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Alessia, left, and Mirabela Muresan, who partnered with universities to sponsor student initiatives aimed at nurturing young talent: “We're committed to empowering parents and children to embark on their entrepreneurial journeys with confidence and enthusiasm.”

Vancouver mother-daughter team bootstrapped startup

From a corporate career interrupted by COVID, Mirabela Muresan channelled her family’s entrepreneurial skills and founded AlessiaAdora with daughter Alessia

July 5, 2024
Family Business

A photo collage. From left: Arno Tatto, who sold Burnaby, B.C.-based KD Engineering Co.; Julie Afanasiff, Managing Partner at Western Canada-based deal advisory Sequeira Partners; Bob Lawence, founder of Vancouver-based VEER Business Advisors Ltd.

Family office ended up being best buyer for B.C. firm

‘A family office may be less likely than a private equity firm to look at your business as a short-term strategic asset’

July 3, 2024
Family Business

Venture capitalist rode Canada’s first tech wave and never looked back

Maria Pacella on her fascination with early stage ventures, where she would invest $1 million today and the impressive instincts of Taylor Swift

April 18, 2024
Wealth

Mother-daughter founders of Lifted Movement, Kate, left, and Kiara LeBlanc.

Ski accident led LeBlancs to create Lifted Movement

The Vancouver family who founded aromatherapy firm Saje, found a silver lining in the rehab needs of their daughter

April 9, 2024
Family Business

David Bentall real estate succession advisor

Survivor of three successions (one ‘a nightmare’), David Bentall advises from experience

His family’s bumpy business experiences shaped his insights into lessons he now shares with others

September 14, 2023
Fundamentals

Philanthropist, scholar and art collector Yosef Wosk steps back in search of meaning

Having spent a lifetime learning, travelling and taking up spiritual pursuits, high-profile Vancouverite has a reckoning with mortality

February 1, 2023
Wealth

Lisa Wolverton, of family-owned real estate company Pacific Investment Corporation, and president of the Wolverton Foundation: ‘Our culture is shifting with the next generation. I see young women successfully advocating for themselves within their families to take on leadership roles.’

Women have struggled to be heard: family real estate firm’s Lisa Wolverton

‘There must be intentionality about setting up both girls and boys in the family to enter the family business. This cannot be an after-thought.’

October 20, 2022
Family Business

Ryan Beedie, president of Beedie industrial and residential property development company: Running a successful business and raising children can be a tough balancing act to start with. And when it comes time for succession, things may not work out as planned.

Ryan Beedie: Lessons and regrets in involving the kids in the business

Though he has some regrets on letting the kids go their own way, he and his wife made sure they are involved in the family real estate business in an advisory capacity

October 13, 2022
Family Business

‘We’re at a moment where philanthropy can really step up’

Steeped in giving, Lisa Wolverton and the Philanthropy Workshop work to meld global, local efforts

March 2, 2022
Philanthropy

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