Mackenzie Regent
Managing Partner
Kalos
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Discover Actionable Growth & Transition Strategies from Top Entrepreneurs
Since 2015, the Business Transitions Forum has been guiding entrepreneurs through comprehensive growth strategies and ownership transitions, including opportunities for mergers and acquisitions (M&A) to enhance shareholder value.
Join top entrepreneurs and North America’s leading experts to:
- Increase market share and shareholder value
- Identify growth and scaling opportunities
- Understand the acquisition and sale process
- Assess if M&A is the right growth path for your business
- Implement actionable strategies to elevate your business’s value at any stage in your transition journey
Mackenzie Regent
2027 Conference Chair
Mackenzie Regent is the Co-Founder & Managing Partner of Kalos LLP, an internationally recognized financial due diligence and valuation CPA firm. Mackenzie has significant experience in mergers, acquisitions and divestitures having advised on hundreds of deals for over $50 billion in transaction value. She has executed deals throughout North America, Europe and Asia in the energy, healthcare, industrial, retail and technology sectors. In 2021, Mackenzie was recognized as one of the Top 100 Finance Professional in the world by The Top 100 magazine based out of New York city.
Prior to founding Kalos, Mackenzie was a Global Investment Banker at Scotiabank where she advised on numerous M&A mandates, equity raises, and debt transactions. Prior to Scotiabank, Mackenzie was a lead Transactions Advisory Manager at Ernst & Young LLP (“EY”) on their Financial Due Diligence team where her exemplary client service, technical ability and leadership resulted in being selected as the Manager to represent EY Canada at an international leadership conference.
Mackenzie is a corporate Director and Chair of the Audit & Finance committee for a not-for-profit organization as well as a public company. She is a former competitive hockey player, having represented Canada in international competition as the starting goaltender.
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A full day of conversations for owners thinking seriously about growth, acquisition, leadership, and transition.
Hear how entrepreneurs, investors, and advisors approach the decisions that shape enterprise value and long-term optionality.
Hear From BTF Alumni
As a first-time attendee, BTF was the perfect starting point. The forum gave me a clear understanding of the landscape and how to prepare early.
BTF connected me with the right advisor at exactly the right time. That relationship directly led to a successful sale of my business in 2025.
BTF was my first real deep dive into business transition and growth pathways. The insights helped me think differently about value creation.
You want to come to this conferences years in advance of wanting to sell, because you want to be thinking about how to build your business, you want to be meeting the strategic partners who may help you.
I think BTF does a great job of really setting the tone of community, connection and really making sure entrepreneurs feel supported.
It’s a very welcoming conference, and a conference that anybody can just approach anybody and strike up a conversation.
I wished I had of participated in something like this before we transacted.
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