Canada’s Entrepreneur

In 2010, based on his experience working in car dealerships, Cody Green started Canada Drives, enabling Canadians for the first time to get approved for auto financing online.

Fast forward to 2021 – Canada Drives is the fastest growing platform empowering Canadians to buy a vehicle 100% online and have it delivered straight to their door.

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Matt Wittek, Founder and CEO of Fill it Forward is a social entrepreneur on a mission to inspire the world to reuse. Based in Guelph, ON, The Fill it Forward Company has helped eliminate millions of single-use items from landfills and our oceans. Since 2012, Fill it Forward has helped fund hundreds of clean water projects benefiting communities across the world in an effort to alleviate the global water crisis. Matt has worked with many leading retailers, foodservice operators, universities and brands to promote the use of reusable products. His products and programs are used by millions of people around the world, helping to eliminate plastic bottles and disposable cups from our landfills. His work has been featured on Canada AM, CBC’s The National, Breakfast Television and the Globe and Mail.

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Sheri MacMillan is the founder of MacMillan Estate Planning Corporation, an elite international estate planning firm founded in Calgary. MacMillan now has offices in Canada, the UK and the US, serving as a highly respected industry leader in each market. Sherri has empowered her clients to do more with their wealth and helped shape their legacies for over 25 years, and is a regular guest on AM 770’s "Talk to the Experts" segment.

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The Raven Indigenous Impact Fund provides equity and equity-like capital to innovative, scalable, purpose-driven Indigenous enterprises. The Fund looks to support entrepreneurs who are at the seed and/or early stage. Through the Raven Fund, innovative Indigenous enterprises can access the support they need to grow from a trusted partner. The Fund represents a sustainable, values-driven approach to poverty reduction and community resilience that will directly contribute to the development of an Indigenous middle class. Enterprises are screened through a unique, Indigenous impact lens and receive investments ranging from $250,000 to $2 million. This is an interview about the reason and availability of this fund for Indigenous Entrepreneurs.

Paul Lacerte, Managing Partner. Paul Lacerte has provided innovative leadership to Indigenous organizations throughout his career. He is the former Vice-Chair of the Vancouver Foundation Board of Directors, the former Board Chair for Reconciliation Canada, and a former representative to the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues. He was awarded the Order of BC in 2014.

Jeffrey Cyr, Managing Partner. Jeff is Métis from the White Horse Plains area of Southern Manitoba, the traditional Buffalo Hunt staging grounds. For nearly 20 years, he has provided strategic leadership for Indigenous, not-for-profit, and government organizations. Jeff has helped create and implement the community-driven outcomes contract (a unique pay-for-success social finance model) and the Indigenous Solutions Lab process, which earned him an Ashoka Fellowship. Jeff is a proud husband and father of five and currently lives and works on unceded Algonquin lands in what is now known as Ottawa, Ontario.

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Martin Cousineau, président et chef de la direction des cliniques Lobe.

Après avoir transformé une compagnie privée (Helix Hearing) en compagnie publique cotée sur le TSE et l’AMEX, Martin Cousineau rêvait de créer un nouveau réseau en santé auditive où les besoins du patient seraient au cœur du processus de consultation. C’est à la suite d’une longue réflexion qu’il a fondé, en 2002, les premières cliniques Lobe à Sainte-Marie et à Saint-Georges, en Beauce. Aujourd’hui, presque 20 ans plus tard, le réseau compte près de 60 cliniques réparties à travers la province et un siège social situé dans la ville de Québec.

En fondant le réseau des cliniques Lobe, Martin Cousineau avait un objectif en tête : faciliter l’accès aux soins de santé auditive. Pour ce faire, il s’est placé en mode d’écoute et a su tenir compte des besoins des patients. C’est ce qui lui a permis de mettre sur pied un réseau proposant une approche multidisciplinaire unique où l’on retrouve sous un même toit l’ensemble des professionnels de la santé auditive. Un concept qui facilite grandement le processus de consultation du patient et qui permet de briser l’isolement causé par la perte auditive.

