Mission
Our Mission
“We are intensely focused on helping Scarborough business by driving prosperity, creating forums for networking, providing education and opportunity.We recognize Scarborough’s strengths of location, skilled labour and diversity. Strong business benefits the entire community.”
It takes hard work and continuous renewal to keep a business steered straight for the future. The Scarborough Business Association wants to provide the tools for prosperity. Whether we are a broker of information on opportunity, the identifier of business community’s education need or the provider of networking opportunities we believe it’s through the collective effort of the business community itself that we will all grow and prosper.
If you believe in this mission, if you believe in Scarborough, and believe as we do that there is immense potential for the future, then join the Scarborough Business Association and strengthen the voice of business in the community!
Directors
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Here’s a list of the committees that people can join and contribute. If you are interested, please let us know how you can contribute by emailing:
- Membership – Generates new memberships.
- Revenue Generation/Events – Plan engaging, enriching, and entertaining events.
- The Mayor’s Lunch – Help bring new features and ideas to our annually sold-out signature event – so popular, it demands its own committee.
- Funding Committee – The SBA relies on the payments from members and the generosity of our great sponsors.
- Advocacy and Policy – Speak on behalf of Scarborough businesses, and represent our collective interests on municipal, provincial, and federal issues.
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Founding Members
Centennial College:
Located in the heart of the community, Scarborough Town Centre (STC) is the dominant retail destination in East GTA, attracting 22 million shoppers annually. STC is one of Canada’s largest and most successful shopping centres and serves a trade area comprised of nearly one million people living in 340,000 households. The Centre features over 250 retailers and 1 million square feet of retail space. With an impressive roster of many of the world’s leading fashion retailers, and a proven commitment to excellence in customer service, STC provides the ultimate shopping experience and continues to invest in the future and build on its success.
Metroland, Ontario’s largest and most successful community newspaper publisher, provides local news and advertising in Canada’s heartland. We publish over 100 community newspapers with over 125 editions that span from London in southwest Ontario to Ottawa in the northeast, with concentration around Toronto and the Greater Toronto Area.
An anchor institution in the eastern GTA, UTSC combines the intimacy of a close-knit campus, the breadth of the liberal arts and the depth and rigor of one of the world’s best research universities. Fostering a vibrant culture of community engagement, UTSC students cross academic as well as geographic boundaries in their pursuit of knowledge.Read More
Bank of Montreal promises our customers a great experience and the clarity they are looking for to help them make the right financial decisions. Collaborating with our colleagues across BMO Financial Group, we offer solutions for everyday banking, financing, investing, credit cards and creditor insurance, as well as a full suite of integrated commercial and capital markets products and financial advisory services. We’re building our presence and making it easier for customers to do business with us through an integrated national network of branches, telephone banking, online banking and ATMs, along with the expertise of our mortgage specialists and financial planners
Meridian is Ontario’s largest credit union, helping more than a quarter of a million Members grow their lives and businesses. As a credit union, we are 100 percent owned by our Members. We work only for them, with profits returned to our Members in the form of the best products and services we can offer. We get to know our Members so that we can proactively advise them on ways to save money, how to invest for the future and what financial solutions are in their best interest.
Royal Bank of Canada is Canada’s largest bank, and one of the largest banks in the world, based on market capitalization. We are one of North America’s leading diversified financial services companies, and provide personal and commercial banking, wealth management, insurance, investor services and capital markets products and services on a global basis. We have over 80,000 full- and part-time employees who serve more than 16 million personal, business, public sector and institutional clients through offices in Canada, the U.S. and 37 other countries. For more information, please visit rbc.com.
TD Bank Group invests in communities in order to effect positive change in the places where it operates and where its clients and employees live and work. In 2015, TD donated more than $92.5 million to community organizations in Canada, the United States and the United Kingdom. In Canada, TD focuses on education and financial literacy, creating opportunities for young people and the environment. For further information, please visit www.td.com/corporate-responsibilityRead More
A global telecommunications leader. Telus has been delivering innovative telecommunications solutions to Canadians. Today, Telus is unleashing the power of the Internet to deliver the best solutions to Canadians at home, in the workplace and on the move. We provide a wide range of communications products and services including data, Internet protocol (IP), voice, wireless, entertainment and video.
