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MAPLE - In a Member’s Own Words
AtmanCo has developed an all-in-one online psychometric platform to support businesses of all sizes to hire, lead, and grow their talent. Led by Marie-Christine Drolet, AtmanCo's platform focuses on boosting organizational performance and fostering business happiness through happier stronger teams.
The company uses industry-recognized best practices for the science behind their platform which they continuously validate using independent researchers. Surrounding their products, AtmanCo offers a suite of HR and psychometric consulting services including profile interpretation, team-building, executive coaching, team analysis, and potential evaluation.As AtmanCo seeks to support happier and stronger teams in California and across the United States, we are excited to welcome them to our Canada-U.S. community.
For more information, please visit www.atmanco.com.
Member Contacts: Marie-Christine Drolet, CEO; Ilias Belarbi, Partner, Montréal; Peter Ferreira, Director of Partnerships North America; Barrie, ON.
BDC is the only bank devoted exclusively to Canadian entrepreneurs. It promotes entrepreneurship with a focus on small and medium-sized businesses. With its 123 business centres from coast to coast, BDC provides businesses in all industries with financing and advisory services. Its investment arm, BDC Capital, offers equity, venture capital and flexible growth and transition capital solutions. BDC is also the first financial institution in Canada to receive B Corp certification.
To find out more, visit bdc.ca.
Member Contact: Glenn Yonemitsu, Managing Director Executive Advisors.
Established in 1987, the Canadian American Business Council (CABC) is a non-profit, non-partisan, issues-oriented organization dedicated to elevating the private sector perspective on issues that affect our two nations, Canada and the United States. The Council’s members are key business leaders and stakeholders from both sides of the border, ranging from entrepreneurs to best name brands in the world.
Collectively, CABC members employ about two million individuals and have annual revenues of close to $1.5 trillion. The Council’s activities include high-level briefings on issues of current concern, assistance with practical trade and policy challenges, significant networking opportunities and informative seminars.
For more information, please visit www.cabc.co.
Member Contacts: Beth Burke, CEO
Cardinal Point is a Canada-U.S. cross-border wealth management firm that specializes in assisting affluent Canadian expats, Canada-U.S. dual citizens, Green Card and visa holders, and snowbirds with their cross-border investment, tax, estate, retirement and financial planning needs. With an office in Irvine, we serve a wide array of clients throughout the state with their distinct cross-border planning requirements. Cardinal Point’s financial and tax advisors operate under the fiduciary standard and understand that your wealth, family, interests and values are all interconnected.
For more information, please visit www.cardinalpointwealth.com.
Member Contacts: Matt Carvalho, CFA, CFP®, Chief Investment Officer; John McCord, CFP®, CIM®, CRPC®, TEP, Vice President, Portfolio Manager, Partner, Kris Rossignoli, Private Tax & Wealth Manager.
Cassels Brock & Blackwell LLP is a Canadian law firm focused on serving the transaction, advocacy, and advisory needs of the country’s most dynamic business sectors.
Cassels offers one of the largest business law practices in Canada, advising clients from start-ups to multi-national organizations – across the street and around the world – and we are consistently cited as market leaders by such authorities as Chambers, Lexpert, and Best Lawyers.
We are dedicated to staying on the leading edge of trends in law and business to offer practical and flexible solutions to your legal challenges, and our lawyers are proud to serve leadership roles in business, civic, charitable, and cultural organizations in community, national, and international organizations.
At Cassels, your success is our priority.
For more information, please visit our website.
Member Contacts: Jay King, Partner; Sean Maniaci, Partner (Toronto Office).
As one of Canada’s largest privately owned transportation and logistics companies, Challenger can transport your goods between Canada and anywhere across North America as well as internationally with our full range of transportation, logistics, warehousing and distribution services. Since 1975, we continually strive to surpass previous standards of quality and performance, carving innovation into our culture along the way. We have always been on the forefront of operational and technological advancements allowing us to exceed our customers evolving needs, influence the transportation industry and attain an impressive record of customer satisfaction.
