21st Annual Capital Connection and DealSource Featuring Gala Dinner

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Committee Co-Chairs for Capital Connection 2023

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Jake Bullen, Partner

Cassels Brock & Blackwell LLP

Jake serves as Co-Chair of the firm’s Private Equity Group.  Jake’s practice focuses on M&A, financings, corporate re-organizations, and complex commercial agreements, with a significant cross-border component.  Jake also provides strategic advice on matters such as multi-jurisdictional structuring and corporate governance.  His clients include PE sponsors, family offices, investment banks, and corporate leaders in retail, consumer goods, food & beverage, manufacturing & distribution, financial services, Tech, FinTech, AI, waste management, real estate, sports, entertainment, and cleantech/renewable energy.  Well-regarded for managing large deal teams and advancing deals to closing, clients note that Jake is an “amazing lawyer, leader, and negotiator.”

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Kristin Shearer, Director

Northleaf Capital Partners

Kristin participates in the origination, evaluation and monitoring of Northleaf's private equity investments, with a focus on secondaries. Northleaf is a global private markets investment firm with approximately $22 billion of assets under management across its private equity, private credit and infrastructure programs.

Prior to joining Northleaf in 2015, Kristin was a Manager, M&A Transaction Services, at Deloitte LLP where she performed financial due diligence for private equity and strategic buyers on a variety of M&A transactions.

Kristin received a Bachelor of Commerce (Honours) from the University of British Columbia and holds the Chartered Professional Accountant designation.

2023 Capital Connection Committee

Adriann Czornyj – Persistence Capital Partners

Debra Dobson – Peloton Capital Management

Evan Bennitt – BMO Commercial Bank – Sponsor Finance

Michael Bowman - Northleaf Capital Partners

Michael Rudanycz - SLC Management | Sun Life Assurance Company of Canada

Mistine Lauzon – CIBC Capital Markets

Myron Mallia-Dare – Miller Thomson

Tori Buffery – Morningside Capital

Umair Khan – BDO

Yong Kwon – Raymond James