Richter is Canada’s Best Private Boards 2026 Presenting Sponsor

February 27, 2026
Canada

We’re thrilled to welcome Richter  back as the Presenting Sponsor of Canada’s Best Private Boards for 2026.

Since 2023, Canada’s Best Private Boards has recognized the impact of great governance on private company performance. Now entering its third year, the program continues to build momentum – fostering a national culture of best-practice sharing and engaging an expanding community of business leaders, including many of Canada’s most recognizable privately-held brands.

“We’re thrilled to welcome Richter back as our Presenting Sponsor,” said Jennifer Mondoux, Managing Partner and CEO, MondouxRollins Partners, and; Founder and Chair, Canada’s Best Private Boards. “In just three years, the program has received more than 200 nominations from across Canada and recognized 14 outstanding private company boards. Richter’s championing of our program is wind in our sails. We have a shared interest in seeing private companies thrive - for our firm, through our search and consulting practice and for Richter, through their outstanding private and family business offering.”

Bill McLean, Partner at Richter, will again serve as the Vice Chair of the Canada’s Best Private Boards Voting Committee.

"At Richter, we believe strongly in the power of focused governance in private companies,” said Bill McLean, Partner at Richter. “Canada’s Best Private Boards is recognition of your focused leadership - it sends a powerful message to potential investors,  your industry peers, your talent, and all your stakeholders. We’re proud to be the Presenting Sponsor of this unique program; the only one of its kind celebrating the private companies that are driving our economy and Canada's future.”

The 2026 program is now accepting nominations. Winners will be celebrated at the Canada’s Best Private Boards Summit and Awards, to be held in November 2026, in Toronto.

About Richter: 

Richter is a Business | Family Office that provides strategic advice on business matters and on families’ financial and personal objectives across generations. With close to 100 years of experience advising at the intersection of family and business, Richter has developed an integrated approach to help business owners find sustainable success. Whether business, personal, or both, Richter is uniquely positioned to address the needs of Canada’s most successful entrepreneurs, private clients, business owners and business families and help them chart a clear path to shape their legacy for the future. Founded in 1926, Richter’s 600-person multidisciplinary team continuously innovates to create value for our people, clients, and community in Canada and in the US.

About Canada’s Best Private Boards: 

Canada’s Best Private Boards is a new 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 growth in mid-market family businesses, investor-backed companies and employee-owned or partnership firms. 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 value of governance and how they can build a great board themselves.  MondouxRollins Partners Inc., a human capital advisory and leadership talent solutions firm for private enterprises, is the founder of the program.

About MondouxRollins Partners Inc., the Founders of Canada’s Best Private Boards: 

MondouxRollins Partners Inc. is a human capital advisory and leadership talent solutions 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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