Jon Sharun

Chair, Honorary Governors' Council

Jon Sharun, MBA, CPA, CMA, B. Comm, LEED AP, ICD.D is a strategic connector and financial architect with the vision to identify industry disruption. A serial entrepreneur for 20+ years, Jon interconnects real estate, hospitality, and healthcare.

He is the founder and managing partner of Venexo Capital, a boutique international private equity firm that offers an entrepreneurial financial platform to build to build companies and brands.

Jon founded Venexo Properties LP, a North American urban value add portfolio including multifamily, hotel, and mixed use restorations. Venexo’s catalyst, The Pint Group, includes a national portfolio of 16 brand operating companies; The Pint Public House and co-founded CRASH Hotel and HIP-O Pods. Jon also founded Medical Investment LP, with 60+ investments in fertility, mental health, med tech and orphan drug solutions.

Jon won $1.7 B in projects at Colliers International, received global acclaim at Anheuser Busch Inbev and relaunched the Kokanee brand at Ethos Projects. Jon has received a Top 100 in Finance award and Business in Vancouver Forty under 40 award. He is also an active member of Young Presidents’ Organization (YPO).

In addition to serving as Chairman of the Honorary Governor’s Council of the Vancouver Foundation, he is also Director of the Stollery Charitable Foundation, and Past Chairman of Hastings Crossing BIA.