Connect with our deeply engaged audience of private company decision-makers.

Canada’s Best Private Boards attracts top-performing private companies in capital-intensive, talent-intensive, and risk-aware sectors.

Canada’s Best Private Boards has become the authority on private company governance in Canada.


Our program winners reinforce the brand:

  • They are respected, high performing companies.

  • They represent modern governance models (family, employee-owned, capital-

  • backed).

  • Many are already widely known midmarket champions.

Our attendees want to learn from them.

Our sponsors want to be seen beside them.

Panel discussion at 2025 Canada’s Best Private Boards Summit and Awards with speakers on stage addressing an executive audience.
  • “Richter recognized Canada's Best Private Boards as a much-needed platform to demonstrate how well-defined and focused boards can drive the performance of private companies.”

    - Bill McLean, Partner, Richter (Presenting Sponsor) and Vice Chair, Canada's Best Private Boards

Graphic showing 44% attendance growth and that 70% of Canada’s Best Private Boards audience is C‑suite, partner or board‑level.

Here’s why you should get involved:

Best-in-Class Private Companies

Meet Canada's top entrepreneurs and business leaders in the mid-market and learn from their experience.

Access to Performance Trends

Learn about how private company governance impacts performance from our winners and share those exclusive insights with clients.

Exclusive Private Sector Ecosystem

Connect with your peers who, like you, support Canada's private sector - join the community we are building.

Compelling Storytelling

Connect with program winners as they share best-practices - as well as struggles and triumphs - from the stage.

Your Brand as Innovator

Be seen as a trailblazing organization lending insights to a one-of-a-kind awards program as it gains prominence.

Multiple Touchpoints

Benefit from exposure to an annual, national program with multiple events, anchored in a national summit.

Best-Fit Sponsors:

  • Ultra targeted access to owners, board members, and C-suite leaders.

  • High density of governance leaders and risk decision makers.

  • Multiple family-owned and PE-backed contexts; strong legal cohort already present.

  • Board heavy audience; mandates originate at this table.

  • Deal flow, succession, governance modernization.

  • Governance operations buyers concentrated at the event.

  • 2025 showed strong REIT/real estate participation.

  • Affluent, senior professional demographic with brand halo potential.

Ready to join Canada’s private company governance ecosystem?

Send us a message to learn more about available sponsorship opportunities for 2026, or view the full sponsorship document here.

Wide view of Canada’s Best Private Boards 2025 Summit and Awards with executives seated at round tables and a panel speaking on stage.