W. Brett Wilson net worth
W. Brett Wilson Net Worth: W. Brett Wilson is a Canadian entrepreneur and philanthropist with a net worth of $300 million. Born on July 1, 1957 in North Battleford, Saskatchewan, W. Brett Wilson is best known as a three-season panelist on CBC’s Dragons’ Den, a show based on the international franchise Dragons’ Den Canadian reality TV show.
Wilson graduated from the University of Saskatchewan with a bachelor’s degree in civil engineering and spent three years with Imperial Oil in Western Canada. He later graduated from Calvary University with an MBA in Entrepreneurship and worked as an investment banker at McLeod Young Weir Limited. In 1991, he founded an investment banking advisory firm called Wilson Mackie & Co., and in 1993 he co-founded FirstEnergy Capital Corp. with Rick Grafton, Jim Davidson and N. Murray Edwards. He became a regular columnist for the National Post and went on to own sports teams Derby County FC (an English football club) and the NHL’s Nashville Predators (an American hockey team based in Nashville, Tennessee). Wilson, an advocate for strategic philanthropy, often takes a hands-on approach to his support strategies, including shaving his head to support childhood cancer treatment and climbing Mount Kilimanjaro to support Alzheimer’s philanthropy.
