Karen Scott

Ace Hardware Corp. distributes and sells lumber, hardware, and related products. It offers lawn and garden products, paint, home goods, tools, hardware, plumbing equipment, heating and cooling solutions, electrical, and auto products. The company was founded by Richard Hesse, E. Gunnard Lindquist, Frank Burke, Oscar Fisher, and William Stauber in 1924 and is headquartered in Oak Brook, IL.

Information Resources, Inc. engages in the provision of enterprise market information solutions and services. Its solutions include market performance and strategy, consumer and shopper intelligence, analytics and in-market execution, media, and technology. The company was founded in 1979 and is headquartered in Chicago, IL.

Franklin Templeton Investments Corp. (FTIC) is a SEC-registered investment advisor and mutual fund manager headquartered in Toronto, Canada. The firm was founded in 2000 and is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Templeton International, Inc., ultimately owned by Franklin Resources, Inc. (NYSE: BEN). FTIC provides investment advisory and portfolio management services with clients in jurisdictions worldwide, which include registered open-end and closed-end funds and unregistered funds, as well as separate accounts for institutional and high net-worth clients.

The Bell Telephone Company of Canada engages in the provision of communications services. It includes residential, business, and wholesale customers with a range of solutions to all their communications needs, such as wireless, television, internet, home phone, and small business and enterprise communications services. The company was founded in 1880 and is headquartered in Verdun, Canada.

McKinsey & Co., Inc. provides management consulting services. It specializes in design, marketing and sales, analytics, operations, transformation and restructuring, risk, strategy and corporate finance, and sustainability and resource productivity. The company was founded by James O. McKinsey in 1926 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Dye & Durham Corp. engages in the design and development of a cloud-based platform which connects a global network of professionals with various public records to support business transactions and regulatory compliance. The firm offers due diligence, practice management, litigation solutions, investigative and compliance services, process servicing, PPSA services, lien management, and financial risk management. The company was founded in 1874 and is headquartered in Toronto, Canada.

Borden Ladner Gervais LLP provides legal services. It offers services in the areas of business law, litigation, and intellectual property. The company has offices in Calgary, Montreal, Ottawa, Toronto, Vancouver and Waterloo Regions. The company was founded in 2001 and is headquartered in Toronto, Canada.

McCarthy Tetrault LLP provides legal services. Its services include integrated business law, litigation services, taxation, real property, and labour and employment law. The company was founded in 1855 and is headquartered in Montreal, Canada.

Northwestern University is a private institution founded in 1851 to serve the Northwest Territory, an area that now includes the states of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin and parts of Minnesota. Northwestern has three campuses

ADP Canada, Inc. provides employer services. It also offers payroll, human resources management, benefits administration, time and labor management, occupational health and safety, comprehensive outsourcing, and consulting services. The company was founded in 1979 and is headquartered in Toronto, Canada.

Medcan Health Management, Inc. is a leader in integrated, proactive healthcare and wellness services. The private company is based in Toronto, Canada, with locations in downtown, Oakville, and Muskoka, and is coming soon to Collingwood. The Canadian company offers a multi-disciplinary team of medical experts, including primary family physicians, dermatologists, registered dietitians, psychologists, chiropractors, physiotherapists, and fitness trainers. The company provides convenient appointments, coordination of specialist referrals, and specialty tests in areas such as genetics. Medcan's flagship annual health assessment is a comprehensive evidence-based and physician-led preventative health tool that uses the most advanced screening technology available. The company offers different levels of membership for individuals and families for ongoing care, as well as personalized solutions and programs for employers who want to provide the best-in-class health and wellness programs for their employees and families. Medcan offers comprehensive health assessments and personalized programs for organizations wanting a healthy and engaged workforce, and individuals wanting to reach their health and wellness goals. The company was founded by Robert Francis, and Shaun C. Francis has been the CEO of the company since 2002.

Birch Hill Equity Partners Management, Inc (Birch Hill Equity Partners) is a private equity firm founded in 1994 by Steve J Dent and John B MacIntyre. The firm is headquartered in Toronto, Canada.

Part of George Weston Ltd., ACE Bakery Holdings, Inc. produces bread and other bakery products. The company is based in North York, Canada.

PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP provides accounting services. The firm provides industry focused assurance, advisory and tax services for public, private and government clients in four areas such as corporate accountability, risk management, structuring and mergers and acquisitions and performance and process improvement. Its services include consulting, deals, risk assurance services and insolvency assignments. The company was founded on July 1, 1998 and is headquartered in Toronto, Canada.

Softchoice Corp. markets software and hardware technology products. It serves businesses and organizations. Softchoice was founded in 1995 and is headquartered in Chicago, IL.

Shred-it International, Inc. provides shredding services. Its services include scheduled paper shredding, hard drive destruction, on-demand shredding, media destruction, drop off shredding and specialty shredding. The company was founded by Greg Brophy in 1988 and is headquartered in Oakville, Canada.

Mozilla Corp. develops software applications. It offers Firefox for desktop, iOS, and Android. The company is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Amazon Web Services, Inc. engages in provision of information technology infrastructure services. Its solutions include archiving, backup and restore, blockchain, business applications, containers, content delivery, database migrations, data lakes and analytics, development operations, e-commerce, high performance computing, hybrid cloud architectures, Internet of Things, mobile services, modern application development, scientific computing, serverless computing, and websites. The company was founded by Andrew R. Jassy in 2006 and is headquartered in Seattle, WA.

Entrepreneur First Operations Ltd (EF) is a venture capital firm founded in 2011 by Alice Bentinck and Matt Clifford. Headquartered in London, UK.

Prezi, Inc. provides software solutions that use motion, zoom and spatial relationships. Its platform utilizes a zoom able user interface to give a distinctly different presentation experience; users can create presentations online in the browser or use an off-line editor for editing. The company was founded by Peter Arvai, Adam Somlai-Fischer, and P?ter Hal?csy in 2009 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Cinchy, Inc. provides data collaboration services through its platform. It serves as an alternative to buying and building applications, and bringing the power of data collaboration to enterprise. The company was founded by Karanjot Jaswal and Dan Demers and is headquartered in Toronto, ON.

Fonds QScale SEC is a Canadian company that develops environmentally responsible data processing centers for high-performance computing. The company is based in Lévis, Canada and was founded in 2018 by Martin Bouchard. The company provides large-scale hosting facilities powered by clean energy for wholesale colocation, hyperscale, and supercomputing. The company's future-proof design includes liquid cooling and heat recovery, which allows them to meet the world's exponentially growing needs for computing without polluting the planet.

LodeRock Advisors, Inc. is an independent investor relations and capital markets communication firm headquartered in Toronto, Canada. The firm helps companies chart a path to success in the capital markets through an institutional-quality investor relations program that combines strategic advice with hands-on execution.

Part of Deloitte LLP (New York), Monitor Deloitte is a company that provides strategic consulting services. The company is based in Rosslyn, VA. The company was founded by Lene S Schulze.