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Gord Forstner

Gord Forstner

President, Forstner Group Inc.

gord@forstnergroup.ca

  • Gord serves leading Canadian and global clients, with a career focus on elevating corporate brands.
  • 30 years communications and government relations experience in central and Western Canada, including deep and diverse private and MUSH sector mandates.
  • He has provided communications counsel and support for wide-ranging capital markets mandates, and he has significant major transaction experience – M&A, restructuring and turnarounds, IPO’s, asset transactions, etc. – in excess of CAD$60 Billion in transaction value.
  • Gord also provides Change Communication counsel and support to organizations in transition.
  • He has advised family offices and varied private equity interests.
  • He brings a solid ESG grounding, based on the convergence of his industrial, stakeholder and capital markets background, as well as relevant market and public policy context.
  • Gord was part of the Dofasco Inc. leadership team for nine years, where he was responsible for brand stewardship, employee communications, public affairs, corporate, IR and marketing communications and CSR in Canada, the U.S. and Mexico including throughout the company’s protracted and complex 4-suitor takeover process.
  • Marketing Magazine called Dofasco “one of the most clearly defined corporate images in the country,” and “one of the best respected and most recognized non-retail brands in Canadian history.”