With more than 590 FASTSIGNS® locations around the world, you’re never far from sign solutions. Whether you want banners, building signs, vehicle graphics, or signs for your windows, walls, doors or floors, FASTSIGNS® uses the latest sign-making systems and techniques to create high-impact signs that get you results. FASTSIGNS International, Inc. does not perform or offer to perform electrical sign work in any state.
All FASTSIGNS® centers are independently owned and operated. FASTSIGNS centers may or may not perform or offer to perform sign installation and/or electrical work.
At the heart of Canfinse Group Inc. is vision. Vision is the talent that sets Canfinse apart as leaders. Vision is the driving force that brings Canfinse’s clients back repeatedly. Based in Toronto, Canfinse uses its vision to deliver excellence and achieve success across the risk-taking insurance business. Canfinse established strong relationships with Canada’s and International leading insurers.Read More
Blue Umbrella Financial Services is an independent insurance brokerage that provides individual and corporate clients with a variety of medical, dental and group policies to meet their current and future needs. As a full service brokerage, Blue Umbrella Financial Services works with clients to tailor a policy for all of their risk management needs including Life insurance, Critical Illness, Disability, and Long Term Care Insurance. Blue Umbrella also provides financial services for retirement planning and educational savings.Read More
This world-class facility serves as a beacon for those looking to pursue healthy, active lives. More than just a building, TPASC is a health and wellness environment where all members – from individuals new to physical literacy, to sports teams, to fitness enthusiasts, to high performance and Olympic athletes – are welcomed to help foster a culture of inclusivity.
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Shawn Allen
Matrix Mortgage Global
Shawn Allen founded Matrix Mortgage Global Canada’s Largest Brokerage Private Lending Brokerage in 2008. With a background in data base administration and marketing, Shawn has guided Matrix Mortgage Global to over $1.1B+ in funded volume to date and over 610% growth in the past five years, Matrix Mortgage Global is ranked on the 2018 GROWTH 500 list as one of the fastest growing companies in Canada. This success is shown by the numerous nominations for Broker of the Year (CMP). Shawn’s dedication to the industry has made him a major stakeholder in the Canadian Financing Landscape.
Keith Nugara
Senior Vice-President, Dye and Durham, Financial Solutions
Tracy deans
NISHA KARAN
Entrepreneur & a Global Safety, Sustainability and Risk leader
Nisa is recognized as one of Canada’s Top Women in Safety for 2023. She has also been appointed to an Ontario Tribunal, employing her expertise towards exercising just and fair decision making in adjudicative decisions. In her professional career, Nisa has held several executive roles, including, serving as Director to a large regional healthcare network and as a Consultant to the World Health Organization’s ‘Global Plan of Action – Workers Health’ and now as President of a leading Global Health and Safety Risk Management Firm, Cobra Safety, nominated as Small Business of the Year 2023, by the Canadian SME and RBC.
Nisa also serves on multiple boards, including serving as special advisor to Garuna Group, a leading investigations and intelligence firm, an advisor to one of Seneca College’s Program Advisory Committees and as Vice Chair of the Scarbrough Business Associations Policy and Advocacy Committee.
She holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Nursing from the Toronto Metropolitan University (formerly Ryerson), a Masters of Business Administration from Lang School of Business and Economics at the University of Guelph, and is currently pursuing her Doctorate in Business Administration amongst many other subject-matter specific designations Nisa holds.
Nisa volunteers her time as an international partner of a non-profit social enterprise tackling local socio-economic and environmental challenges in developing nations. She does so through implementing challenge-based learning, grassroots innovation and impact venture building. Nisa also mentors small businesses via a Toronto-based community-focused charity, which provides practical business training and mentorship for under-served young people, equipping them with the support and knowledge needed to build resilience and thrive in an ever-evolving world.
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