Financial Post Executive

Leaders Series: Peter Aprile is the Founder and Counsel at ATX Law, a boutique tax law firm. Peter shares his secret sauce to dealing with the taxman, and outlines his practical approach to tax disputes.

Leaders Series: Katherine Roos is the Small Business Manager, Economic Development and Culture, City of Toronto. Katherine shares Enterprise Toronto's knowledge about the incredible growth of small business, and gives us the lowdown on the people and events at Small Business Forum 2011, happening in Toronto on Oct. 18, 2011.

Leaders Series: Eric Nielsen is the VP & General Manager, Small Business Services, Amex Bank of Canada. Eric talks about the just-released 'Amex Small Business Monitor X', and offers insight and understanding of the trends and mindset of Canada's most important economic engine.

Leaders Series: John Livingston is the CEO of Absolute Software, Vancouver's largest independently owned software company. With data valued at $49,000 per laptop, Absolute's recovery of 20,000 missing laptops has saved companies around the world millions of dollars. A great Canadian success story.

Leaders Series: Simon Brightman is the Director of Product Management at Points.com. Simon has brought many products to market and he shares his secret sauce: PDLC - Product Development Life Cycle, and how to execute it successfully

Leaders Series: Simon Plashkes is the founder of Art Battle, a unique venture bringing community, content, and commerce together via 'live competitive painting'. This is a successful business unlike any other, and it's about to go national.

Leaders Series: Marty Natterer, Regional VP, North Region, CertaPro Painters, talks about taking his company beyond the 'man-in-the-van' and growing internationally.

Leaders Series: Wes Lenci is the VP - Canada at Regus. With Regus's 1,100 workspace centers in 500 cities, Wes understands and talks about the phenomenon of the growing global mobile workforce

Leaders Series: Garrett Oliver is the VP and Brewmaster at Brooklyn Brewery. Know as the Renaissance Man of Craft Beer, Garrett and his partners have used niche marketing campaigns to grow their brewery into one of the most renowned brands in the industry.

Leaders Series: Joanna Track is the Co-Founder and CEO of Dealuxe.ca, Canada's newest online retail experience. Joanna talks about leveraging her experience as the founder and publisher of Sweetspot.ca (which she sold to Rogers) into a unique retail offering, competing with the best of the Groupon sites.

Leaders Series: Brian Church, new Country Manager, Canada at LinkedIn shares the story of their first year in Canada and reveals practical tools and advice you can use today to become more effective on LinkedIn.

Leaders Series:  Richard Courtney and George Cassidy, co-authors of 'Come Together - The Business Wisdom Of The Beatles' dive into the good, bad, and ugly business lessons learned by the Fab Four as they advanced their careers.  Can the Beatles dispense sage business advice to today's entrepreneurs and corporate leaders?

Leaders Series: Devon Cranson, President of Cranson Capital Solutions, delves into financing for companies at the 10th - 15th year of their life cycle. We further identify sources of funding for innovation, no matter what stage of growth.

Leaders Series: Michael De Monte, founder and CEO of ScribbleLive.com, talks about creating a Canadian web-based application that allows big-name news agencies worldwide to compete in real time with the faster social media outlets.

Leaders Series:  Kevin Murphy, PEI's serial restauranteur (12 eateries, 2 hotels, and a brewery), returns to tackle our popular 'Top Ten Business Questions In Under Ten Minutes'.  Kevin serves up a fascinating take on what makes his ventures successful.

Leaders Series: Sean Graham, partner at Eisen Graham Barristers & Solicitors, is a guru estate litigator. Sean talks about succession train wrecks and how they can be avoided.

Leaders Series: Ben Baldwin, Co-Founder of ClearFit, talks about building a game changing company, and shares with us how ClearFit has become the hiring tool of choice for Tim Hortons and thousands of smaller businesses. Using ClearFit, 50% of all hires don't have to be mistakes, anymore.

Leaders Series: Brian Shepard, CEO of Tenzing, talks about transitioning Canada Web Hosting into Tenzing and becoming a major force in the Canadian Cloud Computing arena.

Leaders Series: Mike McDerment, Founder and CEO of FreshBooks, talks about the inspiration and exponential growth behind Canada's world leader in online invoicing. MIke also talks about giving back to the community that helped propel FreshBooks to it's leadership position. 

Leaders Series: Daniel Debow, founder and co-CEO of Rypple.com talks about 'working better, together' using Rypple's unique social software. We also speak about the 'gamification of business' and what that trend means to today's business world.