Two Disruptors, a New Canadian and George.

If all goes well this weekend, our Chair, Rick Peterson will be boarding his first flight to Montreal and Toronto in nearly two years.

Things are slowly opening up – let’s hope it stays that way. We so very much miss seeing our friends and colleagues across the country.

On Wednesday, February 22nd and Thursday, February 23rd, we will be with these two gentlemen below – who are both industry Disruptors with a capital “D” – meeting a number of our IA’s. Tim Skoubouris and Doug Doull, VPs who anchor our Toronto platform along with Nicole Loghin, will be with us on both days.

If you’re in Toronto and would like to catch up, drop us a line. Here’s why you’ll want to meet these two leaders:

Wednesday, February 23rd – Tony Tjan, Executive Chair and Co-Founder of MiniLuxe (MNLX-V Mkt Cap $210 million) will be with us to highlight how his company is disrupting the $47 billion global nail care industry by rolling out in the US and Canada a digital-first, socially responsible and empowering platform. With an experienced board and management team that is 96% women, Tony’s ambitious goal is to have MiniLuxe become one of the largest employers and educators in the nail care work force. Click here for details.

• Thursday, February 24th –Justin Hartzman, CEO of CoinSmart Financial (SMRT-E Mkt Cap $50 million) will highlight how his fully regulated crypto trading platform is disrupting the Canadian and European financial service industries by expanding into banking, foreign exchange, lending, payment processing and tokenized securities trading. Backed by a number of large European institutional investors, and customers in over 40 countries worldwide, Justin’s goal is to grow CoinSmart into the preferred financial institution of the future. Click here for details.

Before heading to Toronto, we will be spending Monday and Tuesday in Montreal, with Alexis de la Renaudière, who heads up our Montreal platform.

Today is a big day for this young native of France, as this afternoon he swears his oath of citizenship and officially becomes a new Canadian!

We’ll be celebrating on Monday, February 21st in Montreal with a small reception between 5 pm to 7 pm at Bar George | Modern English Restaurant - Downtown Montréal. If you’re in Montreal on Monday and can join us, let us know and we’d love to have you help us toast our new Canadian team member.

Thanks for your continued interest and support.