Wednesday, February 8th, 2012
This session featured Derek Burleton as our guest speaker and the following companies as featured firms: ViewIT Technologies, Hire Results Ltd. and Vida Holdings Corp. As our guest speaker, Derek discussed, “Where are we REALLY? with respect to economic and financial environments in Ontario?”
Wednesday, December 7th, 2011
This session featured Jack Vanderkooy as our guest speaker and the following companies as featured firms: TimedRight, Stockbet.com and Pad Thai 2 Go. As our guest speaker, Jack discussed “Is Smaller Better? – Example Credit Unions.” Below is a synopsis of Jack’s speech:
Credit unions have been a quiet force in the Ontario market place offering cooperative banking services to their communities. Customers are known as “members” since they “own” the credit union and are rewarded for doing business with the credit union through profit sharing. Is there a future for smaller businesses in Ontario as evidenced by the community based banking model? Legislation now exists to allow a national credit union. Will that change the landscape for credit unions and their effect on small businesses?
Wednesday, October 5th, 2011
This session featured Jonathan Wellum as our guest speaker and the following companies as featured firms: Quant Interpretations, Hamilton Medical Marijuana Centre (HMMC) and White Knight LED. As our guest speaker, Jonathan discussed “Investing Opportunities and Challenges in an Indebted World.” Below is a synopsis of Jonathan’s speech:
Decades of debt based growth, rooted in consumption and not capital investment, has left the global economy in a very weakened state. Jonathan discussed several strategies to both protect and grow your capital in the midst of the record levels of debt, both personal and sovereign. He also laid out a blueprint on how we should move forward. This is a time for all of us to assume greater personal accountability and depend less on governments and their unsustainable promises.
