Advisors

Meet the advisors shaping the vision and experience for this year’s event.

Polly Craik

Corporate Director

(Sold FineLine Solutions)

Aurèle Courcelles

Vice President, Tax & Estate Planning

IG Wealth Management

Jack Dallaire

Principal

SeaFort Capital

Gavin Fretwell

AVP, Finance

Decisive Dividend Corporation

Chad Friesen

CEO, Friesens Corporation

President, Tallgrass Employee Owner Equity Fund

Tom Hamilton-Piercy

Director

Baker Tilly (Canada) Capital

Leilani Kagan, K.C.

Lawyer

Thompson Dorfman Sweatman LLP

Joanne MacKean

Vice-President, Manitoba & Saskatchewan

BDC

Adam Mallon

Managing Director, Transaction Advisory Services

BDO Canada LLP

Kelly Nicolson

Regional Vice President – Western Canada

Roynat Capital

Mackenzie Regent

Managing Partner

Kalos

Joanne Sigurdson

TEC Canada Master Chair

Executive coach & former Business Owner

Mark Stephenson

President & Co-Founder

Cube Business Media

2026 Chair

Bram Strain

President & CEO

Business Council of Manitoba

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