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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
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