The Kessler Academy

We are very grateful to the following for their financial support.

Founding sponsors

Forster family (Switzerland - in honour of Susan Kessler’s 100th birthday)

Susan Kessler (in memory of Jack Kessler)

Eileen Mate

Ric & Lynda Spratley

Jose Verstappen

Beth Carter

Martha Carter

Hans Piltz

Gary R. Bell

Marnie Carter

Jonathan & Christine Wisenthal

Maureen Girvan

Ian Wenham

Don Wilson

John Bolton

Karen Gelmon

Elisabeth Bell

Tim Agg

Stuart Alcock

Stephanie Reuter

Evelyn Riley

Leslie Carter

Heidi Kilham

Michelle Speller

Jeremy Berkman

Jennifer Mascall

Elliot Schwartz

Max Jadue

Karen Matthews

Norman Fischer (Houston, TX - in honour of Rebecca Wenham)

Blake Johnson

Susan Mackenzie

Katherine Mooney

Tanya Tomasch

Elinor Vassar

Penny Brown

Jocelyn Morlock

Michelle Anderson

Claire Talbot

Robin Wenham

Albertina Chan

Shelagh McPhalen

Mairi Dorman-Phaneuf

Chris Johns

Monna Rakosi

Steven Lay

Anthony Albrecht (London, England)



2016 sponsors


Susan Kessler

Eileen Mate

Richard and Lynda Spratley

Heather and Jerry Popoff

Gary R Bell

Hans-Karl Piltz

Evelyn Riley

Carolyn Canfield

Martha Lou Henley

Stuart Alcock

Jose Verstappen

Alan & Elizabeth Bell

Michelle Speller

Timothy Agg

Jonathan Wisenthal

Martha Carter

Jeremy Berkman

Stefanie (and Marcus) Reuter

Dr. Chris Shelley

Elinor Vassar



2017 sponsors


Susan Kessler

Eileen Mate

Jane McLennan

Richard and Lynda Spratley

Georgia Hunt

Hans-Karl & Irene Piltz

Jose Verstappen

Michael & Shelagh McPhalen

Christine & Jonathan Wisenthal

Alan & Elizabeth Bell

Carolyn Canfield

Martha Lou Henley

Michelle Speller

John Macfarlane &Jennifer Mascall

Stuart Alcock & Timothy Agg

Jeremy Berkman

Robin Wenham

Elinor Vassar

Lisa Hsu

Christine Yang



2018 sponsors


Susan Kessler

Eileen Mate

Ric & Lynda Spratley

Hans-Karl & Irene Piltz

Alan & Elizabeth Bell

John Purcell

Jose Verstappen

Heather & JerryPopoff

Stuart Alcock & Tim Agg

Irina Dmitrieva

Martha Lou Henley

Michelle Speller

Jonathan & Christine Wisenthal

Elinor Vassar

Tanya Tomasch - In Memory of Paul McQueen

Mark Hand



2019 sponsors


Susan Kessler

Eileen Mate

Lynda and Richard Spratley

Tim Agg and Stuart Alcock

Charles Barber

Alan and Elizabeth Bell

Gary Bell

Elinor Vassar

José Verstappen

Robin Wenham

Karl Zäenker



Three Foster family siblings (founding sponsors) with Marc Destrubé, Zurich, February 2020