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.
Keith Li – Chief Financial Officer
Keith is an experienced Chartered Professional Accountant (CPA, CA) with over 15 years of corporate accounting, finance and financial reporting experience. He specializes in providing management advisory services, accounting and regulatory compliance services to both public and private companies in a number of industries including mining, cannabis, health and wellness, and merchant banking, just to name a few. Keith began his career in the public accounting sector as an auditor and had also held a senior-level position at Sears Canada prior to joining the Branson team. He also holds a Bachelor of Commerce degree from McGill University.
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.
Gia Truong – Controller
Gia is a finance leader who excels in building value added finance teams and working collaboratively with other leaders to delivery corporate finance for over 15 years. She has a passion for creating processes and controls in high-growth companies. She processes excellent expertise in payroll and Canadian legislation & compliance. Extensive experience in public company and private equity ownership structures in multinational manufacturing organizations, mining and technology start-ups. Gia has a Bachelor’s of Art in Economics, and Business from Carleton University, and she’s a Certified Payroll Manager with the Canadian Payroll Association.