Bernard Mascarenhas with his wife Raynette and son Sven
Bernard Mascarenhas as a young man in Pakistan
Bernard Mascarenhas as a young man in Pakistan
Bernard Mascarenhas as a young man in Pakistan
Bernard Mascarenhas as a young man in Pakistan with his wife Raynette
Bernard Mascarenhas as a young man in Pakistan with his wife Raynette
Bernard Mascarenhas at his First Communion
Bernard Mascarenhas with his wife Raynette
Bernard Mascarenhas with his wife Raynette
Bernard Mascarenhas with his wife Raynette
Bernard Mascarenhas at his First Communion
Eulogy given by the CEO of Marsh & McLennan at Bernard Mascarenhas' funeral
Poster with excerpts about Bernard Mascarenhas
Letter sent to remember a signing ceremony Bernard Mascarenhas attended
Letter sent to Bernard Mascarenhas by the Canadian Secretary of State upon his becoming a Canadian citizen
Plaque outside the board room named after Bernard Mascarenhas at Marsh Canada
Postcard sent by Bernard Mascarenhas to his children Jaclyn and Sven while he was in Brussels
Birthday card made for Bernard Mascarenhas by his daughter Jaclyn
Memorial poster made for Bernard Mascarenhas
Eulogy given by Bernard Mascarenhas' son Sven
Eulogy given by Bernard Mascarenhas' son Sven
Bernard Mascarenhas with his son Sven on vacation
Signing ceremony at Infinet
Signing ceremony at Infinet
Bernard Mascarenhas' daughter Jaclyn with her husband Jason, brother Sven, and mother Raynette on her wedding day
Bernard Mascarenhas' family at a Marsh memorial service
Bernard Mascarenhas' family at a Marsh memorial service
Bernard Mascarenhas with his wife Raynette at a friend's wedding
Bernard Mascarenhas with his wife Raynette at a friend's wedding
Bernard Mascarenhas with his family during Christmas 1990
Bernard Mascarenhas with his mother Agnes in Christmas 2000
Bernard Mascarenhas with his mother
Bernard Mascarenhas with his mother Agnes
Bernard Mascarenhas with brother Michael and sister Grace at Michael's wedding
Bernard Mascarenhas with family at his brother Michael's wedding
Bernard Mascarenhas dancing with his daughter Jaclyn at his brother Michael's wedding
Bernard Mascarenhas with family at a cousin's wedding
Bernard Mascarenhas with his wife Raynette and children Jaclyn and Sven during Christmas 1989
Bernard Mascarenhas on vacation with his kids Jaclyn and Sven in Germany
Bernard Mascarenhas on vacation with his children Jaclyn and Sven
Bernard Mascarenhas on vacation with his son Sven
Bernard Mascarenhas on vacation with his daughter Jaclyn
Bernard Mascarenhas on vacation with family and friends
Bernard Mascarenhas on vacation with his kids Jaclyn and Sven
Bernard Mascarenhas on vacation with his children Jaclyn and Sven
Bernard Mascarenhas on vacation with his daughter Jaclyn
Bernard Mascarenhas on vacation with his daughter Jaclyn and wife Raynette
Bernard Mascarenhas on vacation with his son Sven
Bernard Mascarenhas on vacation with his wife Rayntte
Bernard Mascarenhas and his wife Raynette holding their newborn son Sven during Christmastime
Bernard Mascarenhas with his kids Jaclyn and Sven, wife Raynette, and mother in law Essie
Bernard Mascarenhas with family at his wife Raynette's birthday
Bernard Mascarenhas with his wife and children at his son Sven's First Communion
Bernard Mascarenhas with his wife and children at his son Sven's First Communion
Bernard Mascarenhas with his wife Raynette at his son Sven's Baptism
Bernard Mascarenhas with his family at his daughter Jaclyn's First Communion
Bernard Mascarenhas at his parents' 25th wedding anniverary
Bernard Mascarenhas with his wife Raynette, son Sven, and daughter Jaclyn
Bernard Mascarenhas holding his daughter Jaclyn
Bernard Mascarenhas with his daughter Jaclyn
Bernard Mascarenhas with his daughter Jaclyn
Bernard Mascarenhas with his daughter Jaclyn
Bernard Mascarenhas with his daughter Jaclyn
Bernard Mascarenhas with his wife Raynette on their wedding day
Bernard Mascarenhas with his wife Raynette on their wedding day
Bernard Mascarenhas with his wife Raynette on their wedding day
Bernard Mascarenhas with his son Sven
Bernard Mascarenhas with his son Sven
Bernard Mascarenhas with his son Sven
Bernard Mascarenhas with his wife Raynette
Bernard Mascarenhas with his wife Raynette
Bernard Mascarenhs with his wife Raynette
Bernard Mascarenhas with his wife Raynette
Bernard Mascarenhas with his wife Raynette
Bernard Mascarenhas with coworkers
Bernard Mascarenhas with coworkers
Bernard Mascarenhas with family
Bernard Mascarenhas with family
Bernard Mascarenhas with family
Bernard Mascarenhas with family
Bernard Mascarenhas with family
