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Jeff Giles is a corporate turnaround specialist. Growing up in the Ottawa area, he became a chartered accountant and, through more than two decades specializing in bankruptcy and insolvency, has helped save many companies facing the abyss. Mr. Giles' biggest and darkest challenge to date involved saving the Canadian Football League from near certain death in the middle and latter part of the 1990s. Starting as the league's chief financial officer in 1994, he eventually became president and coo of the league as he and then commissioner John Tory guided it through a minefield of looming financial disaster. Mr. Giles resigned as league president in the fall of 2000 and assumed the presidency of the Toronto Argonauts at the start of 2001Giles, Jeffrey is the author of 'Bigger Balls The Cfl and Overcoming the Canadian Inferiority Complex' with ISBN 9781553660835 and ISBN 1553660838.
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