About Smart Wealth™ with Thane Stenner: Insights from Pioneers & Leaders
Award-winning portfolio manager and host Thane Stenner helps you understand why being wealthy is not the same as being rich. Join him on this podcast in having authentic conversations about success with the most brilliant and fascinating leaders who have built their wealth smartly and strategically and learn what they are currently doing to continue to stay wealthy, longer term. New episodes monthly. For more information visit: https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/smart-wealth-with-thane-stenner (https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/smart-wealth-with-thane-stenner)
Praveen has been a principal of Varshney Capital Corp., a Vancouver based family office, since 1991. He's also a Founding Director of Pyfera Growth Capital & a Founding Director of Humanitas Smart Planet Fund, both with a social impact focus. Mr. Varshney obtained a Bachelor of Commerce degree from the University of British Columbia in 1987 and is a FCPA, FCA.
He has been a Director or Officer of many publicly traded companies over the years including one of Canada's largest fintech companies, Mogo Inc. (NASDAQ: MOGO & TSX: MOGO) (Co-Founder). He is also a Co-Founder of NEXE Innovations (TSX.V : NEXE) and of Little Kitchen Academy, and former CFO of Carmanah Technologies which became Canada's largest solar company, and of The Plastic Bank. He was also Co-Founder of a predecessor of Mountain Province Diamonds (TSX : MPVD) who's Gahcho Kue project in September 2016 became the world's largest new diamond mine since 2003 & De Beers' (MPVD's partner) second-largest producer behind its Jwaneng mine in Botswana.
Praveen is a member of the Vancouver Chapter of EO since 1996, Toniic, TiE Vancouver (Founding Director) & Silicon Valley Blockchain Society - Vancouver Chapter (Founding Director). He's also served on a number of non-profit boards such as the Varshney Family Foundation, Dalai Lama Center for Peace + Education, the Vancouver Foundation & a Founding Member of Instruments Beyond Borders. He's also an SVP Vancouver Partner, a Director of Foundations for Social Change, and on the Advisory Boards of Room to Read Vancouver and The Thomas Edison Innovation Foundation in New Jersey. He also Co-Founded with his daughter, Jaiya, Down to the Last Straw, a global movement to reduce plastic waste with a major focus on single-use plastic straws.
Praveen is also a recipient of Business in Vancouver's 40 Under 40 Awards, the 2020 Greater Vancouver Board of Trade Wendy McDonald Diversity Awards Outstanding Mentor and the 2021 inaugural, 2022 & 2023 Business in Vancouver Top 500 Most Influential Business Leaders in BC (Banking & Finance – Private Equity, Venture Capital & Hedge Funds category).
6 Nov 2024
Francesco Lombardo
“Ensuring the Legacy of Family Business Through Relational Governance”
For more than twenty years, Francesco “Franco” Lombardo has been a family business advisor and facilitator to some of the world’s most diverse and wealthiest families. He set up Veritage, his global advisory firm that exclusively focuses on building relational governance.
Franco uses his Safe Space™ model to empower families to show up authentically and to express their feelings surrounding money and relationships. Passionate about nurturing the next generation of family-owned businesses, Franco is the cocreator, and one of the leading facilitators of the Scone Project and Maasai Project, Ensuring the Legacy of Family Business an interactive next-generation leadership development program for business families. As founder and host of INFLUENCE - a gathering of the globe’s highest net-worth families representing their family businesses, Franco facilitates a custom-curated program designed to deepen familial relationships.
The author of five books, Franco also hosts the podcast “Safe Space with Francesco Lombardo” - a show for Family Business Leaders and Next Gens. Franco has delivered presentations for the Milken Institute, Campden Wealth and family Business Conferences, Institutional Investor, Tiger21, various YPO/WPO global chapters. He has also been featured in the award-winning Spear’s Magazine and was described as ‘The Truth Agent’ by CEO Magazine. More recently Franco was inducted into the Family Business United Family Business Hall of Fame, which "recognizes the exceptional contribution of individuals and their work in advancing the field of family business."
2 Oct 2024
Scott Terrio
Scott Terrio, BA, QIC, CPCA, has been a regular author at Macleans and Canadian Business magazines and a listed columnist for Moneysense, focusing on consumer debt issues. He is a frequent media commentator, appearing on BNN Bloomberg TV, CBC and various radio broadcasts. He has contributed to such publications as The Globe and Mail, The Toronto Star, The National Post and The Walrus, among others.
In his decade in the insolvency industry and now as Head of Consumer Insolvency
at Hoyes Michalos Hoyes, Scott has met with and filed well over 8,000 clients,
primarily consumers. He brings his previous background in sales, marketing and
business development to making clients feel as comfortable as possible in
guidance through various options and tactics, and in trusting advice and solutions
under difficult circumstances.
His professional experience includes the following:
• Ontario Ministry of Ag, Food & Rural Affairs, 1993-1996
• John Deere Canada, 1996-2010
• Cooper & Co. Ltd. Licensed Insolvency Trustee, 2010-2018
• Hoyes, Michalos & Associates, 2018-Present
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YouTube views
419,108,275
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Spotify
5.0 / 5
3 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 47 / 100
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YouTube
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Engagement
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