Mark Pathy

Mark Pathy (born July 1969)[1] is a Canadian businessman, philanthropist and commercial astronaut.

He is also the chairman of Stingray Group[2] and the former co-CEO of Fednav,[3] a private shipping company co-founded by his great-uncle, Ernest Pathy, who was an immigrant from Hungary.

[9] He grew up in Montreal and attended Selwyn House School,[10] where he was classmates with politician Greg Fergus and businessmen Vincenzo Guzzo and Michael Penner.

[13] Mark Pathy and his wife Jessica recently contributed to a fundraising campaign for the Montreal Jewish General Hospital (JGH) Foundation which raised $5.5 million to date and saw the recently created Centre of Excellence in Infectious Diseases named in their honour.

[14] In January 2021, it was announced that Pathy paid for a seat on board SpaceX Axiom Space-1 as a mission specialist alongside Larry Connor, Eytan Stibbe and Michael López-Alegría.