For more information, please visit www.challenger.com.
Member Contact: Jim Peeples, CEO; John Mansolino, Director U.S. Logistics; Chelsea Carrick, Senior Manager.
Our founders aspired to create a different kind of law firm when they launched Crowell & Moring in 1979. From those bold beginnings, our mission has been to provide our clients with the best services of any law firm in the world through a spirit of trust, respect, cooperation, collaboration, and a commitment to giving back to the communities around us.
Today, Crowell lawyers are as passionate about the firm and its role in helping clients to advance their ambitions as the firm’s founding partners were 40+ years ago. Our conviction that diverse teams are the key to truly innovative thinking and outcomes is at the heart of our differentiated approach to client service. That’s why many of the world’s leading companies turn to us for their mission-critical needs. Drawing on significant government-facing, business, and industry experience, the firm advises clients on complex litigation, regulatory and policy, and corporate and transactional matters. Crowell & Moring partners with clients to capitalize on opportunities, mitigate risk, and deliver value based on their definition. For more information, please visit crowell.com.
Member Contacts: Nicole Simonian, Partner & Co-Chair International Trade Practice; Jackson Pai, Counsel.
Clients have relied on Dorsey since 1912 as a valued business partner. Established in Minneapolis, but with locations across the United States and in Canada, Europe and the Asia-Pacific region, Dorsey provides an integrated, proactive approach to its clients' legal and business needs. Dorsey represents a number of the world's most successful companies from a wide range of industries, including leaders in banking & financial institutions, development & infrastructure, energy & natural resources, food, beverage & agribusiness, healthcare and technology, as well as major non-profit and government entities.
Dorsey has one of the largest and most well-regarded U.S.-Canada cross-border practices anywhere in the United States. Dorsey’s Canada team represents a broad range of Canadian-based clients, from emerging businesses to some of Canada’s largest public companies, in their financings, transactions, business activities and intellectual property development and digital media offerings in the United States. We also represent U.S.-based clients in financing or other transactions in Canada. With offices in Toronto and Vancouver, we have demonstrated our commitment to Canada.
For more information, please visit dorsey.com
Member Contacts: Marc Kushner, Partner, Head of U.S. M&A; Sarah Robertson, Partner; NY Trademark Department Head; Kent Schmidt, Partner Southern California, Mike Sevilla, Associate, Minneapolis.
Fasken is a full-service law firm with over 700 lawyers and offices in Canada, the U.K., South Africa and China. As a leading international business law and litigation firm, Fasken offers experience and expertise across a number of countries and across a wide range of industries and practice areas to suit the needs of organizations worldwide.
For more information, please visit www.fasken.com
Member Contacts: Gesta Abols, Co-Leader U.S. Practice; Martin Denyes Firm Managing Partner; Neil Kravitz, Co-Leader U.S. Practice; James Villeneuve, Senior Business Advisor.
Consistently ranked among the top intellectual property firms worldwide, Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP, headquartered in Orange County, has over 275 lawyers and scientists nationwide and dedicates its practice to all aspects of intellectual property law including patents, trademarks, copyrights, trade secrets, rights of publicity, client counseling, due diligence, and related litigation and licensing.
For more information, please visit www.knobbe.com.
Member Contacts: Dan Altman, Partner; Harnik Shukla, Partner; Vlad Teplitskiy, Partner; and Marko Zoretic, Partner.
MGO is a global team of financial service professionals serving the full scope of needs shaping their clients' business and personal goals. MGO team members stand ready to help their clients grow through assurance, tax, advisory, outsourcing, and private client services. From offices throughout the U.S., India, and Asia, MGO engages their clients in real-time when and where they need them the most. MGO professionals are honored to work alongside innovators in culture-defining industries. Whether serving a pre-revenue startup, industry leader, high-net-worth individual, or trusted government agency, they provide holistic financial guidance to shape long-term success.
