CMI Financial Group founder and CEO named regional finalist for EY Entrepreneur of the Year 2023 award
by CM staff
EY Entrepreneur of the Year celebrates entrepreneurs through regional and national awards programs in more than 145 cities in over 60 countries.
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TORONTO — CMI Financial Group (CMI), Canada’s private mortgage lender, announced its founder and CEO Bryan Jaskolka has been named an Ontario regional finalist for the EY Entrepreneur of the Year 2023 award.
EY Entrepreneur of the Year celebrates entrepreneurs through regional and national awards programs in more than 145 cities in over 60 countries.
“I’m deeply honoured and extremely humbled to receive this recognition,” said Bryan Jaskolka, founder, and CEO of CMI Financial Group. “I share this honour with our incredibly talented and dedicated CMI team. This is a testament to their relentless commitment to our mission of providing disadvantaged and underserved borrowers access to liberalized lending in a professional, fair, and ethical manner. None of this is possible without them.”
At 22, Jaskolka founded CMI in 2005 as a digitally focused mortgage brokerage and has grown it to become one of Canada’s largest private lenders with more than 120 employees and over $2 billion in mortgage fundings.
In November, Canada’s EY Entrepreneur of the Year will be awarded from within regional winners. The Canadian winner will go on to compete with national winners from across the globe for the EY World Entrepreneur of the Year title.
