Gagliano is co-founder and chair of Luminato, Toronto's Annual Festival of Arts & Creativity which opened in 2007. For the years leading up to its first festival year, Gagliano and David Pecaut thought of the idea to create what would be an arts and creativity festival. Events included performances from The Guess Who's Randy Bachman, K'naan, Rufus Wainwright, Bruce Cockburn, John Malkovich, art installations, theater productions, and operas. Millions of people attended the festival in its first four years. Honours Tony Gagliano is the former president of the Art Gallery of Ontario. On June 18, 2010, he received an honorary Doctor of Laws degree from Ryerson. Gagliano is a member of the Young Presidents' Organization as well as a board member of the St. Michael's Hospital Board and the St. Michael's Hospital Foundation Board. In addition, he is a cabinet member of Toronto Metropolitan University as Ryerson is known today and an honorary board member of Scouts Canada. His personal contributions center on education and the environment, supporting "Partners in Growth" with Scouts Canada, which since its inception has planted over 1,750,000 trees across Canada. St. Joseph was also the first Corporation in Canada to receive the Financial Post award for environmental excellence. Tony played an role in initiating the St. Joseph Foundation, which today provides consistent long-term direction to the charitable activities of St. Joseph Communications and allocates funds to the relief of poverty and the advancement of education. In October 2003, Tony Gagliano received the Ernst and Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award for "Business to Business, Products and Services" for the Province of Ontario. In 2008, Gagliano was recognized by the Jewish-Toronto community as the recipient of the Words and Deeds Leadership Award. Tony Gagliano was also awarded with Canadian of the year along with David Pecaut in 2008 by the Canadian Club for his efforts on Luminato. He was named one of Canada's Top 40 under 40 in 1995, Ernst and Young’s Ontario Entrepreneur of the Year for “Business to Business, Products and Services” in 2003, and he received an Alumni Achievement Award from Ryerson University in 2007. In 2011, Gagliano was named Canadian Printer of the Year and was the co-chair of the Venetian Ball in Toronto for Villa Colombo. References 1958 births Businesspeople from Toronto Canadian media executives Canadian people of Italian descent Canadian people of Sicilian descent Canadian philanthropists Living people