Bruce Linton is one of Canada’s leading entrepreneurs. He got his first taste of business ownership in the dot com days, as president and co-founder of WebHancer, a company that helped people measure and analyze their website’s performance. It was eventually bought by Microsoft. He’s since gone on to found several other companies, most notably Canopy Growth Corporation, where he oversaw 31 acquisitions, 16 rounds of financing and $6 billion of capital raises. As founder, CEO and chairman of Canopy, which became the largest cannabis operation in the world under his watch, he was a central player in the cannabis industry’s development. He now serves on several boards, including cannabis company Gage Growth Corp., where he serves as founding executive chairman and Mind Medicine Inc., a psychedelic-inspired medicine biotech company. Linton also sits on the board of the Canadian Olympic Foundation and is an active member of The Ottawa Hospital Foundation’s campaign executive committee.