Stephen Dent
Corporate director
Independent Director since: 2021
Has over 30 years of experience in private equity and deep expertise in capital allocation, strategic planning, accounting and finance.
Residence: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Board Committees
Member of the:
- Human Resources Committee (Chair)
- Risk Review Committee
- Governance and Nominating Committee
Business experience
- Managing Director and co-founder, Birch Hill Equity Partners Inc., a Toronto based private equity firm with interests in several private and public companies since 2005
- Spent 15 years at a major Canadian chartered bank culminating in a senior role leading the Canadian private equity division of the bank
Areas of expertise
Executive leadership / Strategic planning / Mergers and acquisitions / Risk management
Service and recognition
- Member of the Business Council of Canada
- Involved in the founding and ongoing support of the Birch Hill Scholarship Program; supporting business school education for Indigenous youth
Education
- B.B.A (Honours), Wilfred Laurier University
- M.B.A, Ivey School of Business, Western University
