the past six years in the Enbridge Ride to
Conquer Cancer. In 2015, they were a team of
43 riders.
When they aren’t riding for the health of
mankind, MARANT is a highly productive
team of almost 50 construction professionals,
including construction managers, site
supervisors, carpenters and labourers.
Gino first participated in the Ride on his own
after a friend was diagnosed with cancer, and
he experienced an “awesome triumph” both
physically and emotionally. Now, with the
help of his co-captain, Carlo Martini, he has
been growing MARANT for MANKIND and
helping all the team members meet their
fundraising goals.
The 5,212 participants in the 2014
Enbridge Ride to Conquer Cancer
achieved a record $20 million (gross).
Check out the team videos created by
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