The morning sun is barely cascading off the paned glass of Toronto’s Metro Convention Centre, yet across the road in CBC’s Glenn Gould Studio excited handshakes and coffee jitters ping pong between a growing group of well-dressed men and women.
The crowd is a unique bunch – there are lawyers and bankers, a menswear industrialist, and two coffee-making brothers.
But the one facet tying each entrepreneur, wealth manager, and solicitor in the room together is family enterprise.
Everyone is here for the third bi-annual Central Ontario’s Canadian Association of Family Enterprise (CAFE) Forum – a series of short talks by individuals involved in family businesses.
“Every business is unique but there are threads that run through successful family businesses that lead to multi generational success,” says Emma Ramos, Managing Director of CAFE Central Ontario. She adds that the point of the forum is to draw the family business community …