Adam Dean

Effigi, Inc. designs and develops apparel and related accessories. Its products include casual, sports and outer wear, lingerie and sleepwear, swimwear, socks, hose and tights, home decor and kitchen products. The company was founded in 1991 by Sylvain Veronneau and is headquartered in Laval, Canada.

Hawthorn Equity Partners, Inc. (Hawthorn Equity Partners) is a private equity firm founded in 2005. The firm is headquartered in Toronto, Ontario.

PURE Laser provides laser aesthetics, skin rejuvenation, and anti-aging solutions. The private company is based in Burlington, Canada.

Berkeley Street Solutions, Inc. provides managed payment software solutions to corporations and government organizations. Its platform helps clients in accounting and reporting, payment processing, card design and fulfillment, program management, and product development. The company was founded by Jonathon Hamburg in 2005 and is headquartered in Toronto, Canada.

Air Wisconsin Airlines LLC provides airline services. It offers ground handling services for the United Express and Northwest Airlines. The company was founded in 1965 and is headquartered in Appleton, WI.

ONEX Canada Asset Management, Inc. (Investment Management) (OCAM-IM) is the investment management division of ONEX Canada Asset Management, Inc., an investment company headquartered in Toronto, Canada. Formerly known as Gluskin Sheff + Associates, Inc., the firm was founded by Ira Gluskin and Gerald Sheff in 1984 and is a subsidiary of ONEX Corp. (TSX: ONEX). OCAM-IM provides private and liquid market investment solutions to wealth advisors and their clients.

Waratah Capital Advisors Ltd. (Waratah) is an independent, Canadian hedge fund management firm headquartered in Toronto, Ontario. The firm was founded in 2010 by Brad Dunkley and Blair Levinsky. Waratah provides investment advisory services to pooled investment vehicles and separately managed accounts.

Canaccord Genuity Corp. (CGC) is the broker/dealer subsidiary of Canaccord Genuity Group, Inc., (TSE: CF; OTCMKTS: CCORF) in Canada. The firm was founded in 2010 and is locally known as Financière Canaccord ltée. Headquartered in Vancouver, CGC offers corporate and institutional clients with versatile and responsive sales and execution services that range from Institutional Equities and International Equities to Electronic Trading and Fixed Income. Their sales & trading team execution capabilities encompass a wide range of products and services such as Equities, ADR’s, OTC, ETF’s, Fixed Income, Options, Preferreds, Investment Companies.

Part of Nortel Networks Corp., the company manufactures telecommunications and data networking equipment. The company is based in Sunrise, FL. The company was founded by Roy Sunstrum.

MaRS Discovery District (Venture Capital) is a venture capital subsidiary of MaRS Discovery District founded in 2000 by Murray McCaig. The firm is headquartered in Toronto, Canada.

Morningstar Research, Inc. Canada is Canada's leading investment fund research firm. They were formed in 1999 as the result of the acquisition of Portfolio Analytics and BellCharts Inc. by Chicago-based Morningstar Inc., the global investment firm in the US. They market the two most popular mutual fund software products, PALTrak and BellCharts and operate the Morningstar.ca web site. In addition, Morningstar Canada provides analysis and consulting services for investment management, fund performance evaluation and pension plan governance. They are located in Toronto.

Franklin Templeton Investments Corp. (FTI) is a SEC-registered investment advisor and mutual fund manager headquartered in Toronto, Canada. The firm was founded in 2000 and they are a subsidiary of Templeton International, Inc. Their ultimate parent is Franklin Resources, Inc. (NYSE: BEN), a global investment management company also known as Franklin Templeton Investments. FTI provides investment advisory and portfolio management services with clients in jurisdictions worldwide, which include registered open-end and closed-end funds and unregistered funds, as well as separate accounts for institutional and high net-worth clients.

Part of Oppenheimer Holdings, Inc., CIBC Wood Gundy Corp. is a Canadian company that provides brokerage services. The company is based in Toronto, Canada.

McCann Worldgroup Canada, Inc. is an integrated marketing communications agency, which engages in operating advertising agencies. The company was founded in 1912 and is headquartered in Toronto, Canada.

The Canadian Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences provides music awards, musicounts, Canada’s music education program and the canadian music hall of fame. The company was founded in 1975 and is headquartered in Toronto, Canada.

Oppenheimer & Co., Inc. provides security brokerage services. It also offers investment banking and advice to high net worth investors, individuals, businesses and institutions. The company is headquartered in New York, NY.

Grafikom LP provides sheet fed, digital and specialty printing services. The CEO of the Canadian company is Gordon A. Griffiths.

The Blackstone Group, Inc. provides marketing research services. It provides custom market research services for clients in industries as consumer packaged goods, financial services, healthcare and technology. The firm's clients include eBay, Harris Bank and Pfizer. The company was founded by Ashref A. Hashim in 1987 and is headquartered in Chicago, IL.

Crestline Investors, Inc (Crestline Investors) is a private equity firm founded in 1997 by Douglas Bratton. The firm is headquartered in Fort Worth, Texas.

Solace Corp. provides message routing software solutions. Its technology enables information to flow between applications, connected devices, datacenters, and people. It specializes in internet data streaming, internet of things and message broker. The company was founded by Craig Betts in 2001 and is headquartered in Ottawa, Canada.

CashEdge, Inc. provides intelligent money movement services. It enables financial institutions to provide a single point of access for multiple easy-to-use consumer and small business transfer capabilities including account funding, me-to-me transfers, third-party transfers, person-to-person payments and small business payments and invoicing. The company was founded in 1999 and was headquartered in Brookfield, WI.

Soltrus, Inc. designs and manufactures digital trust and Internet security products and services. It offers services to Websites, electronic service providers, individuals, and enterprises to communicate over digital networks. The company was founded on November 29, 2001 and is headquartered in Toronto, Canada.

Datawire Communication Networks, Inc. provides online transaction delivery network services to payment processors and merchant acquirers in North America and Europe. It serves the retail, parking, petroleum, and restaurant markets. The company was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in Toronto, Canada.

Xerox Corp. engages in the integration of paper and digital products. The firm offers home, office, office laser, multifunction and all in one printer, digital sheet-fed printing presses and scanner. The company was founded in 1906 and is headquartered in Norwalk, CT.

Navantis, Inc. provides systems integration and information technology services. It offers compliance and commitment management, dolphin contract manager, managed applications, drivies, monitoring, support, azure, dynamics CRM, exchange, lync, data center, member management and unified communication. The company was founded by John Kvasnic, Jason Martin and Andy Papadopoulos in 1998 and is headquartered in Toronto, Canada.