John Bitove

He is the founder of the Toronto Raptors of the NBA. Through his holding company, Obelysk, he is involved in several entities including; SiriusXM Canada, Canada's largest subscriber radio service and Dave's Hot Chicken Canada. He is the founder of Mobilicity, a mobile wireless service, which was sold to Rogers Communications in July, 2015. He was also the major shareholder of KEYreit, Canada's largest "small box" real estate investment trust that was sold in 2013.

On September 30, 1993 the National Basketball Association awarded a group led by Bitove to be the 29th team to join the league. In addition to being the Founder of the Toronto Raptors basketball team, he led the creation of what is now the Scotiabank Arena formerly the Air Canada Centre, the major home of sports and entertainment in Toronto, including some new, state-of-art stadium features.

In 2005, he established the S'Cool Life Fund, which has raised over $2.8 million to fund extracurricular activities in Canadian public schools. To date S'Cool Life Fund has provided grants to over 1,000 schools for D.R.E.A.M.S. (Drama, Recreation, Extra-Curricular, Arts, Music, or Sports) projects across Canada helping to make school life more enjoyable for thousands of public elementary children in grades K-8.

Bitove was the volunteer president of the Toronto bid for the 2008 Summer Olympics.