SHAMEZ VIRANI

President and Partner CENTRECOURT

BIO: Shamez is the President and Partner of Centrecourt, one of the most active and fastest-growing high-rise residential real estate developers in Canada with 12 towers under development representing more than 6,000 homes and $3.1 billion in value. Shamez is responsible for overseeing and managing all employees with a focus on rezoning, development, sales and construction. Shamez holds an MBA with a concentration in real estate from Columbia Business School and an Honors Business Administration (HBA) degree from the Richard Ivey School of Business at The University of Western Ontario.

BEST CAREER ADVICE: The best career advice I have received, which came from Ray Dalio’s book Principles, is that you should embrace every challenging situation or bad outcome as an opportunity to learn and to implement a new principle in your career to ensure that the same bad outcome does not happen again. This will ensure that you constantly improve through every experience. Simple but profound.