Colleen “Chips” Klein was born in Johannesburg, South Africa, and immigrated to Canada in 1975 with her husband and two young children. After successfully founding Chipco Canada Inc. in 1982 to manufacture and distribute The Eye Maker line of mirrors, a product designed, distributed and patented by her, Chips created Chipco Communications to provide a complete range of services for international marketing and source development. In 1990, the Ontario March of Dimes gave Chips an Award of Commendation for her work with the mentally and physically challenged. In 1997, Chips was inducted into the Who’s Who of Canadian Women and was similarly honoured by the same group in 1999 with the Women Inventors Project award. Chips was the recipient in 1998 of the South African Women for Women award in the category of Entrepreneurial Role Model. Today, Chips is a leading business consultant, dynamic speaker on women’s issues in business and entrepreneurship, and a business columnist for The Globe & Mail. [Photo, courtesy Chipco Canada Inc.]

Born in the South African province formerly called the Transvaal, raised in the South African town of Heidelberg, and a graduate in medicine from the University of Witwatersrand, 1962, Dr. Cassam A. Bhabha immigrated to Canada in 1968, settling in Toronto where today he practices medicine. In faith, a devout Muslim, Dr. Bhabha over the past six years has served as President, International Development and Refugee Foundation (I.D.R.F.) assisting the less fortunate around the globe. This “people helping people” organization targets third world countries with the assistance of the Canadian International Development Agency. Dr. Bhabha’s volunteer work with women in the remote areas of the South African republic generated much needed voter education prior to the historic First Election of 1993. [Photo, courtesy Dr. C.A. Bhabha]