Bernard Mascarenhas with family
Bernard mascarenhas with his family
Bernard Mascarenhas with his family
Bernard Mascarenhas with his family
Bernard Mascarenhas with his children Jaclyn and Sven
Bernard Mascarenhas with his family
Bernard Mascarenhas with his family
Bernard Mascarenhas with his family
Bernard Mascarenhas with his family
Bernard Mascarenhas with his family
Bernard Mascarenhas with his family
Bernard Mascarenhas' daughter Jaclyn with her husband Jason, on her wedding day
Bernard Mascarenhas with his mother Agnes
Bernard Mascarenhas with his wife Raynette
Bernard Mascarenhas on vacation with his kids Sven and Jaclyn in Sydney
Bernard Mascarenhas on vacation with his wife Raynette and kids Jaclyn and Sven
Bernard Mascarenhas with his family at his daughter Jaclyn's baptism
Bernard Mascarenhas with his daughter Jaclyn
Bernard Mascarenhas with his son Sven
Bernard Mascarenhas with coworkers
Bernard Mascarenhas with his wife Raynette and son Sven
Bernard Mascarenhas with his wife Raynette, daughter Jaclyn, and brother Michael at Michael's wedding
Bernard Mascarenhas with his wife Raynette
Bernard Mascarenhas with his wife Raynette, daughter Jaclyn, and brother Michael at Michael's wedding
Bernard Mascarenhas with coworkers
Eulogy given by the CEO of Marsh & McLennan at Bernard Mascarenhas' funeral
Eulogy given by the CEO of Marsh & McLennan at Bernard Mascarenhas' funeral
Eulogy given by the CEO of Marsh & McLennan at Bernard Mascarenhas' funeral
Article about Bernard Mascarenhas
Article about Bernard Mascarenhas
Article about Bernard Mascarenhas
Eulogy given by Bernard Mascarenhas' son Sven
Eulogy given by Bernard Mascarenhas' son Sven
Eulogy given by Bernard Mascarenhas' son Sven
Message sent to Marsh & McLennan Canada employees about remembering Bernard and other Marsh employees who died
Message sent to Marsh & McLennan Canada employees about remembering Bernard and other Marsh employees who died
Bernard Mascarenhas' Certificate of Canadian Citizenship
9/11 tribute issue made by a local Christian Association's magazine
President's message in the tribute issue of a local Christian Association's magazine
Bernard Mascarenhas' Marsh Canada business card
Cover of a program for a memorial dedication ceremony held by Marsh and McLennan
Eulogy given by Bernard Mascarenhas' son Sven
Statement made in the Canadian House of Commons about Bernard Mascarenhas
Statement made in the Canadian House of Commons about Bernard Mascarenhas
Bernard Mascarenhas's signature
Bernard Mascarenhas and his wife Raynette on their wedding day
Bernard Mascarenhas and his wife Raynette on their wedding day
Bernard Mascarenhas and his wife Raynette on their wedding day
Portrait of Bernard Mascarenhas
Bernard Mascarenhas at a friend's wedding
Bernard Mascarenhas at his brother Michael's wedding
Bernard Mascarenhas on vacation
Plaque placed by the Canadian Government remembering citizens it lost on 9/11
Plaque placed by the Canadian Government remembering citizens it lost on 9/11
Special issue of M Magazine, made by Marsh & McLennan, remembering the employees it lost on 9/11. List of all the Marsh & McLennan employees who died on 9/11 in the company's magazine M Magazine.
Special issue of M Magazine, made by Marsh & McLennan, remembering the employees it lost on 9/11. Schedule of the memorial service held by Marsh & McLennan at St. Patrick's Cathedral in the company magazine.
Special issue of M Magazine, made by Marsh & McLennan, remembering the employees it lost on 9/11. Schedule of the memorial service held by Marsh & McLennan at St. Patrick's Cathedral in the company magazine.
Special issue of M Magazine, made by Marsh & McLennan, remembering the employees it lost on 9/11. Remarks made by MMC Chairman Jeff Greenberg.
Special issue of M Magazine, made by Marsh & McLennan, remembering the employees it lost on 9/11. Remarks made by MMC Chairman Jeff Greenberg.Special issue of M Magazine, made by Marsh & McLennan, remembering the employees it lost on 9/11. Remarks made by MMC Chairman Jeff Greenberg and letters read by Peter Walther of Marsh, Inc.
Special issue of M Magazine, made by Marsh & McLennan, remembering the employees it lost on 9/11. Poem read at the Marsh & McLennan memorial service in M Magazine.
Special issue of M Magazine, made by Marsh & McLennan, remembering the employees it lost on 9/11. Poem read at the Marsh & McLennan memorial service in M Magazine.
Special issue of M Magazine, made by Marsh & McLennan, remembering the employees it lost on 9/11. Remarks made by Rudolph Giuliani, former Mayor of New York.
