MondouxRollins Partners Announces the 2025 Winners of the Canada’s Best Private Boards Program
June 24, 2025
Canada
“MondouxRollins Partners Inc., an executive search and human capital advisory firm to mid-market private companies, today announces the 2025 winners of the Canada’s Best Private Boards program.”
The winners will be celebrated on November 4th, 2025, at the Canada’s Best Private Boards Summit and Awards in Toronto.
“Governance, when done right, is a key driver of private company performance and this is the only program that recognizes those success stories,” said Jennifer Mondoux, Managing Partner and CEO of MondouxRollins Partners Inc., and Founder and Chair of Canada’s Best Private Boards. “We are honouring the impact of this leadership while at the same time creating an ecosystem of executive leaders, investors, supporters, founders, board members and service providers who are shaping what drives private company success.”
The 2025 Winning Boards Are:
Best Advisory Boards:
Lee Valley: Best Family Business Advisory Board
BFL CANADA: Best Employee-Owned Advisory Board (Over 1000 Employees)
VistaVu Solutions: Best Employee-Owned Advisory Board (Under 250 Employees)
Zeno Renewables: Best Emerging Employee-Owned Advisory Board
Best Fiduciary Boards:
Minto Group: Best Family Business Fiduciary Board (Over 1000 Employees)
Nicola Wealth: Best Family Business Fiduciary Board (Under 1000 Employees)
VMAC Global Technologies Inc.: Best Employee-Owned Fiduciary Board
Hokanson Capital Inc.: Best Family Office Fiduciary Board
Soul Foods Group: Best Investor-Backed Fiduciary Board
Plantaform: Best Emerging Investor-Backed Fiduciary Board
The Trailblazer Award recognizes the outstanding contributions made to a private company and to its board by an individual board member, committee chair or executive chair.
The 2025 Trailblazers are:
Lisa Melchior, Founder and Managing Partner, VERTU Capital
Roger Greenberg, Executive Chairman of the Board, Minto Group
Special Categories:
Emerging Trailblazer:
Erik Brien-Wright, Partner, Mid-Market Growth Capital, EDC
Mission-Driven Trailblazer: SheBoot
Julia Elvidge, Jennifer Francis and Sonya Shorey, Co-Founders
MondouxRollins Partners is the founder of the Canada’s Best Private Boards program.
“We’re immensely proud to celebrate the 2025 winners,” said Mondoux. “In our executive search practice, we see the impact of great leadership on the performance of private companies. The leadership we are seeing from our winning boards and Trailblazers is equally as important. There is a growing commitment to private company governance precisely because of its impact on organizational performance. Our program winners are at the forefront of this trend.”
Nominated organizations made written submissions to the program earlier this spring. An 11-member independent voting committee adjudicated in June.
“This exciting program continues to build momentum,” said Bill McLean, Partner at Richter (Presenting Sponsor) and Vice Chair, Canada’s Best Private Boards. “Our clients see building impactful boards as crucial to long-term success in the private and family business sector – and it’s an honour to recognize those setting the bar.”
“I would like to thank our voting committee for their insight, time and dedication to this program,” said Mondoux. “We are very lucky to have this expertise in private company governance leadership and I am deeply appreciative of this group for their continuing support.”
MondouxRollins would also like to thank the following organizations for their support:
Canada’s Best Private Boards Sponsors:
Richter (PRESENTING Sponsor)
Torkin Manes LLP (GOLD Sponsor)
Laulima Consulting (SILVER Sponsor)
Our Ecosystem Partners:
ACG Toronto, Capital Angel Network, and Private Directors Association.
About Canada’s Best Private Boards:
Canada’s Best Private Boards is an annual awards program and summit – the first of its kind in Canada – that recognizes the impact of great governance on the performance of private companies. Also known as “The Boardies”, Canada’s Best Private Boards celebrates how advisory or fiduciary governance has driven performance in mid-market family businesses, investor-backed companies and employee-owned or partnership firms. The Trailblazer Award, new for 2025, acknowledges the outstanding contributions made to a private company and to its board by an individual board member, committee chair or executive chair. The vision for Canada’s Best Private Boards is to create a national culture of best practice sharing so that other leaders of private companies can learn the transformational performance-enhancing value of governance. MondouxRollins Partners Inc., an executive search and human capital advisory firm, is the founder of the program.
About MondouxRollins Partners Inc., the Founders of Canada’s Best Private Boards:
MondouxRollins Partners Inc., is an executive search and human capital advisory firm. We are a group of specialists, equipped with decades of experience providing talent solutions for private companies. We are risk-mitigators, trusted advisors and relationship-builders, and we are your one-stop-shop through the entire talent lifecycle - for your team, or for your board. We are also the founders of the Canada’s Best Private Boards program, a first-of-its kind national and annual awards program that recognizes the impact of governance on the performance of private companies.
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