Get Growing Series: Demystifying Living on the Financial Edge

Get Growing Series: Demystifying Living on the Financial Edge

Small business owners are entrepreneurs that understand the risks and rewards of starting, building and running their own businesses. The challenges of COVID has tipped the scale on risk side to the point of many businesses facing the financial edge and loss of control.  Join financial experts and stakeholders that share membership in your Ottawa Board of Trade as they explore the advantages and pathways that allow financial insolvency to help SME's navigate the uncomfortable and often complicated process, while discovering some strategic opportunities to start again.
 
Find out the answers to questions around bankruptcy and learn facts that can help you think strategically as you live on the financial edge. Questions such as:

I don't want to file for bankruptcy but I need to keep the creditors (including CRA) off my back in order to allow me to try and figure things out? What could I do?           
 
Can I file for bankruptcy and continue operating my business?
 
When should I have a lawyer involved and how will they help me?
 
Are there any options I should be discussing with my landlord?
 
What is worse? Worrying about possible bankruptcy or actually going through it?

Featured Speakers:
 
Chantal Gingras
Chantal Gingras is a Fellow and past-Chair of Canadian Association of Insolvency and Restructuring Professionals is managing partner and President of Ginsberg Gingras & Associates Inc, a mid-size insolvency firm with operations across the province of Quebec and in Eastern Ontario. Chantal is a Licensed Insolvency Trustee for both the provinces of Ontario and Quebec and has been working in the fields of mid-market, small business and consumer insolvency for the past 25 years.



Ted Mann
As one of the founders of Mann Lawyers, Ted has been helping clients with real estate transactions, estate planning, estate matters and insolvency for over 30 years. He also has extensive commercial, corporate, and tax law experience. After graduating from Osgoode Hall in 1978 he was called to the Ontario Bar in 1980, and practiced law in Toronto, Prince Edward Island and finally settling in Ottawa in 1987. Ted has been an Adjunct Professor at the University of Ottawa Faculty of Law for almost 20 years, teaching Bankruptcy and Insolvency.



Fraser Paddison
Fraser Paddison has emerged as one of the industry's leading retail leasing experts. In his role as Director of Retail Leasing / Real Estate Broker od Colonnade Bridgeport, he focuses on retail and mixed-use portfolios. Fraser  has also worked with a private equity investment fund, managing approximately 2.7 million square feet of retail and office projects in Ontario and New Brunswick. Fraser sits on the board of directors for the Orleans Business Improvement Area (BIA). He is also a certified RECO professional, a member of the International Council of Shopping Centers (ICSC).
 

 
Dave McIlhagga
Dave McIlhagga is the founder and CEO of MapSherpa that helps map publishers bring their business to digital media through enabling technology and services. Dave is a serial entrepreneur who has successfully navigated the demands of growth and the challenges of the financial edge. Dave will share his own journey through bankruptcy including the critical support he received, and lessons learned with insightful perspective. His good new story of getting to the 'other side' and launching a highly successful business will be sure to inspire those feeling there are few options available.