Business Transitions Forum 2022 - Winnipeg | Business Transition Forum | 13 October 2022 | Delta Hotels by Marriott Winnipeg, 350 St Mary Ave, Winnipeg, MB R3C 3J2, Canada

This Forum is evolving to reveal comprehensive strategies to grow businesses of all kinds, while still educating entrepreneurs on the role M&A can play to increase shareholder value on both the sell side and buy side.

You’re invited to join serial entrepreneurs and Canada’s leading mergers and acquisitions practitioners to learn how to

• increase market share and shareholder value
• identify ways to grow and/or scale your business
• learn about being acquired or acquiring businesses
• learn how M&A can offer your business a path to growth
• learn how M&A can create opportunity for personal wealth creation through an eventual transition

2022 Speakers

CHAIR:

Jon Spencer
Managing Director, TriWest Capital Partners

SPEAKERS:

Duncan Adams
Vice President, TriWest Capital

Sarah Anderson
Business Development, Bockstael Construction

Mike Baker
Vice President & Portfolio Manager, Leith Wheeler Investment Counsel

Cheryl Baldwin
Owner & CEO, Intrinsic Bookkeeping & Business Solutions

Dan Bockstael
Vice President, Preconstruction, Bockstael Construction

John Bockstael
Chief Executive Officer, Bockstael Construction

Daniel Bernard
Partner, Valuations and Modelling, BDO Canada LLP

Gary Brownstone
President & CEO, Catchfire

Steve Chen
VP & Head, First West Capital

Axel Christiansen
Partner, Relay Transition Partners

Cody Church
CEO & President, Clear North Capital

Pierre Cléroux
Vice President Research & Chief Economist, BDC

Tracey Code
Director, National Accounts, Scotia Bank

Jaimie Dawson
Managing Partner, Winnipeg, Ernst & Young

Silvia de Sousa
Lawyer, Thompson Dorfman Sweatman LLP

Matt Flynn
Managing Director, Roynat Equity Partners

Kelly R. Ford
Partner, Bennett Jones LLP

Gary Coleman
President, Garibaldi Investments Ltd. (Former CEO/Owner, Big Freight Systems Inc.)

Geoff Garland
Partner, Tax, BDO Canada LLP

Amanda Haney
Senior VP Finance, Acquisitions, People Corporation

Peter Jessiman
CEO Jessiman Family Investments Inc. and Former Co-owner Bison Transport

Leilani Kagan, K.C.
Partner, Thompson Dorfman Sweatman LLP

Kleo Landucci
CEO & President of CrescentView Investments Ltd. & Former Managing Director of Ashcroft Terminal

Tabreez Lila
Managing Director, Growth and Transition Capital, BDC Capital

Bradley Madison
Partner, Pitblado Law

Adam Mallon
Managing Director, Transaction Advisory Services, BDO Canada LLP

Mike McIsaac
CEO & Managing Director, Baker Tilly Canada Corporate Finance

Kristi Miller
Managing Partner, Serial Entrepreneur, NPC Ventures

Rob Normandeau
President, SeaFort Capital

Shane Dunn
Partner, Mergers & Acquisitions, EY Orenda Corporate Finance

Martha Penner
Former Owner, TSL Industries

Sean Pisarski
Director, Private Debt Partners

Mackenzie Regent
Partner | Transaction Diligence, Kalos LLP

Chris Reichert
President, Reichert Family Enterprise Advisors

Arthur Roy
President, Macmor Industries

Vernon Sabeski
Founder, All-Net Municipal Solutions

Joanne Sigurdson
TEC Canada Chair (Former owner Uniglobe Travel)

Danny Spencer
Partner, Thompson Dorfman Sweatman LLP

Eric Stutzman
CEO, ACHIEVE Centre for Leadership

Constantine Hatzipanayis
Partner, Growth Equity Partners, BDC

Clint Taylor
CEO and Former Owner, Cobalt Industries Ltd.

Devin Wagner
Managing Director, Western Region Transactions Leader, Grant Thornton LLP

Cheryl Zealand
CEO, Cranked Energy

2022 Sponsors and Partners

PRESENTING SPONSOR:
• Bdc*

ENTERPRISE SPONSORS:
• Bakertilly
• TriWest Capital Partners

VENTURE SPONSORS:
• Catchfire
• LDBO
• Grant Thornton
• Relay Transition Partners
• Roynat Capital
• SeaFort Capital

REGISTRATION SPONSOR:
• Firstwest Capital

LUNCH KEYNOTE SPONSOR:
• EY

BADGE SPONSOR:
• Thompson Dorfman Sweatman

CO-JOURNAL SPONSORS:
• Kalos LLP
• Leith Wheeler

LUNCH SPONSOR:
• Pitblado

PLENARY SPONSOR:
• Bennett Jones

WORKSHOP SPONSORS:
• LBDO
• TDS

SUPPORTING PARTNERS:
• The Chamber
• Women's Enterprise Centre
• StartUp Canada
• CFIB
• CVCA
• NACO
• TEC Canada