, is an instructor of Italian rapier, in the style of Capo Ferro at the Academy since 2008, and also instructs the style of quarterstaff. He is also in his second year of working on his PhD in French at the University of Toronto. Beau began his study of historical fencing in Vancouver in the fall of 2006, where he was introduced to the martial arts of the later Renaissance, specifically, Ridolfo Capo Ferro, Achille Marozzo and Joseph Swetnam. He became an assistant instructor at Academie Duello in a little over a year, and has spent the better part of the last two years interpreting Giovanni Dall'Agocchie's fencing treatise entitled "Dell'Arte di Scrimia". Beau successfully challenged for the rank of Free Scholler on November 6, 2010.
Beau is involved with the instruction of introductory Italian rapier classes with the Royal Ontario Museum beginning in the early part of 2010.