Jon Erlichman recently announced his new role as as a Financial Commentator for Bell Media’s BNN Bloomberg, CTV News and iHeartRadio stations.  Erlichman begins his new position in 2025.  Later this month, he’ll be launching a new venture.  Most recently, he served as a Senior Anchor for BNN Bloomberg.

Beyond his traditional news experience, Erlichman is passionate about digital media. He served as a news advisor to Disney-owned Maker Studios, helping to launch news partnerships with ABC News. In August 2015, Erlichman helped launch Parachute TV, the first live-streaming TV channel on Twitter’s Periscope app. Parachute won Digital Entertainment World’s 2016 startup award after reaching more than one million live viewers and launching more than 50 shows a week, with more than 100 top Periscope creators. Erlichman, who has more than 100,000 followers across all social media platforms, was profiled by AdWeek in its September 2015 cover story, “Meet The Newest Live-streaming Stars Every Brand Should Know About.” Business Insider also named him one of the “100 Tech People You Have To Follow On Twitter.” Erlichman frequently serves as a moderator and MC at events such as the Top 40 Under 40, CEO of The Year, Tribeca Film Festival, The Wrap’s TheGrill Conference, and NATPE Miami gatherings. Erlichman majored in economics at the University of Western Ontario’s Huron College, graduating summa cum laude. He was the gold medalist for his outstanding academic performance. Erlichman is based in Toronto, where he lives with his two daughters and his wife, actor and entrepreneur Caroline Lesley.

As founder and chairman of Portland Holdings, Michael Lee-Chin, is widely regarded as a visionary entrepreneur whose philosophy of “doing well, by doing good” has resulted in extraordinary business success and inspiring philanthropic initiatives.

Portland Holdings is a privately held investment company that manages public equity and private equity and has an ownership interest in a collection of diversified businesses operating in various countries and numerous sectors, including financial services, insurance,  tourism, agriculture, consumer goods and services, real estate development, targeted radionuclide therapy, and nuclear and clean energy.

Portland is committed to “building strong indigenous businesses” and, equally important, these businesses must seek to improve the social well-being of the communities in which they operate.

Among his many personal accomplishments, Michael has received doctors of law degree from a number of distinguished universities in Canada and Jamaica. he has been profiled in Forbes, Fortune, Canadian Business, Black Enterprise and Time magazine. from 2011  to 2016, Michael held the esteemed position of chancellor of Wilfrid Laurier University in Ontario, Canada. In 2008, he was awarded the order of Jamaica, one of the country’s highest national honours for outstanding service in business and philanthropy and, in 2018, Michael was appointed to the order of Ontario, the province’s highest honour, reserved for those whose contributions Have Shaped The Province, The Country And Beyond.