For more information. please visit www.mgocpa.com
Member Contacts: John Apuzzo CPA, PFS, International Tax Leader, Partner (Irvine, CA); Lindsay Balazsi, Market Growth Director; Robert Reitman CPA, Tax Partner (New York, NY).
The Ontario Trade and Investment Office, co-located with the Consulate General of Canada in San Francisco, builds commercial relations in California, Arizona, Nevada and Hawaii. We support U.S. companies looking to expand / open new offices in Ontario, promote Ontario exports across southwest U.S., and facilitate international research and innovation partnerships.
For more information, please visit https://www.investinontario.com/international-trade-and-investment-offices or www.investinontario.com.
Member Contacts: Chelsea Peet, Consul and Senior Economic Officer - Ontario International - San Francisco Trade & Investment Office; Aaron Pinto, Consul & Senior Economic Officer; Charley Ford, Senior Commercial Officer.
Purolator International is a subsidiary of Purolator Inc., Canada’s largest integrated freight, parcel and logistics solutions provider. Purolator International specializes in the air and surface forwarding of Express, Freight and Parcel shipments, customs brokerage, and fulfillment and delivery services to, from and within Canada. "We deliver Canada" is not just a slogan. It is backed by over 50 years of delivering reliable, efficient and cost-effective shipping to, from and within Canada for more than 210 countries and territories worldwide.
U.S. businesses depend on us, and we responded by building hubs in the U.S. to expand our capacity and capability while creating custom shipping and supply chain solutions. Whether your Canada freight or packages are coming from, going to or crossing Canada, we deliver the experience, confidence and solutions to get it done right, worldwide.
For more information, please visit www.purolatorinternational.com
Member Contacts: Chris Antonelli, District Manager - West, Rosemary Hill, Corporate Manager, Courier Express Product; Frank Jacketti, Director US Districts; Matt McDonough, VP US Operations; David Perfect, Senior Account Executive; and Paul Tessy, SVP International.
QA Consultants is the North American leader in software quality assurance and testing services. For 25 years, Toronto-based QA Consultants has successfully delivered over 5,600 testing and consulting projects to a variety of sectors including advertising and marketing, banking and finance, construction, media and entertainment, U.S. & Canadian federal, state, and local government, healthcare, insurance, retail, hospitality, and telecommunications.
For more information, please visit www.qaconsultants.com.
Member Contacts: Brian Bernknopf, Managing Director; Heidi Bureau, Chief Marketing Officer
The Québec Government Office in Los Angeles promotes the interests of Québec in the following sectors: business, investment, government institutions, education, culture and public affairs. Inaugurated in 1970, the Office serves the Western America, which includes 13 States.
For more information, please visit our website.
Member Contacts: David Brulotte, Delegate General; Pauline Bachy, Foreign Direct Investment Attachée (Invest Québec); Mathieu Cormier, Director Economic Affairs, Western United States (Invest Québec); Michel Poirier, Director Foreign Direct Investment, Western United States (Invest Québec); David Ruiz, Public Affairs and Cooperation Director; Jean-Pascal Saucier, Director Foreign Direct investment, Western United States (Invest Québec).
Founded in 1940, Québec Government Office in New York is the province’s oldest foreign office and main representation in the U.S. Serving the Mid-Atlantic region, it promotes the interests of Quebec in the areas of trade, investment, research and innovation, education and culture.
For more information, please visit our website.
Member Contacts: Martine Hébert, Delegate General; Anne-Cécile Dequen, Director Government Relations; Daniele Knowles, Attachée, Communications and Media Relations; Sébastien Lanthier, Director of Trade and Economic Affairs; Benoit Larouche, Director Foreign Direct Investment (Invest Québec); Taylor Reak, Government Relations Attaché; Lauren Zoebelein, Investment Attachée (Invest Québec).
