Leadership

The confidence to act decisively in both calm seas and troubled waters earned through decades of experience and numerous economic cycles.

  • President & Founder

    Before founding Strive Global Holdings, Jacob founded and successfully grew a National blue collar recruitment company focusing on the construction sector. He has an exceptional ability to identify, attract and ignite new leaders.

    Jacob brings leadership and business development abilities to the team. He focusses on building strong relationships within organizations and nurturing new leaders either internally or via external recruitment.

  • Chairman

    Hal has over 40 years of experience in real estate investment, development, and corporate organizations. His companies have built significant residential and commercial and resort and hotel developments. He has served on oil and gas and technology boards and also acts as Senior Advisor to one of Canada’s leading mental health companies. He has also been a senior advisor to Alberta Premiers Klein and Kenney and now Premier Danielle Smith.

    Hal is a sought after leader with the ability to see opportunities and enable those around him to work together to capitalize on them. He recognizes talent and inspires people to achieve far more than they ever may have expected possible.

  • Director

    Brad is an accomplished business advisor, corporate lawyer and Senior Partner at Norton Rose Fulbright in Calgary, where he has practiced law for 33+ years. He served as the Calgary Managing Partner and was a member of his firm’s National Management Committee for many years. His professional background includes leadership, transactional and advisory work, strategy, management, organizational transformation, risk assessment, governance and communications. He currently serves on the Board of Directors of Strive Global Holdings, Grant Metal Products, the Calgary Food Bank and the Children’s Cottage Society, and he holds the ICD.D designation conferred by the Institute of Corporate Directors.

    Brad’s involvement with Strive includes strategy and corporate development, transactional planning and implementation, governance and ownership structuring, and management incentive and retention.

  • Operations, Managing Partner

    A senior operations professional with over 20 years of experience in buildings and civil infrastructure. Leading projects in the $B+ Dan built successful teams from the ground up, and understands the business aspect inside and out.

    Dan is instrumental in defining key performance drivers and growth opportunities within companies. He brings his rich network to support recruiting and growth.

 

“Our greatest ability as humans is not to change the world, but to change ourselves.”

— Mahatma Gandhi