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Sameer Sharma – Chair

Sameer Sharma is President of Crown Group of Hotels Inc. Besides hotel management his company owns and operates hotels, golf courses and holds development lands with plans for high-rise apartment and condominium construction. The hotels operate with internationally recognized flags



Jonathan N. Borrelli – Vice Chair

Jonathan is an Associate Partner at KMB Law and is the leader of the firm’s Employment and Labour Law practice group. He has experience with a wide range of workplace issues and employment-related litigation matters. He has helped both employers



Steve Rhone – Immediate Past Chair

Steve Rhone has been a vital part of Weston Forest for over 30 years, beginning with a junior role as a labourer in Operations. Since then he has held management roles in every part of the company, including turns as



Crystal Reedie – Treasurer

Crystal Reedie is a Senior Director, Business Financial Services (BFS) Role Strategy.  In this role she is responsible for the role design, alignment of business priorities and role strategies, incentives, capability building, enablement, tools and resources for the BFS regional



Adam Nowak

Adam is the Senior Vice President Commercial at Arthur J. Gallagher , Mississauga Branch. He offers over 30 years of experience in arranging Commercial Insurance Programs and Risk Management Strategies for his commercial clients. Adam has proactively maneuvered his clients



Amanda Pautler

Amanda brings to the University of Toronto Mississauga more than fifteen years’ experience in government relations and higher education administration. After earning a BA at the University of Toronto, where she won the gold medal in Political Science (Vic), and



Atul Sharma

Atul Sharma has worked at the Greater Toronto Airports Authority for over four years with a focus on government and stakeholder relations. His 20+ year career includes government, business associations, communications agency work and an entrepreneur. He has sat on



Trevor McPherson – Ex-officio

Trevor is a not-for-profit senior executive with extensive experience in economic development, and driving domestic and international business growth. He is well versed in government relations, stakeholder engagement and consensus building, having held numerous positions at the Ontario Chamber of



Amy Delisle – Vice-Chair

Amy Delisle is the Managing Partner at Keyser Mason Ball, LLP, a member of the firm’s Corporate/Commercial Group and leads the firm’s Franchising, Retail & Distribution Group. She regularly advises a range of corporate clients, including local start-ups, family owned



Ken Tencer – Immediate Past Chair

He is co-developer of The 90% Rule®, a success-tested innovation process that enables businesses of all sizes to identify, filter and implement growth opportunities. A successful entrepreneur and business developer, Ken has built international-scale companies spanning manufacturing, product development, distribution