Riverside County Business and Community Services’ International Business Office has the distinction of being the first of its kind in the U.S. at a county level offering state style receptions for international delegations, signing trade agreements with other nations, cities, provinces or states, taking advocacy positions on legislation that support trade to aggressively expand our foreign trade zones, support and encourage foreign direct investments from international companies and foreign investing individuals. We do this in cooperation with our international trade partner agencies like the Department of Commerce, the SBA, CITD, the Governor's Office of EDA "Go Biz" and others.
Foreign trade is a significant source of job creation and investment within the county. Many jobs created by foreign direct investment have higher than average wages and good benefit packages, and help to diversify and strengthen the local economy. Executing bilateral trade agreements between Riverside County and foreign countries opens new markets for goods produced within the county. Further, when foreign trade zones are established within the county, it allows local manufacturers to save money on tariffs and taxes which are a powerful incentive for companies to stay, relocate or expand in the county. The encouragement of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in the U.S. economy provides a source of ready capital at a time when domestic credit and lending is constrained.
For more information please visit www.rivcoeda.org.
Member Contacts: Kimberly Wright - Economic Development Manager; Alex Lopez - Development Specialist III
RSM’s purpose is to deliver the power of being understood to our clients, colleagues and communities through world-class audit, tax and consulting services focused on middle market businesses. The clients we serve are the engine of global commerce and economic growth, and we are focused on developing leading professionals and services to meet their evolving needs in today’s ever-changing business environment.
RSM US LLP is the U.S. member of RSM International, a global network of independent audit, tax and consulting firms with more than 41,000 people in 116 countries.
For more information, visit rsmus.com, like us on Facebook, follow us on Twitter and/or connect with us on LinkedIn.
Member Contacts: Kristan Ginther, Regional Market Development Leader - Los Angeles; Dawn Sanders, Market Development Manager; Talmage Zaugg, Senior Manager - San Diego.
At the heart of Southern California, San Bernardino County is one of the world's most dynamic and diverse economies. With a regional population expected to nearly double in the next 30 years, access to 6.5 million workers, and a population younger than California and the national average, it's no wonder why Fortune 500 firms and innovative startups call our County home. The Economic Development Department provides free site selection assistance. If you need help with permitting or understanding local regulations, we’re your go-to resource. Looking for local market information, demographic data, or incentive programs? We’ve got the latest information. For more information, please visit https://selectsbcounty.com..
Member Contacts: Derek Armstrong, Director Economic Development, Ryan Niesen, Economic Development Manager
The 360 Marketer is a consulting firm providing strategic and tactical marketing expertise for emerging and established B2B and B2C brands. Extensive experience across health care information technology, restaurants and consumer packaged goods representing over one billion in annual revenue.
For more information, please visit the360marketer.net.
Member Contact: Stephen Armstrong, Principal
TMX Group owns and operates Toronto Stock Exchange and Venture Exchange. Toronto Stock Exchange, provides senior issuers with efficient access to public equity, liquidity for existing and new investors, and the prestige and market exposure associated with being listed on a world-class market. Serving the public venture capital market, TSX Venture Exchange provides access to growth capital for early-stage companies while offering investors a well-regulated market for making venture investments. This two-tiered market offers U.S. companies a stepping stone to the U.S. exchanges NYSE or Nasdaq.
For more information, please visit http://www.tmx.com
Member Contacts: Delilah Panio, VP Capital Formation Southern California.
Air Canada is Canada’s largest airline and the largest provider of scheduled passenger services in the Canadian market, the Canada-U.S. transborder market and in the international market to and from Canada. In 2016, Air Canada together with its Air Canada Express regional partners carried more than 45 million passengers, offering direct passenger service to more than 200 destinations on six continents. Air Canada is a founding member of Star Alliance™, providing the world’s most comprehensive air transportation network.
Air Canada is among the 20 largest airlines in the world and employs 30,000 people. Its corporate headquarters are located in Montreal.
For more information please visit www.aircanada.ca.
Member Contacts: Alfredo Hurtado, Director USA Sales; Ana Paula de Souza, Director Sales Canada & Global Accounts; Maria Benson, Senior Manager Regional Sales USA