Karl founded the Canadian School of Advanced PREP with the goal to educate and share his experience and skills with embalmers across the world, to allow everyone the opportunity to grow within themselves professionally through continued education.

Glyn is motivated and entirely dedicated to promote education and practical skills teaching for new students and continued professional refreshment and development training for registered embalmers.

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Melissa began her career in Chatham, Ontario in 1999. After graduating from Humber College she worked in Toronto where she managed the preparation room for a large 3 location firm with centralized preparation. Melissa has cared for thousands of deceased with her focus on ensuring the families expectations were exceeded by her attention to detail and the skills she developed working in a high volume fast paced environment. After starting her family she moved to Alliston, Ontario, where today she balances the everyday demands of the funeral profession with raising her two children.

Mike began his journey into funeral services at the age of 15 in Renfrew, ON. His interest in embalming sparked from anatomy and physiology classes which led to two semesters of co-op placements and 3 plus years of part time employment with the Anderson Funeral Home. Mike then enrolled in the Funeral Service Education program at Humber College in Toronto.

Mike graduated in 1995 and has continued his entire career at the Irvine Funeral Home & Chapel, Brockville, ON. Over the past 25 years he has chosen embalming and post mortem reconstruction as his true passion tackling any difficult preparation in order to give back to the families being served. Mike also trained at the inaugural International Embalming & Reconstructive Surgery Seminar at the Fountain National Academy of Professional Embalming Skills in Springfield, Missouri. He continues to utilize and expand on the skills learned over the years and strives to under promise and over deliver when it comes to embalming every body.