With almost three decades of experience, Anthony
Grnak is the GTA Business Unit Leader for Deloitte's
Manufacturing and Consumer Business practice. Grnak has developed a
broad portfolio of expertise advising and assisting clients with
financial reporting, acquisitions, divestitures, due diligence, and
public offerings. Grnak has a solid understanding of the Canadian
business landscape through his three years of leading and 13 years
of involvement with Canada's 50 Best Managed Companies program.
Grnak is the recent coauthor of Building the Best: Inside
Canada's Best Managed Companies (Penguin Group Canada, 2006),
a member of both the Canadian and Ontario Institute of Chartered
Accountants, and holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from the
University of Toronto.
With two decades of experience, John Hughes, a
chartered accountant and partner in the Private Company Services
group for Deloitte in Toronto, has spent his career helping
entrepreneurs and their management teams create value and grow
their businesses. Hughes has developed a broad range of expertise
in issues unique to entrepreneurs in privately held companies,
particularly where corporate ownership and families intertwine. As
program leader, Hughes has been involved with Canada's 50 Best
Managed Companies program since its inception, and is the coauthor
of Building the Best: Inside Canada's Best Managed
Companies (Penguin Group Canada, 2006.) Hughes is a member of
the Canadian and Ontario Institutes of Chartered Accountants and
holds a Masters of Business Administration from York
University.
A writer, editor, and graphic designer, Douglas
Hunter has written widely on business, history, and sport.
A former staff writer with the Financial Post (and
graduate of the Canadian Securities Course), he has authored or
coauthored more than a dozen books, a number of which have
approached business from very different angles, including Open
Ice, which detailed the birth of Canada's monumental food
industry success, Tim Hortons, and Molson, which delved
into the late-eighteenth century origins of the Montreal brewing
dynasty. His study of the Nortel stock debacle, The Bubble and
the Bear, won the 2003 National Business Book award. He is a
coauthor of Building the Best: Inside Canada's Best Managed
Companies (Penguin Group Canada, 2006).