Deborah Rosati is an accomplished corporate director, business-savvy entrepreneur and a Fellow Chartered Professional Accountant with over 35 years of high-growth and transformational leadership experience in the technology, consumer, retail, cannabis, life sciences, private equity, and venture capital industries. Deborah has served as Chair of Audit Committee for five public companies, a Lead Director and Chair of the Nominating & Corporate Governance Committee for a public company and served on several Special Committees of the Board for a range of mandates (including going public, going private, M&A, restructuring and special investigations). Most recently, she served as Chair of the Special Committee for a going private transaction.

Deborah, as Founder and CEO of Women Get On Board Inc., leads an 850+ member social purpose company that connects, promotes and empowers women on corporate boards. Learn more at womengetonboard.ca.

Deborah’s passion fuels her work ethic. She is a steadfast champion of corporate governance, ESG, sustainability, and board diversity through her board leadership and her social purpose company committed to getting more women on boards. She is a change agent who is actively engaged with the wider corporate governance community through frequent speaking engagements, panel discussions, podcasts, and authoring articles and e-books to share her expertise and thought leadership. Learn more about her speaking and writing on her website, deborahrosati.ca.

Over the years, Deborah has been recognized through numerous nominations and awards. She was recently honoured with The SustainabilityX® Magazine’s inaugural Global 50 Women in Sustainability Award™ 2022. With a quest to “redefine power,” this award is the first international power list bringing together women (worldwide) involved in sustainability and celebrating the power of their work - not their positions. In 2021, she was recognized as one of WXN’s” Top 100 Canada’s Most Powerful Women” in the Entrepreneur award category. She has also been honoured as a 2020 “Director to Watch” and a 2014 “Diversity 50” candidate. And in 2012, Deborah was selected as one of WXN’s “Top 100 Canada’s Most Powerful Women” in the Corporate Director award category.

Deborah’s forward-thinking perspectives, honed from her entrepreneurial achievements and multiple governance leadership roles, make her an exceptionally valued trusted board member, advisor and mentor.

Geoff Newton is the Co-Head, BMO Private Wealth Canada and brings his deeply rooted experience at BMO Nesbitt Burns to lead the vision and strategic development for Private Wealth. Since joining BMO in 1997, Geoff successfully built and maintained an Ultra High Net Worth Chairman's Council practice and has held numerous senior management roles within the business, including Regional President for the Greater Toronto Area, where he played a key role in the creation of our Canadian Private Wealth business, and Head, Strategy and Execution for Private Wealth.

As Co-Head, Geoff will align his in-depth experience and entrepreneurial spirit to make BMO Private Wealth Canada the firm of choice for top-performing wealth management professionals and Canada's most affluent families.

Steph Condra is a client-centric investment professional with international experience in wealth management, asset management and investment consulting. In BMO Private Wealth, Steph manages the Practice Management, Advisor Recruitment, Client Insights and Sales Programs teams. Steph’s focus is on supporting all activity that helps advisors to efficiently grow their wealth management business. Prior to joining BMO Private Wealth in 2018, Steph spent almost a decade in London, UK and Dublin, Ireland where she worked with institutional investors and drove business growth at a boutique investment consulting firm and a global asset manager. Steph is a CFA and CAIA charter holder and completed her MBA at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, British Columbia.