Thomas D. Beynon

Born in Kitchener in 1941, Thomas D. Beynon graduated from Queen’s University (Mechanical Engineering) in 1965 and from the University of Saskatchewan (Law) in 1968. Beynon started his Canadian Football League career with the Saskatchewan Roughriders in 1966 when they won the Grey Cup. Two years later he was traded to the Ottawa Roughriders, winners of the Grey Cup in 1968 and 1969. He retired in 1970 after an injury. He provided legal services to the Canadian Amateur Football Association for a number of years and was chairman of the Vanier Cup Championship (for university football) in 1982 and 1983.

Beynon articled with a law firm in Ottawa in 1968, later moving, to become a partner of a firm in Toronto. He was made a Queen’s Counsel in 1983. Since 1986 he has been President and Chief Executive Officer of Waterloo Micro Systems Inc.