Parallèlement à son parcours d’entrepreneur à succès, Martin Cousineau s’implique activement auprès de nombreuses organisations à titre d’administrateur. Depuis 2019, il est président de la Chambre de commerce et d’industrie de Québec. Grand philanthrope, il est également, depuis plusieurs années, président du conseil d’administration de la Fondation Sourdine, qui soutient l’École oraliste de Québec pour enfants malentendants ou sourds.

Passionné par l’entrepreneuriat et l’efficience organisationnelle, Monsieur Cousineau s’implique aussi au sein de l’École d’Entrepreneurship de Beauce où il partage, depuis 2018, son expertise auprès de jeunes entrepreneurs. Homme d’affaires aux mille idées, Martin Cousineau multiplie les implications auprès de causes qui lui tiennent à cœur, afin de favoriser le rayonnement de chaque être humain.

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Yves Trottier likes to solve complex issues and has merged his robotics skills with the opportunity to promote barrier-free living for those living with physical limitations through Simple Freedom Design. As Owner and Director of Business Development, his experience and enthusiasm is instrumental in increasing access to the innovative products of Simple Freedom Design. He is working on projects that will change the whole "aging in place" sector. No one should have to move from their homes because of accessibility issues.

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Today’s guest is Mark Raison. Born and raised in Surrey BC, Mark is the owner of the company Drivveauto.com and has over 14 years of experience working with car dealerships, assisting them in transferring their inventory onto online platforms.

Nanotechnology allows Pfizer and Moderna vaccines to work. Imagine where we’d be without that technology! In a similar fashion, nanotechnology is used in farming & and agriculture to help primary producers move beyond 30-year old more dangerous, less effective techniques to enrol precision chemistry to produce smarter, faster, better results in farming and food production.

In this podcast, learn: i) what Canadian AgTech entrepreneurs at Vive Crop are doing to help plants get more of what they need, while supporting farmers to boost their efficiency in food and crop production; ii) about agriculture innovations that food consumers should be aware of now more than ever, iii) how Canadian and global leaders can connect with Vive about 4-10x their agriculture return-on-investment.

Dr. Darren Anderson is a co-founder and CEO of Vive Crop Protection and serves on its Board of Directors. Darren is passionate about using technology to improve the sustainability of agriculture while creating quantifiable results for growers. Darren is on the Board of CropLife America, the trade association for the pesticide industry in the USA; a member of the Advisory Committee for CHLOE, an organization committed to increasing STEM learning through agriculture and natural resources; and a founding member of ElectSTEM, a non-profit encouraging people with STEM backgrounds to run for political office.

Under Darren’s leadership, Vive has raised over $43M CAD of equity and debt, launched the first nanotechnology-enabled pesticide products that are approved by the EPA, and doubled its commercial business annually for the last 4 years. Dr. Anderson is the inventor on 13 issued patents and 44 pending applications. Dr. Anderson earned his PhD from University of Toronto as an NSERC doctoral fellow.

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Laura Nezri Chetrit is the Founder & Creative Director of Maison Tess.; an online Canadian luxury home linen brand, offering premium-quality and sustainable bedding that brings your home to life. With a background in fashion and real estate, Laura launched Maison Tess. in 2017– who, when decorating her dream family home, realized there was a gap in the market when it came to finding bedding that was both practical and stylish. As Laura explains, "We aim to help people dress their homes the same way they do their wardrobe. With fashion, people dress to show an authentic expression of who they are and that is exactly the feeling we want to bring into your home." Laura named Maison Tess. after her family; T for Thomas, her husband, E for her son Elie, and double S for her daughter Sasha.

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Guillermo Salazar is a Co-Founder of ICwhatUC, an industry-leading augmented reality virtual work platform that helps the mobile workforce execute remote work. He is a 20-year data & analytics professional and multiple-time founder. He began his career in consulting, left PWC to start his own ERP firm, and then sold Quatro Integration Group to Deloitte Consulting.

His entrepreneurial spirit meant starting another company of his own, and Salazar set about finding a solution to the frustration of dialing into a call centre, trying to communicate a problem and then waiting for days to get it fixed. Hence, ICwhatUC was born.

Salazar earned a finance degree from the University of Calgary’s Haskayne School of Business. He is in his ninth year as a member of its management advisory committee and is past chair of the Haskayne Alumni Board.

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