Mark Pathy | |
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| Born | 1969 (age 54–55) |
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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]
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]
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]
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