Gary Allen Sorenson (born in 1942 or 1943 in Calgary, Alberta) is a Canadian businessmen who was arrested at Calgary International Airport on September 29, 2009 for an alleged role in a Ponzi scheme that scammed investors more than C$300 million, the largest in Canada.

Gary Sorenson was born in Calgary, Alberta in 1942 or 1943.

Prior to his arrest, he was believed to be residing in a mansion in Honduras just outside the capital of Tegucigalpa. The Alberta Securities Commission, the regulatory agency responsible for administering the province's securities laws, alerted the RCMP about the Ponzi scheme in 2007.

Sorenson, along with fellow Canadian Milowe Brost, are both accused of deceiving 3,000 people in Canada, the United States, and overseas out of $100 million, and possibly up to $400 million, between 1999 and 2008. According to the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP), Sorenson and Brost created a business named Syndicated Gold Depository S.A. and then formed an agreement to lend money to Merendon Mining, promising a high rate of return. Investors were then enticed into offshore shell companies marketed by Brost's firms, Capital Alternatives Inc. and Institute for Financial Learning Group of Companies Inc. In the 1980s Sorenson was allegedly involved with persons carrying out illegal distribution of securities in Calgary, Alberta Canada and in importing illegal drugs from west Africa according to information contained in RCMP and Alberta Securities Commission files.

Gary Catona is Hollywood’s “voice builder” to the stars. [1]

Catona’s heralded voice building system is noted for its ability to develop resonance, power, range, and endurance in the singing and speaking voice. [2] Catona has trained many of the world’s most successful singers and entertainers, from Andrea Bocelli to Whitney Houston.

Catona’s voice building system represents a veritable revolution in vocal training – a radical break with the typical ways the human voice is both understood and treated. His system has also proven to address a range of distressing vocal disorders, including spasmodic dysphonia, or strangulated voice.[3]

Of Italian descent, Catona grew up in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania where he trained with a variety of voice teachers in the hopes of becoming an opera singer. As a vocal student, Catona dreamed of becoming the next Mario Lanza, the Italian-American singing sensation of the 1950s and another native of Philadelphia.

Catona was a gifted vocalist in his teenage years and continued to pursue his dream of becoming a singer through college. A voracious reader and scholar, Catona earned his undergraduate degree, as well as a master’s in philosophy, from Pennsylvania State University.