David Pecaut

[4] He was 54 years old and is survived by his wife Helen Burstyn and their children Lauren Burstyn Lawrence and her husband Matt, of Los Angeles, CA; Amy Burstyn, Sarah Pecaut and Bec Pecaut of Toronto;[5] a brother Dan Pecaut and his wife Kay, of Sioux City, Iowa; a sister Stacey Gerhart of Sioux City, Iowa; a sister Mary Pecaut and her husband Youssouf Abdel-Jelil, living in Morocco; brother-in-law Rubin Burstyn and wife Judi Bodnoff; and their nieces, nephews and extended family members.

[2] Pecaut began his consulting career as a special assistant to the president of Terra Chemicals in Sioux City.

He moved to Toronto and joined the Canada Consulting Group (CCG) in the early 1980s and became a partner at Telesis in Rhode Island in 1984.

David was an avid supporter of Toronto and devoted himself increasingly to civic entrepreneurship in recent years, referring to his city-building activities as one of the greatest highlights of his life.

One of the civic projects that excited him most was Luminato, the Toronto-based international arts festival that he co-founded with Tony Gagliano in 2007.