Board of Directors (United States)
The Glenn Gould Foundation Inc. is an independent New York not-for-profit corporation exempt from federal income tax under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code. The Glenn Gould Foundation Inc. based in the United States is affiliated with and providing financial support to the Canada-based charitable organization, The Glenn Gould Foundation. Though independent entities, both foundations are devoted to honouring Glenn Gould’s spirit and legacy by promoting creativity and helping to transform lives through the power of music and the arts.
Benjamin Jain, President
Benjamin Jain is an attorney at Kirkland & Ellis LLP, where he practices corporate law. He is the former chair of artsScene, a Canadian organization dedicated to fostering participation in the arts amongst young professionals and was a jury member for the 2017 Arnold Edinborough Award. He has also been involved with the Council for Canadian American Relations, the Art Gallery of Ontario and the Economic Club of Canada. Prior to practicing law, Benjamin interned in the personal office of President Bill Clinton in Harlem, New York. Originally from Nova Scotia, he resides with his wife in San Francisco, California.
Gary Hanson, Secretary
Gary Hanson is a long-established figure within the classical music industry. In 1988 he joined the Cleveland Orchestra as director of marketing and public relations, and from 1997 to 2004 was associate executive director. Gary was a member of the 2001 class of Leadership Cleveland and is a recipient of the Cleveland Orchestra’s Distinguished Service Award to honour exemplary service. From 2004 until his retirement in 2015, he served as the the orchestra’s executive director. In 2016 he served as interim CEO of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra. In 2016 he also received the Governor’s Award for the Arts in Ohio for arts administration. Internationally, he is a member of the jury of the Herbert von Karajan Young Conductors Award at the Salzburg Festival.
Dory Vanderhoof, Treasurer
As a development professional and consultant, Dory Vanderhoof has been associated with more than $2.5 billion of contributions to performing arts organizations. He introduced reforms to the Government of Canada for the tax treatment of gifts of appreciable property, which have stimulated hundreds of millions of dollars for Canadian charities. He introduced the concept that multi-year strategic and operational planning is the most important ingredient for institutional success, development, and growth. He worked for General Director Lotfi Mansouri at the San Francisco Opera and earlier for the Canadian Opera Company. Dory has served as a board member of Opera Atelier and the Danny Grossman Dance Company. Trained as a saxophonist and music director, Dory has played back-up for many artists, including the Coasters, the Platters, and Little Anthony and the Imperials.
Janice P. Anderson
Ms. Anderson is a successful operating executive and board director with over 20 years of experience in technology-driven businesses. Her career spans B2B software/CRM, mobile apps, fintech, telecom, cloud services and life sciences. She has served on both private and public company boards in the United States and Canada. Ms. Anderson has provided leadership as chair or vice chair for non-profit entities such as the Washington Technology Industry Association, the Canadian Opera Company and Ryerson University (now TMU). Her board experiences include Executive Chair roles, M&A, raising capital, CEO searches and leadership of board committees. As CEO, she has generated rapid growth with small and midsized technology entities and led global expansion with Fortune 500 companies. Ms. Anderson has a Director Designation from the Institute of Corporate Directors. She is a graduate of: the University of Toronto with a BA Commerce and from the Schulich School of Business, York University with an MBA in Finance and Strategy. Ms. Anderson holds a CPA CMA from Ontario and private pilot certificates from both Transport Canada and the FAA.
Bob Greenberg
Bob Greenberg is the founder, chairman and CEO of R/GA, a pioneer in the advertising and communications industry. Headquartered in New York, it has offices around the world. Among R/GA’s notable projects: the opening title sequence for the film Superman, was was visually enhanced so that each name appears to be flying into the screen; an online brand platform that gives Nike tools to record, track, and share running data – in 2007, Nike+ won the Titanium and Cyber Grand Prix awards at the Cannes Lions International Advertising Festival; and a partnership with Beats by Dre to create their music platform and advertising – that creative work won a number of awards, and the brand was later sold to Apple Inc., where it became Apple Music. Bob also owns and exhibits one of the world’s most important collections of outsider art.
Paul M. Hoffert, LLD, CM
Paul Hoffert is a recording artist, performer, media music composer, author, academic, and corporate executive. At age 26 he co-founded Lighthouse, a rock group that sold millions of records and earned three Juno Awards. His film music earned him a San Francisco Film Festival award and three SOCAN Film Composer of the Year awards. In 2001 Hoffert received the Pixel award as the New Media Industry’s “Visionary of the Year.” Hoffert has parallel achievements in science and technology. He invented precursor algorithmsto MP3 audio compression, as well as microchips for Newbridge Microsystems, and products for Mattel, Akai, and Yamaha. From 1994 to 1999, he directed Intercom Ontario, a $100 million trial of the world’s first completely connected broadband community.
Matthew Oppenheimer
Matthew Oppenheimer is the Creative Industries Trade Commissioner at the Consulate General of Canada Los Angeles. He works with Canadian entertainment companies to expand their business connectivity in Los Angeles. In his role, he launched the Canadian Creative Accelerator, a program that connects Canadian film and television producers with buyers and partners in the LA eco-system. The project has led to millions of dollars of cross border trade between the US and Canada. Most recently he launched a contemporary arts initiative, hosting a yearly exhibition on the margins of Frieze LA highlighting the top Canadian contemporary artists, a project run in collaboration with The National Gallery of Canada and the Royal Bank of Canada. Prior to his work at the Consulate, Matthew worked at Fox Searchlight Pictures and ICM Partners in Los Angeles. Originally from Montreal, he moved to Los Angeles in 2014.
Richard Saul Wurman
Richard Saul Wurman is an American architect, graphic designer, and writer. He created the TED conferences, an organization devoted to curiosity, reason, wonder and the pursuit of knowledge — without an agenda, and then later TEDMED. He works on comparative cartographic initiatives for mapping urban settings, which is planned to culminate in the creation of a network of live urban observatories around the world. Wurman supports nonprofit biotechnology organizations that seek to repair the damages of aging, and extend healthy lifespans. He has written, designed, and published nearly a hundred books on varying topics, including Notebooks and Drawings of Louis I. Kahn, What Will Be Has Always Been (a collection of words by Louis Kahn), Information Anxiety, and Understanding Understanding.
Frank O. Gehry, CC, FAIA
Frank Gehry is a Canadian-born American architect and designer. Many of his buildings – including his private residence in Santa Monica, the curvaceous Walt Disney Concert Hall in downtown Los Angeles, and the shimmering Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao – have become world-renowned attractions. His works are considered among the most important of contemporary architecture in a recent World Architecture Survey, leading Vanity Fair to call him “the most important architect of our age.” 1989, Gehry received the Pritzker Architecture Prize, where the jury said: “Always open to experimentation, he has as well a sureness and maturity that resists, in the same way that Picasso did, being bound either by critical acceptance or his successes. His buildings are juxtaposed collages of spaces and materials that make users appreciative of both the theatre and the back-stage, simultaneously revealed.”
(1929-2025)
As of May 7, 2026