Meet our Team of Professionals.
Margaret Miller – President and CEO
Margaret is an experienced corporate administrator having served over 15 years in numerous executive administrator, corporate secretary and investor relations roles. Oversees corporate secretarial matters, financing documentation, ensures timely regulatory filings and communicates with shareholders. She has held positions in various fast paced and deadline oriented entities in Europe, Hong Kong, United States and Canada.
Kyle Nazareth, CPA, CA – Chief Financial Officer
Kyle brings over a decade of experience in managing public companies, advising on capital market transactions, and providing financial stewardship across diverse industries. Prior to joining Branson, Kyle successfully operated a Fractional CFO business. In this capacity, he advised and served as CFO for a number of public companies traded in Canada and the United States (CSE, TSXV, TSX, OTC, NASDAQ), as well as a number of private companies. He additionally provided strategic financial consulting to numerous public and private clients and played a pivotal role in closing and integrating mergers and acquisitions. While in these roles, Kyle has secured more than C$500 million in equity and debt financing. Kyle is a CPA, CA, and holds a Bachelor of Business Administration from the York University’s Schulich School of Business.
Amy Stephenson, CFA, CPA, CMA, MBA – Chief Financial Officer
Amy has over 20 years of experience in capital market financing and managing public companies. She provides strategic advice, finance, accounting and compliance services to public companies. She has over 10 years’ experience as CFO for public companies including Bedrocan Cannabis Corp., Ceres Global Ag Corp., Goldeye Explorations Ltd., Petroworth Resources Inc., Augen Capital Corp. and GoldQuest Mining Corp. She also worked as a business valuator at Evans & Evans, focusing on capital market and M&A transactions and was an equity research writer.
Her involvement as a principal and consultant in corporate reorganization, M&A and project financing extends beyond North America to include Australia, China, Malaysia, Western Europe, Latin America and Africa. Amy obtained her MBA in Finance. She is a board member of the CFA Society Toronto, was a non-member Council and Chair of the Audit Committee for the Association of Professional GeoScientists Ontario for 6 years and a member of the Financial Executive International (FEI).
Okunola Joshua Aina, ACA – Controller
Joshua is a Controller with Branson. He is a PwC trained finance professional with more than 10 years of work experience in financial and management reporting, risk management and assurance, internal and external audit, internal controls, and financial planning and analysis. Joshua’s experience cuts across both public and private companies within and outside Canada, where he has occupied various leadership roles such as the head of finance at an AgricTech startup company, and stat to tax leader for West Africa with General Electric in Sub Sahara Africa region.