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Mehrdad Baghai

Chairman & CEOHigh Resolves

Biography

Mehrdad is the co-founder and CEO of High Resolves, a not-for-profit social venture focused on activating human responsibility so that we can address the multitude of global challenges we are now facing. High Resolves has engaged over 500,000 young people in over a dozen countries and has won many awards for its distinctive learning experiences.
In his business life, Mehrdad is the Chairman of Alchemy Growth, a boutique strategy advisory firm. Mehrdad advises large companies on their growth strategies and business building initiatives. He specializes in disruptive strategy and designing organizations for rapid growth. He is a frequent lecturer and writer on management theory especially in the growth strategy domain. He is co-author of the New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller As One as well as international bestsellers The Alchemy of Growth and Granularity. Previously, he was a partner in the Sydney and Toronto offices of McKinsey and Company and co-leader of the Firm’s worldwide Growth Practice.
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Shane Baghai: The Founding Father of Luxury Condominiums

With a prolific resumé of projects and the development of Leaside Manor, Shane Baghai has maintained his dominant role in the development industry and has no plans to slow down.

Since immigrating to Canada in 1973, Shane Baghai has created a development empire for himself, touching nearly every community within Toronto and the Greater Toronto Area. Following the first property he developed in North York, Ont., he has met with unparalleled success, whether it’s 35,000-square-foot homes on the Bridle Path or the condominiums and townhouses he has come to master.

Although Baghai still develops larger custom homes for clients, he believes “that the future of larger custom homes is more toward north of Toronto, places such as Caledon, Erin [and] Orangeville” due to the amount of land available in those areas. As such, the large majority of his business has evolved over time and is now centred on the development of luxury condominiums.

Baghai first got involved with this side of the development wor

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With a prolific resumeé of projects and the development of Leaside Manor, Shane Baghai has maintained a dominant role in the development industry and has no plans to slow down.

After living in Britain for a decade, Mr. Baghai felt almost at home there. Born in Iran, his father, who owned a trucking business, sent Mr. Baghai to boarding school and university in England. A pamphlet about Canada struck a chord with Mr. Baghai and he moved to Toronto in 1973 with his wife and two children. He entered the real estate business and soon became one of Canada’s largest builders of luxury homes.

  • Donations
    • $300,000 for a chair in surgical oncology at Sunnybrook Health Science Centre
    • $150,000 for a diagnosis sharing system
    • $300,000 to the University of Toronto for graduate scholarships in English literature
    • More than $3-million to the Hospital for Sick Children and Princess Margaret Hospital
  • Some rewards and positions since 2001
    • Chairman – International Housing Tour Committee – 4 years
    • ONHWP – “Excellent Rating” – 17 years in a row
    • Member of the Munic

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