Economist and Investment Manager with Bonham & Co. Inc. and Executive Director of The Veritas Foundation. A graduate of the University of Toronto (B.Comm.) and the London School of Economics (MSc. Econ), he founded two of Canada’s largest mutual fund management companies – BPI Financial Corporation, and Strategic Value Corporation. A Senior Fellow of Massey College, University of Toronto, he is completing his book on the history of the Canadian financial industry from 1900 to present.

Associate Professor of History at the University of Regina, Saskatchewan, located in Treaty 4. Her research explores how hierarchies of social power have emerged over long periods. Much of her work, including the book Retail Nation (2011), explores the social dynamics of consumer capitalism. She is currently completing a book on consumer culture within the Canadian women’s movement. Other research areas include the history of global commodities, with a specific focus on the food trade. Her website is www.donicabelisle.com.

Director of Cannabis Education at mīhī, a Canadian cannabis retailer located in Ontario. She’s the co-founder of several cannabis companies, including The Green Tent, a women-led organization dedicated to achieving gender parity in leadership positions and on corporate boards in the Canadian cannabis industry. She currently sits on the NICHE Canada advisory board, and recently left a position managing the MBA Capstone Course at Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto, where she received her MBA in 2014. In addition to her business-building work, she also conducts research, consults, and writes on the topic of women’s health and cannabis.

Past Director of the Canadian Business History Program, Adjunct Professor Emeritus of Strategy and Executive in Residence at Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto. A graduate of the University of Manitoba, Joe attended the Advanced Management Program at the Harvard Business School. He is the author of Relentless Change, A Case Book for the Study of Canadian Business History. Joe’s research is focused on the development of more case studies about Canadian business in a global context.

Director of Equity Sales at National Bank Financial in Toronto since 2019, prior to which he was Vice President Equity Sales since 2017. Before joining National Bank, Jeremy was with: CIBC Asset Management as an Analyst covering Canadian Integrates, Global Oilfield Services, U.S. Large Cap E&P, and Global Refining; Peters & Co. as an Analyst covering the Oil Industry; and CIBC World Markets as an Associate. A graduate of Queen’s University, Jeremy is President of the Queen’s University Alumni Association and chair of the QUAA Board since 2018.

Associate Professor and Chair in Canadian-Scottish Studies in the Department of History and Classical Studies at McGill University. He has published a variety of articles on economic elites and capitalist development, and is the author of Dominion of Capital: The Politics of Big Business and the Crisis of the Canadian Bourgeoisie, 1914-1947 (University of Toronto Press, 2013). His current book project, supported by SSHRC, examines the rise of the Cape Breton coal industry during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Situating Cape Breton’s Sydney coalfield within its wider colonial context as part of a British settler society, the project links the Scottish diaspora and business networks to the making and shaping of Canada’s emerging industrial order, including the development of distinctive social classes and cultures.

Government Records Archivist at Library and Archives Canada and Adjunct Professor of History at the University of Guelph. His research concerns the business of sport, questions about digital humanities, historical database linkage techniques, and anthropometric history. Hecovers several areas that relate to North American business, economic, cultural and sport history of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. He is the author of the book Joining the Clubs: The Business of the National Hockey League to 1945 (Syracuse University Press, 2015).

Associate Professor of History at Empire State College – State University of New York, where he coordinates an MA program in Work and Labour Policy. He is the author of Our Union: UAW/CAW Local 27 from 1950 to 1990 (Athabasca University Press, 2011) and Making Managers in Canada, 1950 – 1990: Companies, Community Colleges, and Universities (Routledge, 2018). Russell has published in journals including Management and Organizational History, Journal of Management History, and Labour/Le Travail. His current research projects include examining aspects of the development of the federal public service in Canada.

Retired from Library and Archives Canada (LAC) in 2012 after more than 30 years of service. From 1989 to 2012 he was LAC’s business archivist. He has published and presented papers worldwide on a variety of topics including acquisition theory, archival appraisal, and Canadian business and financial history. He has served on the editorial boards of peer reviewed journals in Canada and overseas. His current research focuses on the business history of Canadian Great Lakes shipping.

Portfolio Manager on the Mackenzie Global Equity Team and a member of the CBHA/ACHA Board of Directors. She is primarily responsible for covering Asian equities. Mona joined Mackenzie in 2016. Previously, she spent four years as an Investment Analyst at the leading value-based investment firm Burgundy Asset Management covering emerging markets and Asian equities. Mona is also a guest lecturer at the Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto. Mona has a Bachelor’s degree in Electronic Engineering from Beijing Institute of Technology and an MBA from the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto. She is also a CFA charterholder.