Proven operators transforming the future of food, with deep expertise across capital markets, agribusiness and food innovation, and 49.4% insider ownership keeping every decision aligned with shareholders.
Appointed CEO in January 2025, Mr. Brody is the Company's largest shareholder. He brings 18 years of investment-industry experience and has been instrumental in capitalizing and publicly listing world-class companies, helping to raise over $250 million across ag, wellness and CPG. Licensed as an investment advisor in 2008, he spent six years at two leading independent Canadian brokerage firms and holds the Chartered Investment Manager designation from the Canadian Securities Institute.
A founding partner of Dunn, Pariser & Peyrot, one of the top business management firms in Los Angeles, Mr. Dunn has a track record of building highly successful agribusinesses throughout North America and other international jurisdictions over more than 20 years. He and his firm have won multiple industry awards for accounting, finance and business management.
More than 25 years in CPG strategy, M&A and plant-based innovation. Mr. Coles led Verdient Foods, a 100,000 MT pulse fractionation and milling facility, through its growth and successful sale to Ingredion (NYSE: INGR), validating the team's ability to execute high-value infrastructure plays in the plant-based food sector.
The team running Belle Pulses, the operating platform at the heart of Eat Well Group.
A third-generation pulse pioneer, Mr. Gaudet leads the family business his grandfather Jean began as the first broker in Saskatchewan to bag and ship yellow peas to the Quebec market, and his father Ronald grew into Belle Pulses in 1978. Together with his brother Francis, Tony took the helm in 1994 and built Belle into one of Canada's largest split-pea processors, launching Belle Pulses USA in 2017 and exporting to markets worldwide. Tony and Francis received the Saskatchewan Pulse Growers' 2020 Pulse Promoter Award, recognizing outstanding contributions to the development of Saskatchewan's pulse industry. To this day, Tony personally leads Belle's sales and procurement, staying close to the growers and customers the family has worked with for decades.
Ms. McIvor leads Belle Pulses' day-to-day business as President & Chief Financial Officer. Having risen from Head of Finance to CFO before taking on the presidency, she oversees operations, finance and customer relationships across Belle's Saskatchewan facilities and its export business worldwide, and has been central to the disciplined cost management behind Belle's industry-leading margins.
Eat Well Group's Board brings deep expertise across capital markets, agribusiness and food innovation, providing governance as the Company scales its fully integrated operations, with a focus on execution and long-term value creation.
Mr. Brody brings 18 years of investment-industry experience to Eat Well. He has been instrumental in capitalizing and publicly listing world-class companies. Licensed as an investment advisor in 2008, he spent six years at two leading independent Canadian brokerage firms and holds a Chartered Investment Manager designation from the Canadian Securities Institute.
Mr. Dunn is a founding partner of Dunn Pariser & Peyrot, one of the top business management firms in Los Angeles. He has a track record of building highly successful agribusinesses throughout North America and other international jurisdictions, and his firm has won multiple industry awards for accounting, finance and business management.
Mr. Grafton has more than 20 years of investment, finance and public-markets experience. Previously a Portfolio Manager for a Canadian-based hedge fund managing cannabis and energy portfolios, he began his career as an Investment Banker at Canaccord Genuity Corp., financing and advising small- to mid-cap companies. He is a CFA charterholder with a finance degree from Michigan State University.
An experienced capital-markets and securities lawyer, Mr. Balakrishnan advises clients across food, beverage, agribusiness, gaming, entertainment and hospitality. One of Canada's leading gaming-law practitioners, most recently counsel to Great Canadian Gaming. He advises on private equity, public offerings, M&A and listed-company maintenance, acts as counsel on new issues and listings across all Canadian stock exchanges, and is the national leader of McMillan LLP's gaming group.
Former President & CEO of the Saskatchewan Food Industry Development Centre for 20 years, the globally recognized innovation hub responsible for commercializing over 800 consumer packaged goods. Mr. Prefontaine strengthens Eat Well's access to R&D, fermentation and protein-development capabilities, scale-up capacity and industry relationships.
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