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Tiara Letourneau

Tiara Letourneau is the CEO and Co-Founder of Rewrite Capital Advisors, an M&A advisory firm dedicated exclusively to creating employee ownership trusts for Canadian companies. She is Board Chair of Employee Ownership Canada, and was instrumental in designing and creating Canada’s new EOT legislation. Tiara holds a Masters of Finance from Cambridge University, and has worked in poverty alleviation and international finance. She helped design the UN Green Climate Fund’s Private Sector Facility for co-investing in climate change. Now she designs employee ownership transformation strategies to help Canadians protect their businesses and to reduce wealth inequality.

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