CFA Winnipeg Event 

Fall Luncheon 2012

 "The Transition to the Jets - the Business Side of the Story"

Jim Ludlow –

PRESIDENT & CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER, TRUE NORTH SPORTS & ENTERTAINMENT LIMITED

Jim Ludlow serves as the President & Chief Executive Officer of True North Sports & Entertainment Limited. In that capacity, Jim provides strategic, management, and financial leadership to True North and its operating subsidiaries, MTS Centre, the Winnipeg Jets and the new MTS Iceplex recently opened in west Winnipeg.

Prior to coming to True North, Jim was a partner with a senior Western Canadian law-firm, practicing in the areas of corporate finance, mergers, and acquisitions, and – previous to that – the Vice-President of Corporate Development and General Counsel to a leading Canadian venture-capital firm based in Calgary.

Born and raised in Winnipeg, Jim attended the University of Manitoba, earning a B.A., and Osgoode Hall Law School in Toronto, where he received his law degree.

Jim has four children – Cedric, Charlie, Fiona, and Amanda – and is actively involved in his children’s school, music, skiing, and sailing interests. In the Winnipeg community, Jim serves as a member of the boards of the Royal Winnipeg Ballet, CentreVenture Development Corporation, Winnipeg’s leading downtown development agency, where he is immediate past Chairman of the Board  and is an Honorary Colonel with 1 CFFTS at 17 Wing Winnipeg.  In 2011 Jim was the recipient of the award for Business Achievement at the Western Canada General Counsel Awards in Vancouver.