Special issue of M Magazine, made by Marsh & McLennan, remembering the employees it lost on 9/11. List of all the Marsh & McLennan employees who died on 9/11 in the company's magazine M Magazine.
Special issue of M Magazine, made by Marsh & McLennan, remembering the employees it lost on 9/11. List of all the Marsh & McLennan employees who died on 9/11 in the company's magazine M Magazine.
Special issue of M Magazine, made by Marsh & McLennan, remembering the employees it lost on 9/11. List of all the Marsh & McLennan employees who died on 9/11 in the company's magazine M Magazine.
Special issue of M Magazine, made by Marsh & McLennan, remembering the employees it lost on 9/11. List of all the Marsh & McLennan employees who died on 9/11 in the company's magazine M Magazine.
Special issue of M Magazine, made by Marsh & McLennan, remembering the employees it lost on 9/11. Poems read at the Marsh & McLennan memorial service.
Special issue of M Magazine, made by Marsh & McLennan, remembering the employees it lost on 9/11. Poems read at the Marsh & McLennan memorial service.
Special issue of M Magazine, made by Marsh & McLennan, remembering the employees it lost on 9/11. Poems read at the Marsh & McLennan memorial service.
Special issue of M Magazine, made by Marsh & McLennan, remembering the employees it lost on 9/11. Article in the Marsh & McLennan magazine about volunteer work done by employees following 9/11.
Special issue of M Magazine, made by Marsh & McLennan, remembering the employees it lost on 9/11. Article in the Marsh & McLennan magazine about volunteer work done by employees following 9/11.
Special issue of M Magazine, made by Marsh & McLennan, remembering the employees it lost on 9/11. Article about Marsh & McLennan resuming normal operations following 9/11.
Special issue of M Magazine, made by Marsh & McLennan, remembering the employees it lost on 9/11. Article about Marsh & McLennan resuming normal operations following 9/11.
Special issue of M Magazine, made by Marsh & McLennan, remembering the employees it lost on 9/11
Conseleya 9/11 Memorial
Dewitt 9/11 Memorial
Montclair State University 9/11 Memorial
East Newark 9/11 Memorial
Fair Haven 9/11 Memorial
Freehold Township 9/11 Living Memorial Tree Grove
Crescent Beach Park - Flagpole/Memorial for 9/11 Victims
Garrison Elementary School American Patriot Garden
Keansburg Beach Front Memorial
Marsh Canada Ltd Memorial Scholarship Fund
In Remembrance of Canadians Lost Marsh & McLennan Companies Memorial
Canada's 9/11 families spent last decade learning how to live with loss
His friends remember Bernard Mascarenhas in the small gestures. In Toronto: taking a junior colleague to her first business lunch, at Hy’s Steakhouse. In Karachi: buying a Coke for a school friend who couldn’t afford one himself.
Sometimes his kindness was more than a gesture. It was grand.
Brussels: he flew there to comfort his co-worker, Marc Vanderstichelen, when his 23-year-old daughter died.
He was also modest.
“We grew up together in the old country,” Francis Misquita says from Edmonton. They were Goans living in Pakistan. Their friendship spanned 35 years. “We called him Bonny,” he says.
Mascarenhas was the smart one in their group. “If we wanted help in math and science, he was the go to person for us.”
Mascarenhas became a success — not that he would boast. “We came from the same background, computers. But he would never disclose the high level at which he worked. The humility, that was quite the striking thing.”
A father of two who lived in Newmarket, he was chief information officer for Marsh Canada in Toronto and was fatefully at a meeting at the World Trade Center on Sept. 11.
He was loved.
By his children, who could tease him about his mid-life obsession with bridge. “How anyone got any work done in Marsh with dad continually asking them questions always amazed me,” Sven, now a lawyer, said at his father’s memorial service at St. Michael’s Cathedral.
By his co-workers, who 10 years on write online memorials as if their hearts were still raw.
“I know I never told this to you — but you have played a significant influence on who I have become,” Craig Hayashi wrote. “For that I am a better person. . ."
New York Times Portraits of Grief
Bernard Mascarenhas was a zealous bridge player, an executive who had risen steadily up the corporate ladder, and a man who liked to take it easy on weekends with his wife and two kids. But it was what he was not known for that is worth remembering as well.
Deeply committed to education, Mr. Mascarenhas, 54, used to make anonymous donations to a number of different charities, in particular to scholarship funds. Among his causes, he would send anonymous scholarship donations to his native Pakistan, to assist Roman Catholics, a religious minority in that country.
Mr. Mascarenhas's influence was felt in the corporate world too. He was the chief information officer at Marsh Canada, a subsidiary of Marsh & Mclennan, in Toronto, and was in New York for a meeting on Sept. 11.
Mr. Mascarenhas's work on computer systems at the company was known as particularly innovative and wound up being used not only in Canada but in Marsh offices around the world. "He made sure everything he worked on was a first-class product," said Thomas J. Grimes, managing director at Marsh Canada.
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