Mark Pathy

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Mark Pathy
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Born1969 (age 55–56)
Space career
Time in space
17 days, 1 hour and 48 minutes
Missions Axiom Mission 1

Mark Pathy (born July 1969) [1] is a Canadian businessman, philanthropist and commercial astronaut. 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]

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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 focuses on advancing knowledge of antibiotics and vaccines; preventing infections; developing rapid diagnostics and mapping the molecular structure of infections. [14]

Spaceflight

In January 2021, it was announced that Pathy paid for a seat on board SpaceX Axiom Space-1 as a mission specialist alongside Larry Connor, Eytan Stibbe and Michael López-Alegría. [15] The mission launched on April 8, 2022. [16] He received his astronaut pin during the welcoming ceremony at the ISS, 584th space traveller in the world. [17] Mark Pathy paid $50 million USD for the trip. [18] He became the third Canadian private citizen, after Guy Laliberté and William Shatner, and 12th Canadian overall in space. [19] The Ax-1 mission saw Pathy take part in over a dozen research projects on board involving Canadian universities as well as the Montreal Children's Hospital Research Institute. [20]

See also

SpaceX Axiom Space-1 space travellers

References

  1. ↑ ltd, company check. "MR MARK LAURENCE PATHY director information. Free director information. Director id 913094478". Company Check.
  2. ↑ Praet, Nicolas Van (26 January 2021). "Montreal businessman Mark Pathy to be part of first fully private human spaceflight mission to the International Space Station". 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)". The New York Times. 26 July 1984.
  6. ↑ "The Pathys took long and winding road to Montreal | TradeWinds". TradeWinds | Latest shipping and maritime news. 13 January 2000.
  7. ↑ Mercier, Noémi (13 May 2016). "Mécénat incognito". L’actualité.
  8. ↑ "Someone to watch over the federal government". The Globe and Mail. 5 December 2003.
  9. ↑ "George Pathy, Headed Top Shipping Concern (Published 1981)". The New York Times. 6 September 1981.
  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. 1 2 "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. ↑ Mike Wall (18 March 2022). "2 SpaceX astronaut launches to the space station delayed by a few days". Space.com. Retrieved 23 March 2022.
  17. ↑ Axiom Ax-1 Crew welcomed by International Space Station Expedition 67 Crew, 9 April 2022, retrieved 25 April 2022
  18. ↑ 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.
  19. ↑ Robert Z. Pearlman (26 January 2021). "Axiom Space Names First Private Crew to Visit Space Station". Scientific American. SPACE.com.
  20. ↑ Reynolds, Christopher (17 November 2021). "Private Canadian astronaut gears up for 'pain' experiments in space". Montreal. Retrieved 9 